{"id":24881,"date":"2014-02-05T11:33:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=24881"},"modified":"2023-11-15T21:49:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T03:49:32","slug":"coleman-barks-david-darling-this-friday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/coleman-barks-david-darling-this-friday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleman Barks & David Darling this Friday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ColemanBarks\"<\/a>You should have seen the goosebumps last year: the sold-out Libby Gardener Concert Hall caught in one ecstatic sweep of cello and poetry. I\u2019d been merely interested but left labeling it a TOP 5 2013 experience. And it\u2019s happening again this Friday.<\/p>\n

Coleman Barks, the whisky-voiced bard who popularized Rumi with his English translations, and David Darling, Grammy winning maverick cellist<\/i>, present \u00a0Evening of Rumi\u2019s Poetry,<\/i> sponsored by Two Arrows Zen and Jung Society of Utah.<\/p>\n

You may have seen Darling\u2019s 2009 Prayers of Compassion <\/i>or Barks featured in Bill Moyer\u2019s Language of Life <\/i>and \u201cFooling with Words\u201d series on PBS.<\/p>\n

Barks came to Jalal ad-Din Rumi in 1976, experiencing it like an expression of his anima, \u201can opening of my heart, a sense of reckless longing, an expansion\u201d that nourished a hunger beyond curiosity.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn those first months of discovering Rumi I would go down after teaching to the Bluebird Restaurant in Athens, Georgia, and have tea,\u201d he writes in the New Expanded Edition of The Essential Rumi.<\/i> \u201cThis poetry could not possibly be explicated! I loved the unpredictable spontaneity, the push-pull of great tenderness and great loneliness, of living beyond psychology, of drifting at ease inside the unsayable.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Rumi\u2019s closest friend, Shams of Tabriz, disappeared (likely murdered), Barks says \u201cthe mystery of the Friend\u2019s absence covered Rumi\u2019s world. He himself went out searching for Shams and journeyed again to Damascus. It was there that he realized,\u201d<\/p>\n

Why should I seek? I am the same as<\/em>
\nhe. His essence speaks through me.<\/em>
\nI have been looking for myself!<\/em><\/p>\n

Diane Hamilton, co-founder of event sponsor Two Arrows Zen, was stunned when she met Coleman Barks in 2009. \u201cHe\u2019s a genuine American bard. He has this beautiful Southern accent and a way with himself that\u2019s both relaxing and exciting, and then David Darling, who has got to be one of the best cellists in the world, improvises, and the way they play together and tune to each other is just amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a person who has been engaged in a spiritual search and spiritual practice most of my life,\u201d Hamilton \u00a0says, \u201cI have been very moved and to some degree encouraged by Rumi\u2019s mystical voice, his longing, his beauty, his love of God, his confidence in the spiritual nature of reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

A simple poem sticks with her:<\/p>\n

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,<\/em>
\nthere is a field. I’ll meet you there.<\/em>
\nWhen the soul lies down in that grass,<\/em><\/p>\n

the world is too full to talk about.<\/em>
\nIdeas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThese are the people you want to hang out with,\u201d Hamilton says of Barks and Darling. \u201cThey have this deep spiritual companionship and creativity and love of beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event will take place at Libby Gardner Hall on Friday, February 7 at 7 pm. Tickets are available at http:\/\/rumislc.brownpapertickets.com\/ or by calling (800) 838-3006. Learn more about Coleman Barks and David Darling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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