On Saturday 18th May 2013, City’s Middle Eastern Ensemble gave a captivating performance to an audience of students, staff and parents at the prestigious Rostam Saturday Farsi (Persian) School.

The performance included rhythmic as well as instrumental and vocal pieces. The daf frame drums, tombak goblet-shaped drum and darbuka were used in the rhythm section while the melody section was made up of more standard Western instruments: violins, clarinet, guitar and flute.

The vocal piece was based on a poem by the renowned 13-century Iranian poet, Molana (Rumi). The melody based on the ancient 17-beat cycle called “khosh-rang”, meaning “beautiful colours”,  attracted a lot of interest as did the song based on the poem by Molana.