Mystical night of music and poetry

Many people anticipated that the “Mystical Night of Music and Poetry,” the Lucid Art Foundation’s production at the Dance Palace on July 18th, would emphasize traditional Persian music. Lucid Art’s creative director, Fariba Bogzaran, who performed in and produced the show, is from Iran, as are two instrumentalists who played that night. But the performances—spectacular outpourings of rhythm created by six musicians on unusual percussion instruments, along with classical Middle Eastern verses interspersed with original…