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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Nada Chikitsa ‘Healing and Meditation' concert by Ganapati Swami

Yoga Sangeeta, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting healing through music, presented a concert by its founder Sri Ganapati Sachchidananda Swami with special guest artist, renowned violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam at the Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City on July 19.

Swamiji presented a musical evening known as ‘Healing and Meditation' playing a Roland Synthesizer and accompanied by his troupe consisting of a mridangist, violinists and Dr. L.Subramaniam.

The concert included some vocals and mainly instrumental rendition of different ragas that promote healing, according to Swamiji.

In an earlier interview to Desi Talk, Swamiji said that in the 1960s, he developed the method of healing through music also called Nada Chikitsa or Raga Ragini Vidya.

He has been researching healing energies of different forms of music and their intricate relationship with the planets, herbs, crystals and gemstones.

He said that he experimented on a dying patient, Krishna Swamy, in India and he was reported to have recovered fully.

Swamiji has been spreading healing energy through music around the world including U.S., Europe, West Indies and Canada

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Monday, June 30, 2008

South Indian composers create music for Olympics


Original tracks by south Indian composers have been chosen for the gymnastics events at the Beijing Olympics, starting August 8.

"While my music available in the Germany based Sonoton Library was selected earlier for the warm-up events, I am composing original tracks to suit gymnasts' body language during the Olympics," composer Lekha Rathina Kumar told IANS.

Kumar is creating the special symphony in collaboration with keyboard player Mani Sharma, flautist Sudhakar and sitar maestro Janardan.

Kumar's composition was used as the background score in Hollywood film ‘Cloverfield' that was released in January.

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