Exciting news! Plaza students gave their very first concert outside of the ashram last week, on Christmas day. It was at a lovely hall in Omkarananda Ashram with about 300 people in the audience on the occasion of the birth anniversary day of Swami Omkaranandaji. The children played two ragas; Rag Bhupali and Rag Bilaval. The instruments included violin, sitar, slide guitar, guitar, tabla and vocal. More than twenty students took part. They played very well and people were really amazed as this was the very FIRST time that a children`s classical orchestra has ever given a concert in Rishikesh! Shivananda, our music director and principal, has really done a marvelous job! I recieved so many congratulations, the struggles to get the school underway were all forgotten! How can I thank you all who have generously contributed money, time, instruments and all kinds of much needed support? Now we have a chance to produce a really top notch children`s orchestra in North India even though Rishikesh is a small, religious pilgrimage town and the children are from our nearby localities! I feel strongly that it will be a contribution to the future of Industani classical music to which I personally owe so much for the hours of inspiration it has given me. Indian classical music is firmly rooted in spiritualism and many artists consider themselves spiritual sadaks. As it is mostly improvisation, it is deeply personal, played from the heart and the moment can never be repeated.
THANKS TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING!
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