Date:- Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Program Details :-
5:00 – 5:30 PM - Meet and Greet
5:30 – 5:45 PM - Meditation with Music
5:45 – 7:15 PM - “Reminiscences” by Narad
7:15 - 8:00 PM - AUM choir
8:00 PM - Dinner
Place:- 631 Vale Drive, Morganville, NJ 07751
Please bring your copy of the Savitri
In silent bounds bordering the mortal's plane Crossing a wide expanse of brilliant peace Narad the heavenly sage from Paradise Came chanting through the large and lustrous air.Savitri - (Book VI, Canto 1)
Narad (Richard Eggenberger) is a longtime member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville as well as a musician, poet, landscaper, horticulturist, and gardener.
As a youth he took voice lessons and prepared for an operatic career at the Metropolitan Opera on a scholarship from one of the leading mezzosopranos of the day, Regina Resnick.
When he was 23, he came to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and had his first darshan of the Mother, who made him an ashramite and gave him permission to teach music in the ashram school. He formed an ashram choir that soon built a program of choral music covering many centuries. Mother also gave him the task of bringing down "the new music."
Narad went back to U.S. in 1962, working with a landscape design and installation firm and attending college to learn plant combination theory and other aspects of subtropical horticulture.
In the 1980s, Narad returned to the U.S., where he continued to extend his deep knowledge of plants and trees and to collect specimens for the Ashram and Auroville. He is past president of the Plumaria Society of America and is the author of numerous books and articles on tropical plants.
Meanwhile, after more than four decades of listening to thousands of works of music, seeking the new music everywhere, and singing (though not often, having given up all thought of a concert career), Narad had the insight that the new music was to descend in a collective body — one body with many tones, opening in surrender and aspiration. About seven years ago he began the OM choirs, which have brought a new kind of conscious music to the Ashram, Auroville, and many places around the world.
Information:-
New Jersey ---> Vivek Sinha ---> 732-772-0864
Pennsylvania ---> Devendra Patel ---> 215-970-5170
New York ---> Govind Nishar ---> 914-400-3444