Sri Chinmoy’s Cultural Milestones

up until April 13, 2004

 

Music

See also: Music Pages

• Composed 18,097 songs as of 13 April 2004:

  Bengali, 11,468; English, 6,416; Sanskrit, 180; French, 33

• Composed 300 songs in one session, 28 November 1976

• Composed 2,700 songs in one year,1995, to reach a total of 13,000

• Set music to “August 15, 1945”, his epic Bengali poem written at the age
of thirteen and dedicated to the Birthday of Sri Aurobindo, 8 July 1995

• Set music to “The Ideal of Forgiveness”, Sri Aurobindo’s epic story that
Sri Chinmoy rendered into poetry in 1945 —-Sri Chinmoy's longest song - 16 August 2002

 

Concerts

• Sri Chinmoy has performed over 700 concerts

• Largest concert: 23 September 2000, audience of 19,000, Montreal,
Canada

• Gave 9 concerts with audiences of over 10,000 people

• Performed 400 songs-in a single performance, 14 May 1986

• Performed longest concert on 150 instruments in 14 hours, 25 November,
1995, Jamaica, NY in honour of the United Nations 50th Anniversary

• Performed on 70 pianos in one concert, Queens, NY, 16 August 2001

• Longest continuous improvisational performance on piano:

 

Literature

• Written over 1500 works, including poetry, essays, lectures, stories, plays
and aphorisms, with a total of 100,000 poems and aphorisms to date

• 24-hour poetry record: 1,301 -poems in 22 hours and 45 minutes, 7
August 1996 (one poem every 63 seconds). Printed in a 13-part series
Two God-Amusement-Rivals

 

Lectures

• Sri Chinmoy has given over 300 university lectures, including universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford, Sorbonne and Tokyo Universities

 

Jharna-KaIa Fountain-Art

See also: Art Pages

13 Apr 2004 Has painted over 200,000 works of art since 19 November 1974

13 Apr 2004 Has drawn over 14,000,000 soul-birds since 29 December 1991

03 Oct 1975 Completed 100,000 paintings in 101/2 months

16 Nov 1975 Completed 16,031 paintings in 24 hours

 

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