COME INDIA SING A CHRISTMAS CAROL – A Musical Evening Heralding The Christmas Season
“COME INDIA SING A CHRISTMAS CAROL” – A Musical Evening Heralding The Christmas Season
HEAVEN ON EARTH by Lorraine Music Academy!
The concert held on Sunday 14th December 2014 @ 6:30pm at Epicentre auditorium was like heaven on earth. Around 100 children from across Gurgaon and the National Capital Region of Delhi participated in “A Musical Evening Heralding the Christmas Season – COME INDIA SING A CHRISTMAS CAROL” hosted by Lorraine Music Academy and LAMP Trust on Sunday 14th December 2014, at Epicentre Auditorium, Gurgaon.
The show began with the lighting of the traditional lamp by the distinguished Guests and members of the community from across the National Capital Region and from other States.
GUESTS OF HONOUR:
- Maj. Gen. R. S. Chand, Head – Administration & School Management, Learn Today
- Capt. Rohit Bajaj, Director, Pathways School Gurgaon
- Shri Manoj George, Advocate at the Supreme Court
- Shri Keith Terrett, Head of Music, Pathways School Gurgaon
- Smt. Deepshikha Khanna
- Shri Harsh Vinayak
- Shri Ashit Saxena
HOSTS:
- Shri Aubrey Aloysius, Founder Trustee & President of LAMP Trust, Managing Director of Lorraine Music Academy, Chairman of the National Patriotic Project
- Smt. Lorraine Fiona Aloysius, Trustee of LAMP Trust, Creative Director of Lorraine Music Academy
A houseful auditorium of excited audience listening with rapt attention to angelic children, teenagers and youth aged 4 to 25 years singing traditional Christmas Carols among many others. “Silent Night”, the ‘Universal Intangible Cultural Heritage song’ as declared by the United Nations in March 2011, was sung in German by Rishaan Bhatnagar aged 8 years and in English by Aubrey Aloysius while the audience joined in nostalgically remembering their school days of singing.
Rishaan Bhatnagar, a student of Piano and Singing at the Lorraine Music Academy over the past 3 years, has been selected to go to Vienna and sing with the Vienna Boys Choir. He will study music in Vienna for 5 years and will be a part of the prestigious Vienna Boys Choir touring the world.
Students of the Shalom Hills International School and the Pathways School Gurgaon sang carols wishing the audience a very merry Christmas.
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The program included:
- Welcome Address by Shri Aubrey Aloysius, Chairman, National Patriotic Project
(Click here to view the video) - Lighting of the traditional lamp by the Guests of Honour
(Click here to view the video) - Group singing of the National Anthem of India – Jana Gana Mana – by the Guests of Honour, the hosts and the audience
(Click here to view the video) - The Thinkers’ Forum Charcha with Shri Manoj George, Capt. Rohit Sen Bajaj and Shri Aubrey Aloysius
(Click here to view the video) - Piano Performance: “Sunshine” by Nayantara Khanna, student of Lorraine Music Academy
(Click here to view the video) - Piano Performance: “Polka” by Katya Sood, student of Lorraine Music Academy
(Click here to view the video) - Piano Performance: “Arabesque” by Shashwat Joglekar, student of Lorraine Music Academy
(Click here to view the video) - Piano Performance: “Vendetta” by Ananya Vinayak, student of Lorraine Music Academy
(Click here to view the video) - Piano Performance: “Sicilienne” by Priyanka Vinayak, student of Lorraine Music Academy
(Click here to view the video) - Piano Performance: “Piu Tosta” by Mayuri Gupta, student of Lorraine Music Academy
(Click here to view the video) - Piano Duet Performance: “Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer” by Kiyoshi & Tanushi Yakeem, students of Lorraine Music Academy
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Jingle Bells” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Deck The Halls” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Calypso Carol” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Silent Night” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Joy To The World” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Hark The Herald Angels Sing” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “O Come All Ye Faithful” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “When Christmas Come To Town” by the Shalom Hills International School Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “White Christmas” by the Shalom Hills International School Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Feliz Navidad” by the Shalom Hills International School Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Rocking Around The Christmas Tree” by the Shalom Hills International School Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Silent Night” by the Pathways School Gurgaon Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Feliz Navidad” by the Pathways School Gurgaon Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Twelve Days Of Christmas” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “Jingle Bell Rock” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Piano & Singing Performance: “Christmas Isn’t Christmas” by the Lorraine Fiona Aloysius
(Click here to view the video) - Carol Singing Performance: “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” by the Lorraine Music Academy Choir
(Click here to view the video) - Singing Performance: “Mama Do” (Pixie Lott) by Ananya Ravi, student of Lorraine Music Academy
(Click here to view the video) - Singing Performance: “Set Fire To The Rain” (Adele) by Ananya Ravi, student of Lorraine Music Academy
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This concert was a part of the nation building “Come India Sing” initiative and movement. This concert was in aid of raising awareness, support and resources for the “Come India Sing…” series of Nation Building initiatives utilising music as a tool. This series of initiatives, events & participative activities forms a part of the ongoing National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing Jana Gana Mana” that was launched on 15th August 2013, our Independence Day.
Aubrey Aloysius, founder of the Lorraine Music Academy and the LAMP Trust, and Chairman of the National Patriotic Project, says “Music is food for the soul. Good food and good exercise gives you good physical stability. A good diet of the right kind of music gives you mental, emotional, intellectual and spiritual stability. Music helps the creative process and sparks the imagination and ideas. When this musical imagination and experience of singing our National Anthem is ignited in a group circumstance, we have the most extraordinary power to change young lives for positive living and nation-building. The “Come India Sing” series of musical initiatives aims to unite children, youth and their families in the Nation Building task, promoting the key initiatives of our Government for cleanliness, hygiene, good health & development through music. Music helps to develop and build the scientific temper among children. Music, science and mathematics are co-related. It has been scientifically proved that music develops mathematical skills. When we study music, we have vibrations, frequency, resonance, tension, mass, length, pitch, harmonics, overtones – attributes that connect physics to music! We desire that every child and youth of the nation makes music their best friend for their life time, thereby stirring their creative talents. Music will also enable them to better handle stress in life ahead and help them keep the straight and narrow path.”
The Musical Evening included a brief workshop embedded in the concert to educate and encourage the audience to abide by the Constitution of India and respect its ideals and institutions, the National Flag and the National Anthem. This included an explanation and training on the proper singing of the National Anthem as per the code as laid out in the Constitution – in the right rhythm, melody and timing.
This concert was arranged in aid of raising awareness, support and resources for the National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing Jana Gana Mana”. The Musical Memorial included patriotic and folk songs / dances depicting India’s cultural ethos of “Unity in Diversity”. The event had a full capacity audience singing our National Anthem with pride, passion, and precision. The National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing Jana Gana Mana” is a clarion call to 1.27 Billion Indians to stand together for one cause – the Unity of India, by singing one song – our National Anthem, in the correct code as laid out in the Constitution of India, which is around 52 seconds.
The event also marked the encouragement of a nation-wide drive to encourage proper singing of our National Anthem the right way as per the code laid out in the Constitution of India across schools and educational institutions. The initiative includes speaking at gatherings of students in schools and educational institutions, during assembly time, in offices and institutions, conducting workshops and training sessions, teaching the correct way of singing the Anthem, with passion, pride and precision, i.e.- in 52 seconds.
Article 51A of the Constitution of India states that “It shall be the duty of every citizen of India to cherish and follow the noble ideals which inspired our national struggle for freedom; to uphold and protect the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India;…”.
This event forms a part of the ongoing National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing Jana Gana Mana” that was launched on 15th August 2013, our Independence Day.
The “Come India Sing” Nation-wide Audition and Talent Contest for Music, Art & Culture is open to all. This includes a slogan contest for every Indian citizen to express what the National Anthem means to them. The contest also encourages the practising & the singing of Jana Gana Mana, Patriotic Songs, and Folk Songs among others.
Participation can be as an Individual, as a Family or as a Group of friends, a school, a college, classmates, office colleagues, communities, RWAs…. All one has to do is record on video one’s family or group or oneself singing the song, upload the video to YouTube, complete the registration form on our website, and be a part of the nation-building project. Age is no bar. This contest is open to all ages.
Select participants and winners of the above project will get opportunities to perform on stage before audiences at various venues in the National Capital Region of Delhi and across the country. Winners of the “Come India Sing” Nation-wide Talent Contest will earn the privilege of being invited to sing the National Anthem alongside the nation’s leaders and to receive their award. Individuals and groups whose performance stand out will also be invited to attend or to perform at an enormous annual cultural program depicting India’s cultural ethos of “Unity in Diversity”, in a large venue in the National Capital Region of Delhi. Thousands of the nation’s youth will together in one voice celebrate our great nation by singing “Jana Gana Mana”. This event will be broadcast nationally and internationally, giving participants exposure on a grand scale that will, at the very least, leave them with memories that will last for a lifetime and, at the very most, be the key elements in inspiring them realize their greater dreams.
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So spread the word, and join in singing our National Anthem. Other songs – patriotic songs, festive songs, folk songs, pop songs, – can follow as well.
To participate, one can log on to the following website: www.localhost/lma or email:contest@lorrainemusicacademy.com or sms 9910143344.
To participate in or contribute to the nation building project, one can log on to the following websites:
www.localhost/lma
www.Facebook.com/ComeIndiaSing
www.facebook.com/pages/Lorraine-Music-Academy/113247108756592?ref=br_rs
or email: contest@lorrainemusicacademy.com or Aubrey@LorraineMusicAcademy.com
or sms 9910143344.
Conceptualised & Initiated by:
- Lorraine Music Academy
in Aid of:
- LAMP Trust
