A MUSICAL MEMORIAL ON CHILDREN’S DAY EVE – REMEMBERING CHACHA NEHRU & SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL

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Not just an event, but a movement to rekindle the pride and glory of the nation of India through music, song, dance – performing art, visual art, literary art – “The (Little) Thinkers’ Forum”Charcha and “The Thinkers’ Forum”. Over 185 children from across the National Capital Region of Delhi, and the States of Haryana and Rajasthan participated in A MUSICAL MEMORIAL ON CHILDREN’S DAY EVE – "REMEMBERING CHACHA NEHRU & SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL” hosted by Lorraine Music Academy and LAMP Trust on Sunday 9th November 2014, at Epicentre Auditorium, Gurgaon. 

The concert had distinguished Guests and members of the community from across the National Capital Region and from other States.

GUESTS OF HONOUR:

  • Shri John Samuel, I.P.S., Member – Postal Services Board, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India
  • Dr. Raj Singh, Vice Chancellor, G. D. Goenka University
  • Dr. Sarvesh Naidu, Executive Director, Pathways World School, Gurgaon, Haryana 
  • Smt. Sarabjeet Kaur, Principal, Paramlakshya World School, Alwar District, Rajasthan
  • Shri Dhirendra Singh, Principal, Sehwag International School, Jhajjar District, Haryana

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

Photo Album:
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The program included:

  1. Welcome Address by Shri Aubrey Aloysius, Chairman, National Patriotic Project
    (Click here to view the video)
  2. Lighting of the traditional lamp by the Guests of Honour along with the hosts and children
    (Click here to view the video)
  3. 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)
  4. The (Little) Thinkers’ Forum Charcha with children and Shri Aubrey Aloysius
    (Click here to view the video)
  5. The Clean India Pledge / Swachchata Shapat taken by the children and the audience
    (Click here to view the video)
  6. Choir Performance / Group Singing: “Sing A Song” by students of Lorraine Music Academy 
    (Click here to view the video)
  7. The Thinkers’ Forum Charcha with Shri John Samuel, Dr. Sarvesh Naidu, Smt. Sarabjeet Kaur, and Shri Aubrey Aloysius 
    (Click here to view the video)
  8. Piano Performance “Sonatine – Fr. Kuhlau” by Kiyoshi Yakeem, student of Lorraine Music Academy 
    (Click here to view the video) 
  9. Piano Performance “Song Without Words op. 19b no. 1 – Felix Mendelssohn” by Mayuri Gupta, student of Lorraine Music Academy 
    (Click here to view the video)
  10. Choir Performance / Group Singing: “’Dohas’ from Kabir” by students of Pathways World School, Gurgaon, Haryana 
    (Click here to view the video) 
  11. Choir Performance / Group Singing: “Ekla Chalo Re” by students of Lotus Valley International School, Gurgaon, Haryana 
    (Click here to view the video)
  12. Choir Performance / Group Singing: “Hero” by students of Pathways World School, Gurgaon, Haryana 
    (Click here to view the video)
  13. Dance Performance: “Rajasthani Folk Dance – Lagi Lagi Rey” by students of Paramlakshya World School, Alwar District, Rajasthan 
    (Click here to view the video)
  14. Dance Performance: “Medley of Bengali, Gujarati & Rajasthani Folk Dances” by students of Sehwag International School, Jhajjar District, Haryana 
    (Click here to view the video)
  15. Dance Performance: “Folk Dance – Dandiya” by students of Lotus Valley International School, Gurgaon, Haryana 
    (Click here to view the video)
  16. Dance Performance: “Rajasthani Folk Dance” by students of Suncity World School, Gurgaon, Haryana 
    (Click here to view the video)
  17. Dance Performance: “Rajasthani Folk Dance” by students of Rotary Public School, Gurgaon, Haryana 
    (Click here to view the video)

The concert was dedicated to the National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing Jana Gana Mana” and “Come India Sing For Clean India”. Aubrey Aloysius addressed children, youth and the audience gathered, reminding them of the great sacrifices made by our Nation’s Heroes – Mahatma Gandhi, Chacha Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

The gathering paid homage to our 1st Deputy Prime Minister & Home Minister – “Iron Man” Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, commemorating his recent 139th birth anniversary on 31st October as the National Unity Day. An over-filled auditorium of 400+ people consisting of adults, youth & children displayed their unity for our nation by participating in the Workshop on the National Anthem and singing JANA GANA MANA with passion, pride and precision – in 52 seconds.

The gathering also paid homage to the Father of our Nation – Mahatma Gandhi by remembering 12th November as the National Broadcasting Services Day. Aubrey Aloysius reminded the audience that on this day in 1947, Mahatma Gandhi walked into the studios of All India Radio to address the suffering, anguish filled refugees who were camped in Kurukshetra having just faced the agonies and the horrors of partition earlier. Mahatma Gandhi recorded a 5 minute message which was broadcast. Aubrey commended the great yeoman service to the nation being done by Prasar Bharati, All India Radio which reaches out to 92% of the country’s area and 99.19% of India’s total population, and Doordarshan which reaches our people across rural and urban India.

The gathering also paid homage to the 1st Prime Minister of our Nation – Jawaharlal Nehru, on the eve of his 125th birth anniversary on 14th November. The evening was also dedicated to our Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s initiative of “Bal Swachchata” on the occasion of Children’s Day. Everyone present took the Clean India Pledge and spoke out loud the Swachchata Shapat in Hindi, thus committing themselves to 100 hours of service to this cause every year, ie- 2 hours a week; volunteering work for cleanliness in their homes, schools, work places, neighbourhoods; and to encouraging 100 other persons in doing the same. This evening’s group oath translates to a cumulative commitment of 40,000 hours of voluntary cleanliness work and a commitment to encourage another 40,000 individuals to volunteer a total of 40 lakh hours towards this cause over the next year.

At “The (Little) Thinkers’ Forum”, moderated by Aubrey Aloysius, it was evident that children were proud to be Indian citizens and expressed their desire to strive to do their best for (a) protection of women, (b) helping abolish child labour, (c) using their time well and excelling in all they do to make India proud of their achievements, (d) doing something significant for the nation.

At “The Thinkers’ Forum” moderated by Aubrey Aloysius, panellists spoke and shared their views on key topics such as “Are ‘Geniuses born or made” and “Motivating children towards community service and nation building”. The panellists included Shri John Samuel, I.P.S., Member – Postal Services Board, Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India, Dr. Sarvesh Naidu, Executive Director, Pathways World School, Gurgaon & Smt. Sarabjeet Kaur, Principal, Paramlakshya World School, Alwar District, Rajasthan. 

Pearls of wisdom were shared by our Panellists:

  • Shri Aubrey Aloysius: Is ‘Genius’ born or made?
  • Shri John Samuel: Genius is all about the level of intelligence that you have or develop. Some children are geniuses in sports, some are geniuses in music, some are geniuses in terms of inventions & science. I will not say geniuses are born. Yes, over a period of time as they develop their own mindset with the help of parents, teachers and the society, along with the individual’s self determination and desire in certain pursuits will help him / her develop excellence. If you are excellent in the area that you are good at, whether in sports or studies or music or any other creative area, you can work towards becoming a genius.
  • Smt. Sarabjeet Kaur: I do believe in Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. We all have different talents that we are born with. Some are good in music, some in kinesthetic, etc. Then it depends on the level of exposure and support the child receives, determination, will power and the environment around. I believe we all have a genius in us, it all depends on the exposure and opportunity to help us take wings and fly.
  • Dr. Sarvesh Naidu: This packed audience come to see children perform is a clear testimony to the fact that all of you sitting in the audience believe in the fact that actually there is a genius in all of us. It is very clear that in all of us there is a lot of talent.it is important to nurture all the talent inside us. It needs an ambience, an opportunity to nuture it and bring it out through occasions like this and many others, you will never know whether your child is a genius. We tend to narrow the definition of a genius. Most of the time we associate it to the filed of academics, but a genius could be in any field on the planet.The important thing is to recognise the talent, start nurturing it on a daily basis.
  • Shri Aubrey Aloysius: How do we train the next generation of India to look outwards, to think about the community, their country and not just about themselves? In a highly competitive encironment, how do we make them better human beings, responsible citizens of India?
  • Shri John Samuel: it is finally about being a better person, a better citizen. The calling for everybody is to excel, do something noble. We all want to achieve. At the same time we need to achieve in the right way. If Mahatma Gandhi had lived only for himself, probably we would not have got our Independence today. His thinking was very clear. His mission, passion and dream was to get freedom for India, not by the wrong means, but by the right means. Today we need to teach the young and the old the right values so that the world becomes a better place, India becomes a better place. It is not just about achievement, it is about achievement the right way. Are we having the right attitude to achieve the right things? India is looking for people who can do more and more for the betterment of India. The Clean India campaign is all about this. As children, as parents, as elders, we need to be involved in making India a great nation. India which is great, India which is noble, India with the right values. This is what we are really aiming at.
  • Smt. Sarabjeet Kaur: As parents we do compare how we spent our childhood and how are children are spending theirs. The question we need to ask ourselves is are we spending that amount of quality time with our children today as parents? Are we investing emotionally in them, then asking them to be a better citizen? Are we portraying an ideal example for them with our own lives? They are going to learn everything from us and by observing us – knowingly, unknowingly, consciously, sub-consciusly. The kind of environment we put up at home and in school is very important. Is it based on competition or is it based on collaboration? If it is a competitive environment, he or she will grow up to be a competitive person, maybe missing on collaborative work. It is important for us to play an ideal role, bethere there for the, with them. There is a saying – spend half the money and double the time with your kids if you want them to grow the wiser. 
  • Dr. Sarvesh Naidu: A Chinese saying says that if you catch fish and give it to a human being, you feed him for a day or may be two, but if they learn how to do it themselves they will feed them for the rest of their lives. It is pretty much the same with children. We need to help them to learn by themselves. Give them opportunities, give them an ambience and make them aware of the right and the wrong. Kids are pretty good at creating a positive world for themselves. They do know how to give, it is probably society that blocks it. The next generation will take this nation and the world to a far greater place than we perhaps have at our age. I look at the future very positively. They are in the right hands of the youngsters.

Students from Lorraine Music Academy, Pathways World School, Paramlakshya World School, Suncity World School, Lotus Valley International School, Sehwag International School, Rotary Public School expressed their celebration through song, instrumental music, and dance performances. The musical memorial included performances of songs “Ekla Chalo Re”, “Dohas from Kabir” and a medley of our nation’s folk dances, highlighting India’s cultural ethos of “Unity in Diversity”. Lorraine Fiona Aloysius will play on the Piano and will lead a group of singers in singing “Sing A Song”. The musical evening witnessed the launch of the National Singing Project “Come India Sing For Clean India” in support of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by our Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi. This musical initiative will endeavour to communicate awareness of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan among the children & youth of our nation through music and song. This series of musical initiatives will also communicate the message of “Bal Swachhta” in schools and education institutions. 

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 For Clean India” musical initiative aims to unite children, youth and their families in the Nation Building task through cleanliness. 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!” 

The Musical Memorial 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.

Watch Recent Interviews on Lok Sabha Television:

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 

www.LorraineMusicAcademy.com

in Aid of: 

  • LAMP Trust

www.lamp-india.org

A Musical Memorial – Remembering Mahatma Gandhi & Lal Bahadur Shastri

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A unique event was hosted by Lorraine Music Academy and LAMP Trust on the 2nd of October 2014, at Epicentre Auditorium, Gurgaon that paid homage to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, on the occasion of his 145th birth anniversary, and to another of our Nation’s Heroes, Lal Bahadur Shastri, on his 110th birth anniversary.

The event had distinguished Guests and members of the community from across the National Capital Region and from other States.

Chief Guest:

  • Shri Oscar Fernandes, Former Union Cabinet Minister, Government of India & Honourable Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)

The Thinkers’ Forum “Charcha” Speakers:

  • Smt. Neera Shastri, Daughter-in-law of Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Sushri Radha Bhatt, Chairperson, Gandhi Peace Foundation

Guests of Honour:

  • Dr. Raj Singh, Vice Chancellor, G. D. Goenka University
  • Col. Kr. Pratap Singh, Chairman, CCA School, Gurgaon, Haryana
  • Smt. Nirmal Yadav, Principal, CCA School, Gurgaon, Haryana
  • Shri Dhirendra M. Sharma, Principal, G. D. Goenka Public School, New Delhi
  • Smt. Sarabjeet Kaur, Principal, Paramlaksh World School, Alwar District, Rajasthan
  • Sushri Gulshan Dewan, Rotary Public School, Gurgaon, Haryana

Presided & Hosted by:

  • 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

Shri Aubrey Aloysius, Chairman, National Patriotic Project; CMD, Lorraine Music Academy; President, LAMP Trust, gave a welcome speech recalling the impact that Mahatma Gandhi had on his life as a young boy in school. He also shared from Lal Bahadur Shastri’s life recalling the winning of the 1965 war and his famous slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”. He extolled the spirit of sacrifice that our founding fathers and freedom fighters had.

Chief Guest, Shri Oscar Fernandes, Former Union Cabinet Minister, Government of India & Honourable Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), gave an opening speech extolling the virtues of Gandhiji and encouraged all to celebrate him by following in his footsteps. He shared some incidences from Gandhiji’s life that highlighted the sacrifices he made that led the people of the nation to follow him wholeheartedly. He also reflected on Lal Bahadur Shastri’s life and sacrifice for the country.

The Musical Memorial included “THE THINKERS’ FORUM CHARCHA”, moderated by Aubrey Aloysius,  which consisted of live on-stage interviews and interactions with Sushri Radha Bhatt, Chairperson, Gandhi Peace Foundation and Smt. Neera Shastri, Daughter-in-law of Lal Bahadur Shastri, delving into the noble qualities, ideals, ethics, values & principles of these exemplary National Heroes, so as to pass them on to inspire our next generation of citizens for positive nation building. “Simplicity is the way of life” was the message that Sushri Radha Bhatt shared with the audience, as she encouraged them to curb the gathering of ‘garbage’ in the house by limiting shopping to the bare necessities of life. She also expressed that it is indeed not easy to imbibe Gandhiji’s ideology in one’s life, it takes time & effort to do so. Smt. Neera Shastri shared many interesting events from her life which made us understand Lal Bahadur Shastri better. The discussion also included recalling the winning of the 1965 war under the leadership of our 2nd Prime Minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri, and his famous & stirring slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”. “Waste not, want not,” was Smt. Neera Shastri’s motto as she encouraged us to actively take up the “Swachcha Bharat” Campaign launched by our Honourable Prime Minister, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. The inspiring and mesmerising evening witnessed the launch of the “COME INDIA SING FOR CLEAN INDIA” initiative.

More that 110 children and youth from different Schools and Universities from across Gurgaon, National Capital Region of Delhi rekindled in us the patriotic spirit. The musical memorial included performances of Gandhiji’s favourite hymns and prayers performed by the youth and children – members of our next generation, and citizens of India. The songs included “Vaishnavo Jana To”, “Raghupati Raghava”, “Jai Jai Mataram”, and a medley of patriotic dances. Lorraine Fiona Aloysius played on the Piano the world famous music “Ode To Joy” composed by Beethoven whose music Gandhiji’s enjoyed listening to, while Oscar Fernandes, Aubrey Aloysius & Ananya Panwar sang the song “Joyful, Joyful”. A group of singers from the Immaculate Conception Church sang some of Gandhiji’s favourite hymns “Abide With Me” and “Amazing Grace”. The musical memorial also paid homage to another great Hero of our nation, Lal Bahadur Shastri, who gave this nation the popular & inspiring slogan “JAI JAWAN JAI KISAN”.

Photo Album:
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The program included:

  1. Welcome Address by Shri Aubrey Aloysius, Chairman, National Patriotic Project
    (Click here to view the video)
  2. Lighting of the traditional lamp by the Chief Guest, Guests of Honour alongwith with the hosts
    (Click here to view the video)
  3. Group singing of the National Anthem of India – Jana Gana Mana – by the Chief Guest, Guests of Honour, the hosts and the audience
    (Click here to view the video)
  4. Speech by the Chief Guest, Shri Oscar Fernandes, Former Union Cabinet Minister, Government of India & Honourable Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)
    (Click here to view the video)
  5. Choir Performance / Group Singing: “Vaishnavo Jana To”, “Raghupati Raghava”, “De Dil Hume Azaadi” by students of Manav Rachna International School, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  6. Choir Performance / Group Singing: “Ode To Joy” / “Joyful, joyful” by Lorraine Music Academy & Friends
    (Click here to view the video)
  7. The Thinkers’ Forum Charcha with Sushri Radha Bhatt, Chairperson, Gandhi Peace Foundation and Shri Aubrey Aloysius
    (Click here to view the video)
  8. The Thinkers’ Forum Charcha with Smt. Neera Shastri, Daughter-in-law of LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI and Shri Aubrey Aloysius
    (Click here to view the video)
  9. Choir Performance / Group Singing: “Abide With Me”, “My Chains Are Gone”, “O Give Thanks” by Immaculate Conception Church, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  10. Choir Performance / Group Singing: “Ao Bachchon” by students of Pathways World School, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  11. Choir Performance / Group Singing: “Nanna Munna Rahi Hoon” by students of Paramlakshya World School, Alwar District, Rajasthan
    (Click here to view the video)
  12. Dance Performance: “Satyagraha” by students of CCA School, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  13. Dance Performance: “Bandhe Mein Tha Dum”, “Raghupati Raghava” by students of G. D. Goenka University, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  14. Dance Performance: “Bharat Anokha Raag Hai” by students of Rotary Public School, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  15. Dance Performance: “Jai Jai Mataram” by students of Pathways World School, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  16. Dance Performance: “Kalbeliya – Rajasthani Folk Dance” by students of Paramlakshya World School, Alwar District, Rajasthan
    (Click here to view the video)

The Musical Memorial 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.

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” 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.

Watch Recent Interviews on Lok Sabha Television:

So spread the word, and join in singing our National Anthem alongwith other songs – Patriotic Songs, Folk Songs, Festive Songs, Pop Songs, Rock Songs, Christmas Carols, Gospel Songs – which 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 

www.LorraineMusicAcademy.com

in Aid of:

  • LAMP Trust

www.lamp-india.org

A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF INDIA – “COME INDIA SING JANA GANA MANA”, on our Independence Day

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Lorraine Music Academy and LAMP Trust hosted A MUSICAL CELEBRATION OF INDIA – “COME INDIA SING JANA GANA MANA”, on our Independence Day on Friday 15th August 2014 at Epicentre Auditorium, Apparel House, Sector-44, Gurgaon.

The event had distinguished Guests and members of the community from across the National Capital Region and from other States.

CHIEF GUEST:

  • Smt. Mamta Sharma, Ex-Chair Person, National Commission for Women, Government of India

GUESTS OF HONOUR:

  • Lt Gen Rajender Singh, PVSM, SM, VSM (Retd.), CEO, DLF Foundation
  • Maj. Gen. Ranjan Chand, Head-Admin, Universal Learn Today (The Education Division of India Today – Promoters of Vasant Valley School)
  • Dr. Raj Singh, Vice Chancellor, G. D. Goenka University 
  • Smt. Yasmin Contractor, Principal, Summer Fields School, Gurgaon
  • Smt. Anita Malhotra, Principal, Lotus Valley International School, Gurgaon
  • Smt. Guneet Ohri, Principal, Ridge Valley School, Gurgaon
  • Smt. Sarabjeet Kaur, Principal, Paramlaksh World School, Alwar District, Rajasthan

PRESIDED & HOSTED BY:

  • 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

Professional musicians and students of Lorraine Music Academy and schools across the National Capital Region expressed their celebration through song, instrumental music, and dance performances. There were solo singing & group / choir singing of patriotic songs from across India. There were dance performances set to patriotic and folk music. It included performances by children and youth – members of our next generation, members of the community, and citizens of India. The audience were also treated to a poetry recital and speeches by the Chief Guest and the hosts. This concert was in aid of raising awareness, support and resources for the National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing Jana Gana Mana”. Students of Lorraine Music Academy and of Schools from across Gurgaon, Haryana and Rajasthan, including Summer Fields School, Ridge Valley School, Lotus Valley International School, Amity International School, Pathways World School, Sehwag International School, Paramlaksh World School, Suncity World School participated in this celebration.

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The program included:

  1. Speech by the Chief Guest, Smt. Mamta Sharma, Ex-Chair Person, National Commission for Women, Government of India
    (Click here to view the video) 
  2. Choir Performance: “Woh Din Hai Kitna Door” by Students of Lotus Valley International School, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  3. Choir Performance: “Azad Huan Aaj Ke Din Desh Hamaara” by Students of Summer Fields School, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  4. Choir Performance: “Bharat Mata Teri Kasam” by Students of Ridge Valley School, Gurgaon, Haryana
    (Click here to view the video)
  5. Choir Performance: “Galat Mat Kadam Uthao” by Students of Suncity World School, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  6. Choir Performance: “Born Free” by Students of Lorraine Music Academy, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  7. Piano Performance:  “Sonatina” by Fredrick Kuhlao performed by Kiyoshi Yakeem, Student of Lorraine Music Academy, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  8. Piano Performance:  “Rondo Alla Turca” by Mozart performed by Vaibhav Bhatia, Student of Lorraine Music Academy, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  9. Piano Performance: “Maple Leaf Rag” by Scott Joplin performed by Rohit Adsule, Student of  Lorraine Music Academy, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  10. Poetry Recital: “Desh Ki Azaadi Ki Khaatir” recited by Sanjeev Katoch, a citizen, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  11. Dance Performance: “Chaumaso Laagyo Re” by Students of Lotus Valley International School, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  12. Dance Performance: “Desh Rangeela” by Students of Paramlaksh World School, Alwar District, Rajasthan
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  13. Dance Performance: “Raag Malhaar” by Students of Amity International School, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  14. Dance Performance: “Vande Mataram” by Students of Summer Fields School, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  15. Dance Performance: “Maa Tujhe Salaam” by Students of Ridge Valley School, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  16. Dance Performance: “Joy of Independence (Dhim Tana) & Vande Mataram” by Students of Pathways World School, Gurgaon, Haryana
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  17. Dance Performance: “Desh Rangeela + Maula Mere” by Students of Sehwag World School, Jhajjar District, Haryana
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The Musical Celebration 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. The event had the 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 – in 52 seconds.

The National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing Jana Gana Mana” recognised and awarded schools that have participated in this nation building project and have ensured 100% participation of their students in this noble cause. These schools included Summer Fields School, Ridge Valley School, Lotus Valley International School, Amity International School, Sehwag International School, Paramlaksh World School, Suncity World School, K R Mangalam World School, Manav Rachna International School, among many others. Awards were given to the Principals and representatives of these schools by the Chief Guest, Smt. Mamta Sharma; Guests of Honour – Dr. Raj Singh, Lt Gen Rajender Singh, Maj Gen Ranjan Chand, and Smt. Lorraine Fiona Aloysius. The Chairman of the National Patriotic Project, Shri Aubrey Aloysius, encouraged Educationists, School Principals, Vice Chancellors, children & the youth of the nation to follow in the stellar examples of the awardees and fulfil their fundamental duties as citizens of India as per Article 51A of the Constitution of India.

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 across the country, conducting workshops and training sessions, teaching the correct way of singing the Anthem, with passion, pride and precision, ie- in 52 seconds. We will encourage singing across the National Capital Region and across the nation among citizens, community members, members of RWAs, office colleages, etc.

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, inaugurated by the then Union Cabinet Minister and current Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Shri Oscar Fernandes. 

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 and a Patriotic Song. 

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.

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.

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Come India Sing A Festive Song – An EASTER eve Musical Concert (Come India Sing A Gospel Song)

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Come Gurgaon Sing….
Come Delhi Sing….
COME INDIA SING A FESTIVE SONG!!!
COME INDIA SING A GOSPEL SONG!!!

An EASTER Eve Musical Concert – COME INDIA SING A GOSPEL SONG presented by Lorraine Music Academy, in aid of LAMP Trust & the National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing…” on the eve of Easter, in collaboration with Epicentre Auditorium, Apparel House, Sector-44, Gurgaon.
Date: Saturday 19 April 2014. Time: 7:30pm

(Admission strictly by Passes only. Please call or SMS 9910143344 to obtain your Pass.)

Watch this space for more information on this exciting concert…

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“AN EASTER TALE” – An Easter eve Musical – COME INDIA SING A GOSPEL SONG : 19 April 2014

This Easter eve, the Lorraine Music Academy staged a Musical titled “An Easter Tale”. The performance happened at Epicentre Auditorium, Gurgaon on 19th April. This musical evening is in aid of the LAMP Trust and the National Patriotic Project “COME INDIA SING….”. The Guests of Honour were Mr. John Samuel (I.A.S.), Chief Post Master General, Government of India and Mr. Manoj George, Advocate, Supreme Court. Mr. Debasish Mitra and Mr. H. R. Bangia too joined in the lighting of the traditional lamp.

The story and significance of Good Friday and Easter were told through an interesting dialogue between mother “Becca” and her daughter “Karen” in the modern day India. Actual scenes from Jesus’ life were enacted out and sung. These included scenes of Jesus healing the blind man, forgiving the adulterous woman, healing people, washing his disciples’ feet. The highlight was the scene of the ‘Last Supper’ with all 12 disciples sitting at a table and eating with Jesus. 

A total of 30 cast participated in the musical. The roles of ‘Jesus’ was played by Aubrey Aloysius, ‘Judas’ was played by Andrew Packiam, ‘Peter’ was played by Kaustav Sood, ‘Mary Magdalene’ was played by Ananya Ravi. All actors sang and acted beautifully. Bharatanatyam dance performers Monica and Heera depicted scenes from Jesus’ life through a graceful Bharatanatyam dance. Lorraine Fiona Aloysius sang a song titled ‘There’s Something That’s Different About Him’ which described his supernatural powers even while he was on earth. His voice actually calmed the stormy sea.

Many famous Easter favourites, including both old and new, were beautifully rendered – “The Old Rugged Cross”, “Mary Did You Know”, “The Stone Is Rolled Away”, “He Lives”. The grand finale was the Rock gospel song “My Redeemer Lives” sung by the LAMPstand Rock Band and 20 young children. This musical was directed by young automobile engineer Tina Samuel, with simple but creative and impactful props and period costumes.

The audience was left absolutely spell bound by the musical and visual and spiritual treat.

The musical also witnessed the launch of “Come India Sing A Gospel Song”, a new category of the nation-wide talent contest and audition “Come India Sing” with the singing of the famous gospel song “Amazing Grace” by Aditi Iyer and Mozart’s “Hallelujah” by Serene Yoneko. This category will encourage aspiring Indians who wish to showcase their talent and aspire to be launched on a global platform. Some of the world’s greatest pop artists and Grammy Award winners like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and many others either won their first Grammy Award or launched their singing careers by singing a gospel song.

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 in a group circumstance is ignited, we have the most extraordinary power to change young lives for positive living and nation-building. Easter is a festival that is celebrated globally. India, with its beautiful and diverse cultural heritage, is known globally as the ‘land of festivals’. We have a great and diverse heritage of Folk and Festive Songs. India’s unique cultural ethos is well described as ‘unity in diversity’. Going forward, we will encourage every Indian to sing their respective Folk Songs and Festive Songs. We will encourage singing across the National Capital Region and the nation among citizens, community members, members of RWAs, offices colleagues, students at schools and colleges, etc.

This event forms a part of the ongoing Nation Building 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 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 and the singing of “Jana Gana Mana” and other songs. 

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.

So spread the word, and join in singing our National Anthem along with other songs – Patriotic Songs, Festive Songs, Folk Songs, Pop Songs, Gospel Songs, Christmas Carols – which will follow as well.

Come India Sing A Festive Song – A Musical Evening Celebrating Colours

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A Musical Concert of Colours – COME INDIA SING A FESTIVE SONG presented by Lorraine Music Academy, in aid of LAMP Trust & the National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing…” on the eve of the Festival of Colours, in collaboration with Epicentre Auditorium, Apparel House, Sector-44, Gurgaon.
Date: Saturday 15 March 2014. Time: 7:30pm

(Admission strictly by Passes only. Please call or SMS 9910143344 to obtain your Pass.)

Watch this space for more information on this exciting concert…

"COME INDIA SING A FESTIVE SONG" –  A Musical Evening Celebrating COLOURS, held on Saturday 15th March 2014 at Epicentre, Gurgaon, National Capital Region of Delhi.

PRESIDED & HOSTED BY:

  • • 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<

    • We had the oldest member of the audience – 89 years old Shri K. S. Sankaranarayanan, and three young child performers – Ayana Raha, Akaash Khanna & Neeve Walia – lighting the traditional lamp alongwith Dr. Atamjot Grewal, Fortis Memorial Research Centre, Smt. Jamuna Muralidharan, Corporate HR Manager at Nestle India, Smt. Savita Malhotra, Shri Ganesh Mohan, Smt. Lorraine Fiona Aloysius and Shri Aubrey Aloysius. The audience sang “Happy Birthday” for Mr. Sankaranarayanan as he walked up to the stage.

    It was truly a musical evening celebrating colours. Lorraine Music Academy and LAMP Trust hosted “COME INDIA SING A FESTIVE SONG – A Musical Evening Celebrating COLOURS” on the eve of Holi Festival, on Saturday 15th March 2014 at Epicentre Auditorium, Apparel House, Sector-44, Gurgaon.

    For the first time ever, the audience witnessed a creative way of celebrating Holi in an auditorium integrating instrumental music, singing, dance performances and painting of colours. Musicians, singers, dancers and visual artists – both professionals and children of all ages – performed together on stage to an enthusiastic and participative audience.

    Lorraine Fiona Aloysius played on piano the work of French composer Claude Debussy’s 1st Arabesque – while versatile painter, sculptor & photographer Savita Malhotra painted on stage to the music. Ganesh Mohan left the audience mesmerised with his dance to festive music which combined art, dance, balancing acts, juggling and skating. Aubrey Aloysius led the group with “Edelweiss”  – a world famous song about a white flower from the Hollywood movie – “Sound of Music” while children painted on stage. The teenage band and children sang songs depicting colour – “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”, “Blue Suede Shoes”, “Yellow Submarine”, “Yellow”, “Black Velvet, “Colours In The Sky”, “Counting Colours In The Sky”. The final act was the painting of patriotic rainbows by children – using the colours saffron, white, green and blue. Aubrey Aloysius conducted a brief workshop 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 on the proper singing the Indian National Anthem as per the code as laid out in the Constitution. The concert ended with audience singing the Indian National Anthem – Jana Gana Mana – with pride, passion, and precision, in the right rhythm, melody and timing – in 52 seconds.

    Citizens of the National Capital Region left the auditorium feeling bright, happy, exhilarated and surprised that they could celebrate Holi in an auditorium by splashing colours on canvas while simultaneously enjoying the colourful music and vibrantly colourful dances.

    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. India, with it’s beautiful and diverse cultural heritage, is known globally as the ‘land of festivals’. We have a great and diverse heritage of Folk and Festive Songs. India’s unique cultural ethos is well described as ‘unity in diversity’. We will encourage every Indian to sing their respective Folk Songs and Festive Songs. We will encourage singing across the National Capital Region and the nation among citizens, community members, members of RWAs, offices colleagues, students at schools and colleges, etc. Music helps the creative process and sparks the imagination and ideas. When this musical imagination and experience of singing in a group circumstance is ignited, we have the most extraordinary power to change young lives for positive living and nation-building.”

    This event is 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 Talent Contest 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 and the singing of “Jana Gana Mana” and other songs.

    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.

    So spread the word, and join in singing our National Anthem alongwith other songs – Patriotic Songs, Festive Songs, Folk Songs, Pop Songs, Christmas Carols, Gospel Songs  – which will follow as well.

    To participate, one can log on to the following website: www.localhost/lma or email: contest@lorrainemusicacademy.com or sms 9910143344.

A Musical Evening celebrating the works of World Famous Composers

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Lorraine Music Academy presents “A Musical Evening celebrating the works of World Famous Composers” @ 7:00pm on Sunday 16th February 2014 at Epicentre Auditorium, Apparel House, Sector-44, Gurgaon. 

The concert will include works of World Famous Composers on the Piano and transport you to the Music World of Vienna, Austria. The Programme will be an amazing source of inspiration for children and adults and will contribute to their musical memories for a life-time. The concert will include performances of the works by world famous composers such as Johann Strauss, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Arnold Schönberg, Wolfgang Rihm, among many others, in the format of the Vienna Waltz Export Program. The concert will bring a surprise element of showcasing the Adaptation Of The Waltz Into Popular Indian / Bollywood Music that we all love.

The following two renowned artistes from Vienna, Austria will perform in concert:

  • Marialena Fernandes, Professor of Chamber Music, University for Music & Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria
  • Ranko Markovic, Artistic Director, Konservatorium Wien University, Vienna, Austria

They will be joined in concert by:

  • Lorraine Fiona Aloysius, Creative Director & Principal, Lorraine Music Academy, Gurgaon, India  

Artistes:

• MARIALENA FERNANDES was born in Mumbai and has been since several years a recognized pianist on the international scene. After completing her education in Psychology from the Mumbai University she went on to the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where she received her Diploma with distinction in Piano and Chamber Music Performance studying with Walter Panhofer and Bruno Seidlhofer. Solo, chamber music and orchestra concert appearances followed and Fernandes is now regularly performing all over the world, including various TV and Radio broadcasts and CD recordings. Her repertoire does not only cover a broad range of classical music but reaches out for the contemporary, unconventional and improvised. Being appointed Professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna she is holding workshops and master classes and serving as Jury member at Competitions and as Artistic Director and Program Curator in series such as the „Uno, Due, Tre“ Cycle at the Musikverein in Vienna. In 2013 Marialena has obtained her PhD from the University of Music and Perforning Arts Vienna.

• RANKO MARKOVIC was the Artistic Director of Konservatorium Wien University from 1999 – 2014 and will join the Board of Directors at the Zürich University of Arts later this year. He was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and studied at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, at the Ferenc Liszt Academy in Budapest, at Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow and in London. His teachers were Peter Lang, Alfons Kontarsky, Ferenc Rados, Yevgeny Malinin and Maria Curcio. He has performed recitals and chamber music concerts in London, Vienna, Salzburg, Moscow and St. Petersburg (Philharmonia) etc. and has recently also played with the Kopelman Quartet in Vienna Musikverein and with the Konservatorium Wien Chamber Music Ensemble in the Poly Theatre in Beijing. 

Fernandes and Markovic have performed as a piano duo since 2000. They have had special success with performances of the piano transcriptions of symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner, including those in the Museum of Art History (on Mahler’s original piano), in the Arnold Schoenberg Center and the Jewish Museum in Vienna, at the Festival of the Four Cultures in Lodz, in the Austrian Cultural Forum and in the residence of the Austrian Embassy in London, in the ACF in New York, at the University of California in Los Angeles and McGill University in Montreal, in the Kazakh National Music Academy in Astana and at the Con Brio Festival in the NCPA in Mumbai. The duo also took part in the Mahler Symposium at Vienna State Opera on 18 May 2011, the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death. In 2013 they have been performoming in Brazil, Korea and Taiwan for the first time. The duo has released two CDs featuring major piano transcriptions: Mahler’d Sixth Symphony arranged by Zemlinsky and Bruckner’s Third as arranged by Mahler.

• LORRAINE FIONA ALOYSIUS started playing the piano from the age of 8, greatly encouraged & inspired by her mother, Helen D’Cruz. Lorraine initially trained in Kuwait under Johnny Gomes. She then trained under the tutelage of Aida Francis. She is a Licentiate of the Trinity College of London – UK (Pianoforte) and a Masters in Banking & Finance. She has experience in teaching, creative thinking, public relations, training and motivating large teams across the country. Lorraine has been living in Gurgaon since 2004 and is the Creative Director & Principal of Lorraine Music Academy. She has sent several hundreds of students for examinations of Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, U.K., Trinity College of London, U.K., Trinity Guildhall, U.K., and RockSchool, U.K. Lorraine also oversees a regular visiting faculty that comes in from across the globe including some of the top global Colleges of Music & Drama, to teach her students during various periods of the year. She has performed in concerts at various auditoria across the country.

The concert aims to raise awareness and resources in aid of LAMP Trust and the National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing…”.

Aubrey Aloysius, founder of the Lorraine Music Academy and the LAMP Trust, and Chairman of the National Patriotic Project, says “Touching lives through music, Lorraine Music Academy exists to access and promote the rich heritage of world music – bringing music to children, their families and the community at large. Music transcends all boundaries. It brings people together from across the globe and unites them. 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. LAMP Trust exists to promote music and the arts across India. LAMP has launched the National Patriotic Project ‘Come India Sing…’. India is young! India’s biggest asset is its young population. We aim to rekindle and build a National fervour of Patriotism and motivate the youth to build their lives positively to contribute to India. India is a nation with a multi-faceted and diverse cultural heritage. We can build solidarity through appreciation of our cultural diversity, acting on the principle that the understanding and appreciation of diversity is a powerful unifier – that our most important similarities, human common ground, are to be found in our distinctive histories of expression. Nowhere is this potential for positive fusion more evident than in the nation of India. Through this National Patriotic Project we will empower our children and youth to build on the nation’s cultural ethos of ‘Unity in Diversity’. In selecting the first song that could be re-taught to the nation, we chose the one song that is understood and sung by the whole nation, our National Anthem. Other songs will follow. 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.” 

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Come India Sing Jana Gana Mana – A Musical Evening in Honour of INDIA on REPUBLIC day eve

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We begin this year with a bang – on Saturday the 25th of January 2014 – to celebrate our Country’s REPUBLIC DAY!

Lorraine Music Academy and LAMP Trust will host “COME INDIA SING JANA GANA MANA – A Musical Evening in Honour of India on Republic Day eve”, @ 6:30pm on Saturday 25th January 2014 at Epicentre Auditorium, Apparel House, Sector-44, Gurgaon.

(Admission Free. No Passes required. Seats available on first come first served basis. Please come early.)

The students of Lorraine Music Academy and schools across the National Capital Region will express themselves through music by playing instruments and singing songs that make them happy. We will also have folk songs from across North, South, East & West India, patriotic songs, dance performances, poetry recitals and speeches. The musical evening will include performances by children and youth – members of our next generation, and citizens of India. It will include performances by members of the community.

The event will also have the audience singing our National Anthem with precision, pride and passion. 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.

From this Republic Day eve, we are launching a drive to encourage singing of our National Anthem the right way as per the code laid out in the Constitution of India. We will speak at gatherings of students in schools and educational institutions, during assembly time, in offices and institutions, conduct workshops and training sessions, teaching the correct way of singing the Anthem, with passion, pride and precision, ie- in 52 seconds. We will encourage singing across the National Capital Region and the nation among citizens, community members, members of RWAs, students, youth, offices colleages, etc.

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.

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” Nation-wide Talent Contest 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 and the singing of “Jana Gana Mana”, and a Patriotic Song.

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.

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, please log on to the following websites:

Conceptualised & Initiated by:

  • Lorraine Music Academy

in Aid of:

  • LAMP Trust

in collaboration with our Partners:

  • Knowledge Partner:
    • iCONGO
  • Citizen Action Partner:
    • Karmayuga

Venue Partners:

  • Sports Authority of India
  • Epicentre

Come India Sing A Christmas Carol – A Musical Celebration on Christmas eve

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Come Gurgaon Sing….
Come Delhi Sing….
COME INDIA SING A CHRISTMAS CAROL!!!

A Musical Celebration on Christmas eve – COME INDIA SING A CHRISTMAS CAROL presented by Lorraine Music Academy, in aid of LAMP Trust & the National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing…” in collaboration with Epicentre Auditorium, Apparel House, Sector-44, Gurgaon. Please come earlier in the day to enjoy the "CHRISTMAS BAZAAR" and the delicacies served at the Food Stalls before enjoying the Concert in the auditorium.

Date: Tuesday 24th December 2013. Time: 6:30pm

(Admission Free. No Passes required. Seats available on first come first served basis. Please come early.)

Jesus was born in adverse & austere circumstances…. Angels came down from heaven to sing to the poor shepherds…. Wise men from the east came with generous gifts….

As Christmas Day approaches, we at LORRAINE MUSIC ACADEMY & LAMP TRUST have plans to bring LIGHT, JOY AND PEACE to the city of Gurgaon, the National Capital Region of Delhi and India through music.

Most exciting is that we will light up the lives of little poor children as well by teaching them to sing. We invite you to join us in wholeheartedly GIVING and sharing GENEROUSLY during this Christmas season.

Please call us on 9910229546 to enroll YOURSELF / YOUR CHILD for carol singing training for 12 sessions of 1 hour each. To ENROLL YOURSELF / YOUR CHILD in the above program, please contribute any GENEROUS SUM you wish and make out your cheque in favour of “Lorraine Music Academy Pvt. Ltd.”. This will help us to contribute to LAMP for the poor children this season and also enable your family to enjoy this Musical Evening Celebrating Christmas.

Even if you / your child cannot participate, please feel free to simply give any GENEROUS SUM to LAMP towards a poor child. Hear and watch them sing!!! www.lamp-india.org

To DONATE any GENEROUS SUM you wish towards the above cause this season, please make out your cheque in favour of “LAMP”. Your donation will be eligible for INCOME TAX EXEMPTION under SECTION 80-G of the Income Tax Act.

Stay tuned and in touch for more news….

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 musical memorial will include performances by children and youth – members of our next generation, and citizens of India. At this event, children will express themselves in song, dance, performances on the piano and various instruments, speeches and poems. Children aged 4 to 17 years, and youth will sing, play and speak from their heart. There will also be a performance by children from economically backward sections of society.

The event will also have the audience singing our National Anthem with precision, pride and passion. 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.

The “Come India Sing” Nation-wide Audition & Talent Contest is open to all. This includes a slogan contest for every Indian citizen to express what the National Anthem means to them. The audition & talent contest also encourages the practising and the singing of “Jana Gana Mana”, and a Patriotic Song.

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 audition and talent 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 Audition & 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.

So spread the word, and join in singing our National Anthem. Other songs – Patriotic Songs, Festive Songs, Folk Songs, Pop Songs, Christmas Carols, etc. – will follow as well.

To participate, please log on to the following websites:

Conceptualised & Initiated by:

  • Lorraine Music Academy

in Aid of:

  • LAMP Trust

in collaboration with our Partners:

  • Knowledge Partner:
    • iCONGO
  • Citizen Action Partner:
    • Karmayuga

Venue Partners:

  • Sports Authority of India
  • Epicentre

Come India Sing A Christmas Carol – A Musical Evening Heralding The Christmas Season

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COME INDIA SING A CHRISTMAS CAROL – A Musical Evening Heralding The Christmas Season presented by Lorraine Music Academy, in aid of LAMP Trust & the National Patriotic Project “Come India Sing…”.

Date: Wednesday 11th December 2013. Time: 7:30pm

(Admission Free. No Passes required. Seats available on first come first served basis. Please come early.)

Jesus was born in adverse & austere circumstances…. Angels came down from heaven to sing to the poor shepherds…. Wise men from the east came with generous gifts….

As the Christmas Season approaches, we at LORRAINE MUSIC ACADEMY & LAMP TRUST have great plans to bring light to the city of Gurgaon, the National Capital Region of Delhi and across India through music. We would love to teach your child to sing.

We will be caroling across town in December 2013 and also performing at Epicentre on the 11th of December 2013 @ 7:30pm and on the 24th of December 2013 @ 6:30pm.

Most exciting is that we will light up the lives of little poor children as well by teaching them to sing. We invite you to join us in wholeheartedly GIVING and sharing GENEROUSLY during this Christmas season.

Please call us on 9910229546 to enroll YOURSELF / YOUR CHILD for carol singing training for 12 sessions of 1 hour each. To ENROLL YOURSELF / YOUR CHILD in the above program, please contribute any GENEROUS SUM you wish and make out your cheque in favour of “Lorraine Music Academy Pvt. Ltd.”. This will help us to contribute to LAMP for the poor children this season and also enable your family to enjoy this Musical Evening Celebrating Christmas.

Even if you / your child cannot participate, please feel free to simply give any GENEROUS SUM to LAMP towards a poor child. Hear and watch them sing!!! www.lamp-india.org

To DONATE any GENEROUS SUM you wish towards the above cause this season, please make out your cheque in favour of “LAMP”. Your donation will be eligible for INCOME TAX EXEMPTION under SECTION 80-G of the Income Tax Act.

Stay tuned and in touch for more news….

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 event will include performances by children and youth – members of our next generation, and citizens of India. At this event, children, youth, and adults from the community will express themselves in song, dance, performances on the piano and various instruments, speeches and poems. Children aged 4 to 17 years, and youth will sing, play and speak from their heart. There will also be a performance by children from economically backward sections of society.

The event will also have the audience singing our National Anthem with precision, pride and passion. 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.

The “Come India Sing” Nation-wide Audition & Talent Contest is open to all. This includes a slogan contest for every Indian citizen to express what the National Anthem means to them. The audition & talent contest also encourages the practising and the singing of “Jana Gana Mana”, and a Patriotic Song.

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 audition and talent 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 Audition & 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.

So spread the word, and join in singing our National Anthem. Other songs – Patriotic Songs, Festive Songs, Folk Songs, Pop Songs, Christmas Carols, etc. – will follow as well.

To participate, please log on to the following websites:

Conceptualised & Initiated by:

  • Lorraine Music Academy

in Aid of:

  • LAMP Trust

in collaboration with our Partners:

  • Knowledge Partner:
    • iCONGO
  • Citizen Action Partner:
    • Karmayuga

Venue Partners:

  • Sports Authority of India
  • Epicentre

Remembering Chacha Nehru – A Musical Memorial on Children’s Day eve

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Lorraine Music Academy and LAMP Trust invite you to “REMEMBERING CHACHA NEHRU” – A MUSICAL MEMORIAL ON CHILDREN’S DAY EVE on Tuesday 12th November 2013 @ 7:30pm, at Epicentre Auditorium, Apparel House, Sector-44, Gurgaon.

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 musical memorial will include performances by children and youth – members of our next generation, and citizens of India. At this event, children will express themselves in song, dance, performances on the piano and various instruments, speeches and poems. Children aged 4 to 17 years, and youth will sing, play and speak from their heart. They will sing songs and play music that they love. The event is being organised to celebrate children and remember their significant and important place in our lives. There will also be a performance by children from economically backward sections of society.

The event will also have the audience singing our National Anthem with precision, pride and passion. 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.

The “Come India Sing” Nation-wide Audition & Talent Contest is open to all. This includes a slogan contest for every Indian citizen to express what the National Anthem means to them. The audition & talent contest also encourages the practising and the singing of “Jana Gana Mana”, and a Patriotic Song.

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 audition and talent 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 Audition & 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.

So spread the word, and join in singing our National Anthem. Other songs – Patriotic Songs, Festive Songs, Folk Songs, Pop Songs, Christmas Carols, etc. – will follow as well.

To participate, please log on to the following websites:

Conceptualised & Initiated by:

  • Lorraine Music Academy

in Aid of:

  • LAMP Trust

in collaboration with our Partners:

  • Knowledge Partner:
    • iCONGO
  • Citizen Action Partner:
    • Karmayuga

Venue Partners:

  • Sports Authority of India
  • Epicentre