OVER 400 SONGS COMPOSED IN CHINA

 

During his three-month visit to China, Sri Chinmoy composed 419 Bengali and English songs.

Among those were a song to Hu Jintao, China’s President, as well as his immortal I am a Great Chinese Boy, I am a Good Chinese Girl song composed Dec. 17 for the children of China.

He also set to music a poem dedicated to the tsunami victims, written by Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing.

In addition, he composed and performed 27 quotes from Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem Savitri.


Published in Anahata Nada, Volume 37, December 2004 – March 2005