Getting back to the current show, Aruna remembers chanting Lalitha Sahasranamam at a concert in Berlin. “Did you know that many devotional chants that originated from the West way back in the 9th and 10th centuries, are based on Indian ragas such as Kalyani, Kharaharapriya and Sindhu Bhairavi? In fact, the German poetess and saint Hilde de Garde von Bingen is believed to have set a few of her poems in Sindu Bhairavi! That’s the universality of music.” There are quite a few similarities between the Indian classical music and ancient choral music, explains Aruna.
That jamming session was so moving that it left all of us with moist eyes.” So I sang it with Michael playing the organ. At once, Lalitha Sahasranamam came to mind I chant it daily as part of my morning prayer. Then he asked me if there are similar songs praising goddesses in India. At once, one of the scholars, Michael Heineman, a musician himself, started playing the organ and sang a beautiful hymn on Mother Mary. She recalls, “They led me to the crypt of the chapel where the organ’s keys are placed. Nearly 13 years ago, during a road trip through Germany, Aruna met a couple of research scholars who took her to a monastery. There’s a fascinating past story about how the idea for the theme – Lalitha Sahasranamam – took shape. “I have never tried fusion of this kind before on home turf. “To be honest, I am quite nervous,” she says during a telephone conversation. Though the classical singer has collaborated with musicians from other genres in the past, she has never moved away from her comfort zone… pure Carnatic. That’s exactly what she will be doing tomorrow (July 7) when she pays tribute to various goddesses in a fusion concert titled ‘Lalitha: The Divine Mother Goddess With a 1000 Venerable Names.’ The show is a fund-raiser for CANCARE Foundation, a charitable organisation that offers palliative care to terminally-ill cancer patients and supports the surgeries, radiation and chemotherapy of needy patients from low income groups.Īruna will break new ground when she jams with the Chennai-based band Oxygen, for some fusion fare with the divine chants of Lalitha Sahasranamam as the leitmotif. For, this veteran likes to experiment, be it with the theme or presentation. There’s always a buzz whenever Aruna Sairam takes the stage.
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