up until April 13, 2004
See also: Music Pages
• Composed 18,097 songs as of 13 April 2004:
Bengali, 11,468; English, 6,416; Sanskrit, 180; French, 33
• Composed 300 songs in one session, 28 November 1976
• Composed 2,700 songs in one year,1995, to reach a total of 13,000
• Set music to “August 15, 1945”, his epic Bengali poem written at the age
of thirteen and dedicated to the Birthday of Sri Aurobindo, 8 July 1995
• Set music to “The Ideal of Forgiveness”, Sri Aurobindo’s epic story that
Sri Chinmoy rendered into poetry in 1945 —-Sri Chinmoy's longest song - 16 August 2002
• Sri Chinmoy has performed over 700 concerts
• Largest concert: 23 September 2000, audience of 19,000, Montreal,
Canada
• Gave 9 concerts with audiences of over 10,000 people
• Performed 400 songs-in a single performance, 14 May 1986
• Performed longest concert on 150 instruments in 14 hours, 25 November,
1995, Jamaica, NY in honour of the United Nations 50th Anniversary
• Performed on 70 pianos in one concert, Queens, NY, 16 August 2001
• Longest continuous improvisational performance on piano:
• Written over 1500 works, including poetry, essays, lectures, stories, plays
and aphorisms, with a total of 100,000 poems and aphorisms to date
• 24-hour poetry record: 1,301 -poems in 22 hours and 45 minutes, 7
August 1996 (one poem every 63 seconds). Printed in a 13-part series
Two God-Amusement-Rivals
• Sri Chinmoy has given over 300 university lectures, including universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford, Sorbonne and Tokyo Universities
See also: Art Pages
13 Apr 2004 Has painted over 200,000 works of art since 19 November 1974
13 Apr 2004 Has drawn over 14,000,000 soul-birds since 29 December 1991
03 Oct 1975 Completed 100,000 paintings in 101/2 months
16 Nov 1975 Completed 16,031 paintings in 24 hours
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