Surabaya to host free peace concert

Surabaya to host free peace concert

JAKARTA (JP): International peace advocate Sri Chinmoy will
stage a free peace concert at the Sheraton Surabaya Hotel on
Sunday at 7 p.m.

The 67-year-old musician, artist, poet, athlete and spiritual
leader will perform his own compositions which comprise a mixture
of Western and Eastern instruments like flute, cello and
harmonium.

Chinmoy has composed thousands of songs about the need for
love and peace. This concert, part of his eight-week tour of
Southeast Asia, is one of his various activities to promote
peace, love, admiration and respect for all religions around the
world.

The India-born Chinmoy has been honored with several awards
for his creative work for peace over 30 years. On his fourth
visit to Indonesia, he has brought 200 international students
from 24 countries and of several faiths, who want to learn from
the Indonesian ethics of harmony, modesty, calmness and unique
moral heritage.

His peace tours, the first of which was in 1984, have led him
to Paris, New York, Canberra and Tokyo, among other cities.