{"id":1162,"date":"2008-05-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/news\/choir-creates-musical-and-spiritual-harmony\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:48:39","slug":"choir-creates-musical-and-spiritual-harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/index.php\/choir-creates-musical-and-spiritual-harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Choir creates musical and spiritual harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bahai.org.au\/Portals\/0\/New%20Era%20Choir-My-Sweet-Lord.jpg\" alt=\"Choir creates musical and spiritual harmony\" \/><figcaption>The New Era Baha&#8217;i Choir performing at the celebration of the birthday of Buddha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The New Era Baha\u2019i choir contributed to the interfaith atmosphere when it performed at an event in Perth celebrating the birthday of Buddha.<\/p>\n<p>Comprised of people from various backgrounds and ages, New Era performed songs that reached out to the more noble sentiments of the audience.<\/p>\n<p>When the choir\u2019s founder and musical director Greg Parker introduced <em>My Sweet Lord<\/em>, he described the song as one \u201cwritten by a Hindu (George Harrison) and sung by a Baha\u2019i choir at a Buddhist celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 1000-strong audience of people of many faiths and denominations later took up Mr Parker\u2019s invitation to join with the choir in singing <em>All You Need is Love.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the choir, conducted by Rachel Parker-Roohi, was concluding its performance of <em>I Still Call Australia Home<\/em>, the sky lit up with a spectacular fireworks display.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biggest event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perth Baha\u2019i Sholeh Boyle read passages and prayer from the Baha\u2019i Writings at the event held on 12 April at the Supreme Court Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>The annual festival is the biggest event on the calendar for the Buddhist community in Perth and is popular with the wider community.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers, the Buddha Light International Association and the Fo Guang Shan Temple of Western Australia, invited the Baha\u2019is to participate in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Noted for its combination of diversity, spirituality and talent, the Perth-based New Era Baha\u2019i choir has performed throughout Australia at hundreds of events since it was established in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>The choir\u2019s repertoire includes popular songs that reflect Baha\u2019i principles, Baha\u2019i scriptures set to music, and original material by Mr Parker from New Era\u2019s album <em>Release.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>New Era has often been invited to perform at citizenship ceremonies and at Australia Day services in the presence of the Governor of Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Era Baha\u2019i choir contributed to the interfaith atmosphere when it performed at an event in Perth celebrating the birthday of Buddha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-releases","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.2 - 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