![]() ![]() When it reached his home town, Shyamasundara attended, and every weekend after that, he visited home to help devotees organize Bhagavad-gita lecture programs there.Īlthough he had just graduated from music University, he spent the next three years travelling and teaching Krishna consciousness full-time. The following year, devotees held a major festival tour around Hungary. Soon, he joined ISKCON and received the name Shyamasundara Dasa. Zoltan began to read more of Srila Prabhupada’s books, then to chant Krishna’s names on japa beads. But the mantras, and the devotion with which they were sung, touched my heart.” “But I was surprised to find that this was something very different-the simple bhajans that were being played with harmonium and kartalas didn’t sound very musical to me at all. ![]() “The music at the festival had been billed as ‘Indian traditional music,’ and I was excited to go because I had learned about Indian classical music at University,” he says. Zoltan began to regularly visit the temple, and when devotees held their first major Hare Krishna festival in Hungary later that year, he attended that too. ![]() “I had received Srila Prabhupada’s books Perfection of Yoga and Sri Isopanisad from devotees on the street a couple of years before, so I had already developed an interest. “That was when I found out that there was an ISKCON temple in Budapest,” he says. Finally in 1990, Zoltan moved on to Liszt Ferenc University in Budapest to complete his musical education. ![]() There, he learned violin for six years, before transferring to the Bartók Béla Secondary Music School in 1986 at age fourteen, where he added the viola to his repertoire. She did one better, and enrolled him into the Erkel Ferenc Music School. “I remember my grandfather broke a branch from a tree for me, and I stood facing the record player, waving it about as if I was conducting the music,” he says.Īt eight years old, when a violin teacher came to his school, Zoltan begged his mother to let him learn. Shyamasundara Dasa’s love of classical music goes all the way back to 1976, when he was a five-year-old boy named Zoltán Bakaja, growing up in the small town of Miskolc. A Hungarian music teacher has brought together two beautiful yet unlikely companions-Western classical music and traditional Vaishnava songs. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
February 2023
Categories |