Friday, May 14, 1999, a series of Maharishi Gandharva Veda music concerts started
in Fairfield, Iowa, USA. The reduced fee is designed to draw as large an audience as
possible to the series of Maharishi Gandharva Veda concerts being held to help end
the violence in Kosovo. "We are holding concerts once every weekend until the
violence stops," said John Runkle, director of the Maharishi Gandharva Veda Music
Institute.
According to Mr. Runkle, the quality of the influence of the music
is proportional to the number of listeners, and the harmonizing influence resonates in the
consciousness of the listeners, thereby multiplying the effect of coherence in the
environment. "Because the music is a very silent level of music, there is a lot of
harmony that goes out into the environment and produces peaceful influences to help change
the tendency towards aggression in this country," Mr. Runkle said. Upcoming concert
dates will be posted at Everybody's, Annapurna, and the Domes, in Fairfield. "We are
very fortunate to have such wonderful musicians to help enliven harmony in our
environment," Mr. Runkle said.
