As part of healing-intended music programme
Fr Joseph Thattarassery, parish priest of St Raphael's Church at Vytilla,performing at Kochi Biennale Foundation's ‘Arts and Medicine' programme at the Ernakulam Government General Hospital on Wednesday. (Photo: DC)
Kochi: Fr Joseph Thattarassery, parish priest of Thykoodam St Raphael’s Church, enthralled patients and visitors at Ernakulam government general hospital through his beautiful songs from Christian devotional to weighty Carnatic music to peppy Malayalam film songs.
The event was part of the healing-intended music programme ‘Arts and Medicine’ organised in the run-up to the Kochi Muziris Biennale starting next month. The priest crooned compositions that owed thematically to the Bible and also Hindu devotional songs during an 80-minute show organised by the Kochi Biennale Foundation.
He started with the popular Christian song 'Idaya Kanyake Povuka Nee' followed by a string of Malayalam film melodies.
The concert saw Fr Thattarassery being accompanied by a couple of young singers that was set to music by the Mehboob Memorial Orchestra. The priest has already earned a name through his Christian devotional songs tuned to Carnatic music which he learned from senior vocalist Mattancherry N P Ramaswamy.
“Music offers a divine healing touch to ailing helpless patients,” said Fr Thattarassery.
“I have been studying classical music for the past 12 years, and have taken part in the Thyagaraja music festival, but a stage of this nature is novel and gratifying,” he added.
Bonny Thomas, who organises the Arts and Medicine programme was “excited” to have a social worker-priest in the 40th edition of the programme.
“The Kochi-Muziris Biennale is finding people from different walks of life coming forward to lend their support to us.”
( Source : dc correspondent )
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