On September 23, 2003, the Dalai Lama stopped at the Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in New York for a benefit concert that was part of a twenty-day tour of the United States.
Now, Anti- Records will release a live album of the concert, which featured Tom Waits, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, Anoushka Shankar, Gyoto Tantric Choir, and Greg Cohen, on July 10.
The disc is a collaborative effort with Healing the Divide, a nonprofit organization that actor Richard Gere founded in 2001. It will be titled Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation and – along with Anti- and the artists involved – donate all proceeds to the group’s Tibetan Health Initiative, which provides health care to poverty-stricken Buddhist monks and nuns in refugee settlements.
Waits, who performed with Kronos Quartet and Cohen, has four tracks on the disc.