The Global Symphony was written by Dr. L. Subramaniam as a requiem in memory of Viji Subramaniam. It was premiered in 1995 at New York’s Madison Square Gardens to commemorate the 50th year of the United Nations with the composer conducting. Subsequently, it has been performed with the Berlin Opera, again with the composer conducted and was simultaneously broadcast over twenty-eight nations with millions of listeners creating history.

This is a one movement composition for Symphony Orchestra and solo voice with the option of choir. There are three main themes in the composition. It starts in a mystic meditative way, with sacred text in Sanskrit sung by the solo voice which leads to a developmental section where there is a vigorous rhythmic passage which passes through chromatic harmonic structure and leads to the reintroduction of the theme in the dominant key with a three part canon leading to a transitional section with a recapitulation of the first theme in the original key with strong orchestral backing from the strings and flute with the very ending repeated thrice in the traditional Indian way.