Rabindranath Tagore Was a Blessed Child of God. He Was at the Same Time a Great Poet, Musician

Rabindranath Tagore was a blessed child of God. He was at the same time a great Poet, Musician, Artist, Philosopher and a short story writer. In short, he was a multifaceted personality, indeed. Being passionate about traveling, he had visited almost all the countries around the World. Not surprisingly, then, he is recognized not just as a citizen of India but also as a global citizen. On his 150th Birth Anniversary celebration year we seek to discover Tagore through different views and observations of renowned scholars from all across the globe and belonging to diverse disciplines such as art, literature and music.

Rabindranath said that if "They remember me for nothing else, they will remember me for my song". He received a Nobel prize for his poetic collection Geetanjali. His music is used as a vehicle for emotional expression. He had a great background in classical music and also had close relation with some renowned classical musicians of that time because his father used to invite famous musicians to his residence at Jodasako, so that they could impart training to the children of the Thakur Family. Great nusicians like Vishnu Chakrawarti and Radhika Prasad Goswami were revered as Gurus in this family. Devendranath took personal interest in asking musicians to use Bengali lyrics replacing the Hindi phrases that were generally used in the original classical composition and that was the beginning of a new genre in Bangla music called Bhanga Gaan. This rich musical atmosphere in the Tagore family inspired and taught Rabindranath so that he could create songs within Indian classical compostional frame work of Dhrupad, Dhamar, Khyal, Tappa, Thumari and so on. Geetovitan is a consolidation and collection nearly 3000 songs that have been composed in the style that we all know today as Rabindra Sangit. The compositions are divided into 6 themes such as Puja (Worship), Prem (Love), Anushthanik (occasional songs), Prakriti (Nature), Vichitra (Miscellaneous) and Swadeshi (Nationalist). Rabindranath's songs draw their inspiration from Vaishnav Philosphic thought. Noteworthy among these are Bhanu Singh Padawali, Dance, Dramas, Shyam, Chandalika, Chitrangada. It is also worth mentioning that his songs or poetic creations reflect his concern about political, social, religious and philosophic aspects of the society which mirrored the changing mode of the society he lived in. His concept of tune (Swara) and poetics (Vani) is Ardha Narishwer as the words in his songs are equally important as the musical content. Being not just a wonderful poet but also a blessed writer he expresses his feelings not only through his poetry and musical compositions but also through his Novels, Short stories and letter writing.

Rabindranath was also influenced by Sufi and Buddhist religions which reflects in his creation of Notir Puja or Baul songs. Rabindranath was a great admirer of all regional concepts and creations. We know that he was widely travelled and he collected theme and thoughts from all over the world and these reflected in his regional and folk musical compositions. Rabindranath was a great educationist because he established Vishwabharati Bharati University in 1920 at Shanti Niketan. Rabindranath was also a very good painter. He has started his painting at the age of 60 year. To correct some written work he used his pen or pencil in such an artistic way that the correction came out as a beautiful painting. He also used to act and he would also stage dramas with his family. No wonder, he was a very well known actor and playwright too.

To conclude, Rabindranath Tagore can be seen as a great musicologist, as a student of music, as a sensitive person and over all a positive human being. We are all admirers of Rabindranath Tagore. Just as M.K.Gandhi, the father of our nation, addressed him as Gurudev, we also accept him heartily as Gurudev.

On the 150th Birth Anniversary of this great, versatile personality, we humbly offer our tribute by arranging an International Seminar. The main purpose of this seminar is to educate our students and also spread a message to the society as to what are the main aspects of Kavi Guru Rabindranath through the views and observations of the scholars from different parts of the world. We have, therefore, focused this seminar on the subject "Discovering Tagore : His Art, Music and Literature". I am sure all positive views and thoughts related to this topic will make our seminar a great success.

Along with the central theme we decided the other subthemes for the purpose of inviting papers as bellow-

(a) Renaissance and Rabindranath Tagore

(b) Creativity and RabindranathTagore

(d) Rabindranath Tagore and the Philosophic concept of "Jeevan Devata"

(e) Visual Art and Tagore’s Paintings

(f) Beauty in Rabindra Sangit (music)

(g) Beauty in Literature of Rabindranath

(h) Rabindranath Tagore and Global Relationship

(i) Rabindranath Tagore: An Educationist

(j) Tagore's concept on Ardhanarishwar as a Music & Literature

(k) The Philosophic thought of Rabindranath

(l) Vision of Global unity of Rabindranath

(m) Contribution of Rabindranath in World music

(n) Rabindranath and Patriotism

Discovering Tagore : His Music, Art & Literature

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From 1st Dec. 2011 to 3rd Dec. 2011

From : 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM

Organised by :

Department of Musicology

Venue : Pt. Omkar Nath Thakur Auditorium

Faculty of Performing Arts, B.H.U.

Convener

Prof. Lipika Dasgupta

Convener & HOD, Musicology

Faculty of Performing Arts, BHU

Advisor

Prof. Sharada Velenkar

Dean

Faculty of Performing Arts, BHU

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1st Dec, 2011, Time : 10:00 am to 10:45 am

Registration fee : § Rs. 600/- For Students § Rs. 1000/- for Teacher's & Scholars, § $60/- for Foreign Students (excluding B.H.U. foreign students) & Scholars. § Local research scholar students and teachers are requested to pay their registration fee at the Department of Musicology between 12:00 to 04:00 PM till 28th November outstation participants may send their registration fee by cheque in favour of "HOD, Musicology, F.P.A., B.H.U.". Out station participants will get registered between 08:30 am to 09:30 am on spot at venue on 1st December, 2011. Fees includes breakfast, lunch, tea and registration kit.

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