Songs of Tagore by Rezwana Chowdhury Bonnya

Songs of Tagore by Rezwana Chowdhury Bonnya to celebrate Rabindranath Tagore, the great Bangalee poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore championed a religion of man and sang of humanity’s common bond, and is the only poet in the world whose poems were adopted as national anthems by two countries – India and Bangladesh. More than 150 years after his birth, his “elegant prose and beautiful poetry” continue to inspire generations of people of all cultures. Tagore was also a great composer, having written and composed over 3,000 songs.

Bangladeshi  Singer Rezwana Chowdhury Bonnya is one of the greatest exponents of Tagore’s music. She studied at Shantiniketan, the school in West Bengal (India) that Tagore had set up at the turn of the 20th century. Herself a professor of music, Ms. Chowdhury has spent the last 35 years bringing Tagore’s music and its message to the world through concert appearances, lectures and recordings.

Expected run time for Songs of Tagore by Rezwana Chowdhury Bonnya is 150 minutes.

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Student $20
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Venue

Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space
2537 Broadway, New York, NY 10025