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The Lotus, from Four Song Offerings (2020)
Classical/Chamber music • 2020 • Lyricist: Rabindranath Tagore
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The Lotus, from Four Song Offerings (2020)
Instrumentation |
Violin, Viola, Cello, Soprano |
Scored for |
Solo, Quartet |
Type of score |
Full score, Parts |
Publisher |
Colin Eatock |
Language |
English |
Difficulty |
Advanced |
Duration |
6'0 |
The composer writes: Rabindranath Tagore’s Song Offerings are the poet’s own English-language translations of his Bengali-language Gitanjali. While Tagore’s translations are not exactly literal, they present to the Western world a window into the tradition of Hindu devotional poetry. (Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature for the collection.)
In the four excerpts I chose to set to music, love and beauty are recurring themes, richly elaborated with images from nature. But as with many of the poems in Gitanjali: Song Offerings, the “love” and “beauty” can be interpreted as either worldly or spiritual.
The fourth movement, The Lotus, may be performed as a stand-alone concert work.
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