Colin Eatock

The Lotus, from Four Song Offerings (2020)

Classical/Chamber music • 2020 • Lyricist: Rabindranath Tagore

The Lotus, from Four Song Offerings (2020)

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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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