Four Song Offerings (2020)

soprano and string quartet

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Composer
Year of composition
2020
Lyricist
Rabindranath Tagore
Difficulty
Difficult (Grades 7+)
Duration
12 minutes
Genre
Classical music
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I: The Boat; II: He Comes!; III: The Stream of Life; IV: The Lotus

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 have chosen 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, the “love” and “beauty” can be interpreted as either worldly or spiritual.

The attached recording is of the fourth song, "The Lotus," which may be performed as a separate, stand-alone concert work.

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