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The Seventeenth Annual Tagore Festival

Pictures from the Festival

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All photographs by Sujoy Mukherjee unless otherwise indicated.
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Welcome to the Tagore Center, Urbana, IL

 

 

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Introductory remarks from Professor Anil Bera, University of Illinois

 

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Introductory remarks from Professor Ananda Lal, Jadavpur University

 

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Hans Vermeersch and Stephan Vermeersch of the Rajhans Orchestra, Belgium

 

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Hans and Stephan play music of Tagore

 

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Hans explains the music of Tagore

 

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Audience listening to the Rajhans Orchestra

 

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Music and dance by local artists

 

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Music and dance by local artists

 

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Music and dance by local artists

 

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Music and dance by local artists

 

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Music and dance by local artists

 

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Lighting of the lamp by Martin Kämpchen, Hans Vermeersch, and Stephan Vermeersch

 

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Presentation by Professor Fred Gottheil, University of Illinois

 

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Presentation by Mr. Ananta Ghosh, Chicago, IL

 

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A Musical Rendition of Tagore’s Poem, Rain, composed and conducted by Dr. Michael Sczerba, University of Illinois

 

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Keynote speech by Dr. Martin Kämpchen of Santiniketan, India, and Boppard, Germany

 

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A closing gift presented to Dr. Martin Kämpchen

 

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Commemorative plaque in the Tagore Center, Urbana, IL

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