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Saturday,
October 15, 2005
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Location:
Tagore Center
(Channing-Murray Foundation Hall, 1209 W. Oregon St., Urbana, IL)
Cost: Adults, $8.00;
Students and children age 10 and above, $5.00
(children under 10 free)
(contact committee members for reservations)
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| 2:30 pm |
Reception
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| 3:00 pm |
Invocation — Inaugural Song
Professor Ananda Lal, Jadavpur University
A Blueprint for Reinventing Tagorean Performance |
| 3:30 pm |
Musical performance
Hans Vermeersch and Group, Belgium
Music of Tagore: Confluence of East & West
(Information on Rajhans Orchestra)
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| 4:30 pm |
Intermission |
| 4:45 pm |
Musical performance
Urbana-Champaign Group
Desh – Bidesher Rabindranath: A Musical Exploration |
| 6:00 pm |
Talks
- Professor Fred Gottheil, UIUC
Reading Tagore: A Personal Experience
- Mr. Ananta Ghosh, Chicago
A Tagore’s Travelogue
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| 6:30 pm |
Dinner |
| 8:00 pm |
Musical performance
Dr. Michael Sczerba, UIUC
A Musical Rendition of Tagore’s Poem “Rain”
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| 8:15 pm |
Keynote speech
Dr. Martin
Kämpchen, Santiniketan, India
and Boppard, Germany
Rabindranath: Read in Bengal and Abroad
(information on Dr.
Kämpchen, noted Tagore specialist; this site is mostly in German, with some English)
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| 9:30 pm |
Closing Song and Remarks |
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