Recording of the week: Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Songs of Patriotism’
This week’s selection comes from Dr Janet Topp Fargion, Lead Curator of World and Traditional Music. Born in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a writer, poet, artist and teacher. He was the first Indian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1913, for his poetry collection Gitanjali…. read more