Songs of rain from Tagore at Chhayanat's monthly musical soiree
Cultural Correspondent
Chhayanat's regular musical programme, "Shrotar Asar", this time brought some rain songs of Kabiguru Rabinranath Tagore to celebrate the rainy season. The programme titled "Rabindranather Barshar Gaan" featured performances by Fahmida Khatun, Apala Farhat Nobed, Mrittika Sahita, A.T. M Jahangir and Satyam Kumar Debnath.Satyam Kumar Debnath, assistant teacher of Tagore songs at Chhayanat, opened the programme by the song "Jhoro jhoro jhoriche baridhara". He also prformrd two other song titled " Kotha je udhao hoilo" and "Gohono ghono chhailo" Mrittika Sahita, a proffesor of history, Dhaka University and also an assistant teacher of Rabindra Sangeet at Chhayanat, then came up with the songs titled " Amare jodi Jagale", "Aji jhorer rate tomar avisar"and " Badal baul bajai". A.T. M Jahangir entertained the audience with his five successive songs among which there were some popular songs like, "Badal diner proyhomo kadamo phul", "Barshono mandrito andhakare", "Timir abagunthane" and more.He is the teacher of Rabindra Sangeet at Chhayanat and stood first in the final competition of the National Rabindrasangeet Conference Association in 1989. Apala Farhat Nobed was a student of the first batch of Chayanat Sangeetbidyatan after the Liberation of Bangladesh. She had worked as a teacher of Chyanat for 25 years. She rendered five songs including "Ami shraban akashe", "Aji jhorojhoro mukhoro badalodine" and more. Artist Fahmida Khatun, whose songs inspired poet Shamshur Rahman to write a poem on her, was the last singer of the evening. She entered into her music career as a radioartist by taking part in "Betar Kothika" at the 100th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore in 1961. She rendered songs including "Ami tokhono chhilem mogon", "Anek durer mita", Megher pore megh jomechhe" and more. Chhayanot's Monthly Shrotar Asar was a popular musical soiree of the sixties. After many years the programme resumed at Chhayanat's own building. This is the second programme of Shrotar Asar. The first programme was held on 20 June 2007.the programme holds on every third Thursday of an English month.
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An artiste renders a Tagore song. PHOTO: STAR |