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Unending
Love
by Rabindranath Tagore
- 1861-1941,
written in 1889.
The
poem's original Bengali version is named
as 'Ananto Prem' and it is the part of 'Manasi',
a poetry collection of Tagore, the poem
was written on 21st/22nd August, 1889(2nd
Vadro, 1296 in Bengali) when the Poet was
residing at his Jorasanko residence in Kolkata.
This poem was also the most favourite of
Audrey Hepburn.
I
am speechless every time I read this poem!
Rabindranath
Tagore
:
(May 7, 1861, Jorasanko,
India-August 7, 1941, Jorasanko, India).
Bengali Poet, Artist, Brahmo Philosopher,
Dramatist, Author, Composer, and Musician.
Also known as Gurudev. Born into a wealthy
and accomplished family. Author whose works
include Sonar Tari (1894), Chira (1896),
Katha O Kahini (1900), Naivedya (1901),
Kheya (1906), Gitanjali (1912), Ghare-Baire
(1916), Balaka (1916), Juktadhara (Play,
1922), Yogayog (1929), and Chhelebela (1940).
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature,
1913. First Asian to win a Nobel Prize.
Wrote songs thatbecame the national anthems
of India ("Jana Gana Mana") and
Bengladesh ("Amar Shonar Bangla").
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Rabindranath Tagore
- was a Bengali poet, novelist, musician, painter
and playwright who reshaped Bengali literature and
music. As author of Gitanjali with its "profoundly
sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he was
the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel
Prize for Literature (1913). His poetry in
translation was viewed as spiritual, and this together
with his mesmerizing persona gave him a prophet-like
aura in the west. His "elegant prose and magical
poetry" still remain largely unknown outside
the confines of Bengal.
Early
Life:
The
youngest of 13 surviving children, Tagore was born
in the Jorasanko mansion in Kolkata of parents Debendranath
Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875).e[›]
Tagore family patriarchs were the Brahmo founding
fathers of the Adi Dharm faith. He was mostly raised
by servants, as his mother had died in his early
childhood; his father travelled extensively.[13]
Tagore largely declined classroom schooling, preferring
to roam the mansion or nearby idylls: Bolpur, Panihati,
and others.Upon his upanayan initiation at age eleven,
Tagore left Calcutta on 14 February 1873 to tour
India with his father for several months. They visited
his father's [[Santiniketan]] estate and stopped
in Amritsar before reaching the Himalayan hill station
of Dalhousie.
There,
young "Rabi" read biographies and was
home-educated in history, astronomy, modern science,
and Sanskrit, and examined the poetry of Kalidasa.[16][17]
He completed major works in 1877, one a long poem
of the Maithili style pioneered by Vidyapati. Published
pseudonymously, experts accepted them as the lost
works of Bhanusi?ha, a newly discovered?[›]
17th-century Vai??ava poet.[18] He wrote "Bhikharini"
(1877; "The Beggar Woman"—the Bengali
language's first short story) and Sandhya Sangit
(1882)—including the famous poem "Nirjharer
Swapnabhanga" ("The Rousing of the Waterfall").
A
prospective barrister, Tagore enrolled at a public
school in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1878.
He first stayed for some months at a house that
the Tagore family owned near Brighton and Hove,
in Medina Villas; in 1877, his nephew and niece
– Suren and Indira, the children of Tagore's
brother Satyendranath – were sent together
with their mother (Tagore's sister-in-law) to live
with him. He read law at University College London,
but left school to explore Shakespeare and more:
Religio Medici, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra;
he returned degreeless to Bengal in 1880. Nevertheless,
this exposure to English culture and language would
later percolate into his earlier acquaintance with
Bengali musical tradition, allowing him to create
new modes of music, poetry, and drama.
Nevertheless,
Tagore neither fully embraced English strictures
nor his family's traditionally strict Hindu religious
observances in either his life or in his art, choosing
instead to pick the best from both realms of experience.
In
1890, Tagore began managing his family's vast estates
in Shilaidaha, a region now in Bangladesh; he was
joined by his wife and children in 1898. In 1890,
Tagore released his Manasi poems, among his best-known
work.[24] As "Zamindar Babu", Tagore criss-crossed
the holdings while living out of the family's luxurious
barge, the Padma, to collect (mostly token) rents
and bless villagers, who held feasts in his honour.
These years—1891–1895: Tagore's Sadhana
period, after one of Tagore’s magazines –
were his most fecund. During this period, he wrote
more than half the stories of the three-volume,
84-story Galpaguchchha.[19] With irony and gravity,
they depicted a wide range of Bengali lifestyles,
particularly village life.
A
Pirali Brahmin from Kolkata, Tagore was already
writing poems since he was eight years old. At age
16, he published his first substantial poetry under
the pseudonym Bhanushingho ("Sun Lion")[10][11]
and wrote his first short stories and dramas in
1877. Tagore achieved further note when he denounced
the British Raj and supported Indian independence.
His efforts endure in his vast canon and in the
institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.
Tagore
modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical
forms. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas,
and essays spoke to political and personal topics.
Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and
Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known
works, and his verse, short stories, and novels
were acclaimed for their lyricism, colloquialism,
naturalism, and contemplation. Tagore was perhaps
the only litterateur who penned anthems of two countries
- Jana Gana Mana, the Indian national anthem and
Amar Shonar Bangla, the Bangladeshi national anthem.
[...]
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Andrés
Torres Segovia,
1st Marquis of Salobreña (February 21, 1893
– June 2, 1987), known as Andrés Segovia,
was a Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Jaén,
Andalucia, Spain. He is widely considered to be the
"Father of Classical Guitar" and one of
the finest classical guitarists of the 20th century,
and one of the founders of what is now considered
"Classical Guitar
Early life
Segovia
stated that he began to play the guitar at the age
of six. Angelo Gilardino, who has worked at the Fundación
Andrés Segovia in Spain, noted: "Though
it is not yet completely documented, it seems clear
that, since his tender childhood, [Segovia] learnt
playing as a flamenco guitarist. The first guitar
he owned had formerly been played by Paco de Lucena
who died when Segovia was five years old. Since then,
Segovia was given some instruction by Agustinillo,
an amateur flamenco player who was a fan of Paco de
Lucena."
Nevertheless, Segovia did not really play flamenco.
Instead he preferred expressive art-music such as
that by Federico Moreno Torroba, and revived interest
in the instrument as an expressive medium for the
performance of classical art-music.
CareerSegovia's first public performance was in Spain
at the age of 15, and a few years later he held his
first professional concert in Madrid, playing guitar
transcriptions by Francisco Tárrega and some
works by J.S. Bach, which he had transcribed and arranged
himself. Although he was always discouraged by his
family who wanted him to become a lawyer and he was
looked down on by many of Tárrega's pupils,[citation
needed] he continued to diligently pursue his studies
of the guitar.
He
played again in Madrid in 1912, at the Paris Conservatory
in 1915, in Barcelona in 1916, and made a successful
tour of South America in 1919.[1] The status of the
classical guitar at the beginning of the twentieth
century had declined, and only in Barcelona and in
the Rio de la Plata region of South America could
it have been said to be of any significance. When
Segovia arrived on the scene, this situation was just
beginning to change, largely through the efforts of
Llobet. It was in this changing milieu that Segovia,
whose strength of personality and artistry coupled
with new technological advances such as recording,
radio, and air travel, succeeded in making the guitar
more popular again.
At
Granada in 1922 he became associated with the Concurso
de Cante Jondo promoted by the Spanish composer Manuel
de Falla. The aim of the "classicizing"
Concurso was to preserve flamenco in its purity from
being distorted by modern popular music.[7] Already
Segovia had developed as a fine tocador of flamenco
guitar, yet his direction was now classical.[8] Invited
to open the Concurso held at the Alhambra, he played
Homenaje a Debussy para la guitarra by Falla.[9]
Guitar by Hermann Hauser, 1937, Munich, Germany. Concert
guitar of Andrés Segovia's from 1937 until
1962. Gift of Emilita Segovia, Marquessa of Salobreña,
1986 (1986.353.1). Housed in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art.In 1924, Segovia visited the German luthier
Hermann Hauser Sr. after hearing some of his instruments
played in a concert in Munich. In 1928 Hauser provided
Segovia with one of his personal guitars for use during
his United States tour and in his concerts through
to 1933. When Hauser delivered the new instrument
Segovia had ordered, Segovia passed his 1928 Hauser
to his U.S. representative and close friend Sophocles
Papas, who gave it to his classical guitar student,
the famous jazz and classical guitarist Charlie Byrd,
who used it on several records.
After
Segovia's debut tour in the U.S. in 1928, the Brazilian
composer Heitor Villa-Lobos composed his now well-known
Twelve Études (Douze études) and later
dedicated them to Segovia. Their relationship proved
to be lasting as Villa-Lobos continued to write for
Segovia. He also transcribed numerous classical pieces
himself and revived the pieces transcribed by predecessors
like Tárrega. .
In
1935, he gave his first public performance of Bach's
Chaconne, a difficult piece for any instrument. He
moved to Montevideo, performing many concerts in South
America in the thirties and early forties.
After
World War II, Segovia began to record more frequently
and perform regular tours of Europe and the U.S.,
a schedule he would maintain for the next thirty years.
In 1954, Joaquín Rodrigo dedicated Fantasía
para un gentilhombre (Fantasy for a Gentleman) to
Segovia.[10] Segovia won the 1958 Grammy Award for
Best Classical Performance, Instrumentalist for his
recording Segovia Golden Jubilee.
In
recognition of his contributions to music and the
arts, Segovia was ennobled on 24 June 1981 by King
Juan Carlos I, who gave Segovia the hereditary title
of Marquis of Salobreña[11][12] (English: Marquis
of Salobreña) in the nobility of Spain.
Andres
Segovia continued performing into his old age, living
in semi-retirement during his 70s and 80s on the Costa
del Sol. Two films were made of his life and work—one
when he was 75 and the other, 84. They are available
on DVD called "Andrés Segovia - in Portrait".
His final RCA LP record (ARL1-1602), "Reveries",
was recorded in Madrid in June 1977.
Segovia
died in Madrid of a heart attack at the age of 94.
He is buried at Casa Museo de Linares, in Andalusia.
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