My First Review in Bangla

Recently my friend, mezzo-soprano Aidan Soder, travelled to Kolkata, India on a Fulbright fellowship. She was there for research, performance and teaching—all stemming from her work on Western vocal settings of poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, painter and composer—and the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. Aidan’s singing can be heard on the CD Tagoriana, a recording which includes my own Tagore Love Songs. Here’s a review in Ei Samay, the largest Bengali language daily paper, which speaks of her project and performance at Jorasanko Thakurdalan, Tagore’s ancestral home. It also (apparently) mentions me and my music—but unfortunately I can’t read any of it!