{"id":1911,"date":"2015-05-09T15:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T15:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2015-05-09T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T16:01:06","slug":"my-first-review-in-bangla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"My First Review in Bangla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ei_Samay_Article_Soder_thumbnail-e1431186393358.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1925 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ei_Samay_Article_Soder_thumbnail-e1431186393358.jpg\" alt=\"Ei_Samay_Article_Soder_thumbnail\" width=\"405\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ei_Samay_Article_Soder_thumbnail-e1431186393358.jpg 405w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ei_Samay_Article_Soder_thumbnail-e1431186393358-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ei_Samay_Article_Soder_thumbnail-e1431186393358-143x200.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a>Recently my friend, mezzo-soprano <a href=\"https:\/\/conservatory.umkc.edu\/faculty.cfm?r=%22%25%22D%20%0A\" target=\"_blank\">Aidan Soder<\/a>, travelled to Kolkata, India on a <a href=\"https:\/\/passaggiotoindia.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fulbright <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/passaggiotoindia.wordpress.com\/\">fellowship<\/a>. She was there for research, performance and teaching\u2014all stemming from her work on Western vocal settings of poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861\u20131941).\u00a0Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, painter and composer\u2014and the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. Aidan&#8217;s singing can be heard on the CD <a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=791\">Tagoriana<\/a>, a recording which includes my own <a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=800\">Tagore Love Songs<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a review in <a href=\"http:\/\/eisamay.indiatimes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ei Samay<\/a>, the largest Bengali language daily paper, which speaks of her project and performance at Jorasanko Thakurdalan, Tagore&#8217;s ancestral home. It also (apparently) mentions me and my music\u2014but unfortunately I can&#8217;t read any of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my friend, mezzo-soprano Aidan Soder, travelled to Kolkata, India on a Fulbright fellowship. She was there for research, performance and teaching\u2014all stemming from her work on Western vocal settings of poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861\u20131941).\u00a0Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, painter and composer\u2014and the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1938,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}