Rabindrasanghit in Film & Photograpy (some)

"Tagore and Indian cinema with special reference to his impact on Indian film music" paper by Nirupama & Ajit Sheth, 1986 (see Publications).

Results from IMDB on Tagore (mainly for his texts) show many hits.

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) was from 1940 on himself a student at Shantiniketan, Tagore's university.

Drawing at right: Tagore by Satyajit Ray

Performances

  • 1955 - Jean Clarence Lambert: "Poétique de la danse" (also texts Kabir, Schiller, Valéry, Rilke, Garcia Lorca a.o.) performed in Falaize
  • 1991 - Glen Tetley based his 1991 ballet "Tagore" on Zemlinsky's music (see for this settings)
  • 1995 - Battery Dance Co. in "Songs of Tagore" by choreographer Jonathan Hollander, with words and music of Tagore. Interludes composed by Gerald Cohen (see for this settings)
  • 2001 - Sarah Cutler's project at Mount Holyoke University, an organic reaction to music, movement and poetry to Tagore's work (see)
  • Performances by the Rajhans-orchestra, conductor Hans Vermeersch: "De Bengaliwereld van Rabindranath Tagore"