Concert in praise of the bard

Artistes perform to a captivated audience. Photo: STAR

On Friday night Anandaloke, Sylhet organised a colourful function in observance of the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. The venue was the Sylhet auditorium.
Veteran cultural personality Hemchandra Bhattacharya formally inaugurated the event by lighting the mangalprodip, while the child artistes rendered "Antar momo bikoshito koro" in chorus. They also superbly presented "Bipodey morey rokkha koro", "Ananderi sagar hotey", "Jogot jurey udar surey" and "Aj dhaner khetey roudra chhaya'.
"Anandaloke artistes then presented recitation, narratives, songs in chorus from Tagore for about an hour to a captivated audience. These included, "Amar matha noto korey dao hey", "Koto ojanarey janailey tumi", "Ami bohu bashonay pranponey chai", "Shimar majhey ashim tumi" and 'Aai korechho bhalo".
Rabiroshmi, Dhaka artistes were also on the stage with several presentations on spring, conducted by Mohadev Ghosh.
Last of all, guest artiste Tagore exponent Mitali Sengupta from Tripura took the stage with renditions from different stages of Tagore songs for over an hour.
Chief of Anandaloke, Rana Kumar Sinha and Sunirmal Kumar Dev and Sushmita Roy Kanta conducted the programme.