EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 7-8:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, 2018

EVENT: “A concert of Rabindranath Tagore’s music”

The project that began more than a year ago comes to fruition with a one-hour long concert conducted by director Jonathan Glawe and performed by the Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Orchestra and Choir, accompanied by Indian classical musician Rajeeb Chakraborty on sarod and vocals by Mousumi Banerjee and Shom Chatterjee.

The project began when Banerjee, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, reached out to Pioneer High School with Chakraborty, an Indian musician on Fulbright scholarship at U-M.

They introduced the students to Rabindranath Tagore, a multitalented polymath who wrote and composed music for more than 2,200 songs.

“This concert is a culmination of a collaboration that began a year ago. It represents the work of an entire village,” Banerjee said. “It involved finding the right songs for the orchestra, translating Indian notations to Western notations for the orchestra and choir, and creating music across two continents. We are so excited to finally present the concert to the Ann Arbor community.”

PLACE: Towsley Auditorium, WCC College, 4800 E. Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor

SPONSORS: Pioneer Orchestra Parents Society, Center for South Asian Studies

INFORMATION: $10 general admission. Tickets available at myumi.ch/Jm4Ey