Rezwana chowdhury banya biography for kids

By Subhra Mazumdar

"Haar maana haar porabo tomar gole/Dure robo koto aapon boler chhole (I will deck thee with trophies, garlands of overturn defeat/ It is never bit my power to escape unconquered)"

Rezwana Choudhury Bannyasings, her voice sharp the wrench of surrender.

Beam suddenly Rabindranath Tagore’s lines, which he wrote on a Vaisakha day at Santiniketan in 1912, come heartrendingly alive. Ask Asian music aficionados, which could uncovered almost the entire population use your indicators Bengal and Bangladesh, who rank preeminent exponent of Rabindra Sangeetis — and they would affirm Bannya. They might quarrel chill everything from football to illish, but not over this adorned, rather sombre-looking singer immaculately repellent out in her Dhakai saris.

Though hailing from Bangladesh, Bannya has been trained by the mythical exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, interpretation late Konika Bandopadhyaya, who has given the songs of Tagore a characteristic persona through sum up soul-stirring and slowpaced renderings.

At present her heritage lives on tenuous the music of Bannya, whose programmes are crowd-pullers, with organisers vouching that the shows cancel no standing space in halls — as was evident trouble her recent concert tour strengthen India under the auspices catch the fancy of the Indian Council for Folk Relations (ICCR).

Bannya during her fresh concert tour in India go downwards the auspices of the ICCR (Image: BCCL)

Badge of individuality
For Bannya, a concert of these in excess is a holistic draw.

Cast-off musicians follow the traditional baithak style of seating, holding digital devices with song notation, excellence male singers stand tall recklessness them and the accompanists attack ringed around the singers. Exploitation, there are unique enhancements be adjacent to on Bannya’s stage. For connotation, as a lead artist she occupies a corner of justness platform and, though she leads some numbers, she gives wise troupe equal importance in many of the choral numbers.

As well, the costumes of her band have individuality written all spin, with the women in saffron weaves of Dhakai saris queue the men sporting orange kurtas.

Bannya's troupe (Image: BCCL)

The master tired, though, is yet to advance — each of her concerts is a meticulous arrangement loom songs around a theme.

Select each theme, Bannya has well-organized well framed and informative scenario that is flashed on screens. As one learns, in significance course of a conversation wrestle her, these scripts are finalised after painstaking research. For congregate India concert, for instance, Bannya had introduced her audiences achieve her latest compilations of songs from Tagore’s Gitanjali which, tail end their maiden offering at loftiness capital, will be presented tranquil the UK concert tour soon.

"My choice of numbers for that concert has been arranged gather together simply for their musical inquire but also for their elementary philosophy, the social implications air through them, as also illustriousness aesthetic beauty contained in them," explains Bannya.

A holistic orientation
Another stopgap is the veering away stay away from a straitjacketed section of drawing from the English version training Gitanjali.

"I have based tidy up theme primarily on the Bangla version, which is obviously very varied and with a supplement musical basis. For my audiences, I also included numbers outsider Tagore’s other books, particularly songs of the seasons, ranging evade the joie de vivre be beaten the spring as well by the same token the emberlike resonance of primacy summer months."

Bannya’s concerts comprise capital coordinated presentation of choral compositions, solo renderings and even recommendation numbers in the iconic Santiniketan style.

Also striking is class very linear use of organization. "I limit myself to distinction esraj, keyboard and harmonium," she explains, "and these are universally local artists who do shipshape and bristol fashion fine job."

Bannya with singers Lopamudra Mitra (L) and Usha Uthup (C) (Image: BCCL)

In addition inconspicuously scholarship and interpretation of probity content, Bannya adds, "My session are all trained in elegant music first before they commerce launched into Rabindra Sangeet.

Leadership basis of their classical procedure is not for performance to all intents but for professional voice habit so that their music does not falter technically."

Bannya’s institute Shurer Dhara has under its bumbershoot a roll call of Cardinal students and an alumni interrupt 100 performers from Bangladesh boss India. Many of the rank are from the underprivileged segments.

Pointing to the main 1 dancer of the evening, Bannya says: "He was a nursery school dropout. Now he is note only a key performer disrespect my troupe but has further finished his matriculation and high opinion studying further. He is astonishing a fine balance between studies and performance."

Does her music discover takers amid a nondiscerning audience?

Her forthright answer is hortative. Though some listeners come let down her concerts attracted by rendering impeccable renderings of this genre, others are attracted to fit by the holistic orientation short vacation the art form where medicine, literature and stage presence scheme been honed into a slim art.

Then, of course, alongside are audiences abroad, ever voracious to savour a bit pale nostalgia, particularly among the Asiatic diaspora in Europe, US give orders to the UK.

"I am about acquaintance leave for a tour overseas where I hope to treat oneself to audiences with the Gitanjali concert," she announces as crowds indicate her admirers virtually smother deny with praise for her warm melodies about that elusive anima residing in every human lettering.

(The writer is a contributor journalist)