Four Song Offerings (2020)
Colin Eatock
| Product ID | SON00002374 |
| Composer | Colin Eatock |
| Duration | 12:00 min |
| Genre | Classical, Concert piece, Chamber music |
| Instrumentation | String ensemble with soloist |
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Four Song Offerings (2020)
| SKU | SON00002374 |
| Composer | Colin Eatock |
| Arranger | |
| Genre | Classical Concert piece Chamber music |
| Instrumentation | String ensemble with soloist |
| Free description | For soprano and string quartet |
| Grade | 6 |
| Duration | 12:00 min |
| Year | 2020 |
Program Notes
For soprano and string quartet
The composer writes: Rabindranath Tagore’s Song Offerings are the poet’s own English-language translations of his Bengali-language Gitanjali. While Tagore’s translations are not exactly literal, they present to the Western world a window into the tradition of Hindu devotional poetry. (Tagore won the 1913 Nobel Prize for literature for the collection.)
In the four excerpts I have chosen to set to music, love and beauty are recurring themes, richly elaborated with images from nature. But as with many of the poems in Gitanjali, the “love” and “beauty” can be interpreted as either worldly or spiritual.
The fourth song, "The Lotus," may be performed as a separate, stand-alone concert work.