‘Earth Song’ – Celebrating Tagore and Genuine Multiculturalism
August 7th is the anniversary of the passing of Rabindranath Tagore, India’s internationally-celebrated
poet laureate who left the body in 1941 in Calcutta.
In honor
of this renowned highly-respected artist, philosopher, and international
humanist, the AlphaMax Academy presents a dramatic rendition of
Tagore’s poem, “Earth”, which he published in October 1892 in Calcutta, India –
two decades before Europe discovered the poet laureate and bestowed the Nobel
Prize on him in 1913.
The cast
of AlphaMax Academy oral interpreters performed Earth Song on three
public occasions in Paramaribo in the course of the 150th Birth
Anniversary Celebrations
honoring Rabindranath Tagore around the world. The 150th Birth Anniversary
Celebrations in Suriname were co-sponsored by the Embassy of India – ICCR
(Suriname), the AlphaMax Academy, ArtVibes United, and other organizations.
As a
cross-cultural icon and internationalist – deeply relevant half a century later
– Tagore has the distinction being the only person who wrote the national
anthems for three distinct independent modern nation-states.
Earth Song, written over a century ago, is
presented as a deeply modern and engaging poem with a fitting message for the Earth
and all of her peoples at this critical juncture of time in the 21st
century.
May you
enjoy the poem and take the message to heart as deeply as we do.
AlphaMax
Academy
Paramaribo,
Suriname
3rd
August 2012
