Tagore Music Group of Greater Washington, DC

Rabindranath Tagore, the intellectual genius, was born in Kolkata during the summer month of May, 1861 into a highly cultured, talented, affluent and innovative family well-known as the Jorasanko Thakur Paribar.

In 1913 he became the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to receive the prestigious Nobel prize for Literature for his English version of Geetanjali (Song Offerings), a book of lyrics and verses. His verses are as profoundly sensitive, philosophical, and kaleidoscopic, as they are beautiful, fresh, eloquent, magical, and elegant.

Though taught mainly at home by tutors, Tagore became a polymath. His literary talents were multi-faceted. He excelled in writing short stories, novels, essays, dramas, musicals, and of course his poetry and lyrics were unparalleled and as vast and endless as an ocean. It is indeed unfathomable how one writer can create so much in a lifetime… more than 2,730 songs, more than 50 volumes of poetry, 60+ dramas, 157 stories, 13 novels & numerous essays. Even his letters, written to friends and family, are so eloquent and precious, that they too are read and enjoyed over and over by his readers. His speeches, given at various occasions in different countries, are so full of philosophical and political insight that much of the contents are still applicable to the modern world. 

Tagore has been read and researched by numerous intellectuals all over the world and much of his literary works have been staged in some form or other.

Tagore Music Group of Greater Washington DC is a small non-profit cultural organization situated in Maryland. It strives to revive Tagore’s works and writings and prepare and present them on stage in as original a format as possible.  This by itself is a challenge. But we chip away at it to satisfy a handful of theater-goers in the Montgomery County of Maryland.