To mark the 73rd death anniversary of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal Foundation organised an evening of music with Adity Mohsin and Luva Nahid Chowdhury and a poetry recital with Bhaswar Bandyopadhyay at Bengal Shilpalaya in the city’s Dhanmondi area recently.
Titled Morom-e Bajey, the programme began by recalling the memories of recently demised Director of Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts and Trustee of Bengal Foundation artist Subir Chowdhury.
Bhaswar Bandyopadhyay recited poems by Rabindranath Tagore in the programme.
Bhaswar is a theatre director, trainer and recitation artiste. For over the past two decades he has been working as a theatre actor, director and trainer since he returned Dhaka after obtaining a first class in his three-year diploma on theatre from New Delhi based National School of Drama in 1981.
He, however, got nationwide popularity as a recitation artiste.
Later, Luva Nahid Chowdhury, an architect by profession, also Director General of the Bengal Foundation, rendered songs by Tridhara Repertoire – the songs of Atulprasad Sen, Rajanikanta Sen and DL Roy. Luva Nahid commenced her training in Hindustani classical vocal music under the guidance of late Mithun Dey of Mymensingh, in 1975.
A talented Tagore artiste, Adity Mohsin who is popular both in Bangladesh and India as a prominent Tagore artiste, later presented a number of Rabindra Sangeet.
Adity took her music lessons from the prestigious Visva-Bharati University in Kolkata. She is a regular artiste in different radio and television channels of Bangladesh and India.
Now she has been working as a senior teacher at Chhayanaut since 2000.
