“We were really excited to play this music,” said Miri Kim, a senior and president of the student orchestra. Chakraborty played with them on sarod, a popular Indian string instrument. The title translates to light my soul with your fire. She engaged with the American students as a way to bring this beloved artist to the west, and for this practice session, the orchestra played Tagore’s Aguner Poroshmoni. “He is an Indian genius who composed lyrics and music for more than 2,200 songs but is still unknown to the Western world.”īanerjee, a research professor of biostatistics at U-M’s School of Public Health, grew up listening to and singing Tagore music. “We are here to introduce you to Rabindranath Tagore,” Banerjee told the young musicians. Jonathan Glawe, director of orchestra for Pioneer High School, welcomed the guests: Mousumi Banerjee, a University of Michigan professor, and Chakraborty, an Indian musician on Fulbright scholarship at U-M. Slowly, everyone took their place in the orchestra formation, the string instruments on either side, the trumpets, tuba, flute and clarinet section in the middle and the drum in the back.
Students slowly started trickling into the Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Orchestra rehearsal room, carrying instruments of every shape and size.Īs they filled their seats and settled in, some craned their necks to get a glimpse of Indian musician Rajeeb Chakraborty dressed in a dark blue kurta, tuning his string instrument in the center of the room.
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