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India, Bangladesh celebrate hundred years of Bengali songs

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20080302
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Dhaka, March 2 -- Music lovers from Bangladesh and India celebrated the grand finale of a musical series "Shotoborsher Bangla Gaan" by presenting a bouquet of 33 songs including romantic, patriotic and modern numbers.

Taking Bengali songs from 1905 to 2005, Bangladeshi singers performed songs of the century's greats from Rabindranath Tagore and Qazi Nazrul Islam to latter day Salil Chowdhury and Manna Dey, at the musical soiree organised Friday by the HSBC Bank.

This was the finale of the series on a century of Bangla songs ...

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