“I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” ― Rabindranath Tagore

Nicki Wells has such a beautiful voice, she will leave you in tears.

It is said, there is no single emotion that the human mind is capable of, which is not expressed in the writings of the Kabiguru..... He was like a Sun shining on the earth.....

Those of who disliked the contents of the presentation are below hydrogen.

Nicki Wells has such ease in switching between forms, gifted!

সুরের আলো ভুবন ফেলে ছেয়ে, সুরের হাওয়া চলে গগন বেয়ে, পাষাণ টুটে ব্যাকুল বেগে ধেয়ে বহিয়া যায় সুরের সুরধুনি. ..

NIcki Wells you have done true justice to this raaga... and definitely appreciation goes to the nice content....

Interesting that there was a Celtic influence. I am Welsh and lovevWelsh poetry and traditional music I love the devotional songs and ghazals of India and Pakistan. They touch one’s soul. Beautiful renditions by the Wells sisters. Amazing.

Wow. What a wonderful informative talk. Thank you Mr. Sawhney, and my dear childhood friend Nicki Wells. So proud & constantly impressed by both of you. Thanks for continuing to share your wonderful craft & infinite knowledge. Much love & best regards always. xxRosie

Proud to our national poet Rabindranath tagore / robi. Thakur. He was legend of india 🙏🙏. Onek onek namoshkar gurudeb apna k . Proud bharatiya ❤

It uses two extremely famous icons, a Jewish European physicist, Albert Einstein and Bengali artistic behemoth, synestheticist Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore is shared with Ravi Shankar as musical comparison to Einstein’s capacity on the violin, who needed the mnemonic use of musical scores and who loved German Baroque music as opposed to German Romantic music, both of which Einstein only knew through printed scores seldom anything like the original manuscripts. The centenary structures of the Ragas (many, complex, numericized and memorized by long trained and disciplined Sitar and percussionist musicians) is put in contrast to physics as was practiced before Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle and other probabilistic accounts of sub-nuclear particles that were resisted by Einstein. His causal approach to phenomena had been his method of great success in explaining the ordinary and cosmological scale of reality, in terms of geometry. The comparisons in the TED are facile and greatly misleading. The musical score is not used by many serious musicians West of the Urals. Many of J.S. Bach’s scores are typically ‘guidelines’ in his own words, and instructions to ‘improvise’ for dozens of ‘bars’ are often in the original manuscripts. This is not unusual. Mozart jammed entire nights in the pubs and tea houses of Vienna with other musicians without scores at all, as had been the custom, and still is, among first class composers. No very accomplished musician of past time, or ours, NEEDS a score, which was also the only way of owning copy-right royalties for composers, until recording devices. Serious musical traditions from the Roma music of Romania, Hungary and Serbia; Neapolitan melodies; Scottish Border; Flamenco, Quadrillas and Tonadillas in Spain (just to begin) don’t fit the major cities’ Symphony orchestra M.O. at all, without speaking of Jazz even when a large big band will have a score to keep many components together (Jazz is mentioned feebly as the only exception to a cartoonish characterization of ‘Western’ or ‘white’ musical determinism). As far as Indian music, I would be willing to bet the shallowness of this account extends to it, too. Only after his own death would Shankar allow such a thing. One of his English students, after many years of efforts admitted the discipline of Raga is just too rich, measured and complicated to memorize without training from childhood. This was George Harrison, a rock guitarist by profession.

Starting with 2 of the greatest geniuses of all time in my new you tube account.They meet twice but the argument on truth & beauty literally thrived themselves & the quest to know about these two things perturbed their fixed thoughts.Einstein on one hand told Tagore that "this is something which I can't prove to you,but it works on Pythagoras rule."There are quite a few such abstract arguments between science and philosophy.

Nitin Sawhney.....Beautiful expressions...........and Nicki Wells, God bless you and lot of love from India................God bless you with you...

Nicki Wells....one of the most wonderfoul female voices i ever heard :O

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An article in The Guardian today by Nitin Sawney led me to Tagore and then to this inspiring presentation. A wonderous rabbit hole of delights and discoveries on so many levels. Thank you.🙏☀️🌻🇬🇧🙏 22.12.21.

a great fellow Bengali

When I attained supreme self realization, I stopped being "an artist". I realized that all the time I was being creative, that I had in essence created nothing. Rather, I only discovered and placed emphasis upon particular aspects of consciousness--the likes of which were already there.

"Chance has its play" and "Play stimulates chance" are not opposites . One is not the "other way around" of the other Nitin !!

Excellent and very much inspiring

Just in case artists haven't understood yet. Music and other forms of art ( Entertainment) is being used by the One to send messages. :) artists are a medium as said Ravi Shankar. And the message is perfection does not exist, still do your best. :) take it easy, life is a ride, enjoy it. :) never too much, never too little, right in the middle is the line and your conscience shall help you find that line. :) To those Artists who don't know the meaning of entertainment, just type the word on Wikipedia and enlighten yourselves, big love. :) Jasveer A Bhagwan.

Beautiful voice. Interesting talk .

Incredible !! Loved every bit of it ...

I dont understand why the bengalis of todays generation dont take tagore(khub janak karon ami ai generationer)

If you wonder what is the relationship between philosophy, science and art (music), Nitin Sawhney and Nicky Wells show says it all!

wonderful & exceptional!

Music becomes appealing due to quantum effects of entanglement, vibrations and believe it or not 'tunneling'. Effect of music is likewise quantum in nature and can induce passion, love etc.

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I'm here for Nicki

His research is accurate......great job.....!!

Excellent

Best of TED according to me, Not because I am an Indian or because I am a Bengali but of the presentation of Mr. Sawhney and Miss Nicky what a voice you have miss.

Awesome

Great

A great theme and a beautiful voice of Nicki Wells made me feel high for sometime. I would like to share these 2 links below. Thank you.

Dear Albert; Reproducible results are helpful in life but life will always be about unique results. The aspect of all things that can be measured is the least interesting part of them. Since all things are connected all definitions are incomplete. "god" cannot be defined or measured. Tagore had feelings and so did Einstein, Tagore was comfortable with his, Einstein not so much with his. I love you Tagore because you know what love is. I love you Einstein though you may not know what love is.......

Very nice pictures.

The amount of comments is astonishing. People are defending cultural rights rather than enjoying the music. Well, I like it and I find that is a progressive break through. Most of the Indians and Pakistanis that I know would wish they could sing like her.

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Unfortunately I didn't take from this the insights I was expecting. Why was there no analysis of the musical examples?

I see several people (here) know Nicki Wells. I keep seeing another Wells, Tanya, doing the same thing. Are they related, or even the same person with a change in name?

The IQ of that conversation is over 9000! 😂

Proud for Tagore and..to be an Indian

13:53 Where exactly did Einstein say "Music, like the universe, is a puzzle to be solved" ? I am unable to find that quote... Solving "a puzzle" (attributed to Einstein) is surely different from (music is like) "a painting to be expressed" (attributed to Tagore)

Tagore was a nondualist and spoke nonduality and Einstein was talking in terms of individual consciousness. And so called scientist like Einstein cannot know the nondual state because most scientists work objectively but the truth is subjective. .... But his student Heisenberg and great scientist Max Planck knew the truth. Max Planck says the outstanding statement of nonduality that consciousness is fundamental. What a wonderful statement... Einstein was a materialistic and talked out of the head But the truth is realised by Grace only. Happy thoughts...

thanks..but dear you need to correct the wards..It is a symble of a great nation..once again thanks..

Mr. Nitin Sawhney forgets to mention Bangladesh even one time! Rabindranath Tagore is revered and observed in life in Calcutta but may be same if not more in Bangladesh. Rabindranath spent some of his most fruitful years in Bangladesh and has written celebrated short stories, poems and songs while living there.

Nicky Wells or Tanya Wells?

hmmm

!!!♪•_⋰:::!!!Nitin increible músico & Nicki increible voz!! ♪•_⋰::: ♪•_⋰:::!!!!! ♪•_⋰::: __

Nicki, you are such a BABE xxx

This Lenovo na 🤦🏻‍♀️ dhet tereki Btw thanks for the KNOWLEDGE!

Nicki Wells, be mine.

isnt she Tanya wells?

the talk was interesting,the first bit made me think of Adam and Eve ,eating from the tree of knowledge ,and we know what the net result of that is :))

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16:16 I think he's a bit wrong here. The great personality, Tagore boycotted "knighthood" by Britain in order to protest the Brit government. So he certainly was extremely nationalist ...

Reading directly from the screen... No interaction with the audience at all

It's Rabindranath Thakur..Those Brits can't spell thakur so they butchered the title and started calling it Tagore..

I am not sure if Nikky Wells is quite the right choice to sing the Indian ragas.The accent and modulation is foreign and the scale, depth and much needed breath seem to be short.The talk is interesting and a new take.Very personal and deeply felt.

Yes unfortunately still the problem with science. The East....Great Britain in dominance by divide and rule sort wealth. The wealth was in Architectural design, many cultures with religious beliefs living together in acceptance of different. ( not for Woman as in Britain no freedoms ) China, Himalayas, India , Korea, Thailand, Bali, and onwards Emperialist dominions Britannica blinded by their false authority and disbelief.

Great