So রবীন্দ্র-রচনাবলী Asia. Even the red flower I sce before me on your table may not be the same to you and me. TAGORE: And yet there is always going on the process of reconciliation between them, the individual taste conforming to the universal standard. -Asia, 93 March Geneva, June 1930, ...TAGORE : Music of different nations has a common psychological foundation, and yct that does not mean that national music should not exist. The same thing is, in my opinion, probably true for literature. WELLS : Modern music is going from one country to another without lossfrom Purcell to Bach, then Brahms, then Russian music, then oriental. Music is of all things in the world the most international. TAGORE : You see the point. I have composed more than three hundred pieces of music. They are all sealed to the West because they cannot properly be given to you in your own notation. They would not perhaps bc intelligible to your pcople, even if I could get them written down in European notation. WELLS : The West may get used to the music. TAGORE: Certain forms of tunes and melodies which move us profoundly seem to baffle Western listeners; yet, as you say, perhaps closer acquaintance with them may gradually lead to their appreciation in the West. WELLS : Artistic cxpression in the future will probably be quite different from what it is today; the medium will be the same and comprehensible to all. Take Radio, which links together the world. And we cannot prevent further invention. Perhaps in the future, when the present clamour for dialects and national languages in broadcasting subsides and new discoveries in science are made, we shall be conversing with one another through a common medium of speech yet undreamt-of. " . TAGORE : We have to create the new psychology needed for this age. We have to adjust ourselves to the new necessities and conditions of civilization. -Extract from the conversation between Tagore and H. G. Wells. Published in Asia, 93 March.
