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MUSIC AND ART

An Appreciation of Savina Yannatou, by Bill Loumpouridis

Have you ever noticed that once you buy a car, you suddenly become aware of how many cars of the same make and model are on the road? I had no idea how many Saab convertibles there were on the road until I purchased one, my disappointment with the commonality of my individual expression increasingly palpable with each sighting. Read more...

 

"Theodorakis and the Musical Memory of Greece" by Gail Holst-Warhaft

Theodorakis said once that "most popular music makes you forget. Greek music makes you remember." In Milan Kundera's great parable for a totalitarian regime, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Tamina is imprisoned on an island inhabited by children. Read more...