An Enduring Fascination with Callas
- Angelike Contis
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- March 02, 2011
NEW YORK – In a couple of years, there will be a new museum in Venice dedicated to soprano Maria Callas, notes Bruno Tosi, the President of the Maria Callas Cultural Association, which is based in th...
Remembering Dimitri Mitropoulos, The Monkish Maestro
- Constantine S. Sirigos
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- December 11, 2010
NEW YORK – Dimitri Mitropoulos, who was the Director of the New York Philharmonic from 1949 to 1958, is a 20th Century titan among musicians and artists of modern Greece, and by extension, and a tower...
Put A Cultural Center of World Hellenism in New York
- Grigoris Maninakis
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- December 09, 2010
In making the choice of this week’s theme for the column, I have been influenced by a story from Sidney, Australia, which I read in the Greek daily edition of the National Herald on November 12. Adon...
Homer’s Day-Long Odyssey in New York (Video)
- Constantine S. Sirigos
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- December 04, 2010
NEW YORK – “Lift the great song again!” resounded in the theater. “Tell the tale once more in our time!” And with these words the immortal Greek Bard Homer was resurrected on Manhattan’s Upper East Si...
Mitropanos Returns to NYC (Video)
- Angelike Contis
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- July 02, 2010
NEW YORK – After a very brief instrumental introduction, the audience of primarily Greek Americans at Radio City Music Hall started hooting and clapping. He had arrived. There he was, with trademark, ...
Xenakis in Central Park: June 21
- TNH staff
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- June 18, 2010
NEW YORK - Audience members will enjoy an open-air performance of Iannis Xenakis’ 1969 percussion piece Persephassa – from seats on rowboats on June 21. The performance (to be held at 4:15 p.m. and 5...
Xenakis in Central Park: June 21
- TNH staff
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- June 18, 2010
NEW YORK - Audience members will enjoy an open-air performance of Iannis Xenakis’ 1969 percussion piece Persephassa – from seats on rowboats on June 21. The performance (to be held at 4:15 p.m. and 5...
Eurovision: Harmlesss Child of Globalization?
NEW YORK - For the past 20 years I have been spending my summers in Greece, at a place I consider my hometown, Myrina, the capital of the North Aegean island of Lemnos. Compared with other Greek islan...
Disseminating Our Hellenic Heritage
- Grigoris Maninakis
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- February 26, 2010
NEW YORK - My first singing “performance” goes back to my second grade class at P.S. 2 (Δευτερο Δημοτικο) on the Aegean island of Chios. Our teacher, Mr. Variadakis - a kind, patient and timid man, pl...
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