![]() ![]() ![]() Music also includes Schubert's depiction of the Journey to Hades, Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos, Monteverdi's Orfeo, and Stravinsky's Greek ballet Apollo. Iannis Xenakis is one of the most important post-war avant garde composers, who pioneered the use of mathematical models in music. Mikis Theodorakis (born 1925) is one of the Greece's best-loved contemporary composers and his music for the film Zorba the Greek has achieved classic status. ![]() As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Sian Phillips performs Medea's monologue from Euripides' tragedy and the great American-Greek soprano Maria Callas sings Medea in a famous live recording of Cherubini's opera from La Scala Milan in 1953, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.Īnother world-renowned Greek soprano, Agnes Baltsa, sings traditional songs and we hear music played on the bouzouki and tambourin, native Greek instruments. The Odyssey ( / dsi / 1 Ancient Greek:, romanized : Odsseia) 2 3 is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. Modern day Greek poets have organised poetry demonstrations in Athens, and we hear Stamatis Polenakis' take on austerity in "Poetry Does Not Suffice". Lord Byron champions Greek independence in The Isles of Greece, Gerald Durrell relives his childhood in Corfu in My Family and Other Animals, and Louis de Bernieres depicts life in Kefalonia during World War II in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Athena is the Greek goddess of wisdom and battle strategy, and was also the patron goddess of heroes. Sian Phillips and Timothy West read the classical poetry of Euripides and Homer, defiant verses against the 1960s dictatorship by Nobel prize winner George Seferis, and contemporary poetry about Greece and the financial crisis. Words and Music on the theme of Greece, from classical antiquity to modern day Greece, gripped by austerity. ![]()
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