Description: Adjunct ProfessorComparative Literature, Cornell University.Member Graduate Field of Music Faculty Fellow, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.If you'd like to schedule a reading or presentation,
This is the only comprehensive musical biography in English of Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021), the revolutionary Greek composer. The first edition (1980) was written with the assistance and support of Theodorakis himself; this new edition was commissioned after Theodorakis’ death and extends the assessment of his work to the operas, symphonies and other works composed since 1980. As a political figure in modern Greece, Theodorakis embodied the spirit of resistance to the abuse of authority, from the Nazi occ
I had become aware, and a huge admirer, of Gail’s 1980 work on Mikis Theodorakis. Her personal friendship with him, her musicianship and her capacity to write engagingly and with passion about his music and his musical personality, was impressive. When Theodorakis died, in September 2021, I asked Gail to consider a new edition, since the work Theodorakis had undertaken between 1980 and 2000, in particular – including four operas and also involving the ‘rediscovery’ of his early piano works and chamber music
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