\u201cYou are not alone: Silence and Prayer in the Intangible Spirit of Music. A selfie and a playlist by Giorgos Koumentakis.\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
Translated by Amanda Kubic<\/p>\n
Collaborators and friends of LIFO send responses from their homes.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Giorgos Koumentakis, April 5th 2020, 16:00<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n (Photo caption: The Artistic Director of the Greek National Opera, Giorgos Koumentakis, with Marigold)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAnd all of these plans we made will go to waste?\u201d asked my colleague, who does not excel in sensitivity; and I was frightened because the reality of the situation came to visit me through the back door.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In seconds, it all vanished: the arrogance of strategic plans, of designs, of the certainty that with hard work even those that were not able to fly would eventually take off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This unpredictable virus brings a new balance to the realm of our personal cores, but also to the realm of planet Earth, which we exploited with so much madness that now we say we are going to \u201cgo mad\u201d in the silence of our homes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And we will keep \u201cgoing mad\u201d thinking that we are discovering ways of cooking that we did not know, reading because we did not have the time, knitting because it reveals our creativity, the guitar because it was forgotten in the attic, our children, our husbands, our wives, ourselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Our small house becomes our new planet and our imposition upon nature is forcefully reversed, with an illusion that the universe inside is safer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n But nevertheless, the fear of nature has come and will remain.<\/span><\/p>\n So then, silence and prayer:<\/span><\/p>\n in the pollution of the water<\/span><\/p>\n in the nitrogen dioxide<\/span><\/p>\n in the wildfires<\/span><\/p>\n in the climate<\/span><\/p>\n in the polluted air\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in the bats<\/span><\/p>\n in the airplanes<\/span><\/p>\n in the meat that we eat<\/span><\/p>\n in the seeds that were burned\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in the seasons that were confounded<\/span><\/p>\n in Antonio Vivaldi\u2019s Four Seasons\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in George Frideric Handel\u2019s Water Music\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in Ludwig Van Beethoven\u2019s Moonlight Sonata, with his godfather Ludwig Rellstab\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in Gustav Mahler\u2019s The Song of the Earth\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in Richard Strauss\u2019s Alpine Symphony\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in Franz Schubert\u2019s The Trout\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in Claude Debussy\u2019s The Sea\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n in the intangible spirit of music that is somewhat able to placate the vindictive impulses of nature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “\u03a3\u03b9\u03c9\u03c0\u03ae \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03b5\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u03ac\u03c5\u03bb\u03bf \u03c0\u03bd\u03b5\u03cd\u03bc\u03b1 \u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae\u03c2. \u039c\u03b9\u03b1 selfie \u03ba\u03b1\u03b9 \u03bc\u03b9\u03b1 playlist \u03b1\u03c0\u03cc \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03a6\u03b9\u03ce\u03c1\u03b3\u03bf \u039a\u03bf\u03c5\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7” https:\/\/www.lifo.gr\/articles\/den-eisai-monos\/277014\/siopi-kai-proseyxi-sto-aylo-pneyma-tis-moysikis-mia-selfie-kai-mia-playlist-apo-ton-giorgo-koymentaki \u201cYou are not alone: Silence and Prayer in the Intangible Spirit of Music. A selfie and a playlist by Giorgos Koumentakis.\u201d\u00a0 Translated by Amanda Kubic Collaborators and friends of LIFO send responses from their homes. … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/greekmod-300\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2020\/05\/unnamed-226x300.png\")
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