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DESCRIPTION:Oct 25\, 2026\nHow do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice! Alter
 natively\, open your checkbook. That is what the Stavros Niarchos Foundati
 on\, celebrating 30 years of grantmaking\, has done on behalf of the estim
 able Greek National Opera. Visiting New York for the first time\, the comp
 any pays tribute to Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957)\, the journalist\, pol
 itician\, poet\, philosopher\, and nine-time Nobel Prize nominee for the I
 ndian-summer harvest of novels from his last decade. Among his major title
 s\, Zorba the Greek\, The Greek Passion\, and The Last Temptation of Chris
 t have inspired symphonies\, operas\, plays\, ballets\, and filmmakers bey
 ond number. At Carnegie Hall\, Vassilis Christopoulos conducts what his co
 mpatriots will recognize as a program of greatest hits. Yet for the local 
 audience\, most will be discoveries. Highlights include Cretan Feast by Di
 mitri Mitropoulos (remembered in New York as a legendary conductor)\, sele
 ctions by Manos Hadjidakis for the dramatic adaptation of Captain Michalis
 \, and the three-movement Amor Fati\, wherein Giorgios Koumendakis evokes 
 the sound world of Crete without recourse to traditional Cretan instrument
 s. The indispensable terpsichorean element comes into its own with dances 
 by Nikos Skalkottas and of course Mikis Theodorakis\, whose addictive scor
 e for Zorba the Greek the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences snub
 bed in favor of nominations for Laurence Rosenthal (Becket)\, Dimitri Tiom
 kin (The Fall of the Roman Empire)\, Frank DeVol (Hush… Hush\, Sweet Cha
 rlotte)\, Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther)\, and the Sherman Brothers Rich
 ard M. and Robert B.\, who took home the statuette for Mary Poppins. Ah\, 
 well. “Love what is\,” Kazantzakis might have counseled\, heroic pessi
 mist that he was\, “and then fight it to the death.” The soprano Maria
  Kostraki and the redoubtable mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili\, back fr
 om her overpublicized post-partum vocal crisis\, are the evening’s soloi
 sts.
LOCATION:Carnegie Hall\, 881 7th Ave\, New York\, NY 10019\, USA
SUMMARY:Nikos Kazantzakis: An Odyssey in Music
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 odyssey-in-music
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