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Greek summer in music
At the end of their lives, and after having practically forgotten everything before the great silence or else the great uproar, the people of the old nations may still retain for a short time the fragments of their music, of that which is called popular.
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Princess
Vassílis Tsitsánis was a great composer of Greek folk music and a bouzouki virtuoso. He was born on January 18, 1915 in Trikala and died on January 18, 1984 in London, having written more than 500 songs, whose fame extended far beyond the borders of Greece.
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Tríkala, city… not alienated!
We think we know Greece like the back of our hand. Yet the country—an Acropolis of a certain Europe—still holds many secrets from us. Take, for instance, Western Thessaly—the region I come from—and more specifically Trikala, the administrative center of the province of the same name. It lies in the heart of Hellas, serving as a gateway to Northern Greece for those traveling up from Athens, well past Delphi.