Dimitri Papatheodorou - Mythopoetic Lament
A miniature psycho-drama memorializing a permanent moment of public loss, also feels superbly like a soundtrack song to a Douglas Sirk film, Imitation of Life or Written on the Wind perhaps, in which tragedy and comedy are inextricably linked by our own actions. But they are linked far down below our conscious and complaining minds, where all distinctions disappear. "She is headed for a fall, there is nothing she can do, the motorcade moves on... and the world cries in demand, how will she go on to stand alone without her man?... ancient waters heal the wound... God has found a Greek tycoon, now it's Maria's sad toss, to face the music she's lost."
Very few of our elegiac feelings around the events on the grassy-knoll tend to take into account the equally sad and tragic life of the great opera singer Maria Callas. Yet her own drama shows us how often the domino effect of chance events can ripple outward across generations, and how connected two widows might be: one losing a president, one losing a tycoon, both becoming major icons of loss in the process. by Donald Brackett.
Track Listing:
01. Jackie O.
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02. John, Do you Believe?
03. The Swan: Maria
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04. Happy or Sad
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05. Massachusetts
06. A Beach Song
07. The Mall Part I
08. City Of Love
09. Maria Kalogeropolous
10. Red Horizon Blues
11. Massachusetts Reprise
12. The Mall Part II
13. WWII
14. It Makes No Difference