TONIGHT: REMBETIKA, The Greek Blues
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TONIGHT: REMBETIKA, The Greek Blues
by Mary Ann Karonis
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:00 pmRembetika: The Greek Blues This visit has been made possible by the University Seminars Program of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, U.S
San Francisco State University Humanities 133 San Francisco The Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair,at San Francisco State University Invites you to a lecture and performance: Rembetika: the Greek Blues Gail Holst-Warhaft, Adjunct Professor, Cornell University and visiting Onassis Scholar at the Center for Modern Greek Studies Professor Holst will be accompanied by Paul Psarras and Anthony Catchatoorian, members of the local Bay Area band, Fotia. Gail Holst-Warhaft was born in Melbourne, Australia. She completed a B.A. in English Literature and History of Art before leaving for Greece, where she worked as a musician and journalist during the 1970s. She played harpsichord in the orchestras of Mikis Theodorakis, Dionysis Savvopoulos and Mariza Koch. Her first book, Road to Rembetika: Music of Greek Sub-culture was published in 1975. Holst-Warhaft wrote the script for a prize-winning documentary film based on her book that was narrated by Anthony Quinn (Rembetika: The Blues of Greece ).The book has been translated into Greek, Turkish and German, and will soon appear in French. Her second book,Theodorakis: Myth and Politics in Modern Greek Music, was published by Hakkert in 1980. For more information, visit: www.sfsu.edu/ __._,_.___
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