State Orchestra of Hellenic Music – Stavros Xarchakos
The Songs of a Day Gone By
“Living in these saddening times, with their idiotic journalists and self-styled ‘historians’ of Greek song pigeon-holing our songs and musicians by decade, how can one even begin to speak of a genuine song-writing phenomenon like Stavros Xarchakos?”, Manos Hadjidakis wondered in 1992.
Sixteen years later, although the situation bemoaned by Hadjidakis remains essentially unchanged, Stavros Xarchakos has decided to speak for himself as a composer of songs, setting this aspect of his work apart from his compositions in other genres. And this evening at the Herodeion, entitled “The songs of a day gone by” is dedicated to sung works of his covering no fewer than four decades. Not having written a song in years, Xarchakos will be returning from a distance to pieces fixed and final, played on his instrument of choice – the State Orchestra of Greek Music, which he founded himself – and reappraising them from the vantage point of today. [Ν.Μ.]
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