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Featured
Album
Mediterraneo
Terrence
Farrell
Guitarist
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Cleopatra's
Dance
Terrence
Farrell |
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Sonatina
I
Federico Moreno
Torroba |
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Never
On Sunday
Manos Hadjidakis |
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9. |
Sonatina
II
Federico
Moreno Torroba |
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Zorba
the Greek
Mikis Theodorakis |
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10. |
Sonatina
III
Federico Moreno
Torroba |
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Carmen
Georges Bizet |
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11. |
Arabic
Caprice
Francisco
Tarrega |
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Spanish
Serenade
Juan Malats |
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12. |
Danza
del Sannio
Italian Traditional |
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Czardas
V. Monte |
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13. |
The
Old Castle
Modeste Mussorgsky |
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Pavane
for a Dead Princess
Maurice Ravel |
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14. |
Song
of the Sirens
Terrence
Farrell |
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The first time I
saw the Mediterranean Sea I was five years old. My family
was on vacation from our home in Salzburg, Austria and it
was my first experience with a large body of water. The impact
of that visit was profound; even at that age I sensed the
difference between people. Only later did I gradually learn
the real significance of its immense history. Home to countless
civilizations that have embraced its shores, it is truly one
of the melting pots of the world. A cauldron of political
ideas that would shape the West's definitions of liberty,
democracy, and republicanism.
The forgiving water gave birth to several of the world's great
religions and philosophies. It is a playground for the rich
and famous and to every other economic group as well. Northern
Europeans looking for warmth, others looking for an economic
holiday in Greece and the well-heeled off to their favorite
haunts on the Cote d'Azur. All the while the local inhabitants
are wondering what all the fuss is about.
On my travels throughout the region I found the similarities
in the music quite interesting. There is a certain rhythmic
vitality that is quite pervasive. Every climate creates its
own set of values. It would be hard to imagine northern and
southern European composers coming up with the same sort of
music. The North's long cold winters make for a different
kind of music than the South's sunny climes where the heat
quickens the heart ... one only needs to consider Romeo and
Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Helen of Troy to name but a
few who come from the region.
This album comprises some of my favorite music from the Mediterranean.
There is a certain sensuality to the music that I find quite
irresistible, a hot-bloodedness that speaks to me like no
other. Much of its music looks East more than we might at
first think. On a recent trip to Turkey, I was amazed at the
similarity their music had to the music of Spain. On the same
note, I was surprised how much the music of the Black Sea,
the Mediterranean's cousin, looks east. It is one thing to
be told about it in a music appreciation class, but it is
quite another to hear it exemplified by a street musician
in Yalta.
I have often wondered what the ingredients are that bind that
part of the world; even with all its political difference
the similarities are so profound. It certainly was the world's
first super highway. It is a place where nature's abundance
has been kind and everyone seems to agree that there is a
quality to the light and a blue to the sea that give it its
sense of place and that place is called Mediterraneo.
Terrence Farrell
Santorini, Greece
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