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Dirothosis - The Ancient Sound of Greek Lyre Music
Before television, radio, phones, newspapers, movies or internet lyre musicians and minstrels sang songs about the news of the day. Their stirring tones inspired sensual feelings, dance and love making. The soft and sometimes haunting music of the lyre of Apollo, Hermes and Sappho was incorporated in religious ceremonies where prayer, or prayers for healing often determined the ceremonial sound of music played in the scales and modes the Greeks invented. Such classical ideas have come down to us through the ages and are widely used today in sophisticated classical and jazz compositions. All my songs are unique, in the moment inventions. I play them only once during the recording. I do not say that any of my songs resemble those played in ancient times, but I can say that I made my instrument to sound close to the ones the Greeks played thousands of years ago. The ancient sounds of Western classical music are found in the Greek lyre that was played in the schools and theaters of Ancient Greece. Perhaps, this is the reason why the ancient Greek philosophers required each of their students to learn to play the lyre. In it's simple beauty, it permits one to become more creative and in touch with themselves and others. Unhooked from traditions, dogmas and social mores through music one can engage fearlessly in self discovery, inner growth experiencing a liberating sense of joy. Guiding a young Joshua Bell, Ivan Galamian, who was also violin teacher to Itzhak Perlman, would often say, "Make it beautiful". Many who live extraordinary lives have learned to apply his teaching not only to music, but to everything they do.
