The thing is, I not only love to hear the poetry of Gatsos and the music of Xarhakos as they blend together in this song. But here is a second reason for my focusing on the song that starts with the word καίγομαι. To supplement what is said at that site, I have asked my colleague Rhea Lesage to write an afterword as the last word, as it were, for supplementing the comments I am presenting now. The story of the Library’s custodianship of this legacy is told briefly but forcefully here.
Cambridge 1968:166), who makes use of Milton’s concept of Voice and Verse as uniting to form Song: “For the Greek lyric poet Voice and Verse were not a pair of sirens Verse was merely the incomplete record of a single creation, Song.” So, the interaction of the poetry of Gatsos with the music of Xarhakos is to my mind a good enough reason for producing an essay such as this one, which celebrates, after all, the legacy of Gatsos-an artist whose role in the creation of song can remain dynamically alive in the living archives of the Harvard University Library. Dale in The Lyric Metres of Greek Drama (2nd ed. Such embedding, as I just called it, reminds me of the interaction of poetry and music in ancient Greek songmaking, where the oldest forms of poetry and song are undifferentiated from each other, as I argued in the book Pindar’s Homer (1990:41–42). First, I focus on this song because I love the poetry of Gatsos that I hear embedded inside the music composed by Xarhakos, which I love equally. Why do I focus on this song? In the comments that follow, I give seven reasons. The song, which was not one of the pieces featured in the luminous concert of October 2018, highlights the word “καίγομαι”-and I translate it for the moment as ‘I’m burning up in flames’. I focus on one of several songs that these two artists created together for the film Rebetiko ( Ρεμπέτικο), which originally appeared in 1983.
What I write, in the afterglow of a few days later, is about the poetry of Nikos Gatsos ( Νίκος Γκάτσος) as we see it embedded in music composed by Stavros Xarhakos ( Σταύρος Ξαρχάκος). In gratitude for her accomplishment, I dedicate to her my comments here as a celebration of the original celebration. The original celebration happened on October 14, 2018, and this happening was given a most remarkable name: “ The Gatsos I loved: A concert.” The concert was presented by the Harvard University Library, primarily through the efforts of Rhea Lesage. My comments here celebrate a celebration.
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