Today, here at GME, we continue our tribute to the “Greek” Pablo Neruda by listening to poems of his set to music by composers Vassilis Dimitriou, Christos Gartzos and Giannis Glezos. Neruda, who died exactly 52 years ago, on September 23, 1973, was awarded the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. In his speech, he noted: “During this long journey I found the necessary components for the making of the poem. There I received contributions from the earth and from the soul. And I believe that poetry is an action, in which there enter as equal partners solitude and solidarity, emotion and action, the nearness to oneself, the nearness to humankind and to the secret manifestations of nature”.
Produced and Presented by Hercules Economou