From the EPEA PTEROENTA column – Angelos Polydoros writes
In the old days on the radio – which then had only two bodies, the National Radio Foundation (EIR) with First, Second and Third programs and the Information Service of the Armed Forces (YENED) – when Holy Week began, a music program began, the which if you listened to it you would get depressed. Of course, the term “depression” was unknown to us children, as was bullying. But listening to the so-called “classical” music, we lost all mood for games and teasing. When we asked our parents the first time why this “heavy” music was being played, they explained to us that this is done “out of respect for the week of Christ’s Passion and until his Crucifixion”.
It was relatively “light classical”, the music from Maundy Monday until the evening of Maundy Thursday, when we watched with rapture and awe the Crucifixion of Christ, and it developed into “heavy” music, from Maundy Thursday evening to Maundy Thursday. .Saturday, when the “normal” music slowly returned to be transformed by the Resurrection and then into a festive and popular one, which helped the elders to dance the tsamiko and kalamatiano on Easter Sunday.
In our time, that doesn’t exist anymore. During Holy Week, you can understand it on ERT television when it broadcasts the Masses, from the Metropolis of Athens and Amarousi. If you’re zapping. If you don’t, you might recognize her from the movies “Jesus of Nazareth”, or “Ben Hur”, or something similar. So you realize that Easter is approaching, for which at the same time your parents will be getting ready for the village with the trunks and the spit on the hood of the car.
Today, there are no events in our lives that focus on or even refer to religious issues, such as a few years ago the isolation of Alexis Tsipras with the icon of the Virgin Mary in order to “talk” with her. Or like the reference of Stefanos Kasellakis to the miracle of his baptism, that a cross was formed from his oil in the pool. Forget these, just as you forget the letters of Christ that Velopoulos was selling.
Today, radio stations continue to play what they do the rest of the year. From Greek capsule songs to rap and trap, while the TV channels are dealing (as I hear now) with the fact that Aris Spiliotopoulos has taken over the communication policy of Kasselakis!
So Happy Resurrection and Happy Easter and hopefully we will also see Kostas Laliotis in Mitsotakis’ communication staff.