Cyclades Festival is here. Music is here. There will be time for us to prepare a more glamorous Festival, after the curse of the pandemic is over. The Festival, during its 18 years of success, faced a major economic crisis and the recent plague that has changed the world. But not music.

As a prominent historian notes, music was not a luxury in times of epidemic uncertainty, it was a necessity. Letters from the 16th-century diplomat Sebastian Giustinian indicate that when fear of the plague prompted King Henry VII to dismiss his entire court and to remain in quarantine at Windsor, the only people who remained with him were his physician, his three favorite gentlemen, and the Italian organ virtuoso Dionisio Memo.

These records have particular resonance once again in our own time, as communities across the globe have found music indispensable in negotiating a world filled with “social distancing” and imperatives to withdraw from each other.

Music is here for you who escape the confinement and come to the beautiful island of Syros for this well-known double purpose: enjoying the never-dying sun of Greek archipelago and the spiritual light sun of the most distinguished music.

We welcome you once more.

Classical Music Network
Fotis A. Karayannopoulos, President

George V. Foufopoulos
Kostas G. Fotopoulos

Artistic Director
Yannos K. Margaziotis

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Με την αιγίδα και επιχορήγηση του Ελληνικού Οργανισμού Τουρισμού
Με την υποστήριξη του Δήμου Σύρου - Ερμούπολης
Του Οργανισμού Πολιτισμού και Άθλησης Σύρου