Tag Archives: Giya Kancheli

“Music continues to be music, even if 1 cannot literally sing it: it isn’t a philosophy, not really a world-view. It really is, most importantly, a chant, a music the globe sings about itself, it’s the musical testimony alive.” — Valentin Silvestrov It isn’t whatsoever hard to listen to the …

Following the fall from the Soviet Union, Giya Kancheli (blessed 1935) surfaced into international fame among the country’s composers who resisted the state pressure to comply with an approved realist style. Georgia provides its own exclusive spiritual, folk, and traditional music customs. Georgian composers, and the ones of various other …