By Nick Stamatakis
With lyrics that can be only described as revolutionary, Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond" has touched the hearts of tens of millions of Americans who "live in a New World with an old soul"... The...
EDITOR'S NOTE: For the past ten years or so an amazing voice has been rising in the American opera scene - Nadine Sierra. Now in her 30s, she is the youngest star in Opera and her talent has amazed...
By Alex Aliferis
7/12/23
The ‘Sound of Freedom’ is a movie everyone must watch.
The film hit theaters on July 3, 2023. The movie made over $40 million in its opening weekend, overtaking all other movies.
The movie centers around a true...
EDITOR'S NOTE: It's a rare phenomenon for a poem, a song, a statue, or any cultural artifact to express by its sole existence/performance the essence of the whole culture where it belongs... Such is the case of "Tzivaeri Mou"...
By Nick Stamatakis
Helleniscope is passionate about Greek History and Culture and, long before the producers of Indiana Jones decided to make the Antikythera Mechanism (the first computer of human civilization that most researchers attribute to Archimedes - the main...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Few songs define a culture to eternity... "Zorba", of course, is one for us... "Je ne regrait rien" (Edith Piaf) for the French... Or "Je t'aime moi non plus" by Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin... For the...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): Nothing fits better the commemoration of the two "Black" anniversaries of May 19 (Hellenic Genocides) and May 29 (The Fall of Constantinople) that this fantastic musical event from Pontos, composed, orchestrated and produced by the...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). An Amazing voice, singing Byzantine Psalms - the first one in Greek!! This is an AMAZING performance - a real gift from God!! And proof that anyone can sing in Greek our beautiful Byzantine music!!...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a solemn day for all of us who trace our roots in Greece and in Asia Minor. This is a Day of Memory for the Pontian and the Hellenic Genocides of 1919 and after... Four...
by Evaggelos Vallianatos (*) Apr. 25, 2023 Overview
Suppose you could travel back in time to the third century BCE, and visit Alexandria, the capital city of the Greek kingdom of Egypt. Arguably it was the most enlightened, wealthy, and powerful of all...
