George Voukanos Returns To Olympia Without Repeating It

There is an easy version of a project like TERRA OLYMPIA, and George Voukanos seems aware of it from the start. A Greek composer returns to Ancient Olympia, writes music tied to memory and heritage, invokes mythology, light, landscape, and the Olympic idea, then lets the ancient world carry the emotional burden for him.
And while that alone has a real story behind it, it would also miss the most interesting part of what he is doing.Voukanos is not treating TERRA OLYMPIA as a historical reconstru