Trash carts will be delivered in the place they will be picked up for collection. LIMITED ALLEY SERVICE Only residents with a paved alley AND a rear entry garage will receive alley pick up trash services. The WM provided trash and recycling carts must be curbside by 7:00 AM on your service days.
SERVICE SCHEDULEThe number of service days and the actual pick up days for trash and recycling will remain the same. After the order has been processed, WM will deliver the additional poly cart in approximately 7 to 12 days. But to be a revolutionary artist is more significant than being a politician.All Universal City residents receive an initial Green Trash Cart and Yellow Recycling Cart at no cost.ĪDDITIONAL CARTS Residents can sign-up for an additional 96-gallon poly cart for a nominal monthly fee at the City Hall Water Billing window at 2150 Universal City Blvd, M-F, 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Even though artists want revolution, there are many politicians who are not revolutionary. That’s why there are more politicians than musicians.”Īnd Castro continued: “And there are even less revolutionary artists. Castro embraced Theodorakis and said, “Music is more difficult than politics. The two men were acquainted and shared a mutual respect. The audience cheered “Viva Fidel!”īy the end of the concert, Castro embraced Theodorakis praising his work. It was a time when the Cuban leader was hardly making any public appearances because he was fearing assassination attempts. The composer presented one of his greatest works, Canto General, based on the poem by Pablo Neruda, the work was played by a Cuban orchestra accompanied by Greek singers Maria Farantouri and Giorgos Dalaras.Ĭastro appeared unexpectedly at the concert at Cathedral Square of Havana, flanked by guards. On July 29, 1981, Theodorakis gave a concert in Havana, Cuba. The next morning they got into a big, comfortable car and spent “a memorable week with Che Guevara,” Theodorakis said. Theodorakis became friends with Castro and the two men exchanged letters. Tomorrow I’m going to the Sierra Maestra and I will come by the hotel to pick you up and take you with me.”ĭespite the objections, Guevara was adamant. Theodorakis later said that Che Guevara told him: “You are not going anywhere. They had stayed for a week, when Theodorakis explained that he wanted to leave because he was in bad health at the moment and the humid climate of Havana was bad for him. It was the time when the whole island was singing and dancing to the sounds of “Luna de miel”, a Theodorakis composition that had become very popular.Īt the time, the revolutionary government of Cuba was making an effort to get rid of bureaucracy and had invited delegations of leftist parties around the world. The Greek composer met Castro in 1962, when he visited Cuba as a parliamentary member of United Democratic Left (EDA) along with another EDA MP, Evanhegelos Sakellaris, as guests of the revolutionary government. Theodorakis, composer of numerous masterpieces such as Canto General (Poetry by Pablo Neruda), Axion Esti, Serpico and Zorba, whose musical genius made a decisive contribution to the cultural renaissance of postwar Greece, had the opportunity to meet with Fidel in Cuba and become a friend of the Cuban leader.īelow, we share abstracts from an article published on Greek Reporter which describes the special bond between Mikis Theodorakis and Fidel Castro:
With the above laconic phrases published in at his personal website, the internationally-renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, 91, expressed his farewell to the emblematic Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro. Greece’s legendary composer Mikis Theodorakis says farewell to his friend, Fidel Castro
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