by Kay Cicellis
Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens On August 11 and 12, 1953, the town of Lixouri in Cephaloma, in the Ionian islands of Greece, was entirely destroyed by an earthquake. Three months later Kay Cicellis revisited the town, where she had spent her childhood. The Death of a Town is her imagined impression of the catastrophe as told in the recollections of six of the survivors.
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Produced by Peter Duval Smith who writes on page 8