July 29 - Mikis Theodorakis (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for July 29th are here: Peter Schreier (2019) and Sigmund Romberg (2020)

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Mikis Theodorakis (b.29 July 1925) is one of the most important contemporary Greek composers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... Bearing Gifts

"... he composed much concert music, including seven symphonies, four operas, ballets (including Antigone, 1959), and more than 1,000 songs. He is esteemed in his homeland as a national hero. -- Wikipedia

When Theodorakis 

Wrote Zorba the Greek,

Did he know that his career 

Was at some kind of peak?

You can work many years

In the musical galleys,

But you don’t have control 

Of your peaks or your valleys.

 

 

 

 

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