#theodorakis

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[pastellarts]

Farewell Mikis Theodorakis

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Mikīs Theodōrakīs Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης

[elladastinkardiamou]

Athens

Photo by Athensville - athensville.blogspot.com

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Κράτα το χέρι μου και πάμε,

αστέρι μου,

εμείς θα ζήσουμε

κι ας είμαστε φτωχοί.

Μίκης Θεοδωράκης, 1925-2021

Αντίο, τελευταίε των Όρθιων.

[ivovynckier]

Just learned that the composer Mikis Theodorakis died. I don't know his Greek music but I am familiar with and own his soundtracks. He was first impronised, then expelled from Greece when the military junta called the "Regime of the Colonels" took over and started to write film music - mainly for the French-Greek director Costa Gavras. And then there's Sidney Lumet who invited him to New York to write the score of "Serpico". (That's a must-see movie from the seventies.) (Forget "Zorba, the Greek", it's fluff for superficial tourists.)

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[elladastinkardiamou]

Mikis Theodorakis, Greek Composer and Marxist Rebel, Dies at 96

He waged a war of words and music against a military junta that banned his work and imprisoned him during its rule of Greece, from 1967 to 1

Mikis Theodorakis, the renowned Greek composer and Marxist firebrand who waged a war of words and music against an infamous military junta that imprisoned and exiled him as a revolutionary and banned his work a half century ago, has died. He was 96.

His death was confirmed on Thursday by the Greek culture minister, Lina Mendoni. News reports in Greece said he died at his home in central Athens.

Mr. Theodorakis was best known internationally for his scores for the films “Zorba the Greek” (1964), in which Anthony Quinn starred as an essence of tumultuous Greek ethnicity; “Z” (1969), Costa-Gavras’s dark satire on the Greek junta; and “Serpico” (1973), Sidney Lumet’s thriller starring Al Pacino as a New York City cop who goes undercover to expose police corruption.