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Showing posts with label Farantouri. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farantouri. Show all posts
05 February 2026

The Greeks have a word for it:
60, Αύριο (Avrio), Tomorrow

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Looking forward to tomorrow … sunset at the Sunset Taverna, below the slopes of the Fortezza in Rethymnon (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) ...
29 July 2025

Greece pays tribute
to the composer
Mikis Theodorakis on
his 100th birthday

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‘My whole life is close to you’ … today celebrated the 100th birthday of the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis Patrick Comerford Today ma...
02 May 2025

A Greek cantata that marks
the 80th anniversary of
the liberation of Mauthausen,
the last concentration camp

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‘The Ballad of Mauthausen’, the Holocaust cantata written by Iakovos Kambanellis and Mikis Theodorakis … Mauthausen was the last of the conc...
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17 April 2025

Listening to the poetry of
Elytis and the songs of
Theodorakis on the road
from Iraklion to Rethymnon

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‘But where did you wander / All day long in the hard reverie of stone and sea?’ (Odysseas Elytis, Marina on the Rocks) … rocks and the sea a...
07 January 2025

George Seferis and ‘Epiphany, 1937’:
the poem that Mikis Theodorakis made
a song of resistance to the colonels

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Giorgos Seferis is a major figure in Greek literature and in 1963 became the first Greek Nobel laureate for literature Patrick Comerford ...
20 July 2024

Reminders half a century
later of the Turkish invasion
of Cyprus on 20 July 1974

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Two refugee boys from Northern Cyprus huddled in a tent … today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on 20 July ...