S T A V R O S S E R E T I S - S H A T T E R I N G E V E R Y T H I N G T O P I E C E S

Here's a cassette from Greek bouzouki singer S t a v r o s S e r e t i s, bought this tape when I was staing in Athens for a month back in '88.... Loved it there, lovely city, great food, hanging out at the Plaka, the area around the Parthenon, lovely trips to Mycenae to see the Lion's Gate and the ruins of Agamemnon's old palace, visiting the Epidaurus, the world's largest amphitheatre, and lot's more.... Still have the ticket to the National Museum in Athens:

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SONGS FROM GREEK PARTISANS 1941 - 1945

Here's a cassette with songs from the Greek partisans fighting the Nazi occupation from 1941 till 1945.... Bought this cassette some 30 years ago when I was staying in Athens for a month, wanted to go there after reading, among other books (Xenophon, Herodotus etc.) the Illiad and the Odyssey by Homerus, a fantastic holiday, visiting the ruins of the old palace where Atreus and his son (or grandson) Agamemnon were living, in Mycenae, the theatre at Epidaurus, the Parthanon and much more, my only regret is that I didn't visit Delphi and that I didn't buy any of the big bags full of war time original photographs taken by soldiers from the occupying force....

You can read more about the Greek resistance here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Resistance

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MIKIS THEODORAKIS - PABLO NERUDA - CANTO GENERAL

Canto General is Pablo Neruda's tenth book of poems. It was first published in Mexico in 1950, by Talleres Gráficos de la Nación. Neruda began to compose it in 1938.

"Canto General" ("General Song") consists of 15 sections, 231 poems, and more than 15,000 lines. This work attempts to be a history or encyclopedia of the entire American Western Hemisphere, or New World, from a Hispanic American perspective.

The "Canto General" has been set to music by several musicians.

The best-known musical setting is by Mikis Theodorakis, a composer and politician from Greece. He completed four movements in 1973, recording these the following year. In 1975 and 1981, he expanded the work to seven and thirteen movements, respectively, recording the complete "oratorio" live in Munich in 1981. Vocals, in Spanish, on the incomplete 1974 recording are by Maria Farantouri and Petros Pandis.

This album was recorded live on August 13, 1975, at the Karaiskakis-Stadium, Pireus and on August 16, 1975, at the Panathinaikos-Stadium, Athens, by Polysound Studio.


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