Very Scarce! 1966, Mikis Theodorakis, Concert Program, Grigoris Bithikotsis, Maria Farantouri, Dimitris Mitropanos

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Συναυλία Ελληνικής Λαικής Μουσικής

Μίκης Θεοδωράκης

Γρηγόρης Μπιθικώτσης

Μαρία Φαραντούρη

Γιάννης Πουλόπουλος

Δημήτρης Μητροπάνος

Με την Λαική Ορχήστρα 

 

Greek Folk Music Concert

Mikis Theodorakis

With

Gregory Bithikotsis

Maria Farandouri

Yannis Poulopoulos

Dimitris Mitropanos

and the Folk Orchestra

 

Original Concert Program

Summer 1966

20 Pages including paper cover

Covers created by Xanthipi Micha

Printed in Athens by Pyramis

16,5cm x 19,5cm

First Printing

 

Michail “Mikis” Theodorakis (1925 – 2021) was a Greek composer and lyricist credited with over 1,000 works. He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He was a three-time BAFTA nominee, winning for Z. For the score in Serpico, he earned Grammy nominations. Furthermore, for the score to Zorba the Greek, with its ‘Zorba’s Dance’, he was Golden Globe nominated. He composed the “Mauthausen Trilogy”, also known as “The Ballad of Mauthausen”, which has been described as the “most beautiful musical work ever written about the Holocaust” and possibly his best work

 

Maria Farantouri or Farandouri (born 1947 in Athens is a Greek singer and also a political and cultural activist. She has collaborated with Greek composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, who wrote the score for Pablo Neruda’s Canto General, which Farantouri performed worldwide.