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Mikis Theodorakis is a man of many definitions and an inexhaustible supply of talents: poet, musician, composer, MODERN GREEK CULTURE - conductor, political activist, deputy, freedom fighter, exile, partisan, orator and yes, author. Angelique Mouyis’ oeuvre is an important addition to our understanding of his music. And of course, a book about Mikis is also a voyage into modern Greek history and modern Greek culture. Author’s biography ALSO PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH Nick Papandreou, author of Mikis and Manos: A Tale of Two Composers Angelique Mouyis was Coffee Table Books born in Johannesburg, Mikis Theodorakis: My Posters South Africa in 1981 to (bilingual, paperback) Angelique Mouyis has performed a valuable service to the composer and to serious lovers of Greek music by writing about the “other” Theodorakis, a man whose large and impressive body of work in many different Greek-Cypriot parents. In Mikis Theodorakis: My Posters genres deserves better recognition. 2007, under the (bilingual, collector’s edition, supervision of Prof. Jeanne hardcover) Her study is an important contribution to the understanding of Theodorakis’ music, a subject which has MIKIS THEODORAKIS: FINDING GREECE IN HIS MUSIC Zaidel-Rudolph and Prof. Greece Star & Secret Islands been largely neglected by musicologists in his own country, and which deserves to be better known in all its Mary Rörich, she (bilingual) brilliance and abundance by music lovers all over the world. graduated with a Master’s Degree in Music Magical Greece (bilingual, Composition with distinction at the University paperback) Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University of the Witwatersrand, with a research report Magical Greece (bilingual, collector’s edition, hardcover) entitled Mikis Theodorakis and the Articulation A meditation on the perplexity of Greece, the oldest nation but the youngest state, of Modern Greek Identity. She also completed The Hotel Grande Bretagne examined through the lenses of a polymechanous artist, a genuine Odysseus. in Athens an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts as a composer in May Dr. Maria Hnaraki, Ethnomusicologist & Director of Greek Studies, Drexel University Modern Living & Health 2008. Angelique is the recipient of a Southern Cretan Music: Unraveling African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) Ariadne’s Thread Mikis Theodorakis and his music are far more than a national treasure for Greeks; they are the quintessence post-graduate studies scholarship as well as the Cretan Healthy Diet – Truths of the experience of being Greek. And, to the world at large, they are the very figure of Greece – of its Ernest Oppenheimer Overseas Scholarship for & Secrets history, of its dreams, of its sorrows. the Performing Arts. In 2003 and 2006, she was selected and funded to attend the New Economy, Finance & Business Guides Antonis D. Papagiannidis, Journalist Music Indaba Composition Workshop at the Managing Employment Grahamstown Arts Festival, where several of Relations in Greece her compositions were performed. Her songs Following the Nereids: Sea As a South African of Greek descent, Angelique Mouyis finds herself drawn into the heart of modern Greek cultural have been heard at venues such as the Dance Routes and Maritime Business identity, an identity that has been created, crafted and passionately theorized by Mikis Theodorakis. While she Factory in Newtown, Johannesburg, the The Business of Olympic Games gives due credit to the composer’s much loved Zorba the Greek music, Mouyis also pays homage to the composer’s Zipper Factory in New York, New York, Sponsorship lesser known oeuvre, bred of an astounding creative force immersed in Greek history, thinking and myth. Mouyis’ Goodspeed in East Haddam, Connecticut and Greece After 2006 (bilingual) book has the energy and resonance of Theodorakis’ own project and also the rigour of modern musicology. Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Thessalonica – A Business Guide Massachusetts. Angelique continues to be (bilingual) ANGELIQUE MOUYIS Mary Rörich, Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg inspired by Greek culture and theatre music and hopes to continue exploring these areas in ISBN 978-960-8386-98-3 both her music compositions and in her writing. 7896089 386983 MIKIS THEODORAKIS FINDING GREECE IN HIS MUSIC ISBN: 978-960-8386-98-3 © Copyright: KERKYRA Publications S.A.- economia PUBLISHING 1st edition, February 2010 Author: Angelique Mouyis Production: KERKYRA Publications - economia PUBLISHING Publication Coordinator: Fani Karafylli Editor & Photo Editor: Maria Adamantidis Book Design & Layout: Rana Mourati - atelier KERKYRA Distribution: KERKYRA Publications S.A. 6-8 Vlahava street, 105 51 Athens, Greece Tel.: 0030-210-3314.714, fax: 0030-210-3252.283 www.economia.gr, [email protected] Book cover artwork by Paško Cvjetković (2002). Photos on pages XVI-XVII are from Alexandra C. Vovolini’s personal collection. The concert poster on pages 96-97 is part of the Mikis Theodorakis Archive, kept at the Music Library of Greece of the Friends of Music Society and is reproduced by permission. Stills from Zorba the Greek on page 103 are published by permission of the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation. All other photographs published by permission of the Margarita Theodorakis Archive. The publisher has made every possible effort to locate the creators of unidentified photographs and images up to the printing of this work. In the event these creators become known after publication, then the publisher is willing to take any rectifying action deemed necessary. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, whether in its original form or in a translated or adapted version, without the publisher’s prior written permission. MODERN GREEK CULTURE Mikis Theodorakis FINDING GREECE IN HIS MUSIC Angelique Mouyis I dedicate this book to Mary Rörich, without whom this would not have been possible. Table of Contents Publisher’s Note Alexandra C. Vovolini ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. x Foreword Gail Holst-Warhaft ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. xi Preface Maria Hnaraki ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. xiii Photographic Mosaic ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... xiv Aknowledgments ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ xvii Introduction: Theodorakis Goes for Gold .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1. MODERN GREEK IDENTITY: HISTORY, POLITICS AND THEODORAKIS ............. 4 The Historical Negotiation of Modern Greek Identity .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................