#farantouri

Σωτήρης Πέτρουλας (Sotiri Petroula) - Maria Farantouri

Mikis Theodorakis wrote a song in memory of Sotiri Petroula (also the song title) which is sang here by Maria Farantouri.

Sotiris Petroulas was a promising young economics student who died under suspicious circumstances on July 21, 1965 during a time of political unrest and protests in Greece. Details of his death remain unanswered to this day.

Gregoris Lambrakis was a Greek politician and anti-fascist activist. He was assassinated on May 27, 1963 in Thessaloniki.He is the person about the murder of whom,the film of Kostas Gavras Z talks about.

LYRICS

Greek:

Σωτήρη Πέτρουλα, Σωτήρη Πέτρουλα σε πήρε ο Λαμπράκης, σε πήρε η λευτεριά.

Μάρτυρες, ήρωες οδηγούνε τα γαλάζια μάτια σου μας καλούνε.

Σωτήρη Πέτρουλα, Σωτήρη Πέτρουλα Αηδόνι και λιοντάρι, βουνό και ξαστεριά.

Μάρτυρες, ήρωες οδηγούνε τα γαλάζια μάτια σου μας καλούνε.

Σωτήρη Πέτρουλα, Σωτήρη Πέτρουλα οδήγα το λαό σου, οδήγα μας μπροστά.

Μάρτυρες, ήρωες οδηγούνε τα γαλάζια μάτια σου μας καλούνε.

English:

SOTIRI (SALVADORE) PETROULA, SOTIRI PETROULA LAMPRAKIS TOOK YOU, FREEDOM TOOK YOU.

MARTYRS, HEROES GUIDE YOUR HEAVENLY BLUE EYES ARE CALLING US.

SOTIRI PETROULA, SOTIRI PETROULA NIGHTINGALE AND LION, MOUNTAIN AND CLEAR STARRY SKY

MARTYRS, HEROES GUIDE YOUR HEAVENLY BLUE EYES ARE CALLING US.

SOTIRI PETROULA, SOTIRI PETROULA GUIDE YOUR PEOPLE, LEAD US FORWARD.

Mikis Theodorakis remembered

Zorba’s theme from the 1964 film is what the composer Mikis Theodorakis will always be known for outside his native Greece, but in his time he was a figure on the world stage, rubbing shoulders with poets, politicians and artists like Pablo Neruda, Olof Palme and Salvador Dali. His most powerful music evokes a spirit of heroic rebellion that resonated with liberation movements from Greece to Latin America. And, far beyond Zorba, he wrote classical symphonies, ballets, operas, and popular songs as light as a sea breeze.

Maria Margaronis recalls this most prolific and energetic composer and political activist, who was arrested, exiled, imprisoned and tortured many times during the most turbulent years of Greece’s 20th Century, but who clung to his belief that art is not a decoration but a necessity.

The Fickle Ear Is Nowhere As Fickle – And A Lot Kinder – I Think – Than The Fickle Eye

The Fickle Eye is a lot more ruthless than The Fickle Ear, I think, and the reasons for this are many and it is far too early in the morning to plunge into those matters now, since I am still asleep.  But here is what I posted on Face Book about a song composed by 2 songwriters/musicians and interpreted by Maria FARANTOURI … (And which I am too sleepy to proofread right now.) I RARELY down-vote…