secondhand Mikis Theodorakis biography book

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Mikis Theodorakis: composer - politician - thinker

For very few, rare people, the assessment of the life contribution they made to humanity, their people, culture, and politics transcends the usual limits of national history and becomes a reference point for their era. It cannot be done within the usual confines of history. For them, beyond historical assessment, it is mainly the legend that takes on the task of narrating and perpetuating their contribution to human culture. One such figure is Mikis Theodorakis. A great man who became a legend during his lifetime. A Greek legend of global dimensions and recognition. A reference person for our Homeland and global art. He connected Greekness with the universality of art. He composed exquisite music. Music that depicted his era and moved his contemporaries. A reference person for democracy and its struggles around the world. He gave art a political dimension and brought great values of culture into politics. He honored politics, perhaps without politics being able to give him all that he deserved, perhaps without politics being able to give him the opportunity to offer all that he could. But this is the fate of many great people. We thank him for the gifts of music, of culture that he gave to all of us. We thank him for the struggle for democracy that he fought for all of us. We wish him to continue for many years the path of giving from the surplus of the donation of his personality. The Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament for Parliamentarism and Democracy honors a great Greek, an exceptional person, artist, fighter, and politician. It honors him with the belief that he is a prime example for his contemporaries and the next generations. It honors him with the certainty that the honor he offered to the Homeland and to Greeks around the World is beyond any possibility of reciprocity. (From the preface of the President of the Hellenic Parliament Dimitrios G. Sioufas)

ISBN139789606757174
Author: COLLECTIVE
Translator: POLITI VICKY
Publisher: FOUNDATION OF THE HELLENIC PARLIAMENT
Editor: KARAPANOU ANNA
Prefacer: SIOUFAS G. DIMITRIOS
Editions: Hellenic Editions
Number of pages: 228
Dimensions: 21x24
Publication date: 31/12/2009
Subject: MUSIC