Concert Evening of Greek music. Mikis Theodorakis Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Schedule for Evening of Greek music. Mikis Theodorakis 2022
Michael "Mikis" Theodorakis (born 29 July 1925) is a Greek songwriter
and a world-famous composer. He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z
(1969), and Serpico (1973). He is viewed as Greece's best-known living
composer.
Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989 he ran
as an independent candidate within the centre-right New Democracy party in order
for the country to come out of the political crisis that had been created due to
the numerous scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou and helped to
establish a large coalition between conservatives, socialists and leftists. In
1990 he was elected to the parliament (as in 1964 and 1981), became a government
minister under Constantine Mitsotakis, and fought against drugs and terrorism
and for culture, education and better relations between Greece and Turkey. He
continues to speak out in favor of left-liberal causes, Greek-Turkish-Cypriot
relations, and against the War in Iraq. He has consistently opposed oppressive
regimes and was a key voice against the Greek junta 1967-1974, which imprisoned
him.
Schedule for Evening of Greek music. Mikis Theodorakis 2022
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