Mikis Theodorakis, ''STO PERIGIALI'', 29 09 2007

Αφιέρωμα στα 85 χρόνια του Μίκη Θεοδωράκη - Φινάλε

Mikis Theodorakis - Romiosini (parts 1, 2 and 3 live)

I have been very slack with keeping up with my Greek learning but mashing up my Web 2.0 skills again is helping. Today I have been watching live performances of Mikis Theodorakis, particularly the Romiosyni cycle which he composed from the Ritsos poems. I wonder if I own a translation of Ritsos? I know I have the Greek text but that might just be a bit much for my rusty old Greek. Guess I should get back to Livemocha.

Mikis Theodorakis in East Berlin 1987: 22 Sto Perigiali (Arnisi)

My sister tells me that practising another language is a great way to exercise my brain. Today I decided to try to mash up my Web 2.0 skills with language learning to help me with this. And I found this absolutely fabulous little gem on Youtube: it features Mikis Theodorakis himself singing his own composition based on Giorgos Seferis's poem Arnisi (Sto perigiali). As this is one of the few Seferis poems that I understand the words for, I was overjoyed to find it.

I have previously done some Sophia Vembo hunting on Youtube but must remember that Youtube is a great source of assistance for language maintenance and language learning. Now to dust off my Seferis and try to read some of his poems in printed form? And I could see if one of the onlines tools I experimented with earlier in this blog now does Greek? They didn't before.