Hadjidakis

I caught up with Hadjidakis and the team on the first day of the dig season.

Voyage to Crete: Falasarna 2009

He knew cradle songs and fishing songs, classical tunes and new compositions by Theodorakis, Xarhakos, Markopoulos, and Hadjidakis, and he executed all of them with perfect tremolos and extraordinary syncopated improvisations that were inclined to prevent his audience from dancing because it was even better to listen.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

Manos Hadjidakis was a self-taught composer and proponent of the

News 2011

Manos Hadjidakis was a self-taught composer and proponent of the

News 2011

Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis (1925-1994) and greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989) created a recognisable idiom which acts as a hallmark in the local artistic expression in the decades of 1960 and 1970.

WN.com - Articles related to European stocks drop at open after Greece rating slashed 2010

Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis (1925-1994) and greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989) created a recognisable idiom which acts as a hallmark in the local artistic expression in the decades of 1960 and 1970.

WN.com - Articles related to European stocks drop at open after Greece rating slashed 2010

Hadjidakis was a close friend and collaborator of Venetsanou's until his death in 1994, and this song was recorded shortly afterwards, with guitar from Yiorgos Mavroeidis.

World Music Central 2010

While I understand that much of the magic of such cultural icons as Hadjidakis is "lost in the translation", I hope that the artistically sensitive Café-society will enjoy this subtle, little gem.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

The New Wave was rather brutally suppressed by the dictatorship of 1967-1974 as "un-Greek" (!!!) (Think all the ridiculous accusations that XYZ is "un-American" ...) but Hadjidakis emerged unscathed, being apolitical as a person.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

While I understand that much of the magic of such cultural icons as Hadjidakis is "lost in the translation", I hope that the artistically sensitive Café-society will enjoy this subtle, little gem.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009