Greek 6: Farewell to the Greek Islands

Texts read & music played:

1. Jannis Ritsos: Of the Sea ‘ (1967)
2. Tony Robinson: Odysseus — The Greatest Hero of Them All
3. Homer: the Odyssey, Book 5 (tr. Alexander Pope)
4. Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek
5. Suzanne Vega: Calypso (from Solitude Standing, 1988)
6. Dancourt: Les Trois Cousines (1700)
7. Francis Poulenc: L’Embarquement pour Cythere
8. Charles Baudelaire: Un Voyage a Cythere (1857)
9. Gerard de Nerval: Cythera (1851)
10. Greek Folk Music: a Shepherd’s Tune
11. Homer: the Odyssey, Book 10 — Circe (in original Greek)
12. Madeline Miller: Circe (2018)
13. Homer: the Odyssey, Book 9 — the Lotophagi
14. Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Lotos-Eaters (1832)
15. Claude Debussy: Prelude a l’Apres-Midi d’un Faune
16. Peter Constantine: Lotos-Eaters
17. Homer: the Odyssey, Book 19 — Crete
18. Erik Satie: Gnossienne no. 1
19. Madeline Miller: Circe (2018)
20. Cretan Folk Music: Irakllotikes Kondilles
21. Australian marching song (Crete, 1941)
22. Folk Music from Chania: Madares…
23. Nikos Kazantzakis: Zorba the Greek
24. Sirtaki (Zorba’s Dance)
25. Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands (Crete)
26. Iain Crichton Smith: Next Time
27. Mozart: Idomeneo, Re di Creta (ORF OE 1 July 27, 18.00, Salzburg Festival)
28. Sirtaki (Zorba’s Dance)