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1924 (Manilla, Philippines)
1984 (Rome, Italy)
Massachusetts / Spain/Philippines
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abstract and realist painting
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Fernando Zobel de Ayala was born in Manila, the Philippines, on August 27, 1924. He was an artist, patron of the arts, art collector, teacher, photographer, poet and also a writer on artistic and cultural topics. As an artist, Zobel is best known for abstractions, often painted in black and white color schemes, that reflect the dual influences of Abstract Expressionism and Asian painting and calligraphy.
Zobel was the son of Enrique Zobel de Ayala, a Spanish industrialist, and Fermina Montojo y Torróntegui. A citizen of Spain, he grew up in both the Philippines, the United States, Spain and Switerland. His father, who had studied painting, was the patron of Philippine Artist Fernando Amorsolo, who provided art lessons to Zobel as a boy. He attended secondary school at the Brent International School in Baguio until World War II disrupted his studies.
In 1942, at the age of 18, a spinal problem caused him to be bed-ridden for nearly a year. During this time he began to develop his drawing skills, making sketches of the views out his window, as well as caricatures of family members. After the death of his father in 1943, and following World War II, Zobel was admitted to Harvard University, where he studied history and literature, writing his thesis on the drama of Federico Garcia Lorca, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 1949.
After graduation Zóbel remained in Boston, where he had befriended many artists -- including James Pfeufer and Reed Champion -- and began to paint in the "Boston Style." During this period he executed many etchings, aquatints and serigraphs. He also served as a curator at Harvard's Houghton Library, where he studied Medieval calligraphy and emblem books.
His first one-man show was held at the Philippine Art Gallery in 1953, where he exhibited figurative works of Philippine subjects. While in Manila, Zobel, always an active letter writer, corresponded with an international group of friends which included artists, poets and academics.
After recovering from depression in 1954, Zobel visited the Rhode Island School of Design, and was deeply moved by an exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko. The epiphany provided by this show changed the course of Zobel's art, and within a year or two his paintings were nearly all abstract. During this period he also experimented with photography. Around this time, he was also exposed to Abstract Expressionist artworks, inlcuding works by Jackson Pollock in the collection of his relative Alfonso Ossorio.
Zobel was extremely active in the Manila art scene in the late 1950's. By actively collecting art and setting up exhibitions he played a crucial role in stimulating and promoting modern art in the Philippines. He served as the President of the Philippine art Association, and continued exhibiting his paintings. His lectures at the Ateneo de Manila University, on topics including Chinese Art and Art Appreciation were widely appreciated and attended. He was also active in the management of his family business, Ayala y Compañía from 1955 to 1961.
Although Zobel was a very effective executive, his heart belonged to art, and he was known to rush home from work so he could pick up his brushes. In Manila, he cultivated a serious interest in Chinese and Japanese art, taking classes in calligraphy under Chinese master Ch'en Bing Sun. He also began using a hypodermic syringe to achieve fine effects of line in his abstract meditations on movement, the "Saetas" series. Traveling to Japan and Spain, he broadened his interests, and established close friendships with Spanish modern artists.
His next series, initiated in Madrid in 1959, the "Series Negra" demonstrated his efforts to use the color black to express powerful effects of space and motion. In 1962, he was made honorary Director of the museum of Manila's Universidad del Ateneo, to which he donated his collection of Philippine modern art. After a one-man show at the Luz Gallery in Manila, Zóbel returned to live in Spain permanently. He eventually had nearly identical studios in Madrid, Cuenca and Seville.
In 1966, Zobel displayed his private collection of Spanish modern art, including works by Chillida, Tapies, Saura, Rueda, Torner, Rivera, Millares, and Cuixant as well as his own works at the newly founded "Museum of Abstract Spanish Art" in Cuenca, Spain. He was aided by the artists themselves, especially by Gustavo Torner and Gerardo Rueda, who were the first curators of the collection. They persuaded Cuenca Town Council to give them part of the Hanging Houses, which had recently been restored, to be used as the site for the museum.
In Manila, because of Zóbel's urging and vision, the Ayala Foundation established the Ayala Museum in 1967. This museum, which focuses on Philippine art and culture, moved to a new building in 1974 and continues to thrive.
As an artist, Zóbel worked from the mid-sixties into the seventies developing imagery based on the memory of experience. Among these work are his "Dialogos", which demonstrate his recollections of works by master artists including Degas. Another series, "La Vista", was based on the view from the window of his studio in Cuenca. An avid traveler and museum-goer, Zobel traveled internationally taking in museum collections, and spent many hours in Madrid's Prado.
During the following years he received many honors, and in 1975 Harvard University appointed him a member of the advisory committee for the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts. One-man exhibitions of his work in New York, Madrid and Paris established his reputation as an artist of international significance. He had numerous one-man shows in Spain throughout the 1970's and early 1980's.
After recovering from a stroke suffered in Manila in 1980, Zobel executed works in which drawing increasingly fused with colors applied as glazes. In 1983 a major retrospective of his work was organized by the Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Sevilla.
Fernando Zobel died unexpectedly, of a heart attack, in Rome, in June of 1984. He was posthumously awarded a Gold Medal by the City of Cuenca, Spain where he is buried in the Cemetery of San Isidro.
In 2003 Spain honored his achievements as an artist with a major retrospective held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia.
Individual Exhibitions:
1953: The Philippine Art Gallery, Manila
1954: Twelve Paintings by Fernando Zóbel, Contemporary Arts Gallery, Manila and Swetzoff Gallery, Boston
1955: Friedensohn and Zóbel: Paintings, The Rhode Island School of Design
1956: Fifteen Paintings by Fernando Zóbel, Philippine Art Gallery, Manila
1957: Zóbel, an Exhibition of New Paintings, Philippine Art Gallery, Manila
1958: Zóbel Paintings, Schneidam, sculptures, Philippine Art Gallery, Manila
1959: Zóbel, pinturas y dibujos, Galeria Biosca, Madrid
1961: Galería Nebli, Madrid,
1961: Luz Gallery, Manila
1963: Pinturas de Fernando Zóbel. Circulo de Amistad de Cordoba
1963: Zóbel. Dibujos. Galería Fortuny, Madrid
1965: Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1965: Galería Sur, Santander
1966: Galería Juana Mordo, Madrid
1966: Luz Gallery, Manila
1966: Zóbel, Cuadros, grabados, dibujos, Galeria La Pasarela, Seville
1967: Galería Grises, Bilbao
1967: Casa de Cultura de Cuenca, Cuenca
1968: Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1969: Cuenca y sus ninos (photographs) Casa de Cultura, Cuenca
1970: Dibujos, Galeria Egam, Madrid
1971: Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid
1972: Luz Gallery, Manila
1972: El Jucar: Casa de Cultura de Cuenca, Cuenca
1972: Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Seville
1972: Galería Val i 30, Valencia
1973: Linda Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
1974: La Vista. Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid
1974: Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Seville
1975: Dibujos, Galería Egam, Madrid
1976: Luz Gallery, Manila
1977: Acurelas. Galerie Jacob, Paris
1977: Luz Gallery, Manila
1978: Acuarelas, Galeria Rayuela, Madrid
1978: La Serie Blanca. Galeria Theo, Madrid
1978: Galería Theo, Valencia
1978: Fernando Zóbel. Aquarelles, Galerie Herodiade, St. Etienne
1978: Zóbel/ Obra gráfica. Sala Celini, Madrid
1979: La Serie Blanca. Galería Theo, Barcelona
1980: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Tenerife
1980: Galería 3 i 5, Gerona
1980: Galería Parke-15, Pamploma
1980: Galería Theo, Valencia
1980: Galería Sur, Santander
1981: Galería Jalon, Zaragoza
1981: Galería Citania, Santiago de Compostela
1981: Galería Palace, Granada
1982: Las Orillas, Galería Theo, Madrid
1982: Sala Cellini, Madrid
1982: Galería Theo, Valencia
1982: Galería Juan Gris, Oviedo
1982: Grupo 15, Madrid: A presentation of the book "La cuatro estaciones."
1983: Exhibition Room El Monte, Sevilla
1983: Galería Palace, Granda
1983: Galería Yerba, Murcia
1984: Zóbel, retrospective. Fundación Juan March, Madrid (Note: this exhibition travelled to other cities in Spain until 1986)
1987: Creative Transformations: Drawings and Paintings by Fernando Zóbel. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
1991: Zóbel. El Júcar, La vista, El río. Torre de los Guzmanes, La Algaba, Seville.
1991: Fernando Zóbel. Cuadernos de apuntes y portfolios. Una vision de Cuenca. Exhibition Room of the Old Carmelite Convent, Cuenca
1994: Fernando Zóbel. Rio Júcar. Exhibition Room of the Old Carmelite Convent, Cuenca
1995: Zóbel. Galeria Rayuela, Madrid
1995: Fernando Zóbel. Río Júcar. Museo de Bellas Artes de San Pío V, Valencia
1998: Zóbel. BBK Exhibition Room, Bilbao
1998: Zóbel. Espacio y color, Sala Amos Salvador, Cultural Rioja, Logroño
1999: Zóbel: Obra gráfica. Museo de Arte Abstracto, Español de Cuenca, Cuenca
2003: Zóbel: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
2009: Fernando Zóbel: Viajar, Dibujar, Pintar. Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca
Honors and Awards:
1954: First Prize for his painting "Carroza" Art Association of the Philippines
1966: Awarded membership in the Order of Alfonso X
1966: Awarded membership in the Order of Isabel the Catholic
1972: Named Honorary Citizen of Cuenca
1975: Named member of Advisory Committee for acquisition of rare books and manuscripts, Harvard University.
1983: The Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts, The Spanish Ministry of Culture
1984: The Gold Medal of the City by the Locard Corporation of Cuenca
1984: Awarded Medal of Honor by Universidad Internacional Menéndez y Pelayo in Santander
Selected Museum and Institutional Collections:
The Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California
Ateneo de Manila University Museum, Manila, The Philippines
Ayala Foundation, Inc., Manila, The Philippines
Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain
British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, United Kingdom
Cultural Center of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines
Fogg Art Museum, Havard University, Boston, Massachusetts
Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, The Philippines
New York Public Library, New York
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
"Zóbel" Catalog of the Exhibition, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2003
Articles by Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
1. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando. "Filipino Artistic Expression." Philippine Studies 1, (1953): 125-130.
2. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando. "The Seventh Annual AAP Art Exhibition." Philippine Studies 2, no. 1 (1954): 40-49.
3. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando. "A Calligraphic Duel." Harvard Library Bulletin 9, no. 1, (Winter 1955): 46-60.
4. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando. "The Chapel of the Holy Sacrifice at the University of the Philippines." Philippine Studies 5, no.1 (1957): 1-8.
5. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando. "Philippine Colonial Sculpture." Philippine studies 6, no. 3 (1958): 249-294
6. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando. "Philippine Numismatics [Book Review]." Philippine studies 6, no. 3 (1958): 362-365.
7. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando. "Spanish Philippine Architecture [Book Review]." Philippine studies 8, no. 4 (1960): 656-659.
8. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando. "The First Philippine Porcelain." Philippine studies 9, no. 1 (1961): 17-19.
Books by Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
1. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando.
Manila, 1954.
2. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando.
Philippine Religious Imagery
. Quezon City, Philippines: Ateneo de Manila, 1963.
3. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando.
Cuenca: Sketchbook of a Spanish Hill Town
. New York: Walker, 1970.
4. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando.
Cuaderno de apuntes sobre la pintura y otras cosas: colección de citas.
Madrid: Galería Juana Mordó, 1974.
5. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando.
Mis fotos de Cuenca.
Cuenca: Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, 1975.
6. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando.
El Júcar en Cuenca
. Cuenca, 1982.
7. Zóbel de Ayala, Fernando.
Mis Fotos de Sevilla. Sevilla: Monte De Piedad Y Caja De Ahorros De Sevilla,
Sevilla, 1985.
Biographical information provided by John Seed, Professor of Art at Mt. San Jacinto College. He is writing a book about Fernando Zobel.
Biography from
Tobin Reese Fine Art
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala y Montojo (1924-1984) was a Filipino painter of Basque, Spanish, Danish and German descent. He was a member of the Zóbel de Ayala family, a prominent business family with vast holdings of land and assets including the prominent Ayala Corporation in the Philippines. He is remembered for his mastery of both the real and abstract, and for his friendliness and generosity.
Zóbel was born in Ermita, the civic center of Manila, Philippines. He received his first artistic training from Fernando Cueto Amorsolo, a Filipino artist who was a recipient of Zóbel's family's support. Immediately after beginning a medical degree at the University of Santo Tomas in 1942, he began to suffer from a spinal condition that caused him to be bedridden. He taught himself sketching to pass the time while he recovered from his condition. Although he eventually recovered fully, he never gave up his passion for sketching, even while completing a degree in history and literature at Harvard University.
While in Boston, he encountered artists such as Hyman Bloom, Reed Champion, and James Pfeufer; he used this time in Boston to expand his artistic horizons, dabbling in a variety of techniques. In 1954, he began studying at the Rhode Island School of Design and encountered works by the abstract painter Mark Rothko; this encounter led to a vast change towards the abstract in Zóbel's work. He painted the Saetas, a series of abstract paintings in which he used a hypodermic syringe to create extremely thin lines of color on the canvas; these paintings are perhaps Zóbel's most famous.
Returning to the Philippines in the late 1950s to help run the family business, Zóbel never abandoned his love for art. In 1962, he held his first one-man show in Manila. Never a businessman at heart, he was most jovial when painting, a mood that is reflect in his art. He became known in the Philippines for his generosity and welcoming nature, always available for a friendly chat. When he moved to Cuenca, Spain in the 1960s, he continued his open door policy at his studio, welcoming many new friends into his life. Inspired by his generosity, his family opened the Ayala Museum in Makati City, Philippines, to showcase both Zóbel's artwork and his vast personal collection; today, the museum dedicates itself to showing the talents of Filipino artists past and present.
Zóbel passed away from a heart attack while visiting Rome in 1984. Immediately after, the city of Cuenca posthumously awarded Zóbel a Gold Medal. He also received the Presidential Medal of Merit in 2006.
Ian Martyn for Tobin Reese Fine Art
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((Sunday, April 21, 2013) - With both KV Racing Technology cars poised to finish in the top-ten, Oriol Servia made contact with Tony Kanaan knocking him out of 5th place with only two laps to go. Kanaan was driving a great race in the No. 11 HYDROXYCUT - KV Racing Technology - SH Racing Chevrolet/Firestone car and was poised for his second top-five finish of the season after starting the season with a fourth-place finish in St. Petersburg.
While Kanaan didn't have the result he was looking for, Simona De Silvestro, driver of the No. 78 Nuclear Clean Air Energy car, had a great result moving up ten positions from her starting spot of 19th on the grid to finish in 9th place.
It looked like it was going to be another disappointing day for De Silvestro when she made contact in the opening laps with Sebastian Saavedra damaging her front wing. The crew was able to replace the wing during a pit stop while under yellow flag on lap 4, but the unexpected stop dropped the Swiss driver to 24th. De Silvestro slowly worked her way back through the field and was able to push hard an extra couple of laps past when most of the other competitors made their stops, catching a break when a yellow flag came out again. Her crew performed a great pit stop, getting her back out in 15th and enabling her to get back on the same strategy as the race leaders.
"I think it was a good recovery from where we started," De Silvestro said. "The car was really fast and the guys did a really awesome job in the pits. When we had clean laps we could move forward and made up some positions, so I think P9 is really good for us. Hopefully next time we can start a little more up front and make life a little bit easier. But, I think it was a great weekend for us."
Team manager, Steve Moore, was pleased with the job De Silvestro and her crew did in today's race. "It was a great day for the 78 car," he said. "Simona drove a great race, moving up from P19 to finish inside the top-ten; good result, great drive from her, good result from the team, great pit stops all day, and a good strategy. Ending the race with in the top-ten was a great result."
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Kanaan was obviously disappointed as well with the finish. "We had a good race going," he said, "and I was set for a fifth-place finish until Servia took me out with less than two laps to go. It's really frustrating... I was the leading Chevy car out there and it was looking like a good points race for us. I'm really disappointed on how it turned out."
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Mikis Theodorakis | |
Mikis Theodorakis in 2004 | |
Background information | |
Born | Chios, Greece | 29 July 1925
Genres | 20th century classical Greek music |
Years active | 1943-present |
Labels | Paredon Records Folkways Records |
Website | http://www.mikis-theodorakis.net |
Mikis Theodorakis | |
Mikis Theodorakis in 2004 | |
Background information | |
Born | Chios, Greece | 29 July 1925
Genres | 20th century classical Greek music |
Years active | 1943-present |
Labels | Paredon Records Folkways Records |
Website | http://www.mikis-theodorakis.net |
Michael "Mikis" Theodorakis (Greek: Μιχαήλ (Μίκης) Θεοδωράκης, pronounced [ˈmikis θeoðoˈrakis]; born 29 July 1925) is a Greek songwriter of over 1000 songs and composer.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He scored for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973). He is viewed as Greece's best-known living composer.[6][8][10][11][12][13]
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[14] 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.[15][16] He has consistently opposed oppressive regimes and was a key voice against the Greek junta 1967-1974, which imprisoned him.[17]
Mikis Theodorakis was born on the Greek island of Chios and spent his childhood years in different provincial Greek cities such as Mytilene,[18] Cephallonia,[18] Patras,[19][20] Pyrgos,[21][22] and Tripoli.[22][23] His father, a lawyer and a civil servant, was from the small village of Kato Galatas,[24][25] in Crete and his mother, Aspasia Poulakis, was from an ethnically Greek family in Çeşme, in what is today Turkey.[10][26][27][28][29] He was raised with Greek folk music and was influenced by Byzantine liturgy; as a child he had already talked about becoming a composer.[30][31] Theodorakis's fascination with music began in early childhood; he taught himself to write his first songs without access to musical instruments. In Patras[19] and Pyrgos[21] he took his first music lessons, and in Tripoli, Peloponnese,[23] he gave his first concert at the age of seventeen.
He went to Athens in 1943, and became a member of a Reserve Unit of ELAS, and led a troop in the fight against the British and the Greek right in the Dekemvriana.[32] During the Greek Civil War he was arrested, sent into exile on the island of Icaria[33] and then deported to the island of Makronisos, where he was tortured and twice buried alive.[34]
During the periods when he was not obliged to hide, not exiled or jailed, he studied from 1943 to 1950 at the Athens Conservatoire under Filoktitis Economidis.[35] In 1950, he finished his studies and took his last two exams "with flying colours".[36] He went to Crete, where he became the "head of the Chania Music School" and founded his first orchestra.[37] At this time he ended what he has called the first period of his musical writing.
In 1954 he travelled with his young wife Myrto Altinoglou to Paris where he entered the Conservatory and studied musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen[38] and conducting under Eugene Bigot.[39] His time in Paris, 1954–1959, was his second period of musical writing.
His symphonic works: a Piano concerto, his first suite, his first symphony, and his scores for the ballet: Greek Carnival, Le Feu aux Poudres, Les Amants de Teruel, received international acclaim. In 1957, he won the Gold Medal in the Moscow Music Festival; President of the Jury was Dmitri Shostakovitch. In 1959, after the successful performances of Theodorakis's ballet Antigone at Covent Garden in London, the French composer Darius Milhaud proposed him for the American Copley Music Prize - an award of the "William and Noma Copley Foundation",[40] which later changed its name to "Cassandra Foundation" - as the "Best European Composer of the Year". His first international scores for the film Ill Met by Moonlight and Luna de Miel, directors: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, were also very successful: The Honeymoon title song became part of the repertoire of The Beatles.
In 1960, Theodorakis returned to Greece and his roots in genuine Greek music: With his song cycle Epitaphios he started the third period of his composing and contributed to a cultural revolution in his country.[41] His most significant and influential works are based Greek and world poetry – Epiphania (Giorgos Seferis), Little Kyklades (Odysseas Elytis), Axion Esti (Odysseas Elytis), Mauthausen (Iakovos Kambanellis), Romiossini (Yannis Ritsos), and Romancero Gitano (Federico García Lorca) – he attempted to give back to Greek music a dignity which in his perception it had lost. He developed his concept of "metasymphonic music" (symphonic compositions that go beyond the "classical" status and mix symphonic elements with popular songs, Western symphonic orchestra and Greek popular instruments).
He founded the Little Orchestra of Athens and the Musical Society of Piraeus, gave many, many concerts all around Greece and abroad... and he naturally became involved in the politics of his home country. After the assassination of Gregoris Lambrakis in May 1963 he founded the Lambrakis Democratic Youth ("Lambrakidès") and was elected its president.[42] Under Theodorakis's impetus, it started a vast cultural renaissance movement and became the greatest political organisation in Greece with more than 50.000 members.[43] Following the 1964 elections, Theodorakis became a member of the Greek Parliament, associated with the left-wing party EDA. Because of his political ideas, the composer was black-listed by the cultural establishment; at the time of his biggest artistic glory, a large number of his songs were censored-before-studio or were not allowed on the radio stations.[44]
During 1964, he wrote the music for the Michael Cacoyiannis film Zorba the Greek, whose main theme, since then, exists as a trademark for Greece. It is also known as 'Syrtaki dance'; inspired from old Cretan traditional dances.
On 21 April 1967 a right wing junta (the Regime of the Colonels) took power in a putsch. Theodorakis went underground and founded the "Patriotic Front" (PAM). On 1 June, the Colonels published "Army decree No 13", which banned playing, and even listening to his music. Theodorakis himself was arrested on 21 August,[47] and jailed for five months. Following his release end of January 1968, he was banished in August to Zatouna with his wife Myrto and their two children, Margarita and Yorgos.[48] Later he was interned in the concentration camp of Oropos.[49] An international solidarity movement, headed by such personalities as Dmitri Shostakovich, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Miller, and Harry Belafonte demanded to get Theodorakis freed. On request of the French politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Theodorakis was allowed to go into exile to Paris on 13 April 1970. Theodorakis's flight left very secretly from an Onassis owned private airport outside Athens. Theodorakis arrived at Le Bourget Airport where he met Costa Gavras, Melina Mercouri and Jules Dassin. Theodorakis was immediately hospitalized because he suffered from lung tuberculosis.[50] Myrto Theodorakis, Mikis's wife and two children joined him a week later in France. They arrived from Greece to France via Italy on a boat.[51]
While in exile, Theodorakis fought during four years for the overthrow of the colonels. He started his world tours and gave thousands of concerts on all continents as part of his struggle for the restoration of democracy in Greece.
He met Pablo Neruda and Salvador Allende and promised them to compose his version of Neruda's Canto General. He was received by Gamal Abdel Nasser and Tito, Yigal Allon and Yasser Arafat, while François Mitterrand,[53] Olof Palme and Willy Brandt became his friends. For millions of people, Theodorakis was the symbol of resistance against the Greek dictatorship.[54]
1. Song cycles: 18 lianotragouda tis pikris patridas (18 Short Songs of the Bitter Land, Yiannis Ritsos), Ballades (Manolis Anagnostakis), Tis exorias (Songs of the Exile)
2. Oratorio: Canto General (Pablo Neruda)
3. Film scores: The Trojan Women (M. Cacoyannis); State of Siege (Costa-Gavras); Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
After the fall of the Colonels, Mikis Theodorakis returned to Greece on 24 July 1974 to continue his work and his concert tours, both in Greece and abroad.[55] At the same time he participated in public affairs. In 1978, through his article For a United Left Wing, he had "stirred up the Greek political life. His proposal for the unification of the three parties of the former United Left – which had grown out of the National Liberation Front (N.L.F.) – had been accepted by the Greek Communist Party which later proposed him as the candidate for mayor of Athens during the 1978 elections." (Andreas Brandes)[56] He was later elected several times to the Greek Parliament (1981–1986 and 1989–1993) and for two years, from 1990 to 1992, he was a minister in the government of Constantine Mitsotakis. After his resignation as a member of Greek parliament, he was appointed General Musical Director of the Choir and the two Orchestras of the Hellenic State Radio (ERT), which he reorganised and with which he undertook successful concert tours abroad.[57]
He is committed to heightening international awareness of human rights, of environmental issues, and of the need for peace and for this reason he initiated, together with the Turkish author, musician, singer, and filmmaker Zülfü Livaneli the Greek–Turkish Friendship Society.[58]
From 1981, Theodorakis had started the fourth period of his musical writing, during which he returned to the symphonic music, while still going on to compose song-cycles. His most significant works written in these years are his Second, Third, Fourth and Seventh Symphony, most of them being first performed in the former German Democratic Republic between 1982 and 1989. It was during this period that he received the Lenin Peace Prize. He composed his first opera Kostas Kariotakis (The Metamorphoses of Dionysus) and the ballet Zorba the Greek, premièred in the Arena of Verona during the Festival Verona 1988. During this period, he also wrote the five volumes of his autobiography: The Ways of the Archangel (Οι δρόμοι του αρχάγγελου).
In 1989, he started the fifth period, the last, of his musical writing: He composed three operas (lyric tragedies) Medea, first performed in Bilbao (1 October 1991), Elektra, first performed in Luxembourg (2 May 1995) and Antigone, first performed in Athens' Megaron Moussikis (7 October 1999). This trilogy was complemented by his last opera Lysistrata, first performed in Athens (14 April 2002): a call for peace... With his operas, and with his song cycles from 1974 to 2006, Theodorakis ushered in the period of his Lyrical Life.
For a period of 10 years, Alexia Vassiliou teamed up with Mikis Theodorakis and his Popular Orchestra. During that time, and as a tribute to Theodorakis's body of work, Vassiliou recorded a double album showcasing some of the composer's most consummate musical creations, and in 1998, Sony BMG released the album entitled Alexia–Mikis Theodorakis.
Theodorakis is Doctor honoris causa of several universities, including Montreal, Thessaloniki, and Crete.
Now he lives in retirement, reading, writing, publishing arrangements of his scores, texts about culture and politics. On occasions he still takes position: in 1999, opposing NATO's Kosovo war and in 2003 against the Iraq War. In 2005, he was awarded the Sorano Friendship and Peace Award, the Russian International St.-Andrew-the-First-Called Prize, the insignia of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Luxembourg, and the IMC UNESCO International Music Prize, while already in 2002 he was honoured in Bonn with the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Prize for film music at the International Film Music Biennial in Bonn[59] (cf also: Homepage of the Art and Exhibition Hall Bonn).[60] In 2007, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the distribution of the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent.[61]
A final set of songs entitled: Odysseia was composed by utilizing poetry written by Costas Kartelias for lyrics. In 2009 he composed a Rhapsody for Strings (Mezzo-Soprano or Baryton ad lib.)Created on 30 January 2013, Theodorakis achieved the distinction of producing one of the largest works by any composer of any time.[62]
Theodorakis has spoken out against the Iraq war and Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank has condemned Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou for establishing closer relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was guilty, he said, of "war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza."[63]
Theodorakis like many Greeks greatly supported Serbia during the Yugoslav wars, in support of the Serbs he participated in a charity concert protesting the NATO bombings of Serbia in 1999.[64]
During the invasion of Iraq, Theodorakis called Americans "detestable, ruthless cowards and murderers of the people of the world." He said he would consider anyone who interacted with "these barbarians" as his enemy.[65]
On 1 December 2010 Mikis Theodorakis founded "Spitha: People's Independent Movement", a non-political movement which calls people to gather and express their political ideas. The main goal of "Spitha" is to help Greece stay clear of its economic crisis.[66] On 31 May Mikis Theodorakis gave a speech attended by appropximately 10,000 Greeks in the center of Athens, criticising the Greek government for the loan debt it has taken from the International Monetary Fund.[67] It was also the first time in many decades that he called for revolution.[citation needed]
Theodorakis has written more than 1,000 songs and song-cycles, whose melodies have become part of the heritage of Greek music: Sto Perigiali, Kaimos, Aprilis, Doxa to Theo, Sotiris Petroulas, Lipotaktes, Stis Nichtas to Balkoni, Agapi mou, Pou petaxe t'agori mou, Anixe ligo to parathiro, O Ipnos se tilixe, To gelasto pedi, Dendro to dendro, Asma Asmaton, O Andonis...
His song cycles are based on poems by Greek authors, as well as by Lorca and Neruda: Epitaphios, Archipelagos, Politia A-D, Epiphania, The Hostage, Mykres Kyklades, Mauthausen, Romiossini, Sun and Time, Songs for Andreas, Mythology, Night of Death, Ta Lyrika, The Quarters of the World, Dionysos, Phaedra, Mia Thalassa, Os Archaios Anemos, Ta Lyrikotera, Ta Lyrikotata, Erimia, Odysseia. Theodorakis released two albums of his songs and song cycles on Paredon Records and Folkways Records in the early seventies, including his Peoples' Music: The Struggles of the Greek People (1974).[68]
Reference: Guy Wagner. Chairman of the International Theodorakis Foundation FILIKI. List of works based on the research of Asteris Koutoulas, published in O Mousikos Theodorakis.
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Philip or Augustin?
So I have a son Leo and I love both of these names. If we were to have another boy which name do you like best? Augustin would go by Gus most of the time. We aren't 100 percent decided on middle names but we really like these two combos:
1) Philip Edward
2) Augustin Theodore
Now don't vote on which middle name you like best because they aren't set in stone. Just tell me which first name you like best with Leo and sister Caroline (if we have a girl this will most likely be her name)
Thanks~Beautiful son Leo Alexander born 2012~
Girls: Evangeline~Penelope~Emmeline~Margot~Caroline~Augus ta
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Sep 11th, 2006, 10:15 PM
Come on Lindsay, wins your first single and double titles of the year! :)
Sep 12th, 2006, 12:37 AM
Sep 12th, 2006, 06:14 AM
Go Lindsay
Sep 12th, 2006, 06:50 AM
Davenport glad to be back in Bali
Bruce Emond, The Jakarta Post, Nusa Dua, Bali
Lindsay Davenport is in a very different place today from this time last year.
Then, she was coming off a strong summer, despite having lost an achingly close Wimbledon final to Venus Williams. She went on to take the Wismilak International title here, a tournament experience she called the best of her career.
Now, the 30-year-old Californian is on the comeback trail. The former world number one is only seeded three, her ranking falling to 12th after injury and a freak accident -- she blacked out and hit her head at home -- limited her to 13 tournaments this season.
Although she says she is happy to be back playing again, she is still smarting from a dispute with the WTA Tour administration. She talked at length in an Aug. 22 New York Times article about the row over special wildcard exemptions, but said she would not sue, because "it's just not my style".
Speaking to The Jakarta Post on Monday at the tournament's opening, Davenport said it might take court proceedings to settle the matter.
She gave up US$500,000 in bonus money in order not to have to commit a year ahead to 2006's demanding schedule. But she believed she had clarified with WTA Tour CEO Larry Scott that she would be able to receive wildcards for direct entry to tournaments; he was not forthcoming when she did came back from injury in August.
"It's a very long and complicated story," she told the Post. "It's unfortunate. It's about a lot of rules, and about discussions I had with the CEO, and the agreements that I thought we had and he did not follow through with."
Pointedly, Davenport never refers to Scott, a former men's player and ATP Tour executive, by name. She stressed she was not asking for special treatment.
"It was a rule I felt I was eligible for. He then chose not to give it to me. As for his reasons, I will never know. I didn't want any special favors, I was adamant that I don't believe in that anyway...
"And I think now it will probably be a matter for a court of law to decide."
Scott could not be reached for comment Monday; he told the Times that while he felt bad about Davenport's reaction, "... I'm sending a signal that we have to toughen up our entry and commitment rules".
During her time away, Davenport enjoyed a rare period of domesticity with her husband of three years, Jon Leach. She did not watch any women's tennis: "It's hard to watch a tournament that you are not part of..."
With 51 titles, including three grand slams, and more than $22 million in prize money in her 13-year professional career, Davenport could have easily settled into a quiet retirement. Instead, she found she missed competing, and even the tough practice required to return. "I've come back to enjoy it," she said.
Although Davenport is in Bali along with top seed and world number seven Svetlana Kuznetsova, the event, as with so many tournaments recently, has been hit by withdrawals.
She attributes the problem to the packed tournament calendar, with little letup for players to recuperate from the grind.
"The people who are running our sport could do a much better job of putting together a calendar that makes more sense, for players, for fans... Sooner or later, they will listen to us."
But she is not quite ready to say good-bye, despite speculation since her 2004 Wimbledon semifinal loss to Maria Sharapova.
"It's a week by week, month by month decision," she said. "Part of the dispute with the Tour is that they wanted me to enter tournaments eight months in advance, and at my age and with my health, that's not possible."
As for her legacy to the game, she is magnanimous.
"... I'm not the greatest player who ever played. But I feel that I've done things a bit differently... I've shown that you can act with a certain level of class and respect for other players."
Sep 12th, 2006, 07:06 PM
Good Luck Lindsay! :bounce:
Sep 12th, 2006, 07:34 PM
Good luck Lindsay. win this crap - I'm begging you seriously!.
Sep 12th, 2006, 09:44 PM
Let's go Lindsay! Defend you shit!
Congrats on match 1.
Title 52 awaits my dear. :worship:
Sep 12th, 2006, 10:00 PM
Good Luck against Morigami!!!
Sep 13th, 2006, 04:03 PM
Lindsay had shown a high level tennis when playing Galina Voskoboeva. She came out strong and victorious. Tomorrow she'll do even better! At the end of the day, she'll take her 52nd title here in the Island of Gods.
God bless you, Lindsay! :angel:
Sep 13th, 2006, 04:03 PM
Go for the title Lindsay:yeah:
The Daviator
Sep 13th, 2006, 04:43 PM
Title #52, bring it home Linds :bounce:
Sep 13th, 2006, 06:54 PM
Lindsay and Corina won their match today, beating Dellacqua/Rao 6-3 6-1.
Sep 14th, 2006, 02:10 PM
Lindsay's results seem to indicate she's playing well... I'm sure she can do the double in Bali, something she hasn't done since 2001! (in Zurich, the doubles title won with Raymond)
She achieved at least one "tournament double" every year between 1995 and 2001, but since then (due to injury and more) hasn't played as much doubles. My only concern is that she'll overdo it, so quick straight-sets wins are a must.
Here are a list of all Lindsay's "tournament doubles" -
'95 Strasbourg (w/M.J. Fernandez)
'96 Los Angeles (w/Zvereva)
'97 Amelia Island (w/Novotna), Indian Wells (w/Zvereva)
'98 Stanford, San Diego (both w/Zvereva)
'99 Wimbledon, Stanford, Tokyo [Pan Pacific] (all w/Zvereva)
'00 Indian Wells (w/Morariu)
'01 Filderstadt, Zurich (both w/Raymond)
Sep 14th, 2006, 06:59 PM
Lindsay beat Akiko Morigami 6-2 6-3 today to reach the quarter-finals in Bali :D
Sep 14th, 2006, 08:08 PM
Good luck Lindsay!
Sep 14th, 2006, 09:59 PM
She plays 2 matchs tomorrow. the first one is in single and the second in double with Corina. :)
Sep 15th, 2006, 07:04 PM
Good win for Lindsay today. I'm hoping her good form continues in the semi finals against Svetlana http://smilies.vidahost.com/otn/blobs/boldred.gif
Sep 15th, 2006, 10:43 PM
Yay Lindsay is in the semi in single and double!
Sep 15th, 2006, 10:57 PM
C'mon, Lindsay!! Bring home both titles!:bounce:
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Full-length trailer for Declan Lowney's Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
StudioCanal, via MSN, has released the first full-length trailer for the long awaited Alan Partridge movie, titled Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.
The film "portrays the events of the greatest low-to-high-ebb spectrum in his life to date – specifically how he tries to salvage his public career while negotiating a potentially violent turn of events at North Norfolk Digital Radio".
Steve Coogan is in the title role, with a host of British and Irish comedy talent that includes Felicity Montagu, Tim Key, Simon Greenall, Phil Cornwell, Nigel Lindsay, Darren Boyd, Colm Meaney, Anna Maxwell Martin, Monica Dolan, Sean Pertwee, and Dustin Demri-Burns, all featuring.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa will be released in Ireland on August 7th.
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