Fivos walks around L'Escala

Poem: NIKOS GKATSOS
Composer: MANOS HATZIDAKIS
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Έμπαινες κι έλαμπε το σπίτι
σαν το τριφύλλι τ’ ανοιχτό
κι είχες το φως τ’ Αποσπερίτη
στα δυο σου μάτια φυλαχτό

Άφηνες πάνω στο τραπέζι
γάλα και μέλι και ψωμί
κι έβλεπα τ’ όνειρο να παίζει
στο πελαγίσιο σου κορμί

Σ’ ευχαριστώ, σ’ ευχαριστώ
ήσουν παιδί σαν τον Χριστό

Κύμα και βότσαλο κι αλμύρα
και καλοκαίρι μου ζεστό
ούτε ένα δάκρυ σου δεν πήρα
στην παγωνιά για να λουστώ

Σ’ ευχαριστώ, σ’ ευχαριστώ
ήσουν παιδί σαν τον Χριστό
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You would walk-in and the house would lit-up
like an opened-up clover
and you kept the light of Resper
in your eyes, as a charm

You were placing upon the table
milk and honey and bread
and I watched the dream play
on your body of open-sea

I thank you, I thank you
you were a child like Christ

Wave and peble and saltiness
and warm summer of mine
didn't take even a tear-drop of yours
so that I may bathe in the bitter cold

I thank you, I thank you
you were a child like Christ
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Entravi e la casa si riempiva di luce
come il trifoglio quando si schiude
e avevi la luce della stella Venere
come un amuleto nei tuoi due occhi

Posavi sopra il tavolo
latte e miele e pane
e io vedevo giocare il sogno
sul tuo corpo oceanino

Oh grazie, oh grazie,
eri un ragazzo uguale a Cristo

Onda e ciottolo e salsedine
e mia calda estate
neppure una lacrima ti ho preso
per lavarmi nel gran gelo

Oh grazie, oh grazie,
eri un ragazzo uguale a Cristo
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Je kwam binnen en het huis schitterde
als het klavertje dat opengaat
en je had het licht van de Avondster
in je twee ogen, als een talisman

Op de tafel liet je
melk, honing en brood achter
en ik zag de droom spelen
in/op je wijdezee-lichaam

Dank je, dank je,
je was een kind als Christus

Een golf, een keitje en ziltigheid
en mijn warme zomer
niet één traan nam ik van je
om me in de bittere kou te wassen

Dank je, dank je,
je was een kind als Christus
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Tú entrabas y la casa se iluminaba
como el trébol abierto
y tenías la luz del Héspero
en tus dos ojos como un talismán

Dejabas sobre la mesa
leche y miel y pan
y veía el sueño jugar
en tu cuerpo oceánico

Te agradezco, te agradezco
tú eres un niño como Jesús

Ola y guijarro y salinidad
y mi verano caliente
no tenía ni una lágrima tuya
para lavar mi pelo en el frío

Te agradezco, te agradezco
tú eres un niño como Jesús

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Ήσουν παιδί σαν το Χριστό (You were child like Christ) - Piano Solo

poet: Rudyard Kipling
If...
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
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Se...
Se saprai mantenere la testa quando tutti intorno a te
la perdono, e te ne fanno colpa.
Se saprai avere fiducia in te stesso quando tutti ne dubitano,
tenendo pero' considerazione anche del loro dubbio.
Se saprai aspettare senza stancarti di aspettare,
O essendo calunniato, non rispondere con calunnia,
O essendo odiato, non dare spazio all'odio,
Senza tuttavia sembrare troppo buono, né parlare troppo saggio;

Se saprai sognare, senza fare del sogno il tuo padrone;
Se saprai pensare, senza fare del pensiero il tuo scopo,
Se saprai confrontarti con Trionfo e Rovina
E trattare allo stesso modo questi due impostori.
Se riuscirai a sopportare di sentire le verità che hai detto
Distorte dai furfanti per abbindolare gli sciocchi,
O a guardare le cose per le quali hai dato la vita, distrutte,
E piegarti a ricostruirle con i tuoi logori arnesi.

Se saprai fare un solo mucchio di tutte le tue fortune
E rischiarlo in un unico lancio a testa e croce,
E perdere, e ricominciare di nuovo dal principio
senza mai far parola della tua perdita.
Se saprai serrare il tuo cuore, tendini e nervi
nel servire il tuo scopo quando sono da tempo sfiniti,
E a tenere duro quando in te non c'è più nulla
Se non la Volontà che dice loro: "Tenete duro!"

Se saprai parlare alle folle senza perdere la tua virtu',
O passeggiare con i Re, rimanendo te stesso,
Se né i nemici né gli amici piu' cari potranno ferirti,
Se per te ogni persona contera', ma nessuno troppo.
Se saprai riempire ogni inesorabile minuto
Dando valore ad ognuno dei sessanta secondi,
Tua sara' la Terra e tutto ciò che è in essa,
E — quel che più conta — sarai un Uomo, figlio mio!

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Today is my birthday. 
I'm glad to celebrated it with my new SoundCloud friends.
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11 June 2013.
Someone, in a very tender email, written to me that this is a sad piece. 
No. It's simply introspective. 
Maybe my mediterranean soul. 
Look the image and think a man that sitting on top of the hill, looks the sea and remembers how has lived his past year, plans the new one. 
All that, with serenity. 

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A tune composed from Mikis Theodorakis, a great Greek composer, that accompanied me, in life.
From the film "State of Siege" by Costa Gavras with Yves Montand.

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14 June 2013
I 've composed that piece yesterday night, when i was thinking about what is happening in europe.
Someone has just listened and told me that is was plenty of joy and melancholy, calm and anger, lightness and gravity.
It is true. Is what i feel when i see what we are doing to the wonderful dream called Europe United.


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A Greek in Paris

10 days ago i've composed "Conversing with my Daughter (in my mind, on my own) - Piano Solo".
I delivered a problem in the family :-)
So here is my piece for Aris - Άρης ( https://soundcloud.com/aris-valachis ) "Conversing with my Son (in my mind, on my own) - Piano Solo".
p.s. luckily, I have only two children.

Conversing with my Son (in my mind, on my own) - Piano Solo

18-06-2013. 
one month active life in souncloud. 
I met some great people. 
dedicated to Pamela Chng.
http://soundcloud.com/pamela-chng

Dedicated to Pamela Chng, Nocturne 18 June - Piano Solo

This piece was composed as I was remembering some mine private moments.
27-06-2013, 13:30
I read the comment of Domiprim. 
This month we talked, more times, in private message mode.
I've appreciated his musical and social sensitivity. 
I'm happy dedicate it to him.
https://soundcloud.com/domiprim

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29/06/2013 has died Margherita Hack.
She has been a great scientist. At the same time she's maintained hers humanity.
Astrophysicist who explained her research on the stars in plain language for the public and who championed civil rights in her native Italy.
Homage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margherita_Hack

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Homage to Margherita Hack (1922-2013) - Piano Solo

Composer: George Gershwin

"Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summertime_(song)

Summertime (Composer: George Gershwin) - Piano Solo

Sometimes there are people who see things from a different angle.
A point of view not shared, uncommon, not ordinary.
Sometimes we call them geniuses, sometimes we call them fools.
If you are one of these, is dedicated to you.


Nocturne, 04 July - For those who have an Uncommon Point of View - Piano Solo

Summertime, Sounds From The Cloud,4 July 2013,Redruth Radio.

Composer: George Gershwin

"Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summertime_(song)

The trasmissions of Redruth Radio, you can find them at http://www.mixcloud.com/tag/nick-thomas/