Choral Choir,Choral (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1343510 Composed by Greek folk song. Arranged by Marilena Zlatanou. Traditional. 12 pages. Marilena Zlatanou #929039. Published by Marilena Zlatanou (A0.1343510). GREEK FOLK SONG: EHIE YIA PANAYIA Traditional from Constantinople, arranged for SATB choir and pianoA lively and optimistic song, in spite of its being a final farewell with a city inhabited by Greek populations since early antiquity: One and a half million people had to leave Asia Minor or die in impending massacres in 1922, a historical event referred to in Greek as “Mikrasiatiki Katastrofi =the Asia Minor Catastropheâ€.duration: 2'45'' Phonetic transcription in the Latin alphabet is notated right below the original Greek text, English translation, and a key to Greek Pronunciation are provided on the title page. The mp3 file provided is exported from the sibelius file.For more information on the arranger, (member of TONO, the Norwegian copyright org.), please visit website www.zlatanou.netAs a Greek living in Norway for most of my adult life, and in my many years’ work as a conductor of a Norwegian choir specializing in Greek music (!), I have experienced the need to enrich the choir’s repertoire with both folk song- as well as other -arrangements of Greek music: This gave me the opportunity to share with our audiences some of the centuries-long musical heritage, as well as helping me make known to them some of the History behind the music of a country of such international historical influence in the past, and such a tourist magnet in our times.
