![]() With success, he said, “you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.” Vangelis was wary of how record companies handled commercial success. He refused many other offers for film scores, saying in an interview: “Half of the films I see don’t need music. Vangelis later wrote music scores for Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” (1982) and “1492: Conquest of Paradise” (1992), as well as for “Missing” (1982) and “Antarctica” (1983), among others. ![]() The signature piece is one of the hardest-to-forget movie tunes worldwide - and has also served as the musical background to endless slow-motion parodies. Vangelis’ score won one of the four Academy Awards the film captured, including best picture. In 1974, he moved to London, built his own studio and cooperated with Yes frontman Jon Anderson, with whom he recorded as Jon and Vangelis and had several major hits.īut his huge breakthrough came with the score for “Chariots of Fire” that told the true story of two British runners competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Based in Paris, the progressive rock group produced several European hits, and their final record “666,” released in 1972, is still highly acclaimed.Īphrodite’s Child also broke up, and Vangelis pursued solo projects. After it disbanded, he wrote scores for several Greek films and later became a founding member - together with another later-to-be internationally famous Greek musician, Demis Roussos - of Aphrodite’s Child. “You can’t teach creation.”Īt 20, Vangelis and three friends formed the Forminx band in Athens, which did very well in Greece. ![]() “Orchestration, composition - they teach these things in music schools, but there are some things you can never teach,” he said in a 1982 interview. Still, a micro-planet spinning somewhere between Mars and Jupiter - 6354 Vangelis - will forever bear his name.īorn on Manear the city of Volos in central Greece, Vangelis started playing the piano at age 4, although he got no formal training and claimed he never learned to read notes. He was fascinated by space exploration and wrote music for celestial bodies, but said he never sought stardom himself. A private, humorous man - burly, with shoulder-length hair and a trim beard - he quoted ancient Greek philosophy and saw the artist as a conduit for a basic universal force. He evolved into a one-man quasi-classical orchestra, using a vast array of electronic equipment to conjure up his enormously popular undulating waves of sound. The festival also catered to Christmas shopping needs with Greek inspired clothes, shoes, accessories and homewares, jewellery, candles, succulents, preserved flowers, donkey milk skincare, icons, books, clothes for children and adults, food pantry items including tea varieties and pasta, tea towels and more.The 1981 British film made Vangelis, but his initial encounter with success came with his first Greek pop band in the 1960s. In addition to the fun and delicacies, the event included activities for children and teenagers, competitions, market stalls, prizes and the chance to meet Mitsos the Greek Street Fair Donkey. ![]() ![]() Pontoxeniteas NSW also performed while the school’s teachers, Alexandra and Kosta Papoulidis played the lyra live.Īside from dance performances Greek Street Fair Burwood offered attendees live Greek music, Greek soulvaki, loukoumades and mezethes with the famous Greek hospitality taking centre stage. All photos: The Kalymnian Association of NSW Dancers also took to the stage with their traditional Kalymnian dances and costumes as well as popular group Sydney Sizmos that have taken to the festival stage every year since the beginning. ![]()
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