Twenty-five songs representative of Vassilis Tsitsani's various styles and sources of inspiration will be presented in his own orchestrations by Stavros Xarchakos at the Herodeion, in the concert that will be given under his direction by the State Orchestra of Hellenic Music (KOEM). This year's program of the KOEM concerts is entitled "Magic nights" and consolidates the declared love of Xarhakos for the work of Vassilis Tsitsanis that stopped 15 years ago. In this new program the performers of the songs are Manolis Mitsias, Eleni Dimou, Maria Soultatou and Stelios Dionysiou. Songs from 1938 to 1954. Among them great hits of the time, songs of separation, alienation, satire, social, love. Tsitsanis, one of the last composers of rebetiko, represents with his songs a great shift of the genre from its original marginal nature to a more social form of wider acceptance. His own rebetikas correspond to a taste of urban society, with the prime example being "Archontissa" of '38, a slow butcher's song in the style of a folk song. He wrote it when he was doing his military service and it was first sung on a record, in the same year, by Stratos Payoumtzis and Stellakis Perpiniadis. The songs that will be heard, having previously toured Greece, in addition to "Arkhontissa", are: "Argosvineis sana", a bolero from '49, "Varka yalo" ('42), a Serbian folk song of the Occupation that " "passed" through Tsitsani's filter, "To make you a man" ('54), Zeibeki social content, "Gul Bahar" ('50), an oriental song that went along with the escapist trend of the time, "Glykocharasou ta monnen" ('52), a zeibeki sung by Stratos Payoumtzis and the composer, "I pay for the eyes that I love" ('43) , big hit of the time, carnage Serbian party song, "Your heart will become gold" ('50), carnage first sung by Ninou, Tsitsanis and Tsoussakis, "Kane ligaki homooni" ('49), a break-up song with Sotiria Bellou and the composer. Among the songs that Tsitsanis wrote about the Civil War, with allegorical words about the fear of censorship, "Some mother sighs" ('47), a zeibekiko that Tsitsanis wrote as he himself has said with the division of the Civil War in mind, " I blame society" ('49), also a zeibeki of social concern, "The Miracles" ('38), heavy zeibeki, male, sung by Stratos Payoumtzis, "Baxe tsifliki" ('41), a big hit in the entertainment centers, "They might have planned it" ('48), bolero of the foreign country, "The factories" ('51) , zeibeki written for the working woman, "Repair my jacket" ('48), zeibeki which describes the way of life of the rebetites, "San apokrilos girizo" ('50), a foreigner's song among the most beautiful of the genre, "I've passed you by" ('48), a hasa-Serbian love story, "Lay me down to sleep" (' 50), zeibeki romance, "Cloudy Sunday" ('43), late zeibeki written in the period of Occupation, for many the most important song of the century that is ending, "Ta kavourakia" ('49), mock zeibeki in fast rhythms, "Ta perix" ('42), a zeibeki written in Thessaloniki, "Tis pakfutas ta kerelia" (' 52), zeibeki of social content, "What today, what tomorrow, what now" ('52), great success, one of the most beautiful songs separation, "Horisame a delino" ('43), a zeibeki song that became the favorite song of the exiles in Makronissos. -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Subscribe to our channel : / @musicvaultgr Follow us on Facebook : / musicvault.gr Follow us on Instagram : / 3tragoudia ---------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The video is uploaded to YouTube as a material file and in no way to make a profit from it.