Mikis Theodorakis in East Berlin 1987: 26 Strosse to Stroma sou- Zorba

Strosse to Stroma sou yia dio (prepare your bed for two) from the cycle Gitonia ton Angelon lyrics by Iakovos Kambanellis. The intro to the sung was the inspiration for the famous theme from Zorba the Greek which leads up to the Kritikos Choros (Cretan Dance) which concludes the piece. Bouzouki solo by Kostas Papadopoulos who together with Lakis Karnezis also plays on the original recording Not long before the fall of the Berlin Wall Theodorakis gave an open-air concert on the Rosa Luxemburgplatz in the East German part of the city. This vcr recording was made in West Berlin and is in black and white due to the difference in tv systems between the two germanies (or so I have been told) An historic piece of "Ostalgie"