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Odysseas Elytis
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November 1960
Dear Mikis,
This is the first time in my life that I have received an envelope with music. I was touched. The only problem was that I didn't know how to read them. Finally, I got a young music student to sing them to me and play them on the piano with one finger. Impressions: if you hadn't told me that it was only a first draft rather than the songs themselves, I would have found the melodies too simple in comparison with the text. Now, I approve and applaud them and am very impatient to hear the whole final version. How can it be done ? What do you think ? I an illiterate in music, as you know and would like you to show me the way. I imagine them in a radioproduction of The Axion Esti as choruses sung between recitations of the text. I wouldn't want us to neglect the other project - which doesn't mean that we have to hurry. As long as you keep it in mind, I know something will come of it. I trust you.
I dug up between Syros and Tzia and am sending it to you as a salutation from Greece. It needs a few corrections, which I will do later - if it inspires you.
For the time being, that won 't be a problem for you because the rhythm doesn't change. Now that I took another look at it, I enjoyed it - and I am not excluding the possibility, of writing the words for existing melodies. You could send me the rhythms in the usual way. Of course, I can 't promise anything for sure.
We are at the mercy of our moods. Nowadays they change very quickly.
Looking forward to an answer, directions and future plans.
With all my love
Odysseas Elytis
See: Axion Esti
See: Cyclades Minor
Read: Biography of Odysseas Elytis
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