This blog is about the entrants in the year 1960, to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ceylon, Colombo. The email address for communications is, 1960batch@gmail.com. Please BOOKMARK this page for easier access later.Photo is the entrance porch of the old General Hospital, Colombo, still in existence. Please use the search box below to look for your requirement.
Friday, May 1, 2015
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Zorba the Greek, Sirtaki.
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Andre Rieu & Trio St Petersburg - Zorba's Dance (Sirtaki)
Zorba - Sirtaki Originale
Zorba the Greek - Zorbas Dance (Anthony Quinn)
Zorba The Greek Dance
Andre Rieu & Sirtaki Zorba Dance in Royal Albert Hall
Zorba (Syrtaki) - Jakub Zajaczkowski
Zorba the Greek (film)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zorba the Greek (Greek title: Αλέξης
Ζορμπάς, Alexis
Zorba(s)) is a 1964 British-Greek drama film directed by Cypriot Michael Cacoyannis and starring Anthony Quinn as the title character. It is based on the novel Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. The supporting cast
includes Alan Bates, Lila Kedrova, Irene Papas and Sotiris Moustakas.
Traveling to inspect an
abandoned mine his father owns in Crete, English author Basil (Alan Bates) meets
the exuberant peasant Zorba (Anthony Quinn) and invites him along when the
older man claims he has mining experience. In Basil's father's old village, he
finds himself attracted to a young widow …
Sirtaki or syrtaki[1] (Greek: συρτάκι) is a popular[2][3] dance of Greek origin,
choreographed by Giorgos Provias for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek.[4] It is not a traditional Greek folkdance, but a mixture of the slow and
fast versions of the hasapiko dance. The dance, and the accompanying
music by Míkis Theodorakis, are also called Zorbá's dance, Zorbas, or "the dance of
Zorba".
The name sirtáki comes from the Greek word: syrtos (from
σύρω (τον χορό) which means "drag (the dance)"), a common name for a
group of traditional Cretan dances
of so-called "dragging" style, as opposed to pidikhtos (πηδηχτός), a hopping or leaping style.
Despite that, sirtaki incorporates both syrtos (in its slower part) and
pidikhtós (in its faster part) elements.
Zorba's dance
Over there is Zorba, in his
country
Jumping, he dances the Sirtaki
Joy leads his steps again
Come, he's reaching out to us
Jumping, he dances the Sirtaki
Joy leads his steps again
Come, he's reaching out to us
And if you want to be covered in
roses
All that you see is in gray
If you're really depressed,
Come dance the Sirtaki
All that you see is in gray
If you're really depressed,
Come dance the Sirtaki
If you want your worries and
concerns to disappear
If you're looking for your youth again
Come dance with Zorba
Come dance to forget.
That day will dawn
If you're looking for your youth again
Come dance with Zorba
Come dance to forget.
That day will dawn
The east wind
Comes to bring
Notes which float
In the summer sky
I already feel that tune
That will lift our steps
Comes to bring
Notes which float
In the summer sky
I already feel that tune
That will lift our steps
Over there, the night has already
descended,
The days are shorter
For the lovers
The summer will leave us soon
We must take advantage of that.
The days are shorter
For the lovers
The summer will leave us soon
We must take advantage of that.
If you're the one who steals
The times and moments forgotten
Who mistrusts words
Come dance the Sirtaki
The times and moments forgotten
Who mistrusts words
Come dance the Sirtaki
If you're the one who thinks
During these struggles,
That the boat is rocking
Come dance with Zorba
During these struggles,
That the boat is rocking
Come dance with Zorba
If you're the one who feels empty
That happiness is bound to
Making fun of the many wrinkles,
Come dance the Sirtaki
That happiness is bound to
Making fun of the many wrinkles,
Come dance the Sirtaki
If you're the one who has been
worn out
Be proud that you have a beating heart
Looking at a rose,
Come dance with Zorba
Be proud that you have a beating heart
Looking at a rose,
Come dance with Zorba
Come dance with Zorba
Come dance with Zorba
Come dance with Zorba
A film shown in the 1960s and very popular among medical students in Colombo, Ceylon.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Streets Of London, Song by Ralph McTell.
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Streets of London (song)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other
uses, see Streets
of London (disambiguation).
"Streets of
London" is a song written by Ralph McTell. It was first recorded for McTell's 1969
album Spiral
Staircase but was
not released in the United Kingdom as a single until 1974.
The song was inspired
by McTell's experiences busking and hitchhiking throughout Europe,
especially in Paris and the individual stories are taken
from Parisians – McTell was originally going to call the song Streets of Paris;[1] eventually
London was chosen because he realised he was singing about London.[2] The song
contrasts the common problems of everyday people with those of the homeless,
lonely, elderly, ignored and forgotten members of society.
Lyrics
Have you
seen the old man
In the closed-down market
Kicking up the paper,
with his worn out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride
Hand held loosely at his side
Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news
In the closed-down market
Kicking up the paper,
with his worn out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride
Hand held loosely at his side
Yesterday's paper telling yesterday's news
Chorus
So how can you tell me you're lonely,
And say for you that the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
Show you something to make you change your mind
So how can you tell me you're lonely,
And say for you that the sun don't shine?
Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London
Show you something to make you change your mind
Have you
seen the old girl
Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking,
She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags.
Who walks the streets of London
Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking,
She just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home in two carrier bags.
Chorus
In the
all night cafe
At a quarter past eleven,
Same old man sitting there on his own
Looking at the world
Over the rim of his teacup,
Each tea lasts an hour
And he wanders home alone
At a quarter past eleven,
Same old man sitting there on his own
Looking at the world
Over the rim of his teacup,
Each tea lasts an hour
And he wanders home alone
Chorus
Have you
seen the old man
Outside the Seaman's Mission
Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears
In our winter city,
The rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world that doesn't care
Outside the Seaman's Mission
Memory fading with the medal ribbons that he wears
In our winter city,
The rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world that doesn't care
Chorus
Songwriters
RALPH MC TELL
RALPH MC TELL
Published by
Lyrics © T.R.O. INC.
Lyrics © T.R.O. INC.
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