Talk:Manos Hatzidakis

Έλεος ρε σεις...
We only got one or two people in Greece who can be characterised as Master composers and Hadjidakis is one of them... It's "Music scores", not "Filmography"... Jeesh! I fully expect fire to be cast down from heavens, now that i'm gonna go out for a bottle of coke and some chow in the souvlaki-place next door... (And it's gonna be all your fault!) :) -- Project2501a 21:30, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)


 * Not just one or two... Don't forget Skalkottas and Samaras. Elp gr 22:27, 20 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Actually we have only one major composer, at least recognised worldwide and this composer is Xenakis. Neither hadjidakis , theodorakis , skalkotas and samaras fit the bil.


 * Actually, this is not true. Greek composers are well known, mostly from their work in film soundtracks. Hadjidakis won an Academy Award for his score of Never on Sunday;  Vangelis Papathanassiou for Chariots of Fire (it's his memorable work in  Blade Runner too); Theodorakis had a hit with his score for Z and he can be safely credited with introducing Greek bouzouki music and the syrtaki dance to the world, through his work in the hit film Zorba the Greek -- he also wrote the score for many English, Italian and French films of note. Skalkotas, Xenakis and Samaras are indeed known but, arguably, mostly to aficionados of classical or 20th century avant-garde music. (In which field, let's not forget the early fallen giant Yannis Christou.)  The Gnome 04:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

What is the problem with this Pinikas guy, who continuously erases the caterorisation of Hadjidakis as "gay musician"? It is widely known that Hadjidakis was openly gay, some of his closest friends and associates have said it( Theodorakis, Gatsos, Serafeim Fydanidis, Michael Kamen and others) and NOONE of his associates has said the opposite.

I think to refer to him as a "gay musician" is anywhere between misleading, wrong and sexist. He was a musician who happened to be gay, not a "gay musician", as if this can be another kind of musician. Since his personal life, at the level of an encyclopedia article, is not relevant to his artistic merit, there is no reason to mention it here, let alone to stress it. If and when there is a deeper analysis of his work, that may refer to what inspired or motivated him, this may be relevant to mention. But, in all fairness, we would not expect to see an article on Theodorakis, referring to him as a "straight musician", or making much use of his sexuality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.66.200.1 (talk) 18:43, 25 March 2016 (UTC)

Took out the "He was much better than Miki Theodorakis" sentence. It was subjective, opinionated and greatly lowered the quality of the page. --Xenophonos 21:33, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Transliteration
Here it says that he latinized his name Hatzidakis, not Hadzidakis or Hadjidakis. Same on IMDb. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.1.232 (talk) 00:22, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I guess that since in his official website his name is spelled Hadjidakis, the page title should be changed to Manos Hadjidakis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.72.241.12 (talk) 14:18, 7 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I agree that we should spell his name as it was officially spelled in Latin by him, probably as it is spelled in his official website. I think it should be changed to Manos Hatjidakis --Irini.efthimiadou (talk) 15:14, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

LGBT?

 * Was Hatzidakis a gay? i didnt knew it. --213.151.217.145 (talk) 11:14, 22 January 2010 (UTC)


 * He's categorised as LGBT, but there's nothing in the article that would lead one to suppose that. Indeed, there's mention of an adopted son, which would, in the absence of any other info, normally be seen as evidence of straightness.  So I'm removing the LGBT category.  It may be restored if appropriate material about his gayness is added to the article.  --   Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  23:38, 15 November 2013 (UTC)

"Never on Sunday"
Surely an footnote is needed for why the song is "Never on Sunday" in English, but the Greek title (as correctly given in the article) is "The Children of Patris"? 155.101.254.50 (talk) 00:33, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

New Pic
I noticed that there are some problems with the licence of the photos in the article (there are not free). I created an oil painting and donated its picture at the commons. Could we use it insteed of the "old" ones? (Meneksedia (talk) 13:04, 18 November 2011 (UTC))
 * Black-and-white oil painting? It looks like a retouched picture to me. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 13:25, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, seems to be a this image mirrored and run through some photoshop filters and/or clone tool. Calliopejen1 (talk) 22:45, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Good work Calliopejen. Earlier, I informed MRG about it. I guess copyvio uploaders are now posing as artists. I wonder, what's next. Dr.K. λogosπraxis 23:28, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The painting used as a model the photo of Kostas Eleytherakis and there for I understand that it is considered derivative (I thought that it includes only characters from TV, comics, or movies and not existing people, anyway). I am not an artist (drawing static objects doesn't make me one) and if I violated any copyright it wasn't deliberate, but I believe if there is any kind of copyright here it belongs to the photographer's family (he's deseased) and not to some newspaper. (Meneksedia (talk) 07:10, 21 November 2011 (UTC))

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