Theopoula Doitsidi

Theopoula Doitsidi was born in 1952. Together with her father Karyofyllis Doitsidis and her sister Lambriana Doitsidi, they have released many records, both personal and in collaboration with other artists.

Songs

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  • SongThraceEvros, KarotiEaster Song, Ritual Song

It’s Eastertime

(Easter Dance)

  • Τώρα τις Πασχαλιόημιρις ⬥ It’s Eastertime, my lithe and lissome one, my lithe and lissome one, the greatest of all feasts, you fair-haired ones, you fair-haired ones with heavy plaits. I climbed a height and caught a view of Alexis’ palaces. So I could see his daughters and what they [...]
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  • SongThraceEvros, KarotiEaster Song, Ritual Song

Maria’ S Gone to Pick Some Lilac

  • Μαρία πάει για πασχαλιές ⬥ Maria’s gone to pick some lilac, a nightingale is singing, she goes to gather lilac blossom in vineyards and in paddocks. And as she gathers lilac blossom, with laughter and a burst of song, she finds the nightingale that carols. She creeps towards it on [...]
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  • SongAsia MinorSmyrna, BaindiriHoly Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Baidiri, Asia Minor)

(Holy Week Lament)

  • Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Mπαϊντίρι) ⬥ … The Virgin heard the awful news, she swooned and fell, they fetched some water in a crock; three tumblers of flower-water and four of rose they bathed her with, until they had revived her, and once her senses were restored, she spoke despairingly: [...]
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  • SongPropontisMarmaraHoly Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Marmaras, Asia Minor)

(Holy Week Lament)

  • Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Μαρμαράς) ⬥ … A voice from heaven could be heard, a good archangel speaking. My lady, that’s enough of prayers, enough of doing penance, for they have roughly seized your son and hauled him to the blacksmith, and thence to Pontius Pilate’s courts, and there they [...]
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  • SongEastern AegeanLesvos, SkoutaroHoly Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Mytilene)

(Holy Week Lament)

  • Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Μυτιλήνη) ⬥ … Obediently returning home, she laid the supper table and patiently sat down to wait until her son should come back. Saint Good passed by and called on her and wished her a good evening: – How, with a son upon the cross, his [...]
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  • SongEastern AegeanIkaria, FournoiHoly Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Phourni)

(Holy Week Lament)

  • Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς  (Φούρνοι Ικαρίας) ⬥ … – Be off with you, you gypsy scum, and may your hearth grow cold, and may you lack a second shirt to clothe your wretched back. They took the path, they took the path, the path that is a footpath, and so [...]
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  • SongPontusHoly Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Pontus)

(Holy Week Lament)

  • Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Πόντος) ⬥ … Do you not see that naked man, forlorn and sore afflicted, who wears a garment steeped in blood, a thorny crown upon his head? That man is your beloved son and he’s my teacher too. … Translated by John Leatham
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  • SongThraceHoly Week’s Ritual Song, Ritual Song

The Lament of the Virgin (Thrace)

(Holy Week Lament)

  • Το μοιρολόι της Παναγιάς (Θράκη) ⬥ … Today the sky is sullen black, the day itself is sullen, today all folk are sorrowing, the mountains are in mourning, today the lawless wicked Jews have taken the decision that they will crucify the Christ, the King of every being. The Lord [...]
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Records

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  • AlbumCD, Digital release1998Domna Samiou Greek Folk Music Association

Easter Songs

This significant edition aims to convey the spirit of Easter, the Christian feast celebrated amidst the glory and promise of springtime, through the selected rituals of that period of the year and their related sacred songs and tunes. (barcode: 5204910000524)
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Concerts

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  • Concert
  • 1971-1980

Concerts at the English Bach Festival

Invited by Lina Lalandi, founder of the English Bach Festival and clavichordist, Domna Samiou made five appearances in the festival, presenting, in what could be the first time, the authentic traditional music of Greece to the English audience.
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