‘Zorba’s Dance’ features a combination of slow and fast rhythms to the strains of the traditional guitar-like bouzouki. (Youtube pic) Probably the best-known piece of Greek music in the world, the ...

For those with only a cursory familiarity with Greece and Greek music, the name of Mikis Theodorakis, who died last week aged 96, may conjure flashbacks to the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. That moment ...

In the famous final scene, Anthony Quinn, as Zorba, dances on the beach the "sirtaki", also referred to as "Zorba's Dance", to the strains of the traditional guitar-like bouzouki. The dance was ...