Other Michail Vekiaris
Antigone 1 - Aktína tou íliou

No. 1 of ‘‘4 Songs from Sophocles’ Antigone’’, for Two-part Choir (with optional percussions)

3rd prize in the 2nd International Composition Competition ‘‘Artistes en Herbe’’ - Luxembourg 2013

(Sung in Modern Greek - here only choir voices played by instruments)

Text:
CHORUS: O ray of sunlight,
most beautiful that ever shone
on Thebes, city of the seven gates,
you’ve appeared at last,
you glowing eye of golden day,
moving above the streams of Dirce,
driving into headlong flight
the white-shield warrior from Argos,
who marched here fully armed,
now forced back by your sharper power.

(English translation by Ian Johnston of Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, BC, Canada)