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Zorba Theme (Life Is) Sheet Music for Piano, Voice and Guitar
From The Broadway Musical
Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Music by John KanderValando Music / Sunbeam Music, 1968, 8 pages
Some wear and age. Slight fading on outside edge of front cover. Faint creasing across bottom outside corner of back cover. No markings found. (To avoid copyright infringement, only a sampling of pages are shown. All images are of actual item for sale. All pages present unless noted in listing.)\"Life Is\" serves as the opening number of the 1968 musical Zorba, composed by John Kander and Fred Ebb. The song introduces the show’s central philosophy: that life is a cycle of joy and tragedy to be accepted without analysis. Originally featuring the line, \"Life is what you do while you\'re waiting to die,\" the lyrics frame existence as a series of sensory experiences, from drinking raki to dancing. By establishing that life \"simply is,\" the song sets the stage for Zorba to teach his companion to embrace the \"full catastrophe\" of being alive.
We are a small non-profit in Birmingham, Alabama. We sell donated sheet music and method books that we cannot use in our Scrollworks program at this time. All proceeds from our sales are used to provide instruction on orchestral instruments, piano and voice to children who otherwise would not have access, including children with disabilities.
