Thursday 9 June

Music in Greece during the 1940s

PANEL ΙΙΙ

chair: Anastasia Siopsi

Ancient Greek Mythology:

Influences in Opera Ι

chair: Julian Rushton

“Occupied by the most musical people in Europe; a musical Greek tragedy”

“Appropriation and reception of Greek Antiquity in Russian opera: from Bortnyansky’s Alkid to Taneyev’s Oresteia”

“The Athens Conservatoire Symphonic Orchestra – State Orchestra of Athens during the Occupation period: repertoire and political conclusions”

“Fleg and Enescu’s Oedipe, an ambiguous staging of psychoanalytical truths”

“Leonidas Zoras at the ‘Lyric Stage’ during the Axis Occupation and the Greek Civil War”

“Opera ‘Oresteia (II) – The Choephore’ by Aurel Stroe – a new directing concept”

“Manolis Kalomiris during the decade of 1940s”

“Vox humana versus vox instrumentorum”

COFFEE BREAK

Ancient Greek Mythology:

On Stage and Screen

chair: Álvaro Torrente

Greek Art Music II:

Studies on Marios Varvoglis

chair: Eva Mantzourani

“Incidental music for Ancient Greek dramas in fin-de-siècle Paris”

“Marios Varvoglis, ‘The Muleteer song’ (1905) and ‘Eurycome’ (1906), songs for voice and piano”

“A comparative study of music written for productions of Ancient Greek drama in modern Greece and Europe (1900-1970)”

“Cross-cultural interactions between Greeks and Italians. Musical dramaturgy in The Afternoon of Love of Marios Varvoglis”

“Communicating Greekness in filmed tragedy ‘out of the spirit of music’ ”

“Marios Varvoglis’ (1885-1967) chamber music”

LUNCH BREAK

Greek Art Music III:

Studies on Dimitri Mitropoulos

chair: Katy Romanou

Ancient Greek Mythology:

Influences in Opera ΙΙ

chair: Evi-Nika Sampson

“Researching the early work of the composer Dimitri Mitropoulos: some historical and analytical remarks on his Un morceau de concert for violin and piano”

“ ‘Aristotle in Venezia’: Myth composite in La Calisto by Faustini/Cavalli”

“Traditional Cretan rhyming couplets at Greek, artistic compositions: From D. Mitropoulos’ Cretan Feast (1919) to G. Koumentakis’ Amor Fati (2007)”

“Myth as a structural device in the works of Richard Wagner”

“A decisive step to prewar Greek musical modernism: Dimitri Mitropoulos’ Ostinata for violin and piano (1926-27)”

“Ariadne’s thread of opera in the opera – Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss”

“Zur Transformation einer antiken Heroine in die Moderne. Die szenische und musikalische Interpretation der Klytämnestra im 20. Jahrhundert”

COFFEE BREAK

Greek Art Music IV:

Greek Composers and the European Tradition

chair: Costas Tsougras

Byzantine Music as Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Music

chair: Kostas Chardas

“Two Greek composers on the crossroads of two traditions: Nikos Skalkottas, Iannis Xenakis”

“Byzantine music as a driving force of music creativity in Belgrade today”

“A reappraisal of Nikos Skalkottas and his dodecaphonic compositional techniques”

“Βυζαντινή παράδοση και νεοελληνική ποίηση συνδιαλέγονται στο έργο του Μίκη Θεοδωράκη”

“Greek composers in the 20^th century.

European influences in their work”

“Γιάννη Ανδρέου Παπαϊωάννου, Τρεις Βυζαντινές Ωδές για σοπράνο και ενόργανο σύνολο: αντικατοπτρισμοί του βυζαντινού μέλους στο προσωπικό ιδίωμα του συνθέτη”

Constantin Floros  “ The influence of Byzantine music on the West“

Concert IV

CONCERT IV – THURSDAY 9 JUNE

I. GREEK COMPOSERS’ WORKS for VOICE and PIANO

Stamatia Gerothanasi (soprano)

Thanasis Trikoupis (piano)

ΙI. PIANO WORKS by IANNIS XENAKIS (1922-2001)

Herma (1960-1)

Evryali (1973)

Mists (1980)

à.r (Hommage à Ravel) (1987)

Ermis Theodorakis, piano

Τhessaloniki Concert Hall (Building B) – 21.00