Thursday 9 June

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Thursday’s concert

All A Sessions in Teloglion Amphitheatre All B Sessions in Teloglion Hall 2
Session 1A

Music in Greece during the 1940s

PANEL ΙΙΙ

chair: Anastasia Siopsi

Session 1B

Ancient Greek Mythology:

Influences in Opera Ι

chair: Julian Rushton

09:30-10:00 Katy Romanou

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

Anastasia Belina

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

10:00-10:30 Alexandros Charkiolakis

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

Marin Marian-Balasa

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

10:30-11:00 Sofia Kontossi

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

Stela Guțanu & Luminița Guțanu

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

11:00-11:30 Myrto Economides

“Manolis Kalomiris during the decade of 1940s”

Carmen Stoianov & Petru Stoianov

Vox humana versus vox instrumentorum”

11:30-12:00

COFFEE BREAK

Session 2A

Ancient Greek Mythology:

On Stage and Screen

chair: Álvaro Torrente

Session 2B

Greek Art Music II:

Studies on Marios Varvoglis

chair: Eva Mantzourani

12:00-12:30 George Vlastos

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

Anna-Maria Rentzeperi-Tsonou

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

12:30-13:00 Anastasia Siopsi

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

Stamatia Gerothanasi

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

13:00-13:30 Stella Voskaridou-Economou

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

Yannis Belonis

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

13:30-15:00

LUNCH BREAK

All A Sessions in Teloglion Amphitheatre All B Sessions in Teloglion Hall 2
Session 3A

Greek Art Music III:

Studies on Dimitri Mitropoulos

chair: Katy Romanou

Session 3B

Ancient Greek Mythology:

Influences in Opera ΙΙ

chair: Evi-Nika Sampson

15:00-15:30 Ioannis Fulias

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

Álvaro Torrente

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

15:30-16:00 Maria Hnaraki & Yannis Samprovalakis

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

Matthias Nikolaidis

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

16:00-16:30 Giorgos Sakallieros

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

Tijana Popović Mladjenović

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

16:30-17:00 Isavella Stavridou

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

17:00-17:30

COFFEE BREAK

Session 4A

Greek Art Music IV:

Greek Composers and the European Tradition

chair: Costas Tsougras

Session 4B

Byzantine Music as Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Music

chair: Kostas Chardas

17:30-18:00 George Zervos

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

Gordana Blagojević

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

18:00-18:30 Eva Mantzourani

A reappraisal of Nikos Skalkottas and his dodecaphonic compositional techniques

Καλλιόπη Στίγκα

Βυζαντινή παράδοση και νεοελληνική ποίηση συνδιαλέγονται στο έργο του Μίκη Θεοδωράκη

18:30-19:00 Θανάσης Τρικούπης

Greek composers in the 20th century.

European influences in their work

Μαρία Ντούρου

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

19:00-20:00 Keynote Lecture (Teloglion Amphitheatre):

Constantin Floros  “ The influence of Byzantine music on the West

21:00-22:30

Concert IV

CONCERT IV – THURSDAY 9 JUNE

I. GREEK COMPOSERS’ WORKS for VOICE and PIANO

S. Samaras (1861-1917) «Νανούρισμα» (Berceuse)
P. Petridis (1892-1977) «Τρεις αδερφές», op. 3, no. 5
L. Margaritis (1895-1953) «Κάτω στο γιαλό» (Trad. Chios)
A. Nezeritis (1897-1980) «Νύχτα Απριλιάτικη»
Α. Evaggelatos (1903-1981) «Ύπνε που παίρνεις τα παιδιά» (Trad.)
V. Papadimitriou (1905-1975) «Δέησις»
Y. Constantinidis (1903-1984) – «Τα ματάκια σου τα μαύρα…»

– «Το Ερηνάκι»

– «Μωρή κοντούλα λεϊμονιά…»

– «Εχτές βραδύν εμπρόβαλα…»

– «Απόψε τα μεσάνυχτα…»

(from 20 Greek Folksongs)

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