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Concerts in the spirit of Holy Week

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater by M. Monday at the "Olympia" theater

Pergolesi's overwhelming "Stabat Mater" is performed on Holy Monday afternoon (at 18.00) in the foyer of the National Opera- Olympia Theater, with free admission for the public. This is one of the most popular musicalizations of the well-known medieval hymn which inspired several composers: the soloistsTriantafyllia GeorgiadouandAmalia Avlonitis accompanied by the Baroque Orchestra of the Ateneum International Artistic Center.
On Holy Wednesday, the established Easter concert of the ELLS includes works by Vivaldi (Mother was standing), Gabriel Foret (Requiem) and Aaron Jay Kernis (Celestial music). The Lyric Orchestra is conducted byMiltos Logiadis and soloists areMaria Mitsopoulou, TheDimitris Kasioumisand theNikos Spanos.Performed by the ELS Choir andFrixos Mortzos(kintinuo-ecclesiastical organ).
On Holy Wednesday, besides, the State Orchestra of Athens underVasilis Christopoulos, in the context of her performances at the Athens Concert Hall, will present the oratorio "The Seven Last Discourses of Christ on the Cross", by Haydn as well as his "Burial".Dimitris Mitropoulou.They are participatingKaoli Isiki(soprano), orEleni Voudouraki (interlocutor), TheAntonis Koronaios(tenor) and thePetros Magoulas(bass) as well as the ERT Choir.
He presents the "Burial" of Mitropoulos, Nevertheless, and the State Orchestra of Thessaloniki under its artistic directorAlexander Myrat also on Holy Wednesday at the Concert Hall of the Macedonian capital. The program also includes his "Christ's" SymphonyHarilaou Perpessa but also his work "Tomb of Life".Christos Hatzis, of a Greek composer who has been settled in Canada for decades.



At the Acropolis

The Byzantine sounds and melodies from the hymns, the chants and mournful songs of Tradition will have the first word in the concert that will be given on the evening of Holy Tuesday at the Acropolis Theater on Hippocratous Street. The veteran has artistic supervisionChronis Aidonidiswho is already participating. They interpret oDimitris Basis, orNektaria Karantzis, 30choir members and masters of traditional Greek music.
Source : tovima.gr

The colors of Passion

Apostolos Handzaras presents works inspired by Byzantine painting

The days call for it, spring invites us to see "Twelve" with more optimistic colors, from the Annunciation to the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Ascension. Nothing but the Epitaphic Lament and the Deposition, it is not more optimistic. Apostolos Handzaras took his colors beyond the traditional schools of Byzantine painting, and exhibits his twelve works in the Skoufa Art Gallery (Cap 4, Kolonaki). This is the first phase of the "Sun", of the painter's journey to the East.

Source : tovima.gr

Legends and lamentations by Eleni and Suzana Vougioukli on Half Note

Hymns and gospel, purifying tarantellas, redemptive obituaries, songs of nature, in an ideal ritual of Spring. For three musical performances, Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday and Holy Thursday at Half Note.

 THE Eleni and Susana Vougiouklis that their work on transnational musical forms stands out and gives them a special artistic identity, have specially prepared these concerts for Half Note. Among others, they will be heard“MY MOTHER,MOTHER” from the drosoulites of Christodoulos Halaris and Nikos Gatsos which is the anthem of Lebanon's Good Friday and in Arabic it is “WA HABIBI”. Another signature gospel song, the “MOTHERLESS CHILD” also sung by the greatest gospel singer, Mahalia Jackson as well as the “LET MY PEOPLE GO” as well as tarantellas and songs from the tradition of Greece and lower Italy.

Eleni Vouyuklis: song, guitar,
Suzana Vouyuklis: song, guitar, piano

Source : culturenow.gr

The Spirtokuto at the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation: The Cypriot, theatrical version of the film by Yiannis Economides

The Theatrical Development Company of Limassol (ETHAL), the first professional regional theater of Cyprus presents in Athens from Friday 6 until Sunday 8 April 2012, at the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation, the show "Matchbox", which is the dramatized version of the acclaimed film by Yiannis Economides.

Specifically, on Friday 6 April, there will be an evening performance at 9:30 p.m., on Saturday 7 April double show 7.30pm. and 9.30 p.m. and on Sunday a show in the afternoon at 7.30pm.

The performance of the Second Stage of ETHAL, which is the 115th production of the theater of Limassol, (ETHAL was founded on Christmas 1988) is directed and dramaturgically edited by Minas Tigilis, sets-costumes by Edouard Georgios and lighting by Panagiotis Manousis. Assistant director: Giannos Antoniou, music edited by the director. They star: Panagiotis Larkou, Lefteris Salomidis, Basilica of Cyprus, Giannos Antoniou, Fotis Georgidis, Andria Zeniou, Maria Theocharidou, Elena Kallinikou.

One day, in the middle of a heat wave, Dimitris's house- of a small and medium-sized 50-year-old family man- somewhere in Korydallos, turns into a battlefield! All the members of his family lash out at each other with incredible verbal violence and revelations of passions, jealousies, unacknowledged desires and disagreements…Until an unexpected confession blows everything up! The drama of a popular family, who spends her life between four walls, to a completely vain one, indifferent and "grey" people, a proper carnage that will rivet you and, perhaps, disturb… (From the commercial of the film by G. Economy).

The duration of the performance is 65 minutes without a break and…..
caution, the language used by the actors in the show and some scenes MAY disturb some viewers.

The invitations that Culturenow.gr has for its readers through a competition are for the Saturday evening performance 7 April on 21.30.

Source : culturenow.gr

The Beatles' sons "think about it" for… complex

A new band, which will be a continuation of the legendary ones Beatles, they are thinking of creating their four children… Beetles, as his son Paul McCartney told the BBC.

THE 34James McCartney era, stated that Sean Lennon, son of John Lennon, Danny Harrison, son of George Harrison, Zach Starkey, son of Ringo Starr himself, are considering forming a group to be called «The Beatles-The Next Generation».

"I would agree," added James McCartney, who started a solo career as a singer and guitarist. “Sean seemed interested, Danny too. Starkey seemed less enthusiastic.”, noted, adding that with a little luck the band could be formed.

The four descendants of the Beatles, following in their parents' footsteps, are engaged in music. Sean Lennon is a singer-songwriter in New York. Danny Harrison has formed his own band 'Thenewno2' with Oliver Hacks.

Zach Starkey is a drummer like Ringo Starr's father,and has played with the Who and Oasis.

James McCartney who looks a lot like his father, stated that he dreams of doing better than the Beatles. "I wish I could be their equal but even that will be difficult" he admitted.

J. McCartney attends a concert in Liverpool, at the famous "Cavern Club", where the Beatles started their career.

His two records were co-productions with his father, who at 69 years doesn't seem to want to leave the music scene, with the recent release of an album, titled "Kisses on the Bottom".

Source : tovima.gr

Scientific research indicates the presence of Greeks in B. America in antiquity

An article with a "guide" to the texts of Plutarch, dedicated to the global movement "We are all Greeks". of Dr. Minas Tsikritsi Researcher of Aegean Scriptures indicates the presence of Greeks in B. America.

Dedicated to the global support movement for Greece "We are all Greeks", is the new research of the Aegean scriptures researcher dr. Mina Tsikritsi, which proves with the use of new technologies that the prehistoric Greeks had visited North America long before Christopher Columbus discovered it.

The research of Mr. Tsikritsis based on Plutarch's text "On the apparent face of the Moon's circle", where in paragraphs 941A-942, describes the journey of the Greeks to a continent which was "west of the three islands and north-west of Britain".

The researcher identified and demonstrated through computer programs the restoration of a forgotten historical reality, which has so far eluded many researchers, thus continuing the research done two years ago by Professor H. Mariolakos, who had argued that the prehistoric Greeks knew of the existence of America, which they were visiting.

In his announcement Dr. M. Chipping is supported, that before Columbus there was a communication starting from the Minoan era until the Hellenistic years. The purpose of these Bronze Age voyages was to trade and traffic the pure copper found in Canada's Lake Superior. It seems that after the first Minoan traders, the Mycenaeans also continued, who, as Plutarch mentions, they sent Hercules to rekindle the presence of the Greek element, which had been lost with the intermingling of the natives. Subsequently, in the Iron Age, interest in the area declined and remained until the Hellenistic times a ceremonial cult tradition. So every thirty years some ships are sent to regions that had the worship of Saturn to renew the human staff with priests.

As Mr. Tsikritsis "all this is proven by astronomical evidence, which were processed with the help of computer programs confirming the chronological determination of the journey described by Plutarch.

That's how it's explained, according to Mr. Tsikritsi, and that in the region around Lake Superior and on the Isle of Royale in Canada great copper mining has been done at one period, between 2400 and 1200 B.C, even though the area was in the stone age.

According to the ancient text of Plutarch the moderator of the dialogue, Lambrias invites Sulla the Carthaginian to retell a story he heard from the servants of the temple of Saturn in Carthage, The story told by a foreign visitor to the temple who came from the great continent. Finally, the data mentioned in the text confirm, as shown by the study of Mr. Tsikritsi, using a PC, the description of a journey the 86 AD held by Canada in Carthage. The conclusions are summarized below:

1. The apocalyptic text correctly specifies the distance from Britain to the island of Ogygia- Iceland, with oar boat sailing 5 days (880 km).

2. It mentions a large continental land in whose area there were three islands (Greenland, Baffin Island, Newfoundland) which were equal, northwest of Britain.

3. Determines that at the same latitude (in the same straight line) is the entrance to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence(Gulf of St. Laurence) with the Caspian Sea, a fact that we observe in its straight line.

4. He correctly identifies that the gulf of Ag. Lavrentiou is a little bigger than Maiotida lake, today's Azov. On the shores of the gulf he mentions that Greeks have lived since ancient times and after the expedition of the Mycenaean Heracles, probably in the 15th century BC, the Greek element that was dying out due to the intermingling with the locals was re-warmed (it is understood that Heracles did not go alone with Iolaus, but it was a campaign of hundreds of Greeks who demographically changed the area inside the bay of Ag. Lavrentiou where they lived).

5. It defines a period of thirty years, after which the return journey would begin: when the Planet Saturn rises in the constellation Taurus. Astronomical data confirms that at latitude 47° north, in the 1st century AD, this period was at the end of May 86 A.D.

6. When he started the return journey they stayed for three months on the island of Greenland to the north (60the N), which the sun only sets for an hour during the summer solstice between 9/6 and 9/7. This designation confirms that the island of Greenland must be identified with the underworld, where Saturn was buried in a cave and was guarded by Zeus.

7. The reason for the great journeys in the Bronze Age is documented by pure copper, which was found in large quantities in the area around Lake Superior and on Isle Royale in Canada. They were mined from this area 50.000 tons of copper between 2400 and 1200 B.C.

8. In the time of Plutarch he himself mentions, that they did not carry copper but golden cups and vessels containing the provisions of the journey.

9. Finally, it is known that in ancient times oracles were centers for recording geographical knowledge, thereby advising on future colonizations. Thus it is accepted that Plutarch after the 86 AD who was a priest at the Oracle of Delphi, has this knowledge.

10. The return journey seems to have been from the north, starting in Canada, they were going to Greenland (Saturn island) they came to Iceland and from there to Britain. Confirmation element of this route is the station island, which even today bears the name of Mycenae (Mykines) the westernmost island of the Faeroe

In conclusion, the research of Minas Tsikritsis is that a trip took place from Canada to Carthage in May 86 A.D. In combination with the other elements confirmed by Y/N, the other descriptions of Plutarch are also accepted, that is, in the ancient years before the campaign of Herakles, ancient Greeks had also gone to the area, probably the Minoans. These elements come and confirm archaeological scattered finds of writing – and not only – from areas in the Americas. Finally before Columbus, the Chinese and Vikings had gone to America and Greeks at least in the 1st century BC and possibly as early as the 2nd millennium BC.

Source : kathimerini.gr

Dancing the power of love

The Nederlands Dans Theater presents two choreographies at the Concert Hall

Two choreographies-portraits of the power of love to unite and mark even when it has been lost he presents in his new performances at the Athens Concert Hall (5-8 April, Alexandra Trianti Hall, at 20.00) the famous Nederlands Dans Theater.

In the framework of the stable cooperation with Megaros, which was inaugurated on 2008, the band from the Netherlands that has been indelibly stamped by its recently artistic director, Jirji Kilian, presents "lust" (Longing) and her "Butterfly" (butterfly), works signed by its two leading choreographers, Paul Lightfoot and Saul Leon. The works will be danced by the "big" team of NDT, the NDTI (the whole is divided into two groups, NDTI which is staffed by established dancers and NDT II which is made up of new emerging talents).

"Lust" begins with an impressive scenic find: a couple dances inside a cube which is suspended on stage, a surreal little space that constantly changes positions, with door and window in paradoxical places, which indicate the difficulty of escape. A soloist, on the level of the dark stage, he follows with his movements the difficult "dialogue" of the couple. The two dancers move around each other to the notes of Beethoven. Their movements indicate a relationship with anxieties and efforts. At some point the man finds a way out, he'll be back soon, but the cracks don't heal and it's the woman's turn to leave. The cube retreats to the back of the stage and the piece evolves into a spectacular ensemble performance.

"Butterfly" focuses on another kind of love and devotion: of elderly care, parents and loved ones, of the tenderness that returns with their impending death, of loss and the huge void that follows it.

Source : tovima.gr