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New life for the ancient theater of Larissa

It literally emerged from under the buildings of the modern city

The ancient theater of Larissa is slowly acquiring a part of its lost glory, which literally emerged from under the buildings of the modern city, to start a wide program of maintenance and restoration a few years ago. Next step now, it is the restoration of its scales but also of one of its sides, interventions that will significantly contribute to the image of the monument, both aesthetically and in its understanding.

The studies, which were approved on Tuesday by the Central Archaeological Council are certainly intended first to strengthen the static adequacy of the main theater by preventing the seats from falling. In addition, it will be possible for visitors to move around the area, something that is currently impossible due to the discontinuity of the tiers, while the totality of the interventions will essentially contribute to the restoration of part of the theater's lost acoustics.
To achieve the specific task, archaeologists and architects have completed the identification of all the scattered architectural members, coming from the ranks, their maintenance and welding has been done while, where required, additional new marble from the ancient quarry located in Kastri Larissa will be used.

In order to restore the slopes, several older structures will first have to be removed, as well as the fencing made of iron pipes _an important aesthetic nuisance for the monument today_, while an excavation will be made in the area of ​​the original building of the military bakeries that were located above the theater, in depth at least 1,50 measures in order to look for architectural members. But some of them, are already visible while others will certainly be sought, which may be scattered in the area. Finally, the slope will be restored with backfilling.

The 1st ancient theater of Larissa was built in the 3rd BC. X. century, extends on the southern slope of the hill of Ag. Achilleiou (ancient Acropolis) and operated for six centuries, during which it underwent various transformations. On the 2nd. X. century the stage building was completed with a proscenium and during the Roman era the building suffered serious alterations: From the 1st p. X. century that is, χρησιμοποιήθηκε ως ρωμαϊκή αρένα ενώ στα τέλη του 2ου μ. X. ξηλώθηκαν οι τέσσερις πρώτες σειρές των εδωλίων για να διευρυνθεί η ορχήστρα. Χαριστική βολή στο οικοδόμημα έδωσε τέλος, ένα σεισμός κατά τον 7ο μ. X. century, όταν κατέρρευσε μεγάλο μέρος του επιθεάτρου και ο δεύτερος όροφος της σκηνής. Πάντως στα χρόνια της Τουρκοκρατίας μεγάλο τμήμα του ήταν ορατό. Τον 1ο π. X. αιώνα ωστόσο είχε κατασκευασθεί και δεύτερο, μικρότερο και λιτό θέατρο στην Λάρισα, το οποίο ανακαλύφθηκε το 1978 μέσα στην πόλη επίσης.

Η ανασκαφή ξεκίνησε τη δεκαετία του 1980 αλλά προχώρησε αργά, καθώς έπρεπε να προηγηθούν απαλλοτριώσεις και κατεδαφίσεις των ακινήτων που βρίσκονταν πάνω στο μνημείο. Το έργο αναστήλωσης είναι ενταγμένο στο Ταμείο Διαχείρισης Πιστώσεων για την εκτέλεση Αρχαιολογικών Έργων.

Source : tovima.gr

Chick Corea and Gary Burton at the Athens Concert Hall

The Athens Concert Hall presents Chick Corea and Gary Burton, a collaboration that jazz fans are looking forward to. The concert will take place on 15 Of March 2012 in the context of the Bridges series.

Chick Corea

If one considers the volume of his last discography 40 years, can not doubt that Chick Korea is one of the most productive composers of our time. From avant-garde to bebop, from children's songs to the avant-garde, from fusion to classical music, Chick Korea always maintains high quality standards in its work.

Has won 14 Grammy, while he was a candidate at least 50 times. The 2005 was awarded the Ruhr Prize in Germany (an award first given to a jazz pianist) and 2006 was named "New Jazz Master" which is the biggest distinction for jazz in the US.

Gary Burton

He was born and raised in Indiana. Self-taught in vibraphone, the genius musician Gary Burton 1971 became a professor at Berkeley College of Music in Boston (in percussion and improvisation), the 1985 was appointed Rector, the 1989 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the same College and 1996 appointed Vice President.

He won his first Grammy for his album Alone at Last (solo vibraphone) recorded at the Montreux Festival in 1971. Many other Grammy Awards followed (several from his collaboration with Korea) and was nominated for the same award 14 times.

He has a long and deep professional personal relationship with Chick Korea. Beyond their recordings, give many concerts as duos in America and Europe.

Chick Corea piano
Gary Burton βιμπράφωνο

The series Bridges is directed by Dimitris Maragopoulos

"One of the most popular collaborations in the field of jazz"
"Wonderful dynamic balance"
Los Angeles Times

Source : culturenow.gr

Report on the "irrational truth" of Papadiamantis

One hundred and thirteen artists participate in the tribute to the Archaeological Museum of Patras

From Nikos Stefanos to Yiannis Psychopaidis, and from Alexis Veroukas to Michalis Madeni. One hundred and thirteen artists talk about the 'absurd truth' of an ever-fascinating writer, of Skiathite Alexandros Papadiamantis. Of the walker with 'the messy beards, the unkempt surroundings, the muddy shoes, the faded half-high, the papadist barrel with the silver handle and the improvised collar with the black cord".

The exhibition "Visual Tribute to Alexandros Papadiamantis: The truth is always absurd" is already hosted by 9 February at the Archaeological Museum of Patras and will last until 18 Of March.

After her very successful presentation in Athens at the Melina Cultural Center last December, the dedicated exhibition to the leading Greek writer organized by the artistic company Mikri Arktos is transferred to the new Archaeological Museum of Patras organized by Art in Progress "with the conviction that Papadiamantis today, λιτός και ταυτόχρονα εξαιρετικά διεισδυτικός και αυτογνωσιακός τόσο στον βίο όσο και στο έργο του, παραμένει επίκαιρος όσο ποτέ». Συνεργάζονται η ΣΤ΄ Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων και το Πανεπιστήμιο Πάτρας.

The 113 συμμετέχοντες καλλιτέχνες δημιουργούν επιτοίχια και γλυπτά έργα με αφετηρία τον Αλέξανδρο Παπαδιαμάντη, επιχειρώντας να διεισδύσουν σε μικρές πτυχές της ζωής και του έργου του: να μιλήσουν για τον Παπαδιαμάντη, τον ιδιόρρυθμο και μποέμ στον ιδιωτικό βίο του, τον περισσότερο εκκλησιαστικό παρά θρήσκο, τον «μοναχικό, ανέραστο και πάσχοντα», τον ασυλλόγιστα σπάταλο στη διάθεση των δύσκολα κερδισμένων χρημάτων του αν και εξαιρετικά απέριττο ως προς τις καθημερινές ανάγκες του, τον διασώστη και όχι καταποντιστή ψυχών, τον χρήστη μιας σπάνιας ιδιωτικής γλώσσας που αντλεί τόσο από τη δημοτική όσο και από την καθαρεύουσα, τον «άγιο των ελληνικών γραμμάτων» και «σκοτεινό τρυγόνι» των ίδιων του των διηγήσεων, τον θαμώνα του καφενείου της Δεξαμενής, τον μοναχικό περιπατητή του Ψυρρή και τακτικό ψάλτη του Αγίου Ελισαίου που άλλοτε μνημονεύει τα αυτοβιογραφικά τοπία και τους ταπεινούς αλλά γεμάτους σκοτεινά πάθη ανθρώπους της Σκιάθου και άλλοτε σκιαγραφεί με ενδελέχεια τις φτωχογειτονιές της Αθήνας και τους αλλόκοτους κατοίκους της.

Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Πάτρας Νέα Εθνική Οδός ΠατρώνΑθηνών Τηλ: 2613 616100

Η είσοδος στην έκθεση είναι ελεύθερη

Source : tovima.gr

The National Theater of England at the Concert Hall

A theatrical trip down memory lane, from his Hollywood 1936, in the small Eastern European village of the early 20th century, to the early steps of the moving image and the explosion of technological wonder, is the new work of Nicholas Wright directed by Nicholas Heitner, which turns the theater stage into a cinema screen.

The reason for the show "The Traveling Light" (Travelling Light), which will be presented at the Athens Concert Hall (Alexandra Trianti Hall) on Thursday 16 February (at 9 p.m.) in a taped broadcast from England's National Theatre.

The project combines the idea of ​​immigration and cinema, the route from the Jewish folk tradition of Europe to American cinema and is inspired by the fact that many Hollywood directors were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. In the leading roles, the Athenian audience will have the opportunity to enjoy the multi-awarded theater actor Anthony Sher, and Paul Jason.

Two times and two places are the space-time of the action: At the beginning we are in his Hollywood 1936 in the company of Maurice Montgomery, a successful director, who at 60 of, "visits" the beginnings of his career in a small village in Eastern Europe in the early years of the 20th century.

The masterful direction of the director of the National Theater of England, Nicholas Heitner, along with Bob Crowley's setting, evoking Chagall and Fiddler on the Roof, they create the right landscape for John Discoll's videos and projections, with which we travel since the first films, with the bearded villagers, in the melodramas of silent cinema. Much of "Travelling Light" is played out on screen, behind the actors, a production hint at today's theater's debt to cinema.

This is the fourth broadcast by the National Theater of England- after "Servant of Two Masters", "Kitchen" and "Collaborators"- which "hosts" the Concert Hall this year, in collaboration with the British Embassy and the British Council.

Source : newsbeast.gr

Amen Amen: a performance by Stavros Xarhakos at the Acropolis Theatre

Premiere at the renovated Acropolis theater on 17 February and for 20 performances up to and including 31 Of March

The Acropolis Theater and the State Theater of Northern Greece are co-producing "Aman Amen", his favorite work
Stavros Xarchakos, a musical performance based on rebetiko song, directed by the composer himself.

The premiere was given on Friday 30 December at the Royal Theater of the co-capital, while in Athens it will premiere at the renovated Acropolis theater 17 February and for 20 performances up to and including 31 Of March.

According to Stavros Xarchakos, rebetika songs are songs of vision for a better life, they are the songs of the denial of dreams, they are the rebetikas of the eternal nostalgia of beauty, the rebetikas of the sanctity of desire, the rebetikas of defiance of terror, the rebetika songs of challenging fate and restless struggle with death...

The "aman" that comes out of the soul meets the "amen" of a prayer. In the straight line that unites the Byzantine organ with the rebetiko and with the Little Asian song, love travels, the passion, the lust, the nostalgia, the fate, the death, dreams for a better life, deprivation of liberty and refugee status. This is how Stavros Xarchakos listened to these sounds of the past and set up a musical performance entitled "Aman Amen". A spectacle-listening with old and new compositions, a folk stage as overwhelming as a liturgy.

Each of the two parts is divided into three sections. There are songs of grace, of Teke and the East.

Source : culturenow.gr

Mark Lanegan returns to Greece

In Athens and Thessaloniki in April

The leading singer of modern Rock'n'Roll, Μark Lanegan, will be located in Athens, along with his band, on Thursday 5 April (Fuzz Live Music Club) for a unique evening full of the magic of a rare and wonderful voice, melancholic and sometimes dark, his music. One day earlier, on Wednesday 4 April, will perform at the Principal Club Theater, in Thessaloniki.

Voice of the legendary Screaming Trees – perhaps the best and, with no doubt, now overlooked band that sprung from the whole grunge stream – Mark Lanegan is, here and 25 (and put) years, one of the most iconic and charming figures of the underground scene.

Gifted with a unique voice – heavy, imposing and, at the same time, soulful and melancholic – he has released some sensational albums during his solo career («The Winding Sheet»/ 1990, «Whiskey For The Holy Ghost» / 1994, «Scraps At Midnight» / 1998, «I’ll Take Care Of You» / 1999, «Field Songs» / 2001, «Bubblegum» / 2004) and has collaborated with some of the greatest names of the modern Rock scene, like Queens Of The Stone Age, or Greg Dulli, η PJ Harvey, οι Masters Of Reality, as well as with Unkle, the Soulsavers and Isobel Campbell.

A few days ago, at 6 February, released his first personal album here and 8 years! 'Blues Funeral' was recorded on behalf of 4AD and is already receiving rave reviews from the entire music press around the world. Lanegan himself stated that his main influences when writing it came from his favorite albums, such as Gun Club's 'Miami' and Joy Division's 'Closer', including.

Source : newsbeast.gr

Dance me to the end of Greece 1... Foreign Tourists in Greece: Performance at the Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museum presents the show in the Piraeus Street building “Dance me to the end of Greece 1…Foreign Tourists in Greece” which will last from 17/02/2012 until 18/02/2012.

This is the first stage presentation of travel texts signed by famous travelers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The actors of the show participate in a storytelling forum, representation and song through poems by Byron and Satovriandos set to music, while they animate the testimonies of famous travelers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Gustave Flaubert, but also the younger Jacques Lacarriere and Henry Miller.

Direction: Spanou Sunday
Sets-Costumes: Apostolos Vettas- Olympia Sideridou-Martha Fokas
Music: Kostas Bombolos
Photos: Manolis Papadakis
Actors: Eleni Efthymiou, Frosso Zagoreou, Themis Mitropoulos, Antonis Gritsis
Piano: Emilios Politis

As part of the performance, the audience will have the opportunity to navigate the original multimedia application entitled ¨Athens through the eyes of the Tourists: 1719th century”, production of the Benaki Museum, which attempts to reconstruct the portrait of the city in that period, through from 500 works of the Collection of Paintings, Engravings and Drawings, several illustrated editions of the Museum Library, as well as selected texts of various travelers who visited it.

There will be two shows specifically for schools (large Primary classes, Middle School and High School):
Wednesday 15 February, 11.00
Wednesday 29 February, 11.00 18/02/2012.

Source : culturenow.gr