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Papadiamantis and for the 2012

Performances based on his texts continue in theaters inside and outside of Athens

If the 2011 it was dedicated to Alexandros Papadiamantis, due to the centenary of his death (3/1/1911), the 2012 it seems to be a continuation of the anniversary. At least this is proven through the ever-increasing number of performances staged on the Athenian stages or repeated in and outside the capital, as is the festival "Dream on the wave" which will (again)is premiering, this time at the Acropolis Theater, at 13 Of March, with Thanasis Sarandos. A little earlier, at 3 "Dark Tales" begins in March, a performance based on three dramatized short stories of his edited and directed by Stamatis Bandouna.

"I think especially in this day and age, with the economic but above all the moral crisis, the search for the lost Greek identity is what stimulates the viewer above all. He wants to see and hear the Greek language. He wants to remember that in addition to debt, Greece has also produced people who touched our souls very deeply", says Thanasis Sarandos who directs "Dream on the Wave" and performs the monologue. "The world seeks the purity and truth of Papadiamantis", adds as his experience of the Skiathite poet begins with his engagement with the "American, which he uploaded three years ago, a show that recently completed its cycle. “I noticed that if the audience was older in the beginning, little by little, more and more young people began to come".

Takis Chrysikakos is aimed at viewers of all ages as well as high school students, through "The flower of Gialos", one of the top short stories of Alexandros Papadiamantis turned into a theatrical monologue by Errico Belier. The performance directed by Mania Papadimitriou, has taken to the stage of the Anesis theatre, and will be played for two more weekends (25-26/2 and 3-4/3, at 18.00). "We also give some shows for high school students, who also taught him. I admit that to such a difficult audience as teenagers, not even a whisper is heard. Even their teachers are surprised by the behavior of the students", says the actor who bows to Papadiamantis' linguistic richness "with the 13.500 words, at a time when young people talk to few". And in times as difficult as our current ones, I feel like I'm resisting by letting the richness of Papadiamantis be heard".

Since its inception, the theater season 2011-2012 defined by a series of works by Papadiamantis: Αρχής γενομένης από τη «Φόνισσα» που επέλεξε για να σκηνοθετήσει ο Στάθης Λιβαθινός στο θέατρο της οδού Κεφαλληνίας, με την Μπέττυ Αρβανίτη. Τη «Νοσταλγό» προτείνει η σκηνή της Eλεύθερης Εκφρασης, στη σκηνοθεσία του Δήμου Αβδελιώδη με τη Μαίρη Ιγγλέση, ενώ ο Αντώνης και ο Κωνσταντίνος Κούφαλης συνεχίζουν, until 28 February, με τους «Φτωχούς και Αγιους», μια σύνθεση από διηγήματά του που διασκεύασαν (στο θέατρο Βασιλάκου).

End, «Οι έµποροι των εθνών» που ανέβηκαν στη Στέγη Γραμμάτων και Τεχνών, μετακόμισαν στη Θεσσαλονίκη και τώρα παίζονται στο θέατρο Αυλαία. Την παράσταση της ομάδας OΠΕRA σκηνοθετεί ο Θοδωρής Αµπαζής «Αληθινός, είχε απαξιώσει το χρήμα και τις υλικές αξίας. Μαχητής για τα ελληνικά ήθη και την ελληνική ταυτότητα, με λόγο πολιτικό, εκφράζει και σήμερα την εποχή μας. Αλλωστε», θυμίζει ο Θανάσης Σαράντος, «είχε ζήσει τη χρεοκοπία επί Τρικούπη και τη σπατάλη στην προετοιμασία της Ολυμπιάδας». Ο tempora o mores…..

Source : tovima.gr

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Martha Argerich: A living legend of the piano at the Athens Concert Hall

Undoubtedly dominant among the great pianists of the 20th century and one of the most shocking performers of recent...
50 years, η Μάρθα Άργκεριχ, she has the world at her feet and the piano at her command: turns it into an eerie cascade of colors, she has a disarmingly carnal and tender relationship with him and her sound combines mysterious clarity,  rhythmic intensity and spontaneity that is riveting.

Martha Argerich comes to Athens with the musical "family" she has created for years, with members of the great star soloists, accomplished performers, but also young musicians who have stood out. Misha Maisky (cello), Steven Kovacevic (piano), Yuri Basmet (viola and conducting), Reno Capyson and Lia Petrova (violin), Dora Bakopoulou, Akane Sakai, Lily Maisky, Alexander Mogilevsky, Julia Zaikina (piano), Alexandros Kapelis (piano), Takis Kapogiannis (contrabass), Sergey Nakariakov (trumpet), Dimitris Desyllas and Andreas Farmakis(crust), participate and collaborate with Argerich in three concerts with music from the 18th century, in the 19th and 20th centuries. The camera, Orchestra of the Friends of Music conducted by Yuri Basmet on the first day and Gerard Corsten on the following two.

The three-day program includes:

works of Saint-Saëns (Septet for piano, trumpet, two violins, viola, cello and double bass, work 65), Schumann(Quintet for piano and strings, work 44), Mozart (Sinfonia Concertante for violin, viola and orchestra in E flat major K364) and Shostakovich (Concerto no. 1 for piano and trumpet, work 35) on Saturday 10/3, Mozart(Andante & Variations for piano four hands, K501 and Piano Concerto in B flat major, KV 456)), Ravel ('My mother the goose' for four hands), Shostakovich(Concertino for two pianos, work 94), Schumann(Fantasy pieces, work 73), Kabalevsky(Concerto for piano and orchestra no.4, work 99(of Prague) and Haydn(Cello Concerto No.1 in C major Hob.VIIb.1) on Sunday 11/3 and Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring for four pianos and two percussion instruments) and Bach(Concerto for two pianos and orchestra BWV 1060, Concerto for three pianos and orchestra, BWV 1064 and Concerto for Four Pianos and Orchestra BWV1065 on Monday 12/3.

Great sponsor of Camerata, Orchestra of Friends of Music for the period 2011-2013 is the Alexandros S. Charitable Foundation. Onassis.

Argerich resides on the high peaks of the world of virtuosos. Her fans are running out of superlatives to talk about her, her competitors turn into fanatical fans and wait patiently outside her dressing rooms. In her concerts, one sees scenes from other places and times: respectable gentlemen running down the aisles with bouquets in hand, famous musicians to applaud wildly from their stands, choleric critics to surrender with awkward smiles.

Argerich has qualities that are rarely combined in one person: pianist with unimaginable technical agility, charismatic woman with an enigmatic life, unassuming performer whose mother tongue is music and that's what makes her stand out. There are many great pianists who do wonders, but few have mastered that uninhibited naturalness in expression that allows them to inhabit the music rather than perform it.

Born in Buenos Aires, made her first appearance in 5 of years and up to 16 it had won her first prizes in major European competitions. At first he followed the usual international career, but as it matured it turned into a universe, to a model and "legislator", unpredictable, generous, indomitable, with a volcanic temperament and surprising attitudes by the conventional standards of the world of great performers. "A wonderful painting without a frame", as Daniel Barenboim says about her.

Martha Argerich's mature identity emerged from a paradoxical combination: indifference to reputation, money and career and an excruciating loneliness she feels when she is alone on stage. On this ground she created institutions to collaborate with her distinguished colleagues, to support and highlight young musicians and build musical "families".

With her signature it is made by 2002 το Martha Argerich Project, which lasts 3 weeks, as part of the Lugano Festival, where the "family" gathers every year with its permanent and new members and in Buenos Aires, from 1999, the Martha Argerich International Competition with herself as the president of the jury. From the same year, the Martha Argerich Music Festival takes place in southern Japan and in Lucerne, Switzerland, in collaboration with Claudio Abado, the piano days and workshops for the promotion of new pianists.

Like other legendary performers – Pablo Casals, Vladimir Horowitz- Argerich never got over stage fright. "There are times when I have terrible panic attacks, the most incredible things pass through my mind, a full hall, it's scary. My knees are shaking, i have chills, I feel like I'm going to collapse", she confessed in the excellent portrait made of her by the French director Georges Casot, the 2002 and is released on DVD by the Medici Arts company.

That is why her solo recitals are rare,  that's why she often hides behind her rich and thick hair on stage and that's why she "converses" with the composers when she plays and isolates herself in the dialogue between them: “I prefer not to joke with Schumann, but i think he likes me. With Chopin it is not always easy, he's probably a little jealous of me. Prokofiev loves me very much, he never sets traps for me".

With a shock began her relationship with the piano: it was 6 years old and her mother took her to the Colon Theater in Buenos Aires, in the piano concerto no. 4 by Beethoven with Claudio Arau, "I had fallen asleep and suddenly I heard the trills in the second part, I shuddered, an electric shock went through me, I refuse to play this concerto, I'm afraid what will happen, it's so important to me".

In 9 of, before playing a Mozart concerto, he knelt down and thought: “if I'm wrong on a note, i will die". Perfectionism has followed her ever since. "I always doubt it, I'm always unsure, i'm looking. If one is too satisfied or abandoned to the routine, it's a disaster".

Misha Maisky, who has been working with her since 2002 in Lugano he says that “working with Martha Argerich is like life: it is not easy, she can be very unpredictable and very irritating. But it is what,what more wonderful thing can happen to you. She is unbelievably gifted, to an almost desperate extent".

And the American critic, Alex Ross notes that in Argerich's performances one gets the feeling, "how the pianist abandons the idea of ​​a grand performance and is as if playing for herself and slowly emerges a rare performance. It saves many composers from the usual excesses of virtuosos and restores their essence, makes them sound new, contemporaries, with bold tones. The way the piano responds to Argerich's touch is a natural phenomenon that defies interpretation, it is like the surface, a revelation".

Source : culturenow.gr

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Man of the year Sakis Rouvas

Awarded for his contribution to the "Hope" club

The man of the year award was given to Sakis Rouvas in Cyprus and the singer could not hide his emotion.

He thanked from the bottom of his heart those who awarded him for his contribution to the club "Hope" for children with cancer.

"It is very important for me to receive this award in Cyprus from people who know well what difficulty means… I understand that you don't want to reward me but the offer.. », he stated.

However , as he said, he would rather not be there receiving such an award because it means there are children suffering in hospitals. So do their parents.

Source : newsbeast.gr

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Αποκάλυψη για το νέο 3θυρο Audi A3

Διέρρευσαν στο internet οι πρώτες εικόνες του νέου 3θυρου Α3. Aπό αυτές προκύπτει πως το μικρομεσαίο Audi αποκτά ακόμα πιο δυναμική και μοντέρνα εικόνα. Ας το δούμε, λίγο πριν το επίσημο ντεμπούτο του στη Γενεύη.
Στο διαδίκτυο διέρρευσαν οι πρώτες επίσημες εικόνες του καινούριου A3 σε μορφή παραγωγής. Το μικρομεσαίο Audi δεν έχει αλλάξει δραματικά, υιοθετώντας όμως ακόμα πιο δυναμικό ύφος και πολλά στοιχεία που το κάνουν να δείχνει ιδιαίτερα μοντέρνο. In fact, ειδικά αυτή η 3θυρη έκδοση αμαξώματος του διαθέτει και αρεκτά νεανικό προφίλ. In each case, θυμίζουμε πως το νέο Α3 θα έχει στη γκάμα του και 5θυρες (Sportback) εκδόσεις, ενώ θα το δούμε τόσο σε κάμπριο όσο και σε σεντάν, με βάση το περσινό πρωτότυπο Α3 Concept.

Aπό τεχνολογικής άποψης, έχουμε ξανατονίσει πως το καινούριο Audi A3 θα «πατά» σε εντελώς νέα πλατφόρμα που εξελίχθηκε για περισσότερα από ένα μοντέλα στους κύκλους του ομίλου VW, με την ονομασία MQB.

Σε ότι έχει να κάνει με τους κινητήρες του αυτοκινήτου, είναι λίγο νωρίς για ασφαλή συμπεράσματα. Ωστόσο εκτός απροόπτου, στη βάση της γκάμας του Α1 θα δούμε τον νέο TFSI 1,2 liter, with performance 105 horses. Αμέσως μετά θα ακολουθήσει ο 1,4 TFSI πιθανόν σε αναβαθμισμένη απόδοση 130 and 160 horses. Στους 2λιτρους, θα υπάρξει και πάλι ο 2,0 TFSI με απόδοση μεταξύ 210 and 250 horses, ενώ για το κορυφαίο S3, η ισχύς θα βρίσκεται και πάλι στους 265 horsepower. Πολύ σημαντικό στοιχείο είναι και η πρόθεση της Audi να φέρει ως στάνταρ σε όλα τα μοτέρ σύστημα Start&Stop, έτσι ώστε να εξασφαλίσει επιπλέον χαμηλότερες εκπομπές ρύπων και περιορισμένη κατανάλωση. Ανάλογα εξελιγμένοι στο νέο Α3 θα είναι και οι diesel κινητήρες 1,6 and 2,0 liter.

Source : autotriti.gr

Athens Concert Hall

Sanades and Word of Mouth at the Athens Concert Hall

The distinctive polyphonic girl group and the distinguished duo of Greek beatboxers collaborate on a new a capella music
show that explores the limits of the human voice through unpredictable arrangements of songs from around the world (from Tsitsani to Shakira and from Kurt Weill and Cohen to Rage Against the Machine)

The polyphonic female group Sanades and the human beatbox duo Word of Mouth, two new Greek groups with different musical origins but (public) trademark the "superplane" of the voice (and the microphone) their, capable of overpowering any musical instrument and contending with any genre of music, soundly invade the Concert Hall for an unexpected a capella performance that will take place on Saturday 3 Of March, at 9 in the evening in the Banquet Hall.

A project representative of their three-year collaboration, with a renewed repertoire and plenty of humor, with experiments of their own compositions and arrangements of songs from all over the world: Greek and foreign, traditional and modern, classical and rock, from Tsitsani to Shakira and from Kurt Weill and Cohen to Rage Against The Machine and Phoebo Delivoria. True to their goal of exploring the limits of the human voice, Sanades (Look at Kurtis, Maria Kotti, Sophia Sarri, Mariastella Tzanoudaki) and Word of Mouth (The Boy Dad, bitman) create once again a sound universe of their own that contracts and expands, condensing the polyphonic tradition, modern experimentation and hip hop culture. Aiming for audience participation in an original music game where anything is possible…

The show - directed by Kellys Karahaliou - is part of the "New Trends - New Creators" Section of the Bridges Series directed by Dimitris Maragopoulos.

The a cappella – beatbox project των Σανάδων και των Word of Mouth βγάζει τον ήχο που μια ορχήστρα, μερικά drum machine, scratches και μια γυναικεία χορωδία μπορούν να παράγουν στο σύνολό τους, χωρίς όμως τη χρήση μουσικών οργάνων! Except for the human voice.

Mata Kurtis, Maria Kotti, Sofia Sarri and Mariastella Tzanoudaki, four singers introduced to polyphonic traditional culture, and El Pap Chico and Bitman, οι πιο γνωστοί εκπρόσωποι του human beatbox στην Ελλάδα – της τέχνης αναπαραγωγής ρυθμών και μελωδιών με τη χρήση μόνο του ανθρώπινου στόματος – join forces once again for a show "musically uncomplicated and scenically entertaining" where beatboxing sounds natural and effortless over traditional songs of Greece and the Balkans (όπως στο θρακιώτικο παραδοσιακό τραγούδια «Αλεξανδρής», στο παραδοσιακό της Δράμας «Μαύρο Γεράκι», ένα χανιώτικο Συρτό πάνω σε στίχους κρητικών μαντινάδων αλλά και της Μαρίας Κώτη, in Bulgarian "Zora se a zazorila" and "Izgrejala jasna zvezda"), in African American religious songs («Down to the river to pray»), or Mexican traditional ("The Llorona") but also well-known rebetika («Ο Καϊξής» των Απόστολου Χατζηχρήστου-Γιώργου Φωτιάδη και «Σαν απόκληρος γυρίζω» του Βασίλη Τσιτσάνη).

The musical wandering of the two bands in the vast paths of music continues with top songs of important modern classics, ποπ και ροκ συνθετών και τραγουδοποιών όπως συμβαίνει με τα: «Mack the knife» από την «Όπερα της πεντάρας» των Κουρτ Βάιλ-Μπέρτολτ Μπρεχτ, «Ma Matutinum» (2005) του Βέλγου Νίκολας Λενς, «Hallelujah» (1984) του Λέοναρντ Κοέν, «Mountains o’things» (1988) της Τρέισι Τσάπμαν αλλά και το «Bullet in the head», γραμμένο το 1992 από τους αμερικανούς ρόκερς-ράπερς Rage Against The Machine.

Ενώ δεν λείπουν ορισμένα περίφημα κινηματογραφικά σάουντρακς όπως τα: «Amara me» σε μουσική Νίνο Ρότα (an Italian fado from the movie “Film of love and anarchy, 1973), "Belleville rendez-vous" by Benoit Charest-Sylvain Sommet - arrangement by Mata Kurtis - from the animated film "The Belleville Trio" by 2003 and "La despedida" written and composed by Shakira especially for the film "Love in the Cholera Years" 2008, commissioned by the author of the novel of the same name, Γκαμπριέλ Γκαρσία Μάρκες. Στο a capella-beatbox πρόγραμμα των Σανάδων-Word of Mouth εντάσσονται, end, διασκευές εξαιρετικά σύγχρονων τραγουδιών Ελλήνων δημιουργών της έντεχνης μουσικής – όπως «Το σκοτάδι των δύο» (2010) by Phoebus Delivorias – but also originals, their own compositions («Step into the light»), beatbox improvisations and medleys.

The vocal group Sanades was created in October 2007 στην Αθήνα και σήμερα αποτελείται από τέσσερις τραγουδίστριες με διαφορετικές μουσικές καταβολές. Καθοριστική για τη δημιουργία του σχήματος ήταν η συμμετοχή των μελών του στα σεμινάρια που διοργανώνει ο Ρος Ντέιλι και το μουσικό εργαστήρι Λαβύρινθος στην Κρήτη. Οι ζωντανές εμφανίσεις των Σανάδων ξεκίνησαν με τη συμμετοχή τους στο Muse Festival το Δεκέμβρη του 2007 στον Ιανό. Ακολούθησε μια σειρά εμφανίσεων σε διάφορες μουσικές σκηνές της Αθήνας. In July of 2008 εμφανίστηκαν στο Θέατρο Βράχων με τους Χαϊνηδες και τους Mode Plagal.

Η ηχογράφηση της συναυλίας αυτής κυκλοφόρησε τον Δεκέμβριο του 2008 στο διπλό cd «Η Κάθοδος των Σαλτιμπάγκων». Από τo 2009 η συνεργασία τους με το beatbox σχήμα Word of Mouth τους δίνει την δυνατότητα να παρουσιάσουν με επιτυχία σειρά μουσικών παραστάσεων. Οι τέσσερις τραγουδίστριες, μέσα από τα μονοπάτια των πολυφωνικών παραδόσεων, πειραματίζονται με δικές τους συνθέσεις και διασκευάζουν από Απόστολο Καλδάρα μέχρι Dr. John.

Οι Word of Mouth είναι οι πιο γνωστοί εκπρόσωποι του human beatbox στην Ελλάδα, δηλαδή της τέχνης αναπαραγωγής ρυθμών και μελωδιών με τη χρήση μόνο του ανθρώπινου στόματος. Έχουν εμφανιστεί ως επίσημοι ομιλητές στα πλαίσια του TEDx Athens 2011 προωθώντας την «γλώσσα» του beatbox, του Παγκόσμιου διαγωνισμού Beatbox Battle (Βερολίνo 2009), του Ελληνικού Φεστιβάλ, του Μεγάρου Μουσικής Αθηνών και ανοίξει συναυλίες καταξιωμένων hip hop ξένων καλλιτεχνών στην Ελλάδα, όπως οι Snoop Dogg (US), Phi-Life Cypher (UK), Lords of the Underground (US) και Beat Assaillant (US).

Η μόνιμη συνεργασία τους από το 2009 με το πολυφωνικό συγκρότημα Σανάδες σε διασκευές από την Ελλάδα και όλο τον κόσμο ανέδειξε τις δυνατότητες της μουσικής σύνδεσης φωνής και beatbox, με σειρά πετυχημένων παραστάσεων στην Αθήνα και την περιφέρεια («A capella Stories» στο Θέατρο Δίπυλον, «Είναι τρέλα το A capella» στην Αθηναΐδα κ.ά.). Οι φωνητικές ικανότητες των μελών του σχήματος έχουν χρησιμοποιηθεί σε σειρά διαφημιστικών για την τηλεόραση και το ραδιόφωνο, σε ειδικά γεγονότα αλλά και σε δισκογραφικές δουλειές άλλων καλλιτεχνών. Οι Word of Mouth έχουν δημιουργήσει την πρώτη Beatbox Academy στην Ελλάδα στην οποία διδάσκουν τα μυστικά και την τεχνική του beatbox. Η πρώτη τους δισκογραφική δουλειά αναμένεται να κυκλοφορήσει μέσα στο 2012.    

Source : culturenow.gr

Opera

Top operas "live" in Danaos

Three performances from lyrical theaters will be broadcast between March and May

The fact that the most important opera theaters in Europe are following the path laid out by the 2006 the Metropolitan Opera of New York and broadcast selected productions in cinemas around the world, is known to opera lovers.

So, after the program “The Met:Live in HD" which from this year has also come to our country thanks to the support of the ANTENNA group and offers those who wish to watch performances from New York at the Concert Hall of Athens and Thessaloniki as well as in a number of other venues throughout Greece, the "Danaos" cinema (Kifissia 109 and Panormou) gives another chance: in the period March-May 2012, will broadcast three major productions from as many leading European theatres.

The start will be on 12 Of March (at 21.00) with Puccini's popular "La Boheme" broadcast live from Barcelona's Liceu theater starring Fiorenzia Cedolins (Mimi) and Ramon Vargas (Rodolfo).

»Welcome tomorrow Saturday the students in the area of ​​Bouga Schools 17 April, Verdi's "Rigoletto" will be broadcast from London's Covent Garden where, in fact, the title role will be performed by “ours” distinguished baritone Dimitris Platanias, framed by an international distribution where, including, the role of the Duke will be played by the much-discussed Italian tenor Vittorio Grigolo and that of Gilda by the distinguished soprano Ekaterina Siurina.
One of the most talked about productions of recent years, Franco Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac starring superstar tenor Placido Domingo, end, the opportunity to attend at 10 May broadcast live from the Real Theater in Madrid. Ticket price for all broadcasts is set at 12 euro.

Source : tovima.gr