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Diana Krall in the summer at Herodeo

Her latest work was released in October 2012 and is titled "Glad Rag Doll"

One of the most important contemporary jazz performers, Diana Krall, will appear again in Greece in the summer, specifically in Irodeion.
The Canadian singer and pianist, will appear on July 1st 2013 in Herodion.
At the request of the Canadian Embassy in Greece, the members of the Central Archaeological Council unanimously gave the "green light" to granting the use of the monument.
Diana Krall, wife of the well-known British musician Elvis Costello from 2003 and mother of two twin boys from the 2006, it is not the first time it will appear in our country.
In July of 2006 she had amazed those lucky enough to enjoy her at the Herodeion as part of the Athens Festival with her soulful voice and her exceptional skill on the piano, while his summer 2010 more than rewarded her few but loyal fans at Terra Vibe in Malacca.
She is considered one of the most successful singers worldwide, as it has sold more than 15 millions of albums in the world, of which the 6 from. only in the US.
He has won two Grammy Awards, nine gold, three platinum and seven multi-platinum albums. Her latest work was released in October 2012 and is titled "Glad Rag Doll".
Newsroom USD, with information from ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
Source : tovima.gr
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The "global" Kiki Dimoula was applauded in the Concert Hall

The anthology of 79 of her poems in English

As soon as she appeared and the presence of Kiki Dimoula was noticed in the packed "Alexandra Trianti" hall of the Athens Concert Hall on Tuesday afternoon (29/1) the first scattered applause also fell. When the spotlights lit up her white hair, not a few stood to applaud the 81-year-old poet as she slowly climbed the steps leading to the stage. "It would be the first time he stayed in one place for that long without smoking" and he finally succeeded.
Not in her case, it is probably needless to mention that a significant part of the youth who read it fanatically was also waiting for it in the audience. After all, "you don't need an occasion to honor Kiki Dimoulas" as the writer Yiannis Efstathiadis said at the beginning of the event (which was made in honor of this "unique literary artist" as her translator Cecile Inglesi Margellou called her, on the occasion of the publication of an anthology of her poems in the English language.
The evening indeed, beyond the expected good reasons, she also had an air of extroversion without necessarily referring to the ambassadors who attended her. Recently - after the poet's recent interview that was featured on the front page of the "International Herald Tribune" and republished by the "New York Times" - a lot has been said, even the magic word "Nobel" was heard.
One had the impression, however, that he was attending an event that had a specific goal and was part of a strategy, even if in some places it was unnecessarily pompous. Declared purpose of the bilingual edition with the 79 poems by Kiki Dimoulas under the title "The Brazen Plagiarist" (The brazen plagiarist) by Margellos World Republic of Letters (MWRL) of Yale University Press, is the worldwide recognition and award of her work.
"I bow to the incomparable national poetess of Greece who is now also a world poetess," said the director of Yale University Press, John Donatich, in a taped message, calling it a "shame" that only "the 3% of titles circulating in the US correspond to translated literature'.
The translator Cecile Inglesi Margellou highlighted the importance of translation - a "deep political act" - in the evolution of culture and the approach to otherness "because give and take is a relationship of two-way and constantly renegotiated parity". In addition, MWRL's special publishing series under the imprint of Yale University Press was created at the end of it 2007 precisely to alleviate "the appalling absence of great world literature in the English language". It is characteristic that in Greece the percentage of translated literature corresponds to 40% of the titles.
To them 50 so far titles in this series, the 10% it concerns books by Greek writers, a percentage that becomes particularly important if one considers that they are somehow co-located in it 19 different languages. "The Greeks have things to offer to the world beyond our ancient heritage," she said, referring to the wish of her husband Dori - who celebrated his sixtieth birthday on Tuesday - "that we publish Kiki in English, one of the largest modern intellectual capitals of the place". She also said that The New Yorker and Vanity Fair magazines want to interview the poet.. Finally, he mentioned the long-distance "difficult but exciting" translation adventure he had with the American poet Rika Lesser, who surprisingly does not speak any Greek.
At the event, a video excerpt from the "Monogram" of Giorgos and Iros Sgourakis was shown, with the poet talking about her childhood and youth in Kypseli, holding a fan in her hand (whole, shortly, on the NET), while the actresses Katerina Didaskalou and Marina Psalti read her poems in English and Greek respectively.
The attendees, including, they heard the poem "Melancholia" by Kiki Dimoulas set to music by Nikos Xydakis (from the "Erebos" collection with which she herself appeared in the letters 1956), the first part of "Two short poems about a riddle and a road" from the collection "On the Tracks" (1963) composed by Tassos Rossopoulos and Christos Papageorgiou (with the cinematographic instructions of Argyris Papadimitropoulos) to improvise on his piano "commenting" on the poet's verses.
Yiannis Efstathiadis, who moderated the evening said, referring to whether and to what extent Dimoula's poetry can be set to music, that "in musical terms her poetry is a contradiction" as she "removes the music so that the sounds of the words can be heard so as to remind us that there is not only the time of music but also the music of time".
Kiki Dimoula took the floor after about two hours during which she watched the various artistic transformations where "everyone translated my poetry with their own inspiration and their own notes". "The translator is a co-creator" he emphasized, among other things, and "must mend the cracks in the writing" where the other language is more generous. "Cécile Inglesi Margellou's flexible translation brought together the two-faced essence of the words giving a certificate of translation legitimacy". It is "a translation so transparent that the reflection of the native language breathes from underneath," he said.
She quietly wondered if "there was poetry before the creation of the world and fear" in yet another personal testimony to the essence of her art. He wished "to save the poverty of our lives from shocking events". He thanked God "for hiding himself from us" and concluded that poetry is probably "a kind of ark to save us from the deluge of so many truths".
Read her poems, he especially thanked the many academics who attended the event and was delighted by the audience's long standing ovation at the end. He's still enjoying it, with a restrained and melancholic character.
Source : tovima.gr
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Tango Greco: The most beautiful Greek tangos from ancient Athens to our days at Badminton

 The Badminton Theater presents an evening entitled "Tango Greco", in which the most beautiful Greek tangos will be presented, on Monday 18 January 2013.

When the 1930 the "king of tango" Eduardo Bianco arrives in Athens for the first time, Athens is "tango occupied". The arrival of a leading foreign representative of Argentine tango was a great worldly event. Bianco will include Michalis Souyoul in his orchestra and they will play together in different parts of Greece…

The concert series "The Themes of Greek Music and Greek Song", conducted by the composer Michalis Koubios, presents us with the most beautiful Greek tangos. From ancient Athens to the present day. Because many old songs will always coexist with new ones, as the,what finally comes close to Art, it moves outside of time.

The tangos of composers such as: Attic, Kostas Giannidis, Michalis Suyul, Christos Hairopoulos, Manos Hadjidakis, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Eleni Karaindrou, Stamatis Kraunakis et al. they will perform four exquisite and special voices. Glyceria, Christos Thebeos, the mezzo-soprano Eleni Voudouraki and the tenor Yiannis Christopoulos, while a group of prize-winning dancers from the Academia del tango will dance them.

 Tango is a world rhythm that since its birth, loves to travel.

Tango is believed to have its roots in African rhythms. They are rhythms that traveled long distances and thus evolved, they changed. They arrived in Spain with the Arab conquerors to later migrate to the American continent. This is how the danzon and habanera were created in Cuba and the Tango in Uruguay and Argentina.

Around the 1870 tango is spreading both in and around Uruguay and Argentina 1890 settles permanently in Buenos Aires, starting with the infamous bars, mainly from those of slaughterhouses, where the gauchos (the South American cowboys) they give it their own temperament and personal nostalgia.

Initially he is banned, illegal and danced by men, but not in amorous moods, but aggressive, as they are men girded with knives dancing in a warlike atmosphere. However, tango will escape from the popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires and will reach cosmopolitan Paris where it will be Europeanized and develop into an erotic, classy dance.

The tango from Paris is spreading quickly throughout the old Epirus and of course its waves are not long in "hitting" all of Greece. Even at the festivals of the Greek countryside, accordion viols, clarinet and lute as well as the Cretan lyre convey the melancholic thought that is being danced. Sure, what the Greek traditional orchestras played, it was but the echo of the great fashion of the Athenian salons. There, where tangos were a key ingredient in secular teas (tea) and the dance parties. Over the years, tango entered modern Greek song as well…

At Tango Greco you will hear the greatest Greek tangos, from the 1930s to the present day.

The musical performance Tango Greco is held with the support of the urban non-profit company AKOS "Cancer: Treatment of Body and Soul" in the framework of its Hellenic campaign entitled "Study in the human body - Prevention projects" for the information, the prevention and treatment of cancer. AKOS sends the message: "I love and take care of my body".

Series of concerts
"Themes of Greek Music and Greek Song"
Artistic Direction: Michalis Koubios
They sing: 
CANDY, CHRISTOS THEBIOS,
ELENI VOUDOURAKI, YIANNIS CHRISTOPOULOS
Την ATHENS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
directed by Apollon Kouskoumvekakis
They participate:
Zoe Teganouria (accordion)
Dimitris Margiolas (bouzouki, mandolin, lute)
Award-winning dancers from the Academia del Tango group dance

Source : culturenow.gr

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Irini Koumarianou has passed away

He died of old age 82 years old actress Irini Koumarianou, known to the general public from the popular TV series "To Para Pete".
Irini Koumarianou was hospitalized at Evangelismos with heart problems. "Para Pente" was one of her biggest hits. It was born 1931 in Galatsi. Student of the Hellenic Conservatory, her career began in 1951. He was one of the most important personalities of the Greek Theatre, having starred in several performances mainly of the National Theatre, while at the same time he participated in many ancient tragedies, mainly Epidaurus. He had co-starred with Aliki Vougiouklakis, Jenny Karezis, Rena Vlachopoulou and others and had to her credit 40 movies, as well as participation in the radio "Theater of Monday".

On TV, in addition to "Sto Para Pente" he appeared in series such as "Anastasia", "Betrayal", "Like Sisters",Alma libre" and "S’ love-M’ you love", as the "Saturday-born".

Source : kathimerini.gr

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Mormolis, from the State Theater of Northern Greece

 The State Theater of Northern Greece presents Rainer Hachfeld's performance entitled "The Mormolis" in its Children's Stage at the Royal Theater, from Sunday 27 January 2013.

The adventures of Mormoli, of a much-loved work of young and old come to life on the stage of KTHBE, in an imaginative and tender performance with live music, dance and song that enchants children, frees their imagination and makes them sing with one voice "Mormolis, Mormolis is the element of the city"!

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But who is Mormolis who has upset the whole town and who tells the children what to do; Who is Mormolis who is everywhere and nowhere;
Mormolis is nothing more than... a mere box, a very simple box, who becomes the new friend and secret advisor of all the children. He is the one who tells the grown-ups what the little ones dare not tell them.
Like all children have a teddy bear, or a doll or a dog, who imagine it is alive and talk to it and listen to what it tells them, so did Ricky and Manda, while spending the holidays at their uncles house, do the same with Mormoli, upsetting not only Aunt Polyxeni and Uncle Agesilaos, but the whole city... From the neighbor Mr. Bourinia to the Minister.
And the adults, of course, they get upset after Mormolis with the help of the children, it is everywhere: transforms into a shoe, hat, or even on a stove burner!

"O Mormolis" by Rainer Hachfeld

Source : culturenow.gr

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The Swedish look at the Athens of the crisis

"The city of’ in this period it is of great artistic interest" tell us the curators of the exhibition of the Swedish Institute of Athens

How four Swedes see the Athens of the crisis; The exhibition "KRIS, an artistic test on the concept of crisis" presented by the Swedish Institute of Athens highlights the value of the city as a place of artistic inspiration but also the importance of cooperation between Greece and Sweden. Curated by Antonis Bogadakis - who has participated in organizing exhibitions in Sweden and Turkey, while working in Northern Sweden- the Swedish artists Cecilia Järdemar; (in collaboration with Loukia Alavanou), Jesper Nordahl, Carl Palm and Lisa Torell were invited to come into contact with the Greek reality and express their comments through art.
 The only Greek woman participating in the exhibition, Loukia Alavanou, which won the TIE IT award 2007 and lives between Athens and London, he tells vima.gr : "Athens has a great artistic interest at this time. The political situation of the country and the images one sees in the city are reminiscent of Berlin immediately after the fall of the wall. The moment is important to carry out such initiatives as the invitation of foreign artists and the exchange of artistic ideas and opinions. Unfortunately, Nevertheless, Greece is not familiar with the institution of residency as it is called. Too bad because even countries that are not in Europe, like Cairo, have tradition p’ these practices".
  According to what Loukia Alavanou reports, the initiative will also have a second part. What will this consist of?; In the visit of Greek artists to Sweden and the creation of Greek works _ always in relation to the crisis in our country _ which will be implemented within 2013.
 According to the people at the Swedish Institute of Athens, the invitation to four Swedish artists to capture through art the comments and impressions from their contact with the Greek reality in this difficult period becomes at the same time an occasion to explore the perspective of the trenches as they have been defined by the dividing lines that have been set and widely disseminated primarily by the mass media between the north and the south of Europe. The exhibition aspires to contribute to a debate that has been open for a long time not only about the reasons for the outbreak of the crisis but also about the role that the concept of the political plays in dealing with it.
 The report is complemented by two separate discussions, one with the participating artists on Saturday 2 February 2013 (time 18:00) and the other with Aris Fioretos as guests, author and professor of Theory of Aesthetics and Literature at the University College of Sentertern in Stockholm and Alexandra Deligiorgis, writer and professor of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Saturday 9 February 2013 (time 18:00). 
«KRIS – A visual experiment on the concept of crisis"
31.01 – 28.02. 2013
Space: Swedish Institute of Athens, Mitsai 9, Makrigianni
Tel: 210 92 32 102: swedinst@sia.gr http://www.sia.gr
 
Source : tovima.gr
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"We will remember you, Pavle Matesi, as an intellectual of the high art of speech"

The writer's funeral took place from the Papagou Cemetery

Under the cypress trees of the Papagou Cemetery rests the body of Pavlos Matesi.
The funeral service was sung on Tuesday at noon in the church of Evangelistria of Papagos in the presence of his relatives and numerous writers and theater people.
Dimitris Posantzis said goodbye to the deceased on behalf of Kastaniotis publications: "We are your debtors, those of us who were lucky enough to know you well. We will always remember you as an intellectual dedicated to the high art of speech and the value of literature, as a teacher who taught dignity and deep humanity."
His body was followed by Spyros Evangeliatos, Kostas Murselas, Giorgos Dialegmenos, Thanasis Kastaniotis, Eva Karaitidis, Thanasis Niarchos, Zyranna Zateli, Eugenia and Michalis Fakinos, Lakis Papadopoulos, Grigoris Psarianos, Mimis Androulakis, Telemachus Chytiris, Nikos Sifunakis et al
Source : tovima.gr