[MGSA-L] Recital at Yale tonight

Syrimis, George george.syrimis at yale.edu
Fri Apr 27 06:54:34 PDT 2012


The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation (USA) the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale University

Cordially invite you to


C.P. Cavafy and Music:  An Evening of Songs and Reflections


Friday, April 27, 7:00PM
Whitney Humanities Center
53 Wall Street, New Haven


Participants:
·      Alexandra Gravas, mezzo soprano; concert performer, opera singer, recording artist, Vienna
·      Dr. Pantelis Polychronidis, pianist; Adjunct Professor, Music Program, Institute for the International Education of Students (IES), Vienna
·      Dr. Vassilis Lambropoulos, speaker; C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan

This is a program of poetry & music that incorporates a scholarly approach.  It reflects on the contemporary art song (lied) by focusing on poems by Cavafy set to music by several composers from the 1920s to the present.  The program raises two intertwined questions:
What happens to poetry when it is set to music?
What happens to song when it is based on poetry?
These are questions that have been of great interest to scholars and students specializing in fields such as Literature, Aesthetics, Translation, Voice, Piano, Performance, Composition, Musicology as well as the relations among the arts.

The program brings together the two most popular areas of modern Greek culture, music and poetry, and focuses on the internationally best known Greek author. It consists of Cavafy songs by Greek, American, German, and British composers, such as Mitropoulos, Hadjidakis, Theodorakis, Papademetriou, Henze, Brown, Rorem, Bolcom, and Gompper. Although Cavafy's poems notoriously resist being set to music, large numbers of composers have found the challenge irresistible. This program examines the challenges presented by the poetry and the diverse musical idioms that have been used to turn it into art song.

Gravas and Polychronidis have extensive experience in the musical interpretation of poetry in general (and not just Greek poetry). They have performed lieder by a wide range of classical and modern composers in countries such as the U.S., England, Germany, Slovakia, Austria, and Israel.

The concert is generously funded by the Onassis Foundation (USA) and with additional funds by the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale University.

THE CONCERT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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