[MGSA-L] April events at Yale

[Syrimis, George]

Apologies if I am sending this twice. For some reason I received an ‘undeliverable’ message from my first attempt.

Enjoy the spring,
George

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April 4-6, 8pm
April 7, 2pm

Cinderella: The Light of God
Written and directed by Andrew Sotiriou (Saybrook 2013)

The play is an adaptation from a Greek folktale from Nymphaio (village in North Greece).

Saybrook Underbrook
Saybrook College, 242 Elm street
Entrance H, on the corner of Elm and High Streets

For more information and ticket reservations visit:

http://www.yaledramacoalition.org/cinderella/

The performance is a Creative and Performing Arts production and is partly funded by the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale University.
Disclaimer: the Hellenic Studies Program is not issuing tickets nor receiving any of the funds raised by ticket sales.

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Thursday, April 19, 7:30 PM
Title TBA. The topic of the talk will be Byzantine art.

Charles Barber
Chair of the Department of Art, Art History and Design at Notre Dame University. Co-sponsored with the Medieval-Renaissance Forum

History of Art Department
Loria 351
190 York Street, New Haven

A light pizza dinner will be served at 7:00 in Loria 350.
The talk is co-sponsored by the Medieval-Renaissance Forum, History of Art Department, and the Hellenic Studies Program.

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April 20-22
History of Art Department
190 York Street, New Haven


Conference: “Byzantium/Modernism: Art Cultural Heritage and the Avant-Gardes.”

The Byzantine Empire cultivated a thriving community of theologians and philosophers that debated the ontological, phenomenological, and broader epistemic foundations of the image, upon which the Empire and the Church grounded their physical and metaphysical rule.  Since the nineteenth century, artists, critics, and scholars have utilized the Byzantine as a manner of articulating the development of modernity and its image-world.  For example, in 1958, Clement Greenberg famously remarked on the formal homologies between Byzantine art and contemporary abstraction.  Before him, Roger Fry coined the term "Proto-Byzantines" to describe the Post-Impressionists, and Alfred Barr described Byzantine art and its iconic heritage as fundamental to modern art.  The connection between Byzantium and modernity, however, is usually relegated to passing references or mere formal parallels, lacking a sustained consideration and archaeology of its conceptual grounding.

What does modern art have to gain from Byzantium?  How can Byzantine philosophy enrich our understanding of the modern and contemporary image? The goal of this conference is twofold: First, to investigate the prolific interest in Byzantine art at the turn of the century and its effects on the historical Avant-Gardes in art, architecture, and visual culture to the present; second, to articulate how Byzantine art and image philosophy can contribute to modern and contemporary visual culture. The intention is to produce an intellectual history of art from the nineteenth century to the present that uses Byzantium/Modernism as a paradigmatic fissure for the co-identification of said terms.

Keynote speakers are Marie-Jose Mondzain, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Robert Nelson, Robert Lehman Professor, History of Art, Medieval Art and Architecture at Yale.

For full program, registration, and accommodations please visit:
http://byzmod2012.eventbrite.com/

The conference is organized by Roland Betancourt and Maria Taroutina. Sponsored by Beinecke Library, The Çağatay Fund at the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center, Charles Gallaudet Trumbull Lectureship, Dean’s Fund, European Studies Council with a Title VI US Department of Education Grant, Hellenic Studies, History Department, History of Art Department, Martin Kellogg Fund at the Classics Department, Office of the Provost, Office of the Secretary, Religious Studies Department, Yale Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and the Modern Greek Studies Association.

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

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

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.

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For more information about the Hellenic Studies Program's activities visit our website at http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/hsp . Please also visit our “Community Events” section for local activities. You can also find us on Facebook. Search for “Hellenic Studies Program, Yale University”

The activities of the Hellenic Studies Program are generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Hellenic Studies at Yale University.


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