Tuesday, March 29, 2011

"Journey in Greece" by Unesco-Greece

On the occasion of the 2011 edition of the Melina Merkouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of cultural landscapes (by Unesco-Greece), the Ambassador of Greece to Unesco Theodoros Passas, is organising the performance "Journey in Greece" on Tuesday March 29 2011 at 18:30 (Maison de l'Unesco, 125 de Suffren av., 75007 Paris). 
 
"Journey in Greece" is a cultural event that represents a visual, musical and poetic journey to reveal Greek landscapes through the lens of Dimitris Talianis and the poetry of Giorgios Seferis and Odysseas Elytis both Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature. 
 
The performance consists of four music pictures set by Dimitris Talianis; the first one is "Orientations", poetry of Odysseas Elytis, music by Ilias Andriopoulos and vocals by Alkisti Protopsalti; the second one, "Meteors -third day" music by Stamatis Spanoudakis and vocals by Manolis Mitsias; the third one, "Corfu -Ionian light" music by Zbigniew Preisner and Antonio Vivaldi, narration Grigoris Valtinos; and the fourth one "Rust and Brine" poetry of Giorgios Seferis, music by Eleni Karaindrou and narration by Christos Tsangas. 






source: ANA