3/08/2008
Song for a Winter's Night ,Youtube
A lovely old tune by Nana Mouskouri. The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top The snow is softly fallin' The air is still within the silence of my room I hear your voice softly callin' If I could only have you near To breathe a sigh or two I would be happy just to hold the hands I love And to be once again with you The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead My glass is almost empty I read again between the lines upon the page The words of love you sent me If I could know within my heart That you were lonely too I would be happy just to hold the hands I love And to be once again with you And to be once again with you Added: March 07, 2008 Category: Music Tags: nana mouskouri song for winter's night From: renamouskouri
News from grhomeboy.wordpress.com、Successful experiment continues at the Hellenic Festival March 5, 2008
Successful experiment continues at the Hellenic Festival March 5, 2008Posted by grhomeboy in Arts EventsGreece, Arts Festivals. Tags: arts, athens, Culture, Epidaurus Festival of Ancient Drama, Events, Festivals, Greece, Hellenic Festival, Nana Mouskouri trackback
The Hellenic Festival’s program for 2008 follows format that was established just two years ago > Top dancer Sylvie Guillem will perform ‘Le Sacre de Printemps’ as part of the tribute to Maurice Bejart.
Ever since Giorgos Loukos took over, the Hellenic Festival has undergone an unprecedented change. By reaching out to young audiences and introducing new venues, from 2006 the institution has acquired a new identity.
This summer promises to continue the newly established tradition. At yesterday’s press conference Loukos announced the, once more, rich program, which has two novelties, a stronger emphasis on visual arts and on collaboration between foreign directors and Greek actors. Highlights include a tribute to the recently deceased dance master Maurice Bejart with Sylvie Guillem, choreographies by Trisha Brown and Pina Bausch and a dance performance with Mikhail Baryshnikov, but also Dimitris Papaioannou’s milestone performance “Medea”. Music fans will be able to enjoy Nana Mouskouri’s last concert.
The Hellenic Festival’s program for 2008 follows format that was established just two years ago > Top dancer Sylvie Guillem will perform ‘Le Sacre de Printemps’ as part of the tribute to Maurice Bejart.
Ever since Giorgos Loukos took over, the Hellenic Festival has undergone an unprecedented change. By reaching out to young audiences and introducing new venues, from 2006 the institution has acquired a new identity.
This summer promises to continue the newly established tradition. At yesterday’s press conference Loukos announced the, once more, rich program, which has two novelties, a stronger emphasis on visual arts and on collaboration between foreign directors and Greek actors. Highlights include a tribute to the recently deceased dance master Maurice Bejart with Sylvie Guillem, choreographies by Trisha Brown and Pina Bausch and a dance performance with Mikhail Baryshnikov, but also Dimitris Papaioannou’s milestone performance “Medea”. Music fans will be able to enjoy Nana Mouskouri’s last concert.
For detailed info please visit > http://www.greekfestival.gr/
Nana Fan of the world, from entreasbrumasdamemoria.blogspot.com
7.3.08
Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri (73 anos) vai despedir-se em breve dos palcos – em Barcelona, no próximo da 14.Mais uma que se cala, a tempo – que causa estragos nas fotografias e também nas vozes.
Para além de cantora, Nana Mouskouri foi nomeada Embaixadora da Boa Vontade da UNICEF, em 1993, distinguindo-se pela sua acção na Bósnia. Pacifista activa, foi também deputada no Parlamento Europeu, entre 1994 e 1999.
3/07/2008
アテネフェスティバルのプログラムが発表されました♪♪♪true-athens.comから
Hellenic Festival 2008 - Athens Festival 2008 Program Announced
Posted on March 5th, 2008
One of my favorite things to do in Athens in the summertime is to attend a concert or performance at the Herod Atticus Theater in the historical center. There is actually nothing quite like a concert under the stars, beneath the Acropolis, with the ancient walls surrounding you. We actually stumbled upon our first concert there, it was in October, a time when the theater is usually closed for the season already. But this particular year there had been an earthquake in Athens, and a last minute event was scheduled at the theater, and while taking an evening stroll we noticed a lot of activity in the plaza in front of the theater. We inquired as to what was going on and upon learning there was a benefit concert for the earthquake victims, decided to purchase tickets and head in. Of course, we were seated and the orchestra finishing its warm-up when we realized we didn’t even know who we were seeing! The evening is etched in my memory as one of the most perfect Athens nights I have ever experienced. Yannis Markopoulos, one of Greece’s finest composers, conducted his opera, The Liturgy of Orpheus. The cast included two sopranos, a narrator and two tenors. One of the tenors was not only wonderful to listen to, but equally wonderful to look at. We inquired around us as to who this talented young singer was, but none of the Greeks seated around us seemed to know. It wasn’t until several years later, walking down Vas. Sophias that I noticed a familiar face on an advertisement attached to a bus shelter. The young tenor we had been charmed by had found success in his musical path. It was Marios Fragoulis, today a very successful, well known Greek singer and performer.
Needless to say, we try to attend something at the Herodion Theater every summer, sometimes we manage two or three performances. At last year’s Athens Festival we saw the opera Carmen, (with Denise Graves, who performed the role when we saw her in Chicago at the Lyric opera) and another concert with Georgos Dalaras in a tribute to rembetika, but we missed Elvis Costello.
You don’t have to wait for tragedy to strike in Athens to have the perfect Athenian night, and while I do think that the Odeon of Herodeus Atticus Theater is the best place to experience music under the stars, the Hellenic Festival has numerous venues and a wide choice of genres to choose from. Visitors traveling outside of Athens even have options such as the Theater at Epidavros (where two years ago we saw Antigone, in Ancient Greek, in a theater that was first put into use 2500 years ago! As well as the Little Theater at Epidavros. Additional events are scheduled at 5 other venues throughout the city of Athens, including the Benaki Museum’s Pireos Annex, The Scholeion Theatre in Moschato (on Pireos Street), Pireos 260 (located in Tavros, on Pireos Street near the Athens School of Fine Art), The Athens Concert Hall (Megaro Muziki, on Vas. Sophias), Technopolis in Gazi.
This year’s lineup includes such diverse theatrical performances by the National Theatre of Great Britain doing Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, Spyros A. Evangelatos Amphi-Theatre performing Euripides’ Phoenician and a German production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Musical events include the National Greek Opera’s production of Puccini’s Turandot, Greece’s own, Nana Mouskouri at the Odeon of Herod Atticus, a concert by Stamatis Kraounakis, a Renée Fleming recital at the Odeon of Herod Atticus and Savina Yannatou in concert at the Little Theater at Epidavrus. The Festival includes dance performances and installation as well.
The 2008 Hellenic Festival and the Athens Festival have just announced the 2008 summer performance schedule. Tickets for all events may be ordered online three weeks prior to the performance or they may be purchased in person at the box office. For ticketing questions in Athens call +30 - 210 32 72 000 or email tickets@greekfestival.gr .
Posted on March 5th, 2008
One of my favorite things to do in Athens in the summertime is to attend a concert or performance at the Herod Atticus Theater in the historical center. There is actually nothing quite like a concert under the stars, beneath the Acropolis, with the ancient walls surrounding you. We actually stumbled upon our first concert there, it was in October, a time when the theater is usually closed for the season already. But this particular year there had been an earthquake in Athens, and a last minute event was scheduled at the theater, and while taking an evening stroll we noticed a lot of activity in the plaza in front of the theater. We inquired as to what was going on and upon learning there was a benefit concert for the earthquake victims, decided to purchase tickets and head in. Of course, we were seated and the orchestra finishing its warm-up when we realized we didn’t even know who we were seeing! The evening is etched in my memory as one of the most perfect Athens nights I have ever experienced. Yannis Markopoulos, one of Greece’s finest composers, conducted his opera, The Liturgy of Orpheus. The cast included two sopranos, a narrator and two tenors. One of the tenors was not only wonderful to listen to, but equally wonderful to look at. We inquired around us as to who this talented young singer was, but none of the Greeks seated around us seemed to know. It wasn’t until several years later, walking down Vas. Sophias that I noticed a familiar face on an advertisement attached to a bus shelter. The young tenor we had been charmed by had found success in his musical path. It was Marios Fragoulis, today a very successful, well known Greek singer and performer.
Needless to say, we try to attend something at the Herodion Theater every summer, sometimes we manage two or three performances. At last year’s Athens Festival we saw the opera Carmen, (with Denise Graves, who performed the role when we saw her in Chicago at the Lyric opera) and another concert with Georgos Dalaras in a tribute to rembetika, but we missed Elvis Costello.
You don’t have to wait for tragedy to strike in Athens to have the perfect Athenian night, and while I do think that the Odeon of Herodeus Atticus Theater is the best place to experience music under the stars, the Hellenic Festival has numerous venues and a wide choice of genres to choose from. Visitors traveling outside of Athens even have options such as the Theater at Epidavros (where two years ago we saw Antigone, in Ancient Greek, in a theater that was first put into use 2500 years ago! As well as the Little Theater at Epidavros. Additional events are scheduled at 5 other venues throughout the city of Athens, including the Benaki Museum’s Pireos Annex, The Scholeion Theatre in Moschato (on Pireos Street), Pireos 260 (located in Tavros, on Pireos Street near the Athens School of Fine Art), The Athens Concert Hall (Megaro Muziki, on Vas. Sophias), Technopolis in Gazi.
This year’s lineup includes such diverse theatrical performances by the National Theatre of Great Britain doing Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, Spyros A. Evangelatos Amphi-Theatre performing Euripides’ Phoenician and a German production of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Musical events include the National Greek Opera’s production of Puccini’s Turandot, Greece’s own, Nana Mouskouri at the Odeon of Herod Atticus, a concert by Stamatis Kraounakis, a Renée Fleming recital at the Odeon of Herod Atticus and Savina Yannatou in concert at the Little Theater at Epidavrus. The Festival includes dance performances and installation as well.
The 2008 Hellenic Festival and the Athens Festival have just announced the 2008 summer performance schedule. Tickets for all events may be ordered online three weeks prior to the performance or they may be purchased in person at the box office. For ticketing questions in Athens call +30 - 210 32 72 000 or email tickets@greekfestival.gr .
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