Monday 18, Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20 April 2022
From 17.00 to 23.00
A musical relay to 17 historical landmarks of Plaka and the centre of Athens
Artistic director George Koumentakis
Free entrance
The Ministry of Culture and Sports, the National Opera and Eurolife FFH present the 1st Festival of Worship Music, a new large-scale event that will take place from Monday to Wednesday at 17 historical landmarks of Plaka and the centre of Athens. The Festival, under the artistic direction of Giorgos Koumentakis, will present a marathon of 62 concerts and artistic activities, approaching numerous and unexpected aspects of the relationship between religious worship and music, in museums, archaeological sites, churches, streets and squares.
More than 400 young and distinguished Greek artists, musicians, choirs, singers, chanters, cantors, composers, actors, musicians participate in an unprecedented experience of devotion in the streets of Plaka and the centre of Athens. For three consecutive days, from 18 to 20 April 2022, the musical relay of the 1st Festival of Worship Music will bring great works of world music, tradition and contemporary creation, with worship as the theme, to the Acropolis Museum, Areopagitou, the Museum of History of the University of Athens, the Parnassos Literary Society, the Museum of Modern Greek Culture, the chapel of Papadiamantis (Church of St. Elias), the Museum of Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou, the Catholic Cathedral of St. Dionysios Areopagitis, but also on three routes with the Bands of the Army, Air Force and Navy in Dionysios Areopagitou – Apostolos Pavlos – Kapnikareas Square, Acropolis Peripheral and Metropoleos – Monastiraki.
1st FESTIVAL OF WORSHIP MUSIC – PRODUCERS WITH PERFORMANCE SERIES
Epitaph
Mikis Theodorakis
Acropolis Museum (courtyard) [Capacity up to 1.000 people]
Monday 18 April 2022
At 17.00 and 20.30 (Duration: approx. 40΄)
R-evolution #Passion
Music by Dimitris Bakas
Commissioned by the Greek National Opera
National Greek National Orchestra of Athens University History Museum [Capacity up to 50 people]
Monday 18 April 2022
At 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 30΄)
“…. in the desert”, opus 124 (2022)
Dramatic lyrical monologue for baritone and bass clarinet
Music by Philip Tsalachouris
Commissioned by the National Opera
Fethiye Mosque (Roman Agora) [Capacity up to 50 people]
Monday 18 April 2022
At 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 30΄)
At the twilight of spring
Music by Kyriakos Kalaitzidis
Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments “Phoebus Anogeianakis” – Centre for Ethnomusicology [Capacity up to 160 persons]
Monday 18 April 2022
At 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 20΄)
Equábili
Musical direction Agathangelos Georgakatos
Acropolis Museum (ground floor) [Capacity up to 200 people]
Monday 18 April 2022
At 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 30΄)
Stampat Mater
Joakino Rossini
Transcription for chamber music by Jacques-Nicolas Lemmes (London, 1878)
Music direction Marcellus Chrysicopoulos
Holy Catholic Cathedral of St. Dionysius of Areopagite [Capacity up to 400 people]
Monday 18 April 2022
At 19.30 (Duration: approx. 60΄)
Air Force Music
(60:60 p.m. – 60:60 p.m.)
Starting point: Dionysiou Areopagitou (Acropolis Museum)
Stop: Thiseion Square
Termination: Kapnikareas Square
Monday 18 April 2022
Operation of the Temptations
Music by Spyros Kallivokas
Commissioned by the National Opera
Holy Church of St. Elias – Museum of Modern Greek Culture [Capacity up to 50 people]
Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 April 2022
At 22.30 (Duration: approx. 30′)
Hymnological journey through Holy Week
Byzantine Dance Tropos
Music direction: Konstantinos Angelides, Principal cellist
Constantinos Angelos, Conductor of the Choir of the Holy Sepulchre [Capacity up to 150 people]
Monday 18 April 2022
At 22.30 (Duration: approx. 45΄)
45:45 p.m.
Music by Apostolis Koutsogiannis
Oros Ensemble
Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments “Phoebus Anogeianakis” – Centre for Ethnomusicology [Capacity up to 160 people]
- Tuesday 19 April 2022
At 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 30΄)
A tribute to Palestrina
Sibílima Ensemble
Museum of History of the University of Athens [Capacity up to 50 people]
- Tuesday 19 April 2022
At 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 20΄)
Continuum
Mania Papadimitriou actress
Vassilis Papavasiliou double bass
Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou Museum [Capacity up to 30 people]
- Tuesday 19 April 2022
At 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 30΄)
Sacred music of the Sufi dervishes of the City
Fethiye Mosque (Roman Forum) [Capacity up to 50 people]
- Tuesday 19 April 2022
At 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 30′)
Works of worship music on piano – Part A
Parnassos Literary Society [Capacity up to 450 people]
- Tuesday 19 and M. Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 18.00 (Duration: approx. 110΄)
Orchestra leader: Haris Lambrakis
Acropolis Museum (courtyard) [Capacity up to 1.000 people]
- Tuesday 19 April 2022
At 18.00 and 20.00 (Duration: approx. 30′)
Flags
Music by Yannis Maramatas
Commissioned by the Greek National Opera
The Bath of the Aetherides [Capacity up to 50 people]
- Tuesday 19 and M. Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 19.00, 20.00 and 21.00 (Duration: approx. 30΄)
Threnodiæ Germanicæ
Cantores Sancti Pauli – The Clerkes Extraordinarie
Music direction Iason Marmaras
Holy Catholic Cathedral of St. Dionysius of Areopagite [Capacity up to 400 people]
- Tuesday 19 April 2022
At 19.30 (Duration: approx. 30′)
Works of worship music on piano – Part B
Parnassos Literary Society [Capacity up to 450 people]
- Tuesday 19 and M. Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 20.00 (Duration: approx. 90΄)
Seven worship songs
chórés – Marina Satti
Music direction, teaching: Christina Pupalou
Dionysiou Areopagitou Pedestrian Street (Aghia Sophia)
- Tuesday 19 April 2022
At 21.00 (Duration: approx. 25΄)
Commander Colonel (MS) Dionysios Mendes
Chief Musician Colonel Ioannis Maniatis
Starting point: Dionysiou Areopagitou (Agia Sophia)
Stop: Acropolis Entrance
Stop: Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou Museum
- Tuesday 19 April 2022
At 21.45
Catalogue
For voice and string and wind quintet
Music by Martha Mavroidis
Museum of Greek Folk Musical Instruments “Phoebus Anogeianakis” – Centre for Ethnomusicology [Capacity up to 160 people]
Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 20΄)
My eyes, my eyes
Irene
Pavlos and Alexandra Kanellopoulou Museum [Capacity up to 30 people] [Capacity up to 30 people]
Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 30΄)
Dies iræ – Transgression and worship in the Middle Ages
Dimitris Kountouras, Centre of Early Music of the Athens Conservatory
Fethiye Mosque (Roman Agora) [Capacity up to 50 people]
Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 17.00, 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 30΄)
15 Evenings
30:30 p.m. – 30:30 p.m.
Acropolis Museum (courtyard) [Capacity up to 1.000 people]
Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 17.00 and 18.00 (Duration: approx. 40΄)
Voci Contra Tempo
Artistic curator, musical director: Sofia Yoldasi
Acropolis Museum (ground floor) [Capacity up to 200 people]
Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 20΄)
Mourning and metaphysical element in 20th century music
Works for two soloists, viola, cello and piano
Conceived by Nikos Vasileiou
Museum of History of the University of Athens [Capacity up to 50 people]
Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 18.00 and 19.00 (Duration: approx. 30΄)
Mizon Ensemble
Musical direction Agathangelos Georgakatos
Metropolitan-Cathedral Church of Athens [Capacity up to 150 people]
Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 21.30 (Duration: approx. 40΄)
Navy Music
Chief Musician Antonis Karagoudakis, Commander (E)
Starting point: Mitropoleos Square
Stop: Holy Church of the Pammegiston Archangels and Panagia Gregorousa
Stop: Monastiraki Square
Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 22.15
Papadiamantis – Remembrance of the just with praise
Byzantine Dance Tropos
Music direction: Konstantinos Angelides, Principal cellist
Constantinos A. Ellisaios Church – Museum of Modern Greek Culture (courtyard) [Capacity up to 250 people]
Wednesday 20 April 2022
At 22.30 (Duration: approx. 30′)
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