Liederabend with works by Karousos at the Society of Greek Writers

The Hellenic American Center of the Arts in collaboration with the Society of Greek Writers present poems of Byron, Cavafy, Seferis, Aeschylus, Nathanael, Karousos, Apollinaire, Lamartine, Rachel, Shakespeare and Goethe set to music by Panagiotis Karousos.

Performed by the artists:
Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass
Fotini Athanasaki, mezzo
Chris Delizonas, tenor
Katerina Karabatsa, piano
Guest appearance: Helen Panagiotopoulou, soprano
Greeting by Paul Nathanael, President of  Society of Greek Writers 

Presentation by Kostas Karousos, General Secretary of the Society of Greek Writers

Program:
1) Constantine Cavafy: " Come Back " - Chris Delizonas, tenor
2) Constantine Cavafy: "The Horses of Achilles" - Fotini Athanasaki, mezzo
3) Paul Nathanael: "The Fall of Oedipus' - Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass
4) Paul Nathanael: "Futility" - Chris Delizonas, tenor
5) Goethe: "Nachtgedanken" - Fotini Athanasaki, mezzo
6) George Seferis: "Midsummer" - Chris Delizonas, tenor
7) Lord Byron: "Aristomenes" - Fotini Athanasaki, mezzo
8) Lord Byron: "The Maid of Athens" - Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass
9) Alphonse de Lamartine: «La Harpe des Cantiques» - Chris Delizonas, tenor
10) Guillaume Apollinaire: «Automne» - Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass
11) Rachel (Bluwstein): «To My Country»: Fotini Athanasaki, mezzo
12) Aria from Alexander the Great (Spanish) - Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass
13) Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound aria of "Hermes - Chris Delizonas, tenor
14) Aeschylus 'Prometheus Bound' aria of Violence - Fotini Athanasaki, mezzo
15) Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound " aria of Prometheus - Vasilis Asimakopoulos, bass
(Aria of Io from the opera Prometheus Bound, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 109, and Karousos' "O Nature" with Helen Panagiotopoulou, soprano)

Friday, April 19 at 7pm 
Conference Room of Society of Greek Writers

(8 Gennadiou and Zoodochou Pigis), 7th floor, Athens, Greece
Free Admission
Information: Phone: 210-3834559
www.eel.org.gr