Sunday 14 April 2019. With a great success was presented the
Oratorio: "The United Nations - Hope of Mankind" by Panagiotis
Karousos under the auspices of the Club for UNESCO Piraeus and Islands in
Corinth.
Corinthians have had the opportunity to enjoy a great
concert of renown composer Panagiotis Karousos, that impressed the audience
with works of original music with melodic harmony.
The concert was conducted by the leading Greek conductor
Faidra Giannelou, who with her excellent technique did an amazing performance
of musical works that pleased the audience.
The soloists were two great voices of the opera, soprano
Irini Konsta, and bass Vasilis Asimakopoulos, who performed magically the
excellent works of Panagiotis Karousos. Their splendid voices and their
spectacular stage presence moved and inspired the audience.
At the concert participated the Graduates' Choir of Music
School Pallini” the Attiki Educators' Choir “Choremus” and the Hellenic
Symphony Orchestra conducted by great maestro Faidra Giannelou.
This excellent concert was co-organized by the Department of
School Activities of the Directorate for Secondary Education of Corinthia and
the Municipality of Corinth under the auspices of the Club for UNESCO Piraeus
and Islands.
The concert was attended by official authorities, Mayor of
Corinth Alexandros Pneumatikos, the Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Corinth
Costas Partsinevelos, Ioannis Pheidas Director of Corinth Directorate for
Secondary Education, and the well-known private researcher, writer and
consultant of the cultural heritage of UNESCO Piraeus and the Islands Giorgos
Tsoukalis who represented Ioannis Maronitis, President of the Club for UNESCO
Piraeus & Islands.
Organizer Anastasia Tsapalou musician and head of the
Department of School Activities said: “The music of composer Panagiotis
Karousos is equivalent to the great classics of the opera, so far nothing has
been heard so impressive in the Greek repertoire of the opera".
In the first part of the concert were presented works by
Panagiotis Karousos:
Introduction of the opera "Prometheus Bound",
Choir of Oceanids from the opera "Prometheus Bound", Duet (Prometheus
- Io) from the opera "Prometheus Bound", Choir (Olympic Flame) from the opera
"Trachiniae"
Duet (Macaria - Hyllus) from the opera
"Trachiniae", Choir from the opera "Alexander the Great",
Choir from the Oratorio: "The Light of Christianity".
In the second part of the concert was presented the
Oratorio: "The United Nations - Hope of Mankind" dedicated to the
United Nations.
"Overture", "I Hear America Singing"
Walt Whitman, "Le Chanteur" Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, "A
Day of Spring" Li Po, "Divine Music" La Voix de l'éternelle
sagesse” Kahlil Gibran, " Canción del gitano
apaleado" Federico Garcia Lorca, "The Harp of the Songs"
Lamartine, Finale: "The Song of the Nations".
The program began with a poem by Anastasia Tsapalou,
inspired by the opera "Prometheus Bound" by Panagiotis Karousos.
