THE SONGS OF FREEDOM BY PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS AT ZAPPEION MEGARON

 THE SONGS OF FREEDOM BY PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS

CLUB FOR UNESCO OF PIRAEUS & ISLANDS / INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART GREECE 1821 - 2021
“We are all one at music concert”

TUESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2021 AT 8 PM
ZAPPEION MEGARON - Courtyard
Mr Ioannis Maronitis, President of Club for UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands and INTERNATIONAL ACTION ART
Presentation and recitation of poems by Eleni Filini and Costas Venetsanos

Vocals: Erofili Tzanou, Dimitris Kanellos, Elpida Metaxa, Theodoros Birakos, Georgina Antonakaki. Musicians: Andreas Prionas (piano), Giannis Lambrakis (bouzouki), Nikos Tsachtsiris (double bass), Andreas Niakaris (percussion). Musical direction of the renown maestro Andreas Prionas
Poems Set to Music by composer Panagiotis Karousos: The Enchanted Fountain (Costas Krystallis), Remembrance (Dionysios Solomos), Approach (Yiannis Ritsos), Wayfarer (Paul Nirvana), Ode to Makriyanni (Angelos Sikelianos),
Tu sei come una terra (Cesare Paveze), No te amo (Pablo Nerouda), Love is life War and peace (Leon Tolstoy),
How much I love you (Yannis Vilaras), The child in the river (Georgios Vizyinos), Silence (Kostis Palamas),
Parthenon (Kostis Palamas), You the sweet (George Drosinis), Caryatids (Ioannis Polemis), Elevation (Nikiforos Vrettakos), In an old church (Miltiadis Malakasis), In the night club (Napoleon Lapathiotis), Learn the pain (Ioannis Gryparis), My world (Karl Marx), You will pull forward (Manolis Anagnostakis) Flowers of the cliff (Georgios Drosinis), Tomorrow Light (Alekos Panagoulis), Memory (Konstantinos Cavafy), Maid of Athens (Lord Byron)

ΤΡΊΤΗ, 14 ΣΕΠΤΕΜΒΡΊΟΥ 2021 ΣΤΙΣ 8 Μ.Μ. UTC+03 – 11 Μ.Μ. UTC+03

Hellenic American Center of the Arts / Ελληνοαμερικανικό Κέντρο των Τεχνών

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Ceremonial Plaque depicting Cybele on her chariot, a votive sacrifice and the sun God, from Alexandria Oxiana (Ai Khanoum), 3rd century BC, National Museum of Afghanistan

 

Ceremonial Plaque depicting Cybele on her chariot, a votive sacrifice and the sun God, from Alexandria Oxiana (Ai Khanoum), 3rd century BC, National Museum of Afghanistan

One of the oldest antiquities found at Aï Khanum, this spectacular disk depicts Cybele, the goddess of nature, and Nike, the personification of Victory, on a chariot drawn by two lions through a mountainous landscape. It is a remarkable example of hybrid Greek and Oriental imagery that typified the arts of Hellenized Asia. Ancient Near Eastern features include: the parasol—a royal symbol—here held by a priest; the stepped altar; the shape of the chariot; the scalloped pattern indicating mountainous terrain; and the moon crescent and the star.

The cult of Cybele originated in Anatolia but had long been adopted by the Greeks. Also borrowed from the Greek tradition are the representation of the winged Nike, the bust of the sun god Helios, and the naturalistic rendering of the drapery and the lions. The overall composition of the scene, however, lacking any indication of perspective, is more typical of Near Eastern art.

The Archaeologist

Hellenic Civilization