C.P. Cavafy - Recitation and Singing
C.P. Cavafy - Recitation and Singing
By
the Cavafy Team of the Ano Syros Cultural Association
Cavafy Team lead by
Babis Koulouras, was formed in the summer of 2006, aiming to promote the poetry
of the great Greek poet C.P. Cavafy.
Many people of culture
consider this project, which has been performed more than 50 times in Greece
and abroad, as one of the most complete approaches to the significant
Alexandrian poet’s work.
The Team performs
for free and in case of any fee, it is being donated to organizations with
social and charity activities.
The Cavafy Team and
its leader Babis Koulouras have been awarded for their cultural activity by the
Greek community organizations, by UNESCO and by the Peloponnesians Club of
Syros. They have also been awarded the Paul Harris Fellow Award by the Hermoupolis
Rotary Club. With a unanimous Municipal Council decision they have been awarded
the Golden Metal of Syros-Hermoupolis, and have been proclaimed by FORUM 20.21
as Ambassadors of the Cyclades candidacy for the European Capital of Cultural
of 2021.
The project has been performed
in the poet’s house in Alexandria Egypt, in the Arts Centre of Alexandria
Egypt, at Kini Syros under the August full moon, in the Ancient Theatre of
Samos, at Exombourgo Tinos Festival, in Syros Apollo Theatre, in the Posidonia
Syros Tsiropina Palace, as well as at the islands of Andros, Ios, Thira, Naxos,
Amorgos, Serifos, Myconos, Paros, Shoinousa and Tinos. Furthermore there have
been performances at the Athens Roman Forum, the “Dionisios Areopagitis” amphitheatre
in Athens, the Athens Concert Hall, the Constantinople’s Patriarchal School of
the Nation (attended also by the Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos), Evgenidis
Foundation in Athens, the archaeological site of Delos, the University of
Helsinki, New York, Boston, the Granada Concert Hall, the Musical Documentation
Center of Andalusia, the International Music Festival of Ubeda in Andalusia,
the Castello of Rhodes, the Delphi Archeological sites, Ioannina, Karditsa, the
Kiveli Institute in Syros, the Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Harvard University, Brussels, Stockholm, Patra,
Heraklion Creta, Milos island, Paleo Faliro, Patmos, Sydney and Adelaide.
London, Cyprus, Ithaki, Cephalonia,
Berlin, Melbourne, Canberra and the Piraeus Municipal Theatre, will be the next
stops for this project.
Twelve Cavafy poems set to music by Greek artists are
performed by Nikos Apergis, Nikos Roussos, Antonis Konsolakis, Vangelis
Aragiannis, Sofia Serefoglou, Georgia Litsa, Zannis Maragos and Makis Printezis
and sung by Elpida Gad and Chryssoula Kehagioglou.
Babis Koulouras recites by heart
twenty poems. Nikoletta Roussou reads documents about the poet’s life, as well as reviews
and aspects concerning his work.
The performance,
which lasts 90 min. approx., is directed by Babis Koulouras.
For more information about the
project, press releases, reviews, photos and videos, please visit the Cavafy Team
blog http://www.kavafis-syros.blogspot.gr.
Contact: politistikosanosyrou@gmail.com
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