Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies – Concerts

Concerts and Performances

Concerts

Concert: "Songs of Greece: A Musical Odyssey from Smyrna to Athens"
May 3, 2012, 8:00 p.m., Mathey College Common Room

HLS Jazz Concert: "Chromatisms" Nicholas Bouloukos and the GrecoNubian Quintet
May 15, 2011, 3:00 p.m., Taplin Hall

Hellenic Studies 30^th Anniversary Concert
Princeton Symphony Orchestra: Collaboration with Princeton University Art Museum
Works by Schoenberg, Barber, and Tavener
March 21, 2010, 4:00 pm, Richardson Auditorium

“Capella Romana: Renaissance Encounters”
November 12, 2009, 8:00 p.m., Princeton University Chapel

“Capella Romana: Hellenes and Music in the Renaissance”
Friday, April 13, 2007, 8:00 p.m., Nassau Presbyterian Church

“Orientations: Greek Music of the Twentieth Century”

Sunday, May 8, 2005, 2:30 p.m.,McAlpin Rehearsal Hall, the Woolworth Center

“Music for the Fall of Constantinople”

Monday, April 19, 2004 at 8:00 p.m., Princeton University Chapel

(Co-sponsored by Music Dept.)

Cappella Romana, directed by Alexander Lingas

“Tchaikovsky – Capriccio Italien Skalkottas – Greek Dances. Dvorak, Symphoney No. ( in E Minor ‘From the New World’”

Friday, December 5 and Sunday, December 7, 2003, Richardson Auditorium

Princeton University Orchestra, Hobart Earle, Conductor

“Works by German and Greek Composers”

Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 8:00 p.m. in McAlpin Rehearsal Room, the Woolworth Center

Kurt Nikkanen, violin; Maria Asteriadou, piano

Maria Farandouri

Friday, October 5, 2001 at 8:00 p.m., Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall

Cancelled

“Greek Songs and Poems: for George Seferis (1900-1971)”

Friday, November 10, 2000 at 8:00 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

(Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Music Department and Davis International Center)

Elly Paspala with David Lynch and Stavros Lantsias

Edmund Keeley reading poems by George Seferis in English translation

“An Evening of Music by Nikos Skalkottas”, 20^th Anniversary Concert

Friday, May 12, 2000 at 8:00 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

(Co-sponsored by the Princeton University Music Department)

Georgios Demertzis, violin; Maria Kitsopoulos, cello; Maria Asteriadou, piano

“An Evening of Songs and Dances from Greece and the Americas”

Friday, March 31, 2000 at 8:00 p.m., Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

(Co-sponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies, the Princeton University Music Department, and Davis International Center)

Eleftheria Kotzia, classical guitar

“Stratis Minakakis ’02, piano (works by Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Minakakis)”

Wednesday, April 14, 1999, the McAlpin Rehearsal Room, the Woolworth Center

Diamanda Galás, vocalist, composer, and performer

Friday, February 20, 1998

“The Shield of Achilles: A symphony for soprano and chamber orchestra; text from Iliad 18”

Sunday, May 11, 1997

A senior thesis production by Charu Surianarin ’97

“ST-X Ensemble Xenakis USA – Iannis Xenakis”

Tuesday, November 19, 1996, Richardson Hall

Charles Zachary Bornstein, Conductor; Iannis Xenakis: Kraanerg

“Romeiko Ensemble”

Saturday, November 16, 1996 at 8:00 p.m., Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

George Bilalis, Artistic Director & Conductor with Serhan Aytan, Sehvar Besiroglu, Salih Bilgin, Feridun Ozgoren, Derya Turkan

“Music Concert”. Modern Greek Poetry set to music by contemporary Greek and American composers – in honor of Edmund Keeley on the occasion of his retirement

Saturday, January 15, 1994, Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

Mimmi Fulmer, soprano; Martin Amlin, piano; Elise Yun, piano; Penelope Bitzas, mezzo-soprano; Evangelos Fampas, guitar

“The Works of Greek Composers”

Thursday, November 18, 1993, Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall

with support from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation

J. Georgiadis, violin; D. Mallouhos, piano; P. Anastasiadis, viola; I. Karaghianni, soprano

“Byzantine Hymns and Folk Songs”

Friday, November 5, 1993, Princeton University Chapel

“Romanos O Melodos” Choir of the Byzantine Cantors Association

Organized in connection with the 19^th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference

“Spring Concert”

Monday, April 26, 1993

Folk and Popular songs from Greece; 20^th century works inspired by Greek myths and modern Greek poetry

“Eleftheria Kotzia – Greek, Spanish and Latin American music for the guitar”

Friday, November 13, 1992

Songs featuring Greek, Spanish and Latin American music for the guitar

“Music by Epirus performed by the Halkias Family”

October 7, 1983

“The Greek Inspiration”

Fall, 1982

Jim Brown and Mary Gifford

“Music by Hellenic Composers”

May 28, 1981

Performances

“World Story Festival”
Saturday, February 17, 2007, Costen Children’s Library

“Art Museum Reading”
Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 5:30 p.m., Art Museum
Robert Fagles

“Hellenic Studies Poetry Reading”
Sunday, May 15, 2005, 4:00 p.m., Betts Auditorium
Edmund Keeley

“Readings from the Odyssey”
Thursday, November 13, 2003, 4:30 p.m., Art Museum
Robert Fagles (Comparative Literature)

“Homer’s Odyssey in Performance”
Sunday, April 6, 2003, 9:30 a.m., Costen Children’s Library, Firestone
Elli Papakonstantinou (ODC Ensemble), Dimitris Kamarotos (Center for Contemporary Music Research in Athens),

“ODC… After Homer”
Friday, April 4, 2003, 2:30 p.m.
Elli Papakonstantinou (ODC Ensemble) and Dimitris Kamarotos, Center for Contemporary Music Research in Athens

“Hellenic Studies Poetry Reading”
Tuesday, November 19, 2002, 6:00 p.m. Scheide Caldwell House, 103
Linda Gregg and Don Schofield reading poetry

“An Evening with Seamus Heaney”
April 16-17, 2002, 4:30 p.m., Richardson Auditorium
Seamus Heaney reading poetry

“Readings and Discussion: an Evening with Cavafy”
November 20, 2001, 6:00 p.m., 58 Prospect Ave, Room 107
Edmund Keeley reading “The Landscape of Cavafy’s ‘Ionic’”
Peter Green reading “Caelum non Animum”
Alexander Nehamas reading “This Poem Can’t Exist: Cavafy’s ‘Painted’”
Eleni Sikelianos reading “Cavafy’s ‘Voices’”

“Furious Antigone”
April 12-14, 2001, 8:00 p.m., Wilson Blackbox
Susan Schaefer performing a re-writing of Sophocles’ tragedy set in Argentina’s military dictatorship

“Once Upon a Time: Music and Dance in Ancient Greece”
Thursday, November 30, 2000, 5:00 p.m., Costen Children’s Library, Firestone Library
Georgia Papadopoulou

“The Touch of Zeus”
Thursday, February 27, 1997, 8:00 p.m., 185 Nassau Street, Acting Studio
Paremvasi Arts Group

“Antigone: A Muscial Drama”
May 18 – 20, 1989

“Sephardic Songs” and “Ode”
January 15-16, 1988, 8:00 p.m., Alexander Hall
Ze’eva Cohen and Dancers

“Robert Fagles’ Translation of ‘Sophocles’ and ‘Oedipus the King’”
December 1-4, 1983, 8:00 p.m., 185 Nassau Street, Acting Studio
An Equity Guest Artist Production

"Music by Epirus”
October 7, 1983
The Halkias Family

“Scenes from Greek Tragedy”

Fall, 1982

Rasmy Tsopelas and Fanias Roufos

“Iphigenia at Aulis”

February 23, 1982