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FINAL PROGRAMME (printable format)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY 10 MARCH 2006

  • Registration
  • Welcome Address of the Scientific Committee
  • Welcome Address of the Rector of the University of Crete, Professor I. Pallikaris


1. «ON THE ROADS OF THE ARCHANGEL»

  • K. Georgousopoulos: «Mikis Theodorakis: A Renaissance Man»
  • G. Nikolakakis: «Mikis Theodorakis: The Image»
  • G. Kugiumutzakis: «Origins of a Voice from the Future»

2. «UNIVERSAL HARMONY»

  • M. Theodorakis: « Universal Harmony»

3. «MUSIC IN ANCIENT GREECE»

  • V. Kalfas:«Mental Music and Ideal Astronomy in Plato»
  • P. Kaimakis: «The Harmony of the Spheres in Late Antiquity»

4. «THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES AND OF THE HEMISPHERES OF THE MIND»

  • G. Papamastorakis: «Universal Harmonies and Genesis of the Galaxies»
  • M. Campbell: «Pythagoras and the Physicists: the Science of Harmony and the Harmony of Science»
  • R. Turner:«The Harmony of the Hemispheres: or Was Pythagoras Right?»

5. «THE MUSIC OF ANIMALS»

  • B. Merker: «Why Music and Whence its Harmonies?»
  • K. Payne: «Humpback whales: oceanic singers and composers. African forest elephants: a vocal fertility ritual»


SATURDAY 11 MARCH 2006

6. « HUMAN MUSIC AND ITS GENESIS»

  • C. Feldman: «Musical Patterns and Life Patterns: Some suggestions about mimesis in music»
  • K.Overy: «The Human Experience of Music»
  • D. Lee: «Making Melody by 'TG-ing' Around the Pythagorean Archipelago»
  • B. Schogler: «The Science of Art In Movement»
  • L. Costadero: «Musical Spheres of Influence: The Harmony and Counterpoint in/of Child hood»
  • M. Gratier: «Finding and Growing Roots: The Musical Dynamics of Belonging»
  • G. Kugiumutzakis and Collaborators: ««Infant mimesis and rhythms»
  • C. Trevarthen: «A Child's Musicality: Seeking the Rhythm of Companionship»

7. «SOCIAL HARMONY»

  • J. Bruner: «The Laws of Communal Harmony»

8. «UNIVERSAL, MUSICAL AND SOCIAL HARMONY»

  • M. Theodorakis, J. Bruner, C. Trevarthen: «Concluding Remarks» from three Honorary Doctors of the University of Crete


9. «MIKIS THEODORAKIS: FIVE WORKS -- A CONCERT»

- «The Cemetery» - For Strings Quartet
- «Helikon» - For Piano and Strings Quartet
- «Lyrikotata» - For Vocal, Piano and Strings Quartet (first performance in this form)

  • Three songs from the cycle «Beatrice in Zero Street» - For Vocal and Strings Quartet

- «Sexteto» - For Piano, Flute and Strings Quartet

Performed by:

Piano Tatiana Papageorgiou
Baritone Haris Adrianos
Flute Panagiotis Drakos

The «New Greek Quartet»
Violin George Demertzis
Violin Dimitrios Handrakis
Viola Hara Seira
Cello Apostolos Handrakis