Music Ensembles of the DMSA of the University of Macedonia: Christmas Concert From And For All Over The World
The Thessaloniki Concert Hall in collaboration with the Department of Music Science and Art (DMSA) of the University of Macedonia co-organize a big Christmas celebration that will introduce us to the festive season. Through a wide spectrum of music creation that encompasses all genres of music, the event will present spectacular performances that will make us feel the festive spirit.
Free admission with entrance voucher.
Women’s Byzantine Choir “Eyneanides”
Students of the Specialization “Chanting Interpretation and Performance”
Vocal ensemble DMSA
Vocal instruction
Dr. Georgios Patronas Professor
Traditional Music Ensemble DMSA
Symphony Orchestra and Choir of the DMSA
Mezzo-soprano Angeliki Kathariou, Associate Professor
Choir instruction Maria-Emma Meligopoulou, Assistant Professor
Conductor Georgios Vranos, Professor
JANOSKA STYLE GOES SYMPHONIC: The Christmas Program
Janoska Ensemble transfers the musical passion that characterizes it on the stage of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall and presents to the audience a unique style of artistic creation, combining harmony with expressiveness. The four artists (Ondrej, František και Roman Janoska και Julius Darvas) will allow us to travel to a world of inspiration filled with sounds ranging from jazz and latin to pop music, during which notes are mentally transformed into images. After all, as the musicians themselves state, their compositions are not just sound, they are living music, since the audience can not only hear it, but also… experience it.
PROGRAMME
F. Janoska: JanoskaSymphonyop. 1
Impressions Along The Danube: I. Bratislava – II. Vienna – III. Budapest
R. Janoska: MelodieforMelody
F. Janoska: MusettepourFritz– Hommage to Fritz Kreisler
A. Piazzolla: OblivionTango
F. Janoska: Rumba for Amadeus
Janoska Ensemble : František Janoska Piano, Ondrej Janoska Violin, Roman Janoska Violin, Julius Darvas Double bass
Participating: Arpád Janoska Vocals , MOYSA – Megaro Youth Symphony Orchestra, Thessaloniki City Symphony Orchestra, Nikos Chaliassas Conductor
Concert Of the Thessaloniki Friends of Music Society Youth Choir
The Carols are an integral and principal part of the festivities for the Twelve Days of Christmas (Christmas Eve until Epiphan), rooted as far back as antiquity. Then, between 15 December and 15 January – a period that coincides with the ancient month of Poseidon – the children performed the custom of ‘eiresioni’, singing songs in the streets holding the eiresioni, an olive or laurel branch adorned with fruits or threads of wool (eiros or erion: wool).
Singing good wishes and paeans they would deliver the message of good luck and fertility the houses they visited. Similar songs can be found in the Roman period, when the Romans and Greeks would celebrate the saturnalia or kronia and the calends. Not surprisingly, during the Byzantine period the official Christian church reacted strongly against the idolatrous remains, which were integrated into its own customs over time. In fact, the carols (kalanta) appear to have been named after the Byzantine Calends.
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The Italian Tenors sing with MOYSA
The absolute Italian Bel Canto with The Italian Tenors
Experience a festive journey to Italy through the country’s songs performed by three tenors of our times, who are here to remind us to live our life as it comes! Viva la vita!
The three Italian Tenors will present a festive programme packed with Italian music, popular arias and Christmas songs!
The Italian Tenors:
Sabino Gaita, Luca Sala, Evans Tonon
Gilberto Bonetto piano, Edoardo Luparello drums, Francesco Bertone bass, Ferdinando Vietti cello, Diego Vasserot trumpet
MOYSA – Megaro Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Thessaloniki Concert Hall
Conductor Romanos Papazoglou
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