Old Powerhouse, 8 Vladimirou Irakleous Str, Pafos 8010 – Cyprus
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Vladimirou Irakleous, Paphos, Cyprus
€12, €7 (young people 18-26 yrs., pensioners), €5 (young people 12-18 yrs), €3 (children under 12)
In Memoriam Concert dedicated to 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE perfomed by the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra at Polichoros Politismou - Old Electricity building
Concert dedicated to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Genocide of the Armenian People by the Turks
The Liturgy for Strings is Armenian music at its most intensely beautiful and poignant, embodying traditional liturgical melodies transmitted, and sanctified through devotion, over centuries. These melodies were edited and polyphonically arranged by Archimandrite Komitas (1869-1935) on the eve of the Armenian Genocide (of which he himself was to become a traumatised survivor), and masterfully arranged in the late sixties as a concert suite by Zareh Sahakiants (1933-1983). The Genocide itself served as a precursor to the Holocaust; the elegiac contrapuntal elegy, marked In Memoriam, for 23 solo strings by Komitas’ contemporary Richard Strauss (1864-1949), mourns the destruction wrought by World War II. STRAUSS: Metamorphosen KOMITAS / SAHAKIANTS: Liturgyfor strings Conductor: Haig Utidjian In collaboration with the Armenian Genocide Centenary Committee of Cyprus Supporters: Paphos Municipality Ticket prices: €12, €7 (young people 18-26 yrs., pensioners), €5 (young people 12-18 yrs), €3 (children under 12) Ticket presales:“Palia Ilektriki” Cultural Center (Vladimiros Heracleous 8, Paphos 8010, Tel. 22 463135) / From the concert venue, 3 hours before the concert
Markideion Theatre
Time: 8.30 pm
Price: € 12 and € 7
Organizers: Cyprus Symphony Orchestra Foundation Armenian Genocide Centenary Committee of Cyprus.
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