Saturday, April 11, 2009, at 20.30
Venue: Benaki Museum Auditorium (Pireos Street Annex)
The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Scholars’ Association welcomes you to the concert

At the first streak of Spring

Holly Week and Easter hymns, laments, and songs of the of the Greek and Arabic East
with the ensemble
En Chordais
and the Lebanese chorister
Carole Lahoud

Musicians (in alphabetical order):
Kyriakos Petras violin
Kyriakos Kalaitzidis oud
Alkis Zopoglou dulcimer
Drossos Koutsokostas vocals
Vassilis Tzortzinis contrabass
Petros Papageorgiou percussion
Elias Andreoulakis lyra

The concert programme consists of hymns and songs of the musical tradition of Lebanese and Syrian Christians, Greek traditional laments, music from Istanbul, as well as the work Expectation, composed by Kyriakos Kalaitzidis and inspired by the Apocalypse, which was presented by the National Theatre of Northern Greece in 1996.

Communications Sponsor: National Broadcasting Cooperation, ERT.