Thursday, December 13, 2012
E X H I B I T I O N
- Princesses @ The Cycladic Museum of Art
Regal ladies or princesses, priestesses or healers, women of authority or knowledge, women, who accepted and adopted the cultural traits of different societies or of the men they married, are the subject of the exhibition Princess of the Mediterranean in the Dawn of History, at the Museum of the Cycladic Art, which opens on December 13 and runs until April 13, 2013.
Through their stories, one can distinctly perceive how these women contributed to the broadening of the cultural horizons of their time, and to the development of the archaic Mediterranean culture.
M U S I C
- Balkan Clarinet Summit @ the Goethe Institute
Clarinetists from the Balkans and Turkey play together at the Goethe Institute of Athens on December 16. Clarinet musical tradition runs through the entire southeastern Europe and Turkey, regardless of borders.
In the Balkan Clarinet Summit, Stavros Pazarentsis (Greece), Sergiu Balutel (Romania), Slobodan Trkulja (Serbia), Oguz Buyukberber (Turkey), Claudio Puntin (Switzerland/Italy) and Steffen Schorn (Germany) improvise and exchange musical experiences.
- The Philharmonia Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra, one of the leading British orchestras, is performing at the Athens Concert Hall on December 15. Lorin Maazel conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" and Brahms's Symphony No. 2.
- Yazdjian-Kiourtsoglou-Karipis @ the Half Note Jazz Club
Three acclaimed musicians Haig Yazdjian (acoustic / electric oud, vocals), Giotis Kiourtsoglou (electric bass) and Vangelis Karipis (percussion, drums) play together, in a rare gig, tonight, at the Half Note Jazz Club.
B A L L E T
- Sleeping Beauty @ the Megaron
The famous Kremlin Ballet Theatre, one of the top Russian ballet companies will be performing Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, in Marius Petipa’s acclaimed choreography at the Athens Concert Hall, from December 14.
