the musical traditions of Greece
Concerts of classical and popular Greek music will be among the highlights of a conference on "The Musical Traditions of Greece" to be presented Thursday to Saturday, Feb. 27 to March 1, by the Hellenic Studies Program, part of the European Studies Council of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies.
The conference, which is free and open to the public, will bring together speakers from Greece and elsewhere around the world to discuss the development of the nation's musical traditions.
There will be four sessions held in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave.: "The Quest for Origins and Antecedents" at 3 p.m. on Friday, and "Logos and Music," "From Hashish Dens to Japan" and "From Aesthetics To Social Practice" at 10 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. respectively on Saturday. Individual presentations will include "60,000 Years of Pitch and Modality," "Byzantine Chant as Living Tradition and Early Music," "Greek Folk Music in America," "The Poetry of Greek Song," "The Birth of Rebetika [a musical tradition combining modes and rhythms from Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Spain and the Balkan states]," "Exporting Greek Music" and "Little Soldiers Departing for the Army: Notes on 'the Body,' Dance, Ritual and Masculinity."
Two concerts will be presented in conjunction with the conference. The New Hellenic Quartet will perform Greek classical compositions on Thursday, and vocalist Nena Venetsanou will sing some of the nation's most popular songs on Friday. Both concerts will be held at 8 p.m. in the First Church of Christ, Center Church on the Green, 311 Temple St.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation and the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale.
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