A Musical Odyssey: A Journey Through Two Centuries of Hellenic Music

Tuesday, July 3

7:15 pm Cocktail Hors d’oeuvres Reception (Ballroom Foyer)
8:00 pm A Musical Odyssey (Ballroom)

Panagiotes LIAROPOULOS will lead a 15 piece orchestra affording us the rare opportunity to hear the music of our heritage played brilliantly on such a large scale. 

Greek Music Ensemble’s Website: grmusicensemble.com

Individual Tickets are available for sale for guests not registered for the Clergy-Laity Congress or Philoptochos Convention

Program

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Musical Odyssey: Celebrating 200 Years of Hellenic Music

featuring

Panos Liaropoulos and The Greek Music Ensemble

July 3, 2018, 8.00pm

ΠΡΟΛΟΓΟΣ – ΤΟ ΒΑΛΣ ΤΩΝ ΧΑΜΕΝΩΝ ΟΝΕΙΡΩΝ (PROLOGUE – Waltz of the lost dreams)
M. Hadjidakis

ΜΙΑ ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑ (Sacred love)
M. Hadjidakis - Nikos Gatsos   

ΤΩΡΑ ΠΟΥ ΠΑΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΞΕΝΙΤΙΑ (Now that you ‘re leaving for a foreign land)
M. Hadjidakis - Nikos Gatsos

ΜΑΡΙΝΑ (Marina)
Odysseus Elytis – Mikis Theodorakis

ΜΕ ΤΙ ΚΑΡΔΙΑ (What kind of heart)
Nikos Gatsos – Stavros Xarhakos

ΤΟΥ ΜΙΚΡΟΥ ΒΟΡΙΑ (Little North Wind)
Odysseus Elytis – Mikis Theodorakis

ΑΘΑΝΑΣΙΑ (Immortality)
Nikos Gatsos – Manos Hadjidakis                                                                                          

O,ΤΙ ΚΙ ΑΝ ΠΩ ΔΕ ΣΕ ΞΕΧΝΩ (Whatever I say I still cannot forget you)
Vasilis Tsitsanis

Η ΚΑΡΔΙΑ ΣΟΥ ΘΑ ΓΙΝΕΙ ΧΡΥΣΗ (Your heart of gold)
Vasilis Tsitsanis

ΑΝΑΘΕΜΑ ΣΕ ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ (Damn you sea)
Vasilis Tsitsanis

ΚΑΙΚΙ ΜΟΥ ΑΗ-ΝΙΚΟΛΑ (My sailing boat St. Nicholas)
Vasilis Tsitsanis

ΜΕΝΕΞΕΔΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΖΟΥΜΠΟΥΛΙΑ (Violets and hyacinths)
Traditional Song from Konstantinople

ΤΟ ΚΑΡΑΒΑΚΙ (The small boat)
Traditional Song from Thrace

ΘΕΟΣ ΑΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ (If it is God)
Lina Nikolakopoulou – Goran Bregovic

Intermission

ΟΜΟΡΦΗ ΠΟΛΗ (Beautiful City)
Giannis Theodorakis - Mikis Theodorakis                                                                              

ΑΣΠΡΟ ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΙ (White dove)
Nikos Gatsos – Manos Hadjidakis                                                  

ΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΚΑΤΩ ΣΤΟΝ ΚΑΜΠΟ (The kids down in the lowland)
Manos Hadjidakis

ΤΑ ΛΟΓΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ (The words and the years)
Manos Eleftheriou – Giannis Markopoulos

ΕΛΑ ΠΑΡΕ ΜΟΥ ΤΗ ΛΥΠΗ (Come take my sorrow away)
Nikos Gatsos – Manos Hadjidakis                                                             

ΥΠΟΜΟΝΗ (Patience)
Alekos Sakellarios – Stavros Xarhakos

ΠΕΡΔΙΚΑ (Partridge)
Traditional Song from Corfu

ΛΑΜΠΕΙ Ο ΗΛΙΟΣ ΣΤΑ ΒΟΥΝΑ (The sun is shining on the mountains)
Traditional Song from Peloponnese

ΑΣΠΡΑ ΜΟΥ ΠΕΡΙΣΤΕΡΙΑ (My white doves)
Traditional Song from Macedonia

ΘΑΛΑΣΣΑ ΑΠ’ ΟΛΑ ΤΑ ΝΕΡΑ (The sea)
Traditional Song from the Cyclades

ΤΣΑΜΙΚΟΣ (Tsamikos)
Nikos Gatsos – Manos Hadjidakis                                                                                         

ΤΗΣ ΞΕΝΙΤΙΑΣ (Tis Ksenitias)
Erikos Thalassinos - Mikis Theodorakis                                                                                 

Η ΜΠΑΛΛΑΝΤΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΤΡΙΚΟΥ (The ballad of Antrikos)
Kostas Varnalis – Mikis Theodorakis                                                             

ΟΜΟΡΦΗ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΡΑΞΕΝΗ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΑ (Beautiful and strange homeland)
Odysseus Elytis – Dimitrs Lagios

The Greek Music Ensemble

Panayota Haloulakou, vocals
Stelios Karaminas, vocals, guitar
Michael Harrist, bass
Fabio Pirozzolo, drums, percussion
Anthony Pentikis, bouzouki  
Anastasia Mousouli, flute
Jose Santos, clarinet
Jesse Francese, trumpet
Garyfalia Kerkezou, violin
Beth Cohen, violin
Dylan Fafard, viola
Naseem Alatrash, violoncello 
Panos Liaropoulos, piano, music director

Special Guest: Thanasis Kotsias, Clarinet

Arrangements: Panos Liaropoulos

Sound Engineer: Damien Stefanides