MUSICAL PROJECT: EVERLASTING BEAUTY THROUGH GREEK TRAGEDY
Choruses are the structural fundamental element of tragedy and comedy. Transport into drama the lyric, meaning the supreme sentimental emotion of the word, via the orchestra ("melos"). When passions of the heroes reach their limits to cry out, to the unbearable pain, for the suffering to come, enthusiasm, the dance, the popular accumulated experience, the full of wisdom knowledge interferes in order to comfort, to calm, to act as a filter of transformation of terror, of grief, of despair to rhythm and melody, that is to say to include the passions into the laws of music. The tragic poets, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and still Aristophanes draw their lyrics from the common used myth, from the internal and firm through the history experiences of human being : love, orphanage, loneliness, youth, aging, expatriation, betrayal, vanity and hope, celebration, feast, pleasure and beauty. The chosen extracts for this composition from the three lyrical poets and Aristophanes, are a broad anthology of lyrical motifs which still nowadays breed the lyric poetry.The difference among them is that these great poets created by an almost unique way the kernel of the lyric experience. It is extreme and untold joy to justify that words, tones and voices, running with the speed of the sound to meet the echo as a first speech of the human being, it is an everlasting beauty. As «In the beginning was the speech», then orchestra formed, so the power and influence of early speech, and the orchestra through the choruses of ancient Greek drama, were the axis and the opportunity to
study and start giving life through musical performances by the only Greek music drama group «Speira-Speira» which under the guidance of the famous composer Stamatis Kraounakis.
A musical performance - a proposal, if it is the first time a musical project based entirely on the grounds of poetic tragedy and comedy, with a modern sound from younger and established composers, with possible interpretations of young actors and singers, giving a new, current and imaginative way the continuity of ancient texts. Creators who shared this game with the eternal music «choruses» creating and discovering that song was and is, everything.
Always through the eternal existence of human experiences. Love, loneliness, the orphanage, the betrayal, the futility, but also hope and joy, the celebration and beauty ... More than 20 compositions with lyrical dance parties of the three tragic our Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. Words of dance, comedy, tragedy and words of poets: «Fowl», «Oedipus Kolonos on», «Agamemnon», «Bacchae», «Clouds», «Hecuba», «Iphigenia in Aulis», «Iketides», «Troades», «Choifores», «Trachinies», « Helen »,« Iphigenia in Tauris »,« Evmenides »,« Cyclops »,« Thesmoforiazouses ». We would like in this study of the ancient tragedy to find co-organizers from all countries of Europe that includes the program CULTURE 2007-2013 and have already some experience in Ancient Tragedy or would like to try this unique experience. We covered the field of music and we are open to all forms of cooperation with theatrical and dance companies, universities, multimedia experts and visual presentations. For more information please contact: WORLD-CEF Co - 3, Theofrastou Street -11635 Athens - Greece Person to contact: Mrs. Evi Sfikaki evi@worldcef.eu - www.worldcef.eu Tel 0030-2107566120 / Mobile 00306972837020