– 2010 – Dimitri Mitropoulos Anniversary: 50 years on...
Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall “Dimitri Mitropoulos”
Athens, 12-13 November 2010
Participating in the festivities of the «2010 Dimitri Mitropoulos Year», «Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall», the «Music Library Lilian Voudouri» and the musicological periodicals Musicologia and Polyphonia, co-organised a conference which took place in Megaron’s Dimitri Mitropoulos Hall on the 12th and 13th of November 2010.
Twenty-seven musicologists and musicians participated in the conference, discussing subjects connected to Mitropoulos’ activities as a conductor, composer and pianist, as well as to the attitude of music critics to Mitropoulos’ art and to Mitropoulos’ stance to music criticism. It is to be noted that some among the concerts, the exhibitions and other events in honour of the great Greek creator that had been announced, did not take finally place.
The organising committee of the Dimitri Mitropoulos Conference wishes hereby to thank all the participants –the 230 speakers, performers, volunteers and listeners– and to announce that the publication of the conference’s proceedings will soon be available.
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The «2010 – DIMITRI MITROPOULOS ANNIVERSARY» is over!
The events (conferences, concerts, publications etc.) are to be continued!!!
–Crossroads Greece as an intercultural pole of musical thought and creativity
International Musicological Conference, June 6-10 2011, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Th School of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in collaboration with IMS Regional Association for the Study of Music on the Balkans announce an International Musicological Conference on the subject:
The conference is organised on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Directorium of the International Musicological Society (IMS), and will be held in Thessaloniki on June 6-10, 2011.
The purpose of the International Musicological Conference is to bring together Greek and foreign musicologists and ethnomusicologists, researchers and students of ancient Greek music, music iconography, Byzantine music, as well as Greek and Balkan music in modern times. All theoretical and methodological means documenting to cross-cultural interactions of the Mediterranean and Balkan people and/or examining the role of ancient Greek civilisation to the conceptualization and creation of European music tradition are welcomed in the conference.
The twofold approach of the Conference is pertaining to both the importance of musical interactions among the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea and the Balkans, and the imprint of ancient Greek music in Western-European musical tradition.
On behalf of the Conference Chair
Tilman Seebass, Professor of the Institute of Musicology, University of Innsbruck, Austria. President of theInternational Musilological Society Evi Nika – Sampson, Associate Professor of Historical Musicology and Head of the School of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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CONFERENCE
Greek Art Music III:
Studies on Dimitri Mitropoulos
Session 3B
chair: Evi-Nika Sampson
15:00-15:30
Ioannis Fulias
“Researching the early work of the composer Dimitri Mitropoulos: some historical and analytical remarks on his Un morceau de concert for violin and piano”
15:30-16:00
Maria Hnaraki & Yannis Samprovalakis
“Traditional Cretan rhyming couplets at Greek, artistic compositions: From D. Mitropoulos’ Cretan Feast (1919) to G. Koumentakis’ Amor Fati (2007)”
16:00-16:30
Giorgos Sakallieros
“A decisive step to prewar Greek musical modernism: Dimitri Mitropoulos’ Ostinata for violin and piano (1926-27)”
CONCERT
I. PIANO WORKS by DIMITRI MITROPOULOS (1896-1960)
Rêveries au bord de la mer (c. 1912)
Klavierstück (1925)
Four Cytheran Dances (1926)
Passacaglia, Intermezzo e Fuga (1924)
Béatrice (1915)
Theodore Tzovanakis, (piano)
– Die «Österreichisch-Griechische Gesellschaft» und das «Musikwissenschaftliches Institut, Wien»,
co-organised a conference which took place in Institutes Hall on the 22th of October 2011
Eight musicologists from Greece and Austria participated in the conference, discussing subjects connected to Mitropoulos’ activities as a conductor, composer.
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Tagung
Tagung in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Musikwissenschaft der
Universität Wien
Thema: Dimitri Mitropoulos: Der Dirigent - Der Komponist
9:30 -10:00 Eintritt
10:00 -10:15 Begrüßung vom Vorstand des Instituts für Musikwissenschaft Herrn Univ-Prof. Dr. Michele Calella
10:15 -10:30 Einleitung an das Thema der Tagung vom Univ-Prof. Dr. Apostolos Kostios
Erster Teil: Der Dirigent
Vorsitz: Univ. - Prof. Dr. Michele Callela
10:30 -10:50 Dr. Tassos Kolydas: The repertory of the New York Philharmonie Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos
10:50 -11:30 Dr. Carmen Ottner: 1.) Dimitri Mitropoulos und der (alt)österreichische Komponist und Pianist Felix Petyrek in Athen. (Felix Peytrek: Professor am "Odeon" 1926-30).
2.) "Apokalyptischer Klangrausch ": Dimitri Mitropoulos dirigiert Franz Schmidts Oratorium Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln
11:30 -11:50 Clemens Zoidl, Archivar vom Ernst Krenek Institut: Mitropoulos interpretiert Krenek. Erfolge und Misserfolge einer kongenialen musikalischen Partnerschaft.
11:50 -12:10 Ao. Univ- Prof. Dr. Markos Tsetsos: Mitropoulos as an Interpreter of Gustav Mahler.
12:10 -12:40 Diskussion
12:40 -13:40 Pause
Zweiter Teil: Der Komponist
Vorsitz: Ao. Univ. - Prof. Dr. Markos Tsetsos
13:40 -14:00 Dr. Ioannis Fulias The birth and the evolution of a composer: Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1910s
14:00 -14:20 Ao. Univ-Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Maliaras Dimitris Mitropoulos und seine Komponistenlaufbahn. Die Identitätsversuche eines jungen Komponisten während einer Experimentierperiode.
14:20 -14:40 Ao. Univ - Prof. Dr. Anastasia Siopsi Dimitri Mitropoulos’s music for ancient drama
14:40 -15:00 Dr. Giorgos Sakallieros Mitropoulos’ composing in the 1920s: into and out of the Second Viennese School boundaries
15:00 -15:30 Abschlussdiskussion
Gastgeber: Der Vorstand des Institust für Musikwissenschaft Unv.-Prof. Dr. Michele Callela.
KONZERT
Kammermusik und Lieder von Dimitri Mitropoulos
Teil I:
Begrüßung vom Präsidenten der Österreich-Griechischen Gesellschaft Univ.Doz.Dr. med. Johann Beck - Mannagetta
Vortrag vom Univ. - Prof. Dr. Apostolos Kostios: „Dimitri Mitropoulos: Der Künstler — Der Mensch“
Teil II:
Scherzo, in f - moll (1916)
Béatrice, in Es - Dur (1915)
Fête Crétoise, in h - moll (1919)
Konstantinos Diminakis (Klavier)
Verlorene Hoffnungen (unbekannter Dichter)
Der Tod des Seemannes (Dichterin: Ekaterini Spiliopoulou)
Mutterherz, (Dichter: Jean Rechepin — Übersetzung:. Angelos Blachos)
Maria Droulou (Gesang) - Pantelis Polychronidis (Klavier)
Partita (Sonate) VI in E — Dur, J. S. Bach (BWV 1006) - Bearbeitung: D. Mitropoulos (1923)
Ostinata in tre parti (1926/1927)
Un morceau de Concert in c - moll (o.J.)
Dimitri Karakantas (Violine) - Anastasios Strikos (Klavier)
* Die Österreichisch - Griechische Gesellschaft bedankt sich beim Archiv und Dokumenten Zentrum Griechischer Musik für das musikalische Material.
VORTRAG
Dimitri Mitropoulos: über Mahlers erste Sinfonie
Darstellung, Kommentare und musikalische Beispiele vom Pianisten und Komponisten Herrn Christos Papageorgiou