In Memoriam

Fri Oct 23, 2015

20:30

Location

Pallas
Rigainis and Arsinois
Paphos Gate, Old Nicosia
Nicosia, Nicosia

Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Phone: 22463144

Description

The Liturgy for Strings is Armenian music at its most intensely beautiful and poignant, embodying traditional liturgical melodies transmitted, and sanctified through devotion, over centuries. These melodies were edited and polyphonically arranged by Archimandrite Komitas (1869-1935) on the eve of the Armenian Genocide (of which he himself was to become a traumatised survivor), and masterfully arranged in the late sixties as a concert suite by Zareh Sahakiants (1933-1983). The Genocide itself served as a precursor to the Holocaust; the elegiac contrapuntal elegy, marked In Memoriam, for 23 solo strings by Komitas’ contemporary Richard Strauss (1864-1949), mourns the destruction wrought by World War II.

R. STRAUSS: Metamorphosen
KOMITAS / SAHAKIANTS: Liturgy for strings

Conductor: Haig Utidjian

In collaboration with the Armenian Genocide Centenary Committee of Cyprus

Supporters: Paphos Municipality

In collaboration with the Οrganization “European Capital of Culture - Pafos 2017”.

Ticket prices:
€12, €7 (young people 18-26 yrs., pensioners), €5 (young people 12-18 yrs), €3 (children under 12)

Ticket presales:
- Online at the CySO Foundation website: www.cyso.org.cy
- From the Theatre box office every Wednesday, 16:00-19:00 and on the concert day, 19:00-20:30.