TThis year, Greece is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the fall of the 7-year military dictatorship in 1974 and the establishment of a functioning democratic regime. This is a great occasion for GME to return to some of the greatest songs that marked the mid-1970s and, also, to some texts that analyse...
Listen to this episode of “Infinitely Curious”, the English-language program of Voice of Greece with Katerina Batzaki, and learn how an international robotics competition this year in Athens with young people 14-18 years old from 193 countries can change the world.
In this year’s competition “Feeding the Future”, p...
The week that ends here at GME was dedicated to a music genre that is somehow overlooked nowadays, even though it encompasses huge amounts of talent, improvisation and vision: Greek jazz. Tonight’s destination: pianist Giorgos Kontrafouris and saxophonist Takis Paterelis. The jazz virus attacked Paterelis a...
Thanos Mikroutsikos has been appearing regularly here at GME thanks to his multi-faceted musical personality and his active engagement with different styles and genres. Today, we shall be exploring his jazz side; indeed, his relationship with jazz may not be clear in the minds of many of us, but it...
Pianist, composer and writer Sakis Papadimitriou is one of the key figures in Greek jazz. He started studying piano at a very early age and later he continued with classical guitar. He holds a degree from the Philosophy Department of the University of Ioannina and the Department of Education of Patras...
Trumpet player and composer Andreas Polyzogopoulos studied jazz trumpet at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where he won the Toots Thielemans award. He has recorded five personal albums and appears in more than seventy as a sideman. His later records include a tribute...
The liner notes of the historic Greece Goes Modern album read as follows: “Mimis Plessas is one of our foremost composers, he has repeatedly been awarded with international European and Greek awards for his music songs and film scores. In this album with the help of The Orbiters, a modern group with s...
Listen to this episode of Infinitely Curious to learn how key pathways diets like intermittent fasting affect our body.Listen to Western medicine-trained nurse practitioner and functional nutritionist Cynthia Thurlow explaining how intermittent fasting is easy to implement, it is inexpensive and flex...
Seferis died on September 20, 1971, i.e. today it is the 53rd anniversary of his departure. Here at GME, we have been honouring his massive legacy with a week-long tribute to his poetry set to music by Greece’s leading composers and today we will explore the ways in which younger and alternative music a...
53 years after his death (on September 20, 1971), Seferis’ footprint on Greek music remains significant, as GME has tried to show throughout this week. Tonight, it is time to unveil the connection between Seferis and two colossal figures of Greek music, Giannis Markopoulos and Dimos Moutsis. The former u...
This week, here at GME, we have been focusing on the poetry of Nobel laureate George Seferis set to music. Today, we will be witnessing a highly sophisticated aspect of the story, as reflected by the work of Argyris Kounadis and a 1988 album of his (Songs for voice and piano) where he set six Seferis...
Today, we will be listening to excerpts from two albums by composer Elias Andriopoulos: The 1976 Seferis Cycle and the 1998 Argonauts – both based on poems by Seferis. The crème-de-la-crème of Greek vocalists will be keeping us company: Alkistis Protopsalti, Nikos Xylouris, Nena Venetsanou, Manolis Mit...
This week, GME will be focusing on the poetry of George Seferis set to music. The occasion? He died on September 20, 1971, i.e. this Friday it is going to be the 53rd anniversary of his death. Seferis was not only one of most important Greek poets of the 20th century and a Nobel laureate, but also a...
Listen to this episode of Infinitely Curious, the English-languge radio show of Voice of Greece with Katerina Batzaki, and learn why food is so important for our body, mood, and lifespan, and why eating well changes the way we think and feel.Listen to organic farmer Skye from Cape Town saying how one ...
We spent the entire week singing songs about Piraeus, its neighborhoods, its streets, its people, the beautiful district of Kokkinia, its rebetiko anthems, and so much more. Today, we will be concluding our tribute with songs containing to the suburbs of Piraeus – places such as Tambouria, Amfiali, K...
Piraeotis is the guy from Piraeus and Piraeotissa is the lady from Piraeus. These are its residents, its people, the heroes of life and of song, brave and bold, disciplined and hard-working but also playful and autonomous. Stamatis Kokotas, Doukissa, Babis Goles and Mario will be narrating for us the...
Rebetiko song is the name of the Greek urban folk song that appeared at the end of the 19th century and acquired its familiar form, approximately by the third decade of the 20th century. It developed in the port cities where the working class lived, such as Piraeus and Thessaloniki, and then moved to...
Rebetiko song is the name of the Greek urban folk song that appeared at the end of the 19th century and acquired its familiar form, approximately by the third decade of the 20th century. It developed in the port cities where the working class lived, such as Piraeus and Thessaloniki, and then moved to...
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