Tributes

On Sunday, December 17, "Our Town" features a historical tribute to the neighborhoods of downtown Athens. In the studio, guide and art historian Artemis Skoumpourdi tells wonderful stories, traditions and monuments, she talks about the streets, the buildings, the squares, but also about values...

"Film music is the art of adaptation and the composer must love transformations. To transform the image, but also to transform himself, like a chameleon. He might need to write music for a scene in a jazz bar, for example. Or even a march, a song... Through the music of cinema we have the luxury of...

Acclaimed Cypriot pianist and composer, Stavros Lantsias, introduces the audience to the music universe of his beloved composer, Ennio Morricone, presenting some of the most unforgettable soundtracks of emblematic films such as Lolita, Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Good, the Bad...

Sfetsas is one of Greece’s best avant-garde composers – a true pioneer who has excelled in merging jazz and rock with tradition. His works for films are indicative of his endless talent and capacity for improvisation and experimentation. Today, we are focusing on three soundtracks of his for the fil...

From the 1970s to the mid-1980s, Hatzinasios had gathered a wealth of experience in composing music for films, but those films had nothing to do with the atmosphere of Knock Out (Urge for Life), the 1986 Pavlos Tasios film whose soundtrack he was called upon to curate. Here everything is dark and direct...

Αντώνης Χριστοφορίδης... Μια μυθική μορφή της πυγμαχίας. Προσφυγόπουλο από τη Μερσίνα της Μικράς Ασίας, έζησε εποχές δύσκολες ορφανός στην Αθήνα. Έφυγε για το Παρίσι στα 17 του και εκεί έμαθε τα κόλπα του ρινγκ. Βερολίνο... 1937... Ο Χίτλερ βρίσκεται σε άνοδο και ετοιμάζει τα σχέδια του για υποταγή ...

We start our week-long tribute to Greek film for films with Stavros Xarhakos, a leading composer who has had a very fruitful connection with cinema, having written music for more than 30 films, documentaries and TV series. Our focus is on his melodies and songs for three films – The Red Lanterns, L...

It was December 10th, 1963, 60 years ago, when Giorgos Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The show "Journeys Basking in Greek Light" by Giannis Papoutsakis honored this anniversary with a tribute to our great poet, with his poems, the views of Elytis and Ritsos about him, his words...

On Saturday, December 9, the show "Invitation to Lunch" with Eleni Karali is dedicated to Maria Callas. Konstantinos Bitzanis, CEO of Technopolis City of Athens is the man who inspired the creation of the Maria Callas Museum. He talks about the difficulties that had to be dealt with in the implementation...

Villagers of Ioannina City, one of the leading Greek heavy rock bands, comes from the mountains of Epirus. They are deeply influenced by Greek nature and cosmic phenomena and infuse their unique brand of heavy psychedelic rock with folk instruments such as bagpipes, flutes and, didgeridoo. Riza (Root) ...

Composer and ethnomusicologist Eleni Karaindrou writes the following about Giota Vei: “She was born in Platystomo, Lamia and has lived in Athens since she was seventeen years old. She was introduced to folk singing by her grandmother. In the years between then and her first public appearance, she f...

The album “The Soul of Epirus” is based on a creative approach to the instrumental pieces and the playing style established by the great clarinetist from Epirus, Kitsos Harisiadis, in the decade of 1920-30. This time, focus is on a new dialogue between the master clarinetist Petroloukas Halkias and...

Μια πρωτότυπη ΩΡΑ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ σήμερα αφιερωμένη σε 15 σημαντικές προσωπικότητες που έχουν (ή είχαν...) σήμερα την ονομαστική τους γιορτή... 15 Νικολήδες και Νίκες που πέρασαν στην ιστορία... ...

Domna Samiou, who was born in 1928 and died in 2012, was a charismatic and multifaceted personality, a dynamic and highly popular woman who dedicated her life to a quest that is now synonymous with her name: the preservation, dissemination and teaching of Greek traditional music. Today, we shall be...

Announcing the death of Chronis Aidonidis on the 23rd of October, Apostolos Efremidis, President of the Chronis Aidonidis Archive of Musicological Tradition, noted: “Our beloved Master Chronis Aidonidis is no longer with us. At the age of 95 and after 75 years of continuous service and contribution t...

Liesbeth List was a Dutch singer who became very popular during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1966 Mikis Theodorakis met her in the Netherlands, and he was impressed by her voice. In 1967 they released an album titled: ‘Liebeth List sings Theodorakis’. The first part of the album contains the Mauthausen cyc...

Ένα μοναδικό αφιέρωμα στην εκπομπή ΩΡΑ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ από τον Νικόλα Αγγελίδη για τον "Στρατηγό" της ομογενειακής δημοσιογραφίας Μπάμπη Μαλαφούρη. Όλη η ζωή και το έργο του μυθικού δημοσιογράφου που ήταν ο πρώτος που κατέγραψε τον ελληνισμό της διασποράς το 1948! Αποσπάσματα από το βιβλίο "Οι Ελληνες της Αμε...

“The seas that separate us are the seas that unite us. Even the lands that were conquered and colonized exchanged cultures. And if scholars have not yet clarified and separated the eras and influences, the artists brought together and united any differences. I was led to this work (so different f...