Voice of Greece and “Sound Portraits” conclude their tribute to Odysseas Elytis, exploring how the Nobel laureate’s experience of the war of 1940 shaped his poetry.
In this final installment, Stavroula Karali, with sound editing by Giorgos Kostopoulos, presents “Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Los...
On Tuesday, 27 October, the eve of Greece’s Ohi Day national holiday, Voice of Greece and “Sound Portraits” conclude their tribute to Odysseas Elytis, exploring how the Nobel laureate’s experience of the war of 1940 shaped his poetry.
In this final installment, Stavroula Karali, with sound editing...
The episode focuses on “Open Papers,” a collection of Elytis’s essays, writings and reflections on poetry, art and life. Through his thoughts and personal references, the program explores his understanding of the world, the Greek language, the creative process and the role of poetry. Passages from ...
The episode focuses on Elytis’s life and development as a poet. It traces his childhood and youth, his early literary explorations and association with the Generation of the ’30s, his experience of war, the emergence of his distinctive poetic voice, and the international recognition that culminated in ...
“Sound Portraits” journeys into the poetic world of Odysseas Elytis, presented and edited by Stavroula Karali, with Giorgos Kostopoulos on sound.
Broadcast in three installments on Voice of Greece, ERT’s international radio service, the tribute explores the Nobel laureate’s life, poetry, and ref...
The third and final episode in Voice of Greece’s tribute to rebetiko, presented on “Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali, traces rebetiko’s journey from censorship under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas and the years of the Occupation to the postwar period.
Through the music of Vasilis Tsitsan...
The third and final installment of Voice of Greece’s tribute to rebetiko, on “Sound Portraits” with Stavroula Karali, traces the genre’s journey from censorship under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas and the years of the occupation to the postwar period.
Through the work of Vasilis Tsitsanis, who bro...
Voice of Greece presents the second part of “Sound Portraits”’ tribute to rebetiko. The episode takes listeners to Piraeus between the two world wars and explores the people and places that shaped its rebetiko scene.
The songs evoke Markos Vamvakaris and the celebrated Piraeus Quartet, as well ...
On Tuesday, 29 September, at 22:00 Athens time, Voice of Greece presents the second part of “Sound Portraits”’ tribute to rebetiko. Stavroula Karali hosts the program, with sound editing by Giorgos Kostopoulos.
The episode, “Rebetiko: Markos Vamvakaris and the World of Piraeus,” takes listeners to Piraeu...
“Sound Portraits” presents the first of three episodes devoted to rembetiko.
Titled “Rembetiko: From the musical roots of Asia Minor to Piraeus,” the episode traces rembetiko’s origins in Greece and in the major multicultural cities of Asia Minor. It focuses particularly on Smyrna and Constantinople, where dif...
On Tuesday, 22 September, at 22:00 Athens time, Voice of Greece presents the first of three episodes in the “Sound Portraits” tribute to rembetiko, with Stavroula Karali at the microphone and Giorgos Kostopoulos handling the sound editing.
The episode, titled “Rembetiko: From the musical roots of As...
“Sound Portraits,” presented by Stavroula Karali, takes listeners on a journey through the unforgotten homelands.
Beginning in Smyrna, we follow the musical paths of the Greeks of Asia Minor through Ayvalik, Vourla, Constantinople and Pontus, before continuing to the rock-carved towns of Cappadocia.
Songs of ...
“Sound Portraits,” presented by Stavroula Karali, takes listeners on a journey through the unforgotten homelands.
Beginning in Smyrna, we follow the musical paths of the Greeks of Asia Minor through Ayvalik, Vourla, Constantinople and Pontus, before continuing to the rock-carved towns of Cappadocia.
Songs of ...
On Tuesday 8 September at 22:00 Athens time, Voice of Greece’s “Sound Portraits,” presented by Stavroula Karali, takes listeners on a journey through the unforgotten homelands.
Beginning in Smyrna, we follow the musical paths of the Greeks of Asia Minor through Ayvalik, Vourla, Constantinople and P...
The program's tribute series “Poetry Set to Music” continues exploring the unique meeting point of poetry and music, highlighting works that have left an enduring mark on Greece's cultural heritage—poems celebrated not only for their literary merit but also for their transformation into timeless songs...
The third part of the program's tribute series “Poetry Set to Music” continues exploring the unique meeting point of poetry and music, highlighting works that have left an enduring mark on Greece's cultural heritage—poems celebrated not only for their literary merit but also for their transformation into ...
The second part of the program's tribute series “Poetry Set to Music” continues exploring the unique meeting point of poetry and music, highlighting works that have left an enduring mark on Greece's cultural heritage—poems celebrated not only for their literary merit but also for their transformation into ...
Voice of Greece's “Sound Portraits,” hosted by Stavroula Karali, launches a new series of radio tributes titled “Poetry Set to Music.”
The series explores the unique meeting point of poetry and music, highlighting works that have left an enduring mark on Greece's cultural heritage—poems celebrate...
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