In Memoriam
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.
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Paphos Gate, Old Nicosia
Cost
€12 / €7
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