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”.

Venue:
“Palia Ilektriki” Cultural Center
Vladimiros Heracleous 8,
Pafos 8010, Cyprus
Tel. +357 22 4631 35

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

Ticket presales:
“Palia Ilektriki” Cultural Center (Vladimiros Heracleous 8, Paphos 8010, Tel. +357 22 463 135). From the concert venue, 3 hours before the concert