Ravenna Festival: Teleion – Fragments of ancient Greek music
Free
Camilla Lopez, voice & percussions
Matteo Ramon Arevalos, piano, prepared piano, & percussions
Anonymous, text by Euripide – Oreste
Anonymous – First Delphic Hymn to Apollo
Mesomede of Creta – Hymn to Nemesi
Mesomede of Creta – Invocation of the Muse
Mesomede of Creta – Invocation of Calliope and Apollo
Anonymous – Anonimo Bellerman
Anonymous – Wien Papyrus
Anonymous – Papyrus Zenon 59533
Anonymous – Papyrus Hiben 231
Anonymous – Epitaph of Sicilo
Anonymous, text by Limenios – Second Delphic Hymn
Anonymous – Berlin Papyrus 6870
Sound machines: electronic shruti box and electronic tanpura
Translation transliteration of the ancient texts curated by Dimitris Soukoulis
Take an actress who has always been in love with music, and an academically trained pianist with a passion for art and theatre; add a taste for impossible challenges, and what you get is this singular foray into ancient Greek music! These fragments, fleeting sound appearances from a very distant past (late 5th Century BC to early 3rd Century AD), form an original musical and cultural kernel Lopez and Arevalos draw from to infuse new life into the contemporary world. Through reckless timbre choices and unprecedented vibrations, but in strict respect of the original Greek text, they string together sounds whose antique “flavour” fruitfully builds on cutting-edge ethno-musicological research encompassing the entire Mediterranean and the East.
The livestream will take place at 9:30pm Central European Summer Time / 12:30pm Pacific.
Watch the livestream here: https://www.ravennafestival.live/en/events/teleion/