The Municipal Choir of Deryneia organizes a Concert in honor of the composer Christos Leontis with the title "Christos Leontis: Smoked Tsoukali". The concert will take place on July 12 and 8 pm, at the Municipal Amphitheater of Deryneia.
The concert will present the entire work of the composer "Smoked Tsoukali" and other popular songs from the works "Katachnia", "Ah erota", "Performances", "Cantata of freedom", "Resurrection of dreams", "Eros Archangelos" and others .
The orchestration and artistic supervision is by the musician and conductor of the Choir, George Kalogirou.
Performers of the concert will be the soloists Miltos Paschalidis, Dimitris Fanis, Argyro Christodoulou and the Municipal Choir of Deryneia.
In the interpretation of texts the actor Neoklis Neokleous.
Christos Leontis is considered one of the most important contemporary Greek composers. He is the creator of a rich discography and has written music for cinema, television and especially theater. His compositional work is based on poetry by Greek as well as foreign poets and lyricists.
Since 1972, the music of Christos Leontis is heard in almost all festivals in Greece, mainly the Epidaurus festival and the Athens festival. He has been awarded four prizes.
The first, Song Award in 1963, the second, at the Thessaloniki Film Festival in 1966 he was awarded the music prize for the film Panos Glykofrydis "With the glow in the eyes", the third, in 2004 he was awarded the "Dimitris Mitropoulos" prize. for the music in Aristophanes' comedy "Lysistrata" (National Theater, summer 2004) and the fourth, for his overall artistic contribution - "Nikos Kazantzakis" Award (Grand Prize of the Municipality of Heraklion, Crete - 2009 "Creative Music Circle"), covering thus all areas of his music activity.
The poetic composition of Giannis Ritsos "Smoked tsoukali" was written by the poet in exile at the Kontopouli Lemnos Political Prisoners' Concentration Camp during the years 1948-49. He is possessed by feelings of unity, brotherhood, democracy and justice in times of hatred and division as it was then but also as it is today.
This is the reason why the Municipal Choir of Deryneia chose the presentation of this work. It was set to music by Christos Leontis in 1973 in the days of the Polytechnic uprising, but due to the dictatorship, which banned the publication of such a work, it was recorded and released in 1975 with the late Nikos Xylouris, Tania Tsanaklidou and Vassilis Barnis. The catalyst and historical presence and the collaboration of the poet in the recording of the work, who recited excerpts from his poetic composition.
General Admission € 7 (children under 12 free).