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Parable

a choreographic picture

Παραβολή Χορογραφική εικόνα έργο 34

Catalogue No.: YSC75

Status: Completed

Related Work: Medea

Opus: 34

Genre: Voice

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Number of Movements: 6

Movement Titles:

Prologue – Hymn to the Sun
The taking of the Oath
Invocation of the Spirit of the Evil
Dance of the Initiation
Monologue and perdition of the Chosen-One
Catharsis

Instrumentation:

Piccolo, Flute, Tuba, Percussion I and II (Triangle, 3 Suspended Cymbals large, medium and small, Cymbals, Crotales, large Tam-Tam, 2 Gongs, large and small, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Xylophone, Marimba, Tubular Bells, Claves, 2 Woodblocks, 5 Temple Blocks, Maracas, Tambourine, Bass Snare Drum without Snares, Bass Drum, Timpani 28″ & 25″), Tape (recorded at Ecole Normale Centre for Music Research), Choir (without words)

Written in: Athens

Date: September 5, 1973

Duration: 00:20:00

Sicilianos Archive Files

#	Archive Title	Description	Number of Pages	Digital Format	Linked File
1	Sketch Material	Scan of the sketch material.	28	PDF	View or Download
2	Draft Score	Scan of the draft score. [Unavailable]		PDF
3	Full Score	Scan of the full score.	27	PDF	View or Download
4	Composer's Note	Scan of the composer's note in Greek.	1	PDF	View or Download
5	Composer's Note (French)	Scan of the composer's note in French.	1	PDF	View or Download

Texts

#	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Text Page
1	Parable, Op. 34 (1973)	Programme Notes	1973	Greek	View
2	Interview with Kaiti Romanou	Interview	1977	Greek	View
3	Modern Music in Greece Today	Lecture	1991	Greek	View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	November 12, 1976	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
2	November 13, 1976	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
3	November 18, 1976	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
4	November 20, 1976	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
5	December 2, 1976	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
6	January 8, 1977	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
7	February 5, 1977	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
8	February 9, 1977	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
9	February 12, 1977	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
10	February 24, 1977	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
11	March 2, 1977	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
12	March 8, 1977	Olympia Theatre - Greek National Opera (Olympia Municipal Music Theatre "Maria Callas")	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
13	July 14, 1977	Odeon of Herodes Atticus	Athens	Greece	Athens Festival	Greek National Opera, Athens Festival	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
14	July 16, 1977	Odeon of Herodes Atticus	Athens	Greece	Athens Festival	Greek National Opera, Athens Festival	Choo Hoey (conductor), Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi (choreographer), Giannis Mantakas (chorusmaster), Giorgos Kalantzopoulos (set designer, costume designer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra, ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34
15	July 29, 1983	Chartreuse de Villeneuve	Avignon	France	N/A	MC2 - Musique Contemporaine 2, Radio France	Boris de Vinogradov (conductor), Yvonne Quinzii (chorusmaster), Gérard Garcin (flute), Christian de Cormis (tuba), Pierre Gasquet (percussion), Jean-Paul Bernard (percussion)	Atelier Choral	Parable (a choreographic picture), Op. 34 - (suite)

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Boris de Vinogradov	Conductor		View
2	Choo Hoey	Conductor	Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Greek National Opera	View
3	Christian de Cormis	Tubist		View
4	Dora Tsatsou-Symeonidi	Choreographer, Director	Greek National Opera	View
5	ERT Choir (Hellenic Radio and Television)	Choir	Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation	View
6	Gérard Garcin	Flutist, Composer		View
7	Giannis Mantakas	Chorusmaster	Giannis Mantakas Choir of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	View
8	Giorgos Kalantzopoulos	Set Designer, Costume Designer	Greek National Opera	View
9	Greek National Opera Orchestra	Orchestra	Greek National Opera	View
10	Jean-Paul Bernard	Percussionist	Percussions de Strasbourg	View
11	Pierre Gasquet	Percussionist	Percussions de Strasbourg	View
12	Yvonne Quinzii	Chorusmaster		View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 91-94
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 49
Anastasios Rupert Arthur Mavroudis, Sicilianos, The Greek Modernist: Performing Selected Chamber Works and Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 51 (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2020), 12, 99, 273, 274
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 17, 159, 346, 347, 423
Yorgos Sicilianos, "Interview with Kaiti Romanou," in , On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (unpublished manuscript, 2010), original manuscript for the book, copy provided to Anastasios R. A. Mavroudis.
Dimitris Agrafiotis, Theodore Antoniou, Tatsis Apostolidis, Valia Christopoulou, Giorgos Demertzis, Popi Eustratiadi, Byron Fidetzis, Gianni Ioannides, Apostolos Kostios, Giorgos Kouroupos, Katy Romanou, Yorgos Sicilianos, Michalis Stathopoulos, Nikos Synodinos, and Nikos B. Tsouchlos. Yorgos Sicilianos: In the Avant-Garde of Contemporary Music [Γιώργος Σισιλιανός - Ο συνθέτης στην πρωτοπορία της σύγχρονης μουσικής]. Edited by Valentini Tselika. (Athens: Benaki Museum, 2007), 21, 95, 186, 205, 245
Kostas Chardas, Giorgos Demertzis, Charis Dimaras, Nikos Maliaras, Giorgos Sakallieros, Nikos B. Tsouchlos, Markos Tsetsos, and Panos Vlagopoulos. Yorgos Sicilianos 1920-2005 - Anniversary Tribute [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος 1920-2005 Επετειακο αφιερωμα]. Edited by Stephania Merakos and Valia Vraka. (Athens: Friends of Music Association, 2016), 47, 67, 117

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