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Tanagraea

Ballet Suite

Ταναγραία Σουίτα Μπαλέτου έργ. 17

Catalogue No.: YSC52

Status: Completed

Related Work: String Quartet No. 2

Opus: 17B

Genre: Ballet Suite

Creative Timeline: Second Period

Dedication:

"To my wife."

Number of Movements: 8

Movement Titles:

Overture
The mirror
The fan
The umbrella
Promenade
The ball
The guitar
The castanets

Instrumentation:

3323-4231, Piano, Harp, Celesta, Guitar (optional), Timpani, Percussion (Tam-Tam, Bass Drum, Gong, Glockenspiel, Cymbals, Triangle, Snare Drum, Tambourine, Xylophone, Woodblock, Castanets), Strings

Written in: Athens

Date: November 16, 1957

Duration: 00:14:00

Intertextuality

#	Image	Title	Creator	Type	Remarks	Work Page
1		Tanagra figurines		Ancient Greek Pottery		View

Texts

#	Cover	Title	Type	Authorship Year	Language	Remarks	Text Page
1		Interview with Vangelis Psyrrakis	Interview	1967	Greek		View
2		Interview with Nikos A. Dontas	Interview	2000	Greek		View

Performances

#	Date	Venue	City	Country	Festival	Organiser	Artist(s)	Ensemble(s)	Work(s) Performed
1	February 5, 1962	Kotopouli - Rex Theatre	Athens	Greece	N/A	Athens State Orchestra	Dimitri Chorafas (conductor)	Athens State Orchestra	Tanagraea Op. 17b (Suite)
2	May 3, 1965	Theatre of the Society for Macedonian Studies	Thessaloniki	Greece	N/A	Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (Symphony Orchestra of Northern Greece)	Solon Michaelides (conductor)	Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (Symphony Orchestra of Northern Greece)	Tanagraea, Op. 17b (Suite)
3	February 17, 1967	Olympia Theatre	Athens	Greece	N/A	Greek National Opera	Antiochos Evangelatos (conductor), Giorghos Vakalo (set & costume designer), Angelos Grimanis (Choreographer)	Greek National Opera Orchestra & Ballet	Tanagraea Op. 17b (Ballet)
4	December 3, 2000	Athens Concert Hall - Christos Lambrakis Hall (Friends of Music Hall)	Athens	Greece	A Tribute to Composer Yorgo Sicilianos	Athens Concert Hall	Byron Fidetzis (conductor), Stefanos Nasos (piano) [Op. 48a], Theodore Tzovanakis (piano) [Op. 48a]	ERT- National Symphony Orchestra	Tanagraea, Op. 17b - Eight Children's Miniatures, Op. 23a - Contrastes, Op. 48a - Sonata for Orchestra, Op. 60

Performers

#	Name	Performer Type	Ensembles/Organisations	Profile
1	Angelos Grimanis	Choreographer, Dancer		View
2	Antiochos Evangelatos	Conductor, Chorus Master, Composer		View
3	Athens State Orchestra	Orchestra		View
4	Byron Fidetzis	Conductor, Cellist, Author	Athens State Orchestra Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra Athens Philharmonia Orchestra	View
5	Dimitri Chorafas	Conductor		View
6	ERT- National Symphony Orchestra	Orchestra	Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation	View
7	Giorghos Vakalopoulos (Vakalo)	Painter, Set Designer, Costume Designer		View
8	Greek National Opera Orchestra	Orchestra	Greek National Opera	View
9	Solon Michaelides	Conductor	Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (North Greece Symphony Orchestra)	View
10	Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra (Symphony Orchestra of Northern Greece)	Orchestra		View

References

Valia Christopoulou, Yorgos Sicilianos Catalogue of Works [Κατάλογος Έργων Γιώργου Σισιλιάνου] (Athens: Panas Music Papagrigoriou - Nakas, 2011), 52-55
Francis Guy, Yorgos Sicilianos - diapason a dialogue with Francis Guy [Γιωργος Σισιλιανος - διαπασων ενας διαλογος με τον Φρανσις Γκαϋ] (Cyprus: Cyprus Wine Museum, 2009), 24, 25, 49, 98, 114
Yorgos Sicilianos, On Music [Για τη Μουσική], ed. Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou, foreword by Elly Yotopoulou-Sicilianou (Athens: Benaki Museum, Hellenic Music Centre, 2011), 145, 146, 191, 320, 321
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., 323
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), 18, 78, 94, 116, 121, 185, 196, 226, 242
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), 48, 65, 116

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