2024 10 07 Musical promenades: Musical Smyrna: a musical journey into time

Smyrna had always a wide and long-lasting musical tradition, adopting richness from many sources, so many as were the communities of this city: Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Arabs, Jewish but also Europeans, they all were exchanging cultural and musical “expretise” through their day-to-day interaction. This is why music in Smyrna had always been a blend of many different genres. Musicians who ever visited Smyrna, those who were living there, those who were born and achieved great things with Smyrna’s memory, will be the phares showing us the way to this unique musical journey. Works by Edward Elgar, Giannis Konstantinidis (Kostas Giannidis) and Manolis Kalomoiris from Smyrna’s erudite music, will stand side by side with traditional and popular music of the City, whether known or unknown to the audience, as well as with new compositions by Dimitris Gouzios and Alekos Vretos, in an eyeful towards future, and with a new composition written for the Quintet with Smyrna’s traditional instrument, oud.