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5th Open Day

The New York School

Dates

Prices

Free entrance events and events with tickets 5 — 7 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Sunday
Time
16:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi

Information

Tickets

Tickets for the concert
Full price: 7 €
Reduced/Small groups (5-9 people): 6 €
Large groups (10+ people): 5 €
Unemployed, People with disabilities-Companions: 5 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org

General

16:00-20:30 | All-day free entrance events
21:00 | Concert at the Main Stage

The Onassis Stegi is opening its doors to the world. This year’s Open Day, its fifth, is dedicated to the music of the avant-garde New York School of the nineteen fifties and will feature events of interests to music-lovers young and old alike.

Photo © beetroot

Our 5th Open Day is dedicated to the style and spirit of the kaleidoscopic New York arts scene, which flourished from the mid-20th century. A point of reference for this year’s event will be the legendary meeting of two pioneering composers, John Cage and Morton Feldman, as they were leaving Carnegie Hall after a performance of Anton Webern’s Symphony conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. It’s a story that has been told many times, though never with the same details twice. Their friendship would soon extend to embrace a close circle of musicians including Christian Wolff, Earle Brown and the pianist David Tudor who would come to be known as the New York School.

The group stood out for its unquenchable thirst for innovation and its close links to contemporary artists, poets, dancers and performers. Artistic communities and various formal and informal groups formed around the New York School and engaged with its musicians: the Tone Roads, the groups of musicians who collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Theatre and Judson Dance Theatre, and the artists who moved downtown and created the famous Village lofts. Indeterminancy, Events, Happenings, Kinetik Art, Fluxus, Pop Art, Minimalism, Rock, Totalism, Νo Wave, Art Punk—these were just some of the movements that came into being in New York around this time. The feverish explosion of creativity they unleashed would impact on contemporary music and art around the globe.

Credits

  • Concept, Arrangement, Museological & Directorial oversight, Realisations, Orchestrations, Organization

    Anargyros Deniozos

  • Musical direction

    Andreas Levisianos

  • Lighting and Videos

    Manos Arvanitakis

  • Programming and Electronics

    Nikos Palamaris

  • Assistant

    Pythagoras Kotsoulas

  • Organizational oversight

    Katerina Tsesmetzi

  • With (in alphabetical order)

    Spiros Arkoudis (trumpet), George Arnis (contrabass), Alexandros Botinis (cello), Kostas Botinis (percussion), Ana Chifu (cello), Alexandros Drymonitis (electric guitar), Patrick Evans (viola), Guido De Flavis (saxophone), Kostas Gerantonis (perfomer), Dimitris Gkogkas (trumpet), Giannis Gounaris (horn), Paul Grennan (cello), Dorian Idrizi (violin), Aleksios Karaiskakis-Nastos (cello), Charalampos Karasavvidis (violin), Aggeliki Kathariou (mezzo soprano), Marina Kolovou (cello), George Konstantinou (piano), Anastasia Kotsali (mezzo soprano), Pithagoras Kotsoulas (electric-bass), George Kriberis (trombone), Vasillis Liarmakopoulos (bass), Kostas Mavrogenis (baritone), Stathis Mavromatis (saxophone), Alexandros Michaelides (clarinet), Menelaos Moraitis (tuba), Stefanos Nasos (piano), Panos Ntallas (drums), Nick Palamaris (electronics), Anna Pangalou (mezzo soprano), Despoina Papachristopoulou (perfomer), Beata Pincetic (piano), Lorenda Ramou (piano), Christos Sakellaridis (piano), Ilia Samsonov (saxophone), Elias Sdoukos (Viola), Kostas Seremetis (percussion), Iro Sira (violin), Zacharias Tarpagkos (flute), Andreas-Rolandos Theodorou (trumpet), Kostas Tzekos ( clarinet, saxophone), Spyros Tzekos (clarinet), Marinos Tranoudakis (percussion), Dimitra Triantafyllou (violin), Nikos Tsalikis (piano), Nafsika Tsara (flute), Yannis Tselikas (oboe), Thodoris Vazakas (percussion), Dimitris Ventourakis (piano), Manos Ventouras (corno), Fanis Vernikos (trumpet) and more

  • With

    Miquel Bernat, Michael Weilacher και Τom De Cock – Ictus Ensemble Gareth Davis Ionian Festival Ensemble Athens Percussion Group S.T.A.B. Saxophone quartet Ensemble Continuum (@Athens)

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