We are pleased to announce ‘The Delphic Preview: Festival of the Muses’, an on-line event organised by the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University planned on next 17-20 June, in collaboration with the Isadora Duncan International Institute, the Ecumenical Delphic Union, and the Committee for the Reinstatement of the Delphic Games, and sponsors also include MOISA.
Global community is invited to engage with ancient Greek art, music, dance, poetry, song, myth, sport and theatre in modern interaction through live-streamed performances and discussions, and through a collection of videos, audio recordings, and articles, stored on the webpage of the
Garden of the Muses .
A full description is here.
Some of us are directly involved in the panel scheduled for next Saturday, 2.00-3.45pm Harvard time (7.00-8.45pm London time; 8.00-9.45 Rome time): Epic, Hymns, and Invocations: a Live solo musical performance by Bettina de Guzman will be followed by a discussion about ancient Greek music between Gregory Nagy, Andromache Karanika, Armand D’Angour, Maria G. Xanthou, Sylvain Perrot (Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University), Theodore Koumartzis, Nikos Xanthoulis and Angelo Meriani
It will be followed (4.00-4.30pm Harvard time) by a Collaborative reading of Pindar’s Pythian 8.
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