On February 19th 2015 at 16:00 the Branch of the HFC will host a lecture by Prof Yuriy Semenov from Odessa National Music Academy entitled “Nikos Gounaris and Vassilis Tsitsanis. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of prominent Greek singers, composers, and founders of modern Greek popular music”.
Over the last decade Greek musical and dancing traditions have been enjoying recognition and great popularity in many countries, including Ukraine. The tradition of contemporary Greek popular music was founded, at large, and promoted by renowned Greek singers, bouzouki players, composers and poets born 100 years ago – Nikos Gounaris (1915-1965) and Vassilis Tsitsanis (1915-1985).
The lecturer will demonstrate and comment upon original audio and videorecords of major hits by Gounaris and Tsitsanis
