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FROM CAPTAIN LYRAS’ LIFE AND LONGINGS
Musical “Memoirs”
Lyrics by Manolis Kalomiris*

PART I
1. Prelude – 2. Smyrna! – 3. Constantinople! – 4. Vienna! – 5. Russia! – 6. Athens! 7. Crete!

PART II
8. Interlude – The Old Shepherd and the Nightingale – 9. Molon Lave!  – 10. Samos! 11. Postlude “And Now, You Will Excuse us”

Orchestra: 3 3 3 3 – 4 3 3 1 – Timpani, Percussion, Glockenspiel, Carillon, Harp, Celestra, Strings.28
Narrator, Lyric soprano, Dramatic soprano, Mezzo – soprano, Tenor, Baritone.

Duration: 1:10’

Publication:
Full score: Unpublished.
Piano/vocal score: Manolis Kalomiris, Athens 1958.


First Performance: 13 December 2002
Megaron, The Athens Concert Hall (Friends of Music Hall now Christos Lambrakis Hall)
Athens State Orchestra
Conducted by Nikos Tsouchlos
Soloists:
Marina Krilovic, soprano
Marousa Ksini-Kolaiti, mezzo-soprano
Zachos Terzakis, tenor
Tassis Christoyannopoulos, baritone
Yorgos Moschidis, narrator

Until the 2002 performance, only a few excerpts had been performed on various occasions: In 1943, Auditorium of the Hellenic Conservatory, Emilios Veakis, narrator, Fani Papanastasiou, Anna Remoundou, Frixos Theologidis and Chrisanthos Athineos, soloists, Manolis Kalomiris, piano. On 21 April 1958, Parnassos Hall, Athens, at a celebration marking fifty years of artistic activity for the composer, Manos Katrakis, narrator, Kostas Paschalis, soloist, Elli Nikolaidi, piano. On 6 and 7 August 1958, on the grounds of the Pythagoras High School in Samos, also fifty years of artistic activity for the composer, Aris Garoufalis, narrator, Popi Merkour, Soula Gantzi, Kostas Paschalis and Yannis Manolakis, soloists, Elli Nikolaidi, musical supervisor and accompanist.
The first excerpt with orchestra (Prelude – Smyrna!) was performed on 14 July 1997 during the 1st “Manolis Kalomiris” Festival in Samos Island, Athens State Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis, conductor, Julia Souglakou soprano/narrator.
[Note by Fivos Anoyanakis & Philippos Tsalahouris. Adaptation Myrto Economides]



* With the exception of the lyrics for Molon Lave (Part II, No. 9) which were written by Athanas (pen name of Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas).
[Note by Fivos Anoyanakis]

Kalomiris - Lyrics of “Samos”,from Captain Lyras.

Lyrics of Samos, from Captain Lyras. First page of Kalomiris’ n.d. autograph.

Molon lave (μολών λαβέ), lit. “come and take them”, legendary answer of the Spartan King Leonidas to the Persians at Thermopylai, in response to the demand to lay down his arms.
[Note by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea]

ΟΡERΑS

THE MASTER BUILDER
Ο Πρωτομάστορας

THE MOTHER'S RING
Το δαχτυλίδι της Μάνας

SUNRISE
Ανατολή

THE SHADOWY WATERS
Ξωτικά νερά

KONSTANDINOS PALEOLOGOS
(The Fall of Constantinople)

Κωνσταντίνος ο Παλαιολόγος (Πήραν την Πόλη)

WORKS FOR VOICE AND ORCHESTRA

MAGIC HERBS
IAMBS AND ANAPAESTS - PART II
Μαγιοβότανα

THE PEDDLER
Ο Πραματευτής

I LOVE YOU
IAMBS AND ANAPAESTS - PART I
Σ’ αγαπώ

SONGS OF SIKELIANOS
Τραγούδια του Σικελιανού

FIVE SONGS FROM
THE FOURTH BOOK OF

THE CITY AND THE SOLITUDE
Πέντε τραγούδια από το τέταρτο βιβλίο Της πολιτείας και της μοναξιάς

THE TWO TOWNCRIERS
Οι δυο διαλαλητάδες

THE CURSE
Η κατάρα

“HAIDE HOURDE”
Χάιντε Χούρδε

WORKS FOR SOLO PIANO

ORIENTAL PAINTING
Ανατολική ζωγραφιά

THREE BALLADS
Τρεις μπαλάντες

NOCTURNE
Νυχτιάτικο

PATINADA
Πατινάδα

TWO RHAPSODIES
Δύο ραψωδίες

PRELUDES FOR PIANO
Πρελούδια για πιάνο

THE DEATH OF THE VALIANT WOMAN
Ο θάνατος της Αντρειωμένης

ΙΝΤΕΡΜΕΖΖΟ (from the opera SUNRISE)
Ιντερμέδιο (από την όπερα Ανατολή)

PRELUDE (from the MAGIC HERBS)
Πρελούδιο (από τα Μαγιοβότανα)

WORKS FOR TWO PIANOS

PRELUDE AND FUGUE
Πρελούδιο και φούγκα

ROMEIKI SUITE
Ρωμέικη σουίτα

SYMPHONY No. 3, “PALAMIKI” – Third part
Συμφωνία αρ.3 «Παλαμική» – Τρίτο μέρος

MINAS THE REBEL - CORSAIR OF THE AEGEAN
Μηνάς ο Ρέμπελος – Κουρσάρος στο Αιγαίο

PEDAGOGICAL WORKS FOR PIANO

FOR THE GREEK CHILDREN
Για τα ελληνόπουλα

FIRST PIANO LESSONS
Τα πρώτα μαθήματα για πιάνο

INCIDENTAL MUSIC

MUSIC AND MELODRAMA FOR “STELLA VIOLANTI”
Στέλλα Βιολλάντη – Μουσική και Μελόδραμα

SABBATH OF SOULS
Ψυχοσάββατο

PARGA
Η Πάργα

MACBETH
Μάκβεθ

THE SHEPHERDESS’ LOVER
Ο αγαπητικός της βοσκοπούλας

MUSICO-PEDAGOGICAL WORKS

ELEMENTARY THEORY
Στοιχειώδης θεωρία

VOCALISE – ÉTUDE

HARMONY
Αρμονία

MUSICAL FORMS
Μουσική μορφολογία

INSTRUMENTATION
Οργανογνωσία

FIRST PIANO LESSONS
Τα πρώτα μαθήματα για πιάνο

LESSONS IN MUSIC
Μαθήματα μουσικής

MELODIC EXERCISES
Μελωδικαί ασκήσεις

RHYTHMIC EXERCISES
Ρυθμικαί ασκήσεις

HARMONY EXERCISES
Θέματα αρμονίας

WORKS NOT LISTED IN THE MAIN BODY OF THE CATALOGUE
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