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Berkeley, November 17: Elytis memorial program
From: "HR-Net News Distribution Manager" <[email protected]>
CENTER FOR MODERN GREEK STUDIES, NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS CHAIR, SAN FRANCISCO STATE
"Odysseas Elytis Memorial Program"
On Sunday, November 17, 1996, the Center for Modern Greek Studies,
Nikos Kazantzakis Chair at San Francisco State University, in cooperation
with the Modern Greek Program of UC Berkeley, will present a memorial
program honoring 1979 Nobel prize winner Odysseas Elytis who died last
March. The program will include comments on the poetry of Elytis by
Professor Martha Klironomos and by poet Nanos Valaoritis, recitations of
Elytis' poems in Greek and in English translation, and poems of Elytis set
to music by contemporary Greek composers, including Mikis Theodorakis and
Yannis Markopoulos.
The program will begin at 3:00 pm at the UC Berkeley International
House, Golub Homeroom (Piedmont and Bancroft Streets). The public is
invited. Admission is free. For further information, call the Center for
Modern Greek Studies at (415) 338-1892. (e-mail: [email protected])
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