Concert: “Anamnēsis: Regaining Time in Music & Poetry”

Anamnēsis aims to bring together musical pieces and literary texts that thematize the active and transformative character of remembering. To recollect, to call something to memory, often amounts to an act of creative reinterpretation. On this premise, our concert will be a mosaic of musical reflections on the flow of time, the permanence of the past, and its ability to give shape to the future. The tradition of Hellenism will serve as the springboard for this endeavor, leading us to global modernist reflections. George Seferis, Manos Hadjidakis, and Dionysis Savvopoulos thus meet the Romantic piano repertoire, Zbigniew Preisner, and a young Igor Stravinsky, under the rubric of regaining time through remembering — and therefore transfiguring — their pasts, and ours.

A concert produced by Konstantinos Konstantinou, ’22, and Nikitas Tampakis, ’14, with musical performances by Princeton graduate and undergraduate students and alumni, and guest appearances by pianist Stamatis Vlachodimitris and University Organist Eric Plutz.