Brisbane to honour 100 years of Theodorakis in pre-Paniyiri Festival event

The Greek Orthodox Community of St George successful Brisbane is acceptable to big the yearly Alex Kondos Memorial Lecture up of its upcoming Paniyiri Festival, with this year’s lawsuit celebrating the enduring bequest of iconic composer Mikis Theodorakis, 100 years aft his birth.

Titled “The Universality of Mikis Theodorakis arsenic a Holistic Cultural and Artistic Phenomenon,” the lecture will beryllium delivered by George Lignos, a distinguished musicologist, producer, and audio engineer.

The lawsuit will take spot connected Wednesday, 14 May astatine 7:30pm successful the Grand Ballroom of the Greek Club, offering an in-depth exploration of Theodorakis’s beingness and originative output, and highlighting however his work transcended national, political, religious, and creator boundaries.

In a property release, the organisation noted that Theodorakis’s fusion of music, poetry, politics, and taste consciousness represents a unified look of individuality and spirit—one that continues to resonate crossed generations and cultures.

Complementing the lecture, there will beryllium unrecorded philharmonic performances by the combined choirs of the Greek Orthodox Community of St George, Ellinikes Fones, Ellinikes Fones Junior, and GOC Care Fones, on with special impermanent performers.

The lecture serves arsenic a taste prelude to the Paniyiri Festival, which will take spot the weekend of 17–18 May.