Thursday, 31 march 2011 - Sunday, 04 december 2011
The Romanian Cultural Institute will organize in the following period, March-December 2011, a series of musical encounters gathered underneath the banner “When we were the Byzantium”, with the announced participation of various artists coming from abroad alongside very talented Romanian artists committed to promoting the authentic old Romanian music. Such assemblies and bands will illustrate Dimitrie Cantemir’s music. Among our announced guests we can name the Romanian Old Music Ensemble Anton Pann, conducted by Constatin Răileanu, who will also be the host of the events, En Chordais (Greece), Anatolia and Bezmârâ (Turkey) and Constantinople (Iran). In order to reconstruct the atmosphere of those precious times, we shall have performances based upon old musical instruments, accompanied by interventions of different story-tellers that will entertain us with anecdotes and brief fragments of history related to particular songs. [...]
