With Yehudi Menuhin
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- Period: 1977 & 1993
The great violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin's first acquaintance with Domna and Greek folk music was made in 1977. It was then that traditional songs were filmed for broadcast by French television on the Le Grand Échiquier program, (Antenne 2), in Kaisariani, near the Kaisariani Monastery.
"He had been greatly charmed by the kanun, and that is why he stood over Stefanidis, and marveled at him playing," recalls Domna Samiou.
The video where Menuhin on violin accompanies Domna in the Constantinopolitan tune "Farewell Holy One", which is the rare snapshot of this meeting.
Kaisariani, Athens, 1977
From the shoot of the French TV show "Le Grand Échiquier"
Images
Alekos Pavlou-Arapakis, Domna Samiou and Yehudi Menuhin
© Domna Samiou ArchiveNikos Stefanidis and Yehudi Menuhin
© Domna Samiou ArchiveMathios Balabanis, Kyriakos Kostoulas, Vassilis Katrakos, Domna Samiou and Yehudi Menuhin
© Domna Samiou ArchiveMathios Balabanis playing the goblet drum and Nikos Stefanidis, the kanun master
© Domna Samiou ArchiveDomna Samiou, Yehudi Menuhin
© Domna Samiou ArchiveA few days after the shoot, Menuhin wrote her: "The moments we spent among the olive trees will always remain for me a joyous and heartwarming memory" and, "you have made known to me the brilliant and rich heritage of Greek traditional music".
Menuhin was a fond admirer of Greek nature and the Aegean. In 1993, the Mykonos municipality declared him and his wife Diana honorary citizens. In the concert that followed the ceremony, in the Lakka Theatre, Domna Samiou presented a musical program with songs from Mykonos and other regions, accompanied by Socrates Sinopoulos, Vassilis Giannisis and local musicians.
Mykonos, 1993
Declaration of Yehudi and Diana Menuhin as honorary citizens of the Municipality of Mykonos.
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Yehudi Menuhin and Domna Samiou
© Domna Samiou ArchiveDomna Samiou
© Domna Samiou ArchiveYehudi Menuhin
© Domna Samiou ArchiveDiana and Yehudi Menuhin
© Domna Samiou ArchiveYehudi Menouhin and Domna Samiou
© Domna Samiou Archive
With Yehudi Menuhin
Images
Poster
Menuhin of Mykonos
Newspaper, Eleftherotypia, 27/09/1993
Με τον Yehudi Menuhin
Our friend Yehudi
Yiorgos Karouzakis, Newspaper, Eleftherotypia, 16/03/1999
Η αγάπη μου για την Ελλάδα
Nikos A. Dontas, Newspaper, Kathimerini, 21/03/1999
Collaborators
- Singer: Domna Samiou