Balkan Culture

Hours of creation, with free admission, will be available to anyone who visits the Kalamata Music School "Maria Callas" on Monday, November 10, 2025, from 19:30 to 21:00. This is another parallel event within the framework of the "Poetic Pathways" action, in collaboration with the Kalamata Music School "Maria Callas" and is entitled "Poetic Choreographies on the Staff".

In this context, a creator reveals with which tools he psycho-mentally creates his creation. He will then be asked questions such as:
- How is poetry transformed into a song?
- How is the meter set to music and how is the free verse?
- Does the song have a structure and what is it?
- Is the structure specific to all songs?
- Does the composer's value system operate during this transformation?

Each composer's answer will be accompanied by an example that will be sung by Yiannis Thomopoulos, accompanied on the piano by the composer.

The audience will have the opportunity to submit questions related to the transfer of the poetic word to the staff. Also, the poets who will be in the audience, whoever wishes, will be asked to give a four-line stanza from one of their poems to be set to music by the composer, on the spot.

Contributors:
Tasos Karakatsanis, composer
Fotini Nikolaidou, inspirer of the action / philologist, writer, literary artist
Yiannis Thomopoulos, singer
Coordinated by Tonia Pavlakou, philologist, writer and president of SMS