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Musical Odyssey II - Nostos

Full Concert Promotional Video Berklee College of Music March 24, 2014 The Greek Music Ensemble’s major musical projects are part of the broader Greek World Music Genre. They are projects that the group has conceived and performed during the past few years. The music is all compiled, transcribed and arranged by us for various types of ensemble configurations, based upon content and style. Most of it is music and songs from the vast Greek Art and Folk music repertoire, presented in our own unique way and based upon our understanding and interpretation of Greek music and culture. ​ Nostos includes a variety of Greek traditional, folk, urban, contemporary, and Art Music in a musical journey, a short odyssey, that employs both music and imagery. Songs in this project have been composed during the past 200 years and their common theme that has inspired generations of immigrant Greeks around the world for the past two centuries, is Nostos. The concept of nostos is not easily translated in other languages. Nostos in Greek is found in Homer’s works like the Odyssey, and it stands for the unappeased yearning to return to the home country; it is Odysseus’ eternal longing to touch the soil of Ithaca. The word “nostalgia” has its origin in nostos. Nostos has been a distinct and rich source of inspiration and artistic creation for Greeks. The Greek Music Ensemble in this project performs selected genres of Greek music from all different regions of Greece dedicated to nostos and "xenitia" (living as a stranger in a foreign land). Songs that narrate the nostalgia for the homeland, the joys and sorrows of life in a foreign land, the grief of separation, and the emotional ingredients that make up the fabric of the immigrant psyche.