By The Sea (from "Eternity And A Day")
Eleni Karaindrou
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Browse piano sheets by Eleni Karaindrou on Zen Virtual Piano. Eleni Karaindrou was born in Teichio, a mountain village in central Greece, and Time magazine has called her Greece's most eloquent living composer. From childhood she was drawn to film, watching an open-air cinema from her bedroom window on summer nights. At Athens University she took a degree through the Faculty of Philosophy, in history and archaeology, after studying piano and further music at the Hellenic Conservatory. A girl watching films from a window and a student of history and archaeology hint at an artist whose interests ranged well beyond music. In 1967 she left Greece because of the military junta and settled in Paris, where she turned to ethnomusicology and came to know the music of her own childhood better. The World Soundtrack Awards note that she studied ethnomusicology at the Sorbonne and orchestration at the Scuola Cantorum between 1967 and 1974 on a scholarship from the French government. Back in Athens in 1974, she set up a laboratory for traditional instruments and broadcast an ethnomusicology series on Radio 3 of Greek national broadcasting. Years of study abroad followed by a laboratory for traditional instruments suggest an interest in the music she grew up with. Between 1975 and 1982 she held an executive post at the Greek Radio Third Program, alongside the composer Manos Hatzidakis. She was writing film and theatre scores by the 1970s. The year 1979, with her music for Christoforos Christofis's Periplanissi (Wandering), marked a turning point: she found she could answer the movement of the camera and the film's luminosity instead of only the screenplay's content. Finding freedom in the camera's movement, and not only in the screenplay's content, hints at a composer who listened to images. Her scores for the films of Theo Angelopoulos, a partnership that has been permanent since 1983, include Voyage to Cythera, Landscape in the Mist, Ulysses' Gaze and Eternity and a Day. A composer who discovered how to answer the camera and then worked with one director for decades may have found a lasting way of working in that partnership. Her music for Theodoros Angelopoulos's film Eternity and a Day appeared as an ECM New Series album, recorded in March and April 1998 and released later that year. In ECM Reviews' description, By the Sea is a humid snapshot with the composer at the keyboard, and it gives way to the Eternity Theme, which has mandolin accents and a silken oboe line. Karaindrou has said: "I still have a strong memory of the Byzantine melodies I heard in church and the continuous voices of the men accompanying the chanter." Church melodies heard in childhood and a keyboard piece titled By the Sea hint at how remembered sound can shape music made for the screen.
Browse piano sheets by Eleni Karaindrou on Zen Virtual Piano.
Eleni Karaindrou was born in Teichio, a mountain village in central Greece, and Time magazine has called her Greece's most eloquent living composer. From childhood she was drawn to film, watching an open-air cinema from her bedroom window on summer nights. At Athens University she took a degree through the Faculty of Philosophy, in history and archaeology, after studying piano and further music at the Hellenic Conservatory. A girl watching films from a window and a student of history and archaeology hint at an artist whose interests ranged well beyond music.
In 1967 she left Greece because of the military junta and settled in Paris, where she turned to ethnomusicology and came to know the music of her own childhood better. The World Soundtrack Awards note that she studied ethnomusicology at the Sorbonne and orchestration at the Scuola Cantorum between 1967 and 1974 on a scholarship from the French government. Back in Athens in 1974, she set up a laboratory for traditional instruments and broadcast an ethnomusicology series on Radio 3 of Greek national broadcasting. Years of study abroad followed by a laboratory for traditional instruments suggest an interest in the music she grew up with.
Between 1975 and 1982 she held an executive post at the Greek Radio Third Program, alongside the composer Manos Hatzidakis. She was writing film and theatre scores by the 1970s. The year 1979, with her music for Christoforos Christofis's Periplanissi (Wandering), marked a turning point: she found she could answer the movement of the camera and the film's luminosity instead of only the screenplay's content. Finding freedom in the camera's movement, and not only in the screenplay's content, hints at a composer who listened to images. Her scores for the films of Theo Angelopoulos, a partnership that has been permanent since 1983, include Voyage to Cythera, Landscape in the Mist, Ulysses' Gaze and Eternity and a Day. A composer who discovered how to answer the camera and then worked with one director for decades may have found a lasting way of working in that partnership.
Her music for Theodoros Angelopoulos's film Eternity and a Day appeared as an ECM New Series album, recorded in March and April 1998 and released later that year. In ECM Reviews' description, By the Sea is a humid snapshot with the composer at the keyboard, and it gives way to the Eternity Theme, which has mandolin accents and a silken oboe line. Karaindrou has said: "I still have a strong memory of the Byzantine melodies I heard in church and the continuous voices of the men accompanying the chanter." Church melodies heard in childhood and a keyboard piece titled By the Sea hint at how remembered sound can shape music made for the screen.
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Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer born in Teichio, a mountain village in central Greece, who writes music for film and theatre.
By the Sea is a piece from the soundtrack album Eternity and a Day, which ECM released in 1998 with music for Theodoros Angelopoulos's film.
Since 1983 she has been a permanent collaborator of the director Theo Angelopoulos, and earlier she worked with Manos Hatzidakis at the Greek Radio Third Program.
Her studies took in piano and advanced music at the Hellenic Conservatory, history and archaeology at Athens University, and ethnomusicology and orchestration in Paris from 1967 to 1974.