'The Odyssey': Ludwig Goransson on the Sound of Ancient Greece

The composer joins filmmaker Christopher Nolan to explain how they created an authentically Homeric score for the movie ...
Hindustan Times

'Meeting with the past', Greek family keeps ancient instruments alive

EVROPOS, Greece, - In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings that ...
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Ludwig Göransson’s The Odyssey score uses ancient Greek instruments and bronze gongs

What a treat it is to exist at the same time as Ludwig Göransson.
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A musician is redefining the sound of a Greek instrument

Legendary clarinetist Petroloukas Halkias and millennial laouto player Vasilis Kostas both hail from the same region of Greece — Epirus — and Halkias even played at Kostas’ parents’ wedding. But the ...
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Spartan Instruments in Lowell, Mass., makes, repairs, and re-creates ancient Greek instruments

ANCIENT GREECE. >> SPARTAN INSTRUMENTS IS OVERFLOWING. IT IS ALL THE HANDIWORK OF CHRIS. >> THIS IS A GREEK INSTRUMENT. I AM DOING A TOTAL RESTORATION. >> THE REPAIRS AND RESTORE STRING INSTRUMENTS IN ...
Hindustan Times

Family of musicians recreates ancient Greek sounds and instruments

Hymns sung to the Greek gods thousands of years ago resonated from ancient musical instruments in Athens on Thursday, transporting a transfixed audience to antiquity. The phorminx, the kitharis, the ...
Khaleej Times

Greek family keeps ancient instruments alive

In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before covering it with animal hide and attaching nine strings that when plucked ...