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Sarabande in Athens

Jon Lord’s Sarabande will receive a rare live outing in February in Greece. It will be a one off performance by the Camerata Friends of Music Orchestra, conducted by George Petrou, with special guest Gus G on guitar. Other memebers of the band include Giorgos Fakanas on bass, Stefanos Dimitriou on drums, and the conductor doubling down on Hammond organ. The evening will open with the performance of Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 4, Heroes (1996), based on the eponymous album by David Bowie and Brian Eno, with Sarabande as the main course.

Who: Camerata Friends of Music Orchestra, conducted by George Petrou;
What: Symphonic Rock Transformations: a performance of Jon Lord’s Sarabande and Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 4, Heroes;
When: February 19, 2025, at 20:30;
Where: Christos Lambrakis Hall, located inside the Megaron complex in Athens, Greece;
Tickets: €10.00 — €55.00, here.

Thanks to Ilias Nikolakopoulos for the info.

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2 Comments to “Sarabande in Athens”:

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    Uwe Hornung says:

    That’s wonderful to hear, there is something magic about the Sarabande album, it is/was immediately accessible even to people who find/found the Concerto, Gemini Suite and Windows hard going.

    I remember a spat between DC and Jon Lord in German music papers in 1976 after the split. Jon Lord had mused that David’s alcohol intake hadn’t helped Purple in its last days and an enraged DC shot back that he hadn’t mentioned Jon’s cognac consumption either nor “evenings where Jon cried on my shoulder” and that if it wasn’t for him there would be no Sarabande and that he had “the cassette tapes to prove it”. Alas!, their argument settled down after a while and the mysterious Sarabande-inspirational DC demos remain consigned to the vaults and unreleased to this day. Maybe in one of David’s curated future reissue releases? 🤣

    January 27th, 2025 at 11:56
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    MacGregor says:

    An interesting double billing & that should be a rather good performance. I just listened to the full Sarabande album and enjoyed it. I have always like Pavane and Bourée and a few other bits and pieces. It is a much more together album than the previous ‘solo’ albums. Excellent musicians all round including the conductor and orchestra. Cheers.

    January 27th, 2025 at 12:24

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