ichriss@stanford.edu
Research Awards and Academic Distinctions
2008 February-March Research Fellow, The Huntington
2007 April-June Research Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC
March Research Fellow, Harvard University
2006 December-February Research Fellow, UCLA
February-March Research Fellow, UT-Austin
2005 May-June Research Fellow, The Huntington
2005-2008 Lecturer, Stanford University
2002-2004 Teaching Fellow, Stanford University
2004 Ph.D. in Musicology, Stanford University, USA.
Dissertation:
“Early Reception of Handel’s Oratorios, 1732-1784: Narrative – Studies –
Documents,” 3 vols., xiii + 1626 pp. (available through UMI).
Dissertation
committee: Professor Karol Berger (adviser), Professor Stephen Hinton (reader),
Professor Thomas S. Grey (reader).
1996 M.Phil. (by research) in Musicology, University of Liverpool, UK.
Thesis: “The Concept of Music in the Shakespearean Corpus: An Exploration of Neoplatonic Ideas of Music in Shakespeare.”
1995-1996 M.Phil./Ph.D. status, Musicology, King’s College, University of London, UK.
Project: “The Impact of
Aristotle’s Poetics on the Efforts
Towards the Creation of Opera.”
Adviser: Professor Reinhard
Strohm.
1995 M.Mus. in Historical Musicology, King’s College, University of London, UK.
Thesis:
“Striggio-Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo: An
Exploration of its Neoplatonic Layers.”
Adviser: Professor Curtis
Price.
1992 Ptychio (equivalent to MA) summa cum laude and highest GPA in the school’s history, Musicology and Music Education, Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Thesis: “The Life and Works of Nicholas Astrinidis.”
1989-1990 private instruction in Conducting with Karolos Trikolidis (student of Hans Swarovski and Herbert von Karajan), New Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.
1992 Diploma in Theory of Music (cluster of teaching degrees) cum laude,
Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.
1992 Fugue (Diploma:
Excellent Unanimously with Distinction)
1990 Hodiki (Degree: Excellent)
1990 Counterpoint (Degree: Excellent Unanimously)
1988 Harmony (Degree:
Excellent)
1990 Diploma in Piano Performance (professional degree) cum laude and First Prize,
Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece.
2007-2008 Mayers Fellowship, The Huntington
2006-2007 John M. Ward Fellowship in Dance and Music for the Theatre, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Mary and Eric Weinmann Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library
2005-2006 Kanner Fellowship in British Studies, Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, UCLA
ASECS/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center,
The University of Texas at Austin
Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Fellowship, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2005 Honorary Citation, Academy of Athens
2004-2005 Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship, The Huntington
2004 J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship, American Handel Society
2003-2004 Aubrey Williams Research Travel Fund Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
2003 Travel Fellowship, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Graduate Research Opportunity Award, Stanford University
Ingolf Dahl Award Competition Finalist, AMS Pacific Southwest and Northern California chapters
Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship Finalist, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
2002-2003 Research Fellowship, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA
Research Fellowship, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University
2001-2002 Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center
2000-2002 Doctoral Fellowship, Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation
1996-2000 Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University
1995-1996 Postgraduate Fellowship, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation
Vozou Fellowship, Academy of Athens
1994-1995 Velliou-Varonou Scholarship, Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
1992-1993 Postgraduate Scholarship, Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki
1991 (Fall) research grant, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1990 Honorary Diploma and Scholarship, Rotary Club of Thessaloniki
1987-1991 Undergraduate Fellowships, Greek State Scholarships Foundation
1986 Honorary Diploma, Municipality of Neapolis, Thessaloniki
1985-1992 Fellowship, School of Advanced Music Theory, Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki
Continuing Studies Program, Stanford University (Lecturer):
2008 Summer Practical Music Theory
2008 Spring Mozart and the Enlightenment
2007 Summer Practical Music Theory
2006 Fall Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies
2006 Summer Practical Music Theory
2006 Spring A Practical Introduction to Harmony
2005 Fall Handel’s London
2005 Summer A Practical Introduction to Music Theory
2005 Spring Handel and Georgian England
Department of Music, Stanford University (Teaching Fellow):
2004 Winter Elements of Music II
2003 Fall Elements of Music I
2003 Spring Elements of Music III
2002 Fall Introduction to Music Theory
1999 Fall Mozart’s Instrumental Music
1999 Winter Music History until 1750
1998 Fall The Music of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel
1998 Spring Talking about Music
1998 Winter Introduction to Music
1997 Fall Introduction to Music Theory
Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki, Greece (Lecturer):
1989 – 1991 Music Theory I
1989 – 1991 Piano I
2008 research and editorial assistant, Wagner and His World, ed. Thomas S. Grey (Princeton, 2009).
2007 exhibition curator, “Celebrating Handel in Georgian England,” Houghton Library, Harvard University
2006-2008 research and editorial assistant, The Cambridge Companion to Wagner, ed. Thomas S. Grey (Cambridge, 2008).
2004-2008 music director and piano accompanist, “Hope Musical Theatre,” Palo Alto, CA.
2004 musicological advisor, “Hellenic Festival” (28, 30 October, 6 November), The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York City
2003 referee for the Journal of the American Musicological Society
2003, Aug 5 panel chair, “Music and Words,” 11th Quadrennial Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), UCLA
2002, Oct finalist, regular columnist search, The Stanford Daily
2002-2004 research associate to a non-profit organization
2002, 2003 co-ordinator, photo exhibit on world development problems, “Rhythms” hunger relief concert, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University (24/02/02, 16/02/03)
2001, Dec 4 organizer, “The Miracle behind the Miracles,” lecture and slide-show by Buddy Piper, Bechtel International Center, Stanford University
2001, Dec. 1 organizer, “A Spiritual Perspective on the September 11 Attacks: Panel Discussion and Public Forum,” Stanford Humanities Center
2001-2003 organizer, photo exhibit on world development problems, United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF), Stanford University (25-28 October 2001, 24-27 October 2002, 1 May 2003, 22-26 October 2003)
2000-2002 published author of three books of fiction in Greek
2000-2001 desk assistant, Media & Microtext, Stanford University Libraries
2000-2001 piano accompanist for “Ballet I,” Stanford University Dance Division
1999-2000 administrative assistant, “Ron Alexander Memorial Lectures in Musicology,” Stanford University Department of Music
1998-2004 guest columnist, “The Stanford Daily”
1998-2000 co-director, “Graduate Musicology Forum,” Stanford University
1998-1999 assistant, “Lully Archive,” Stanford University Music Library
1997-2003 piano recitalist, Stanford University and Palo Alto
1996 musicological advisor, Nikos Astrinidis: A Portrait, TV documentary by Giorgos Keramidiotis, Greek Television Channel 3
1994-1996 office assistant (unpaid), “World Goodwill,” London, UK
1989-1992 archivist and assistant to composer Nikos Astrinidis, Thessaloniki
1989-1991
co-founder and member of the editorial board of the
journal Mousikotropies, Department of Music Studies,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1989-1990 assistant to the director (unpaid), New Conservatory of Thessaloniki
1983/4 various musicological projects
1981-85, c1990—present: composer
also, experience as a piano performer (soloist and accompanist), editor, translator (into Greek), lecturer, recording supervisor
Studies in Handel Reception, 1732-1784, collection of essays on Handel, his oratorios, and their reception in Britain before the 1784 Commemoration Festival [proposal submitted].
The Doomed Challenger: John Brown (1715-1766) and his Reform of English Oratorio, 100-125 page monograph comprising an essay (20,000 words) and the edition of the rare An Examination of the Oratorios which have been performed this Season, at Covent-Garden Theatre (16,000-word pamphlet) along with oratorio-related excerpts from Brown’s publications [proposal submitted].
Handel Reference Database, 1732-1784, Handel documentation in Britain before the Commemoration Festival [in progress].
Neoplatonic Musical Imagery in Shakespeare, book manuscript (ca 50,000 words) [under revision].
From the Garden of Diaspora to the Cell of Repatriation: The Life and Works of Nikos Astrinidis (1921-), book manuscript (50,000 words) [awaiting publication funding] [Gr].
“Handel in the Balance: A Scale of Musical Merit from 1776” [ca 7,000 words, in progress].
“Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio” [ca 6,300 words, in final stages].
“Handel at Sixty (1745): New Insights on Handel’s Darkest Hour” [ca 15,000 words].
“‘hee-haw ... llelujah’: Handel among the Vauxhall Asses” [12,800 words, submitted].
“Advice to Mr. Handel: Mapping a Document in Time and Circumstance” [11,000 words, submitted].
“‘As a Dictionary to a Novel’: A C.P.E. Bach Entry in Beethoven’s Op. 2, No. 3?” [10,100 words, submitted].
“Handelian Oratorio and the Sublime according to Baillie” [2,500 words, submitted].
“Handel at Crossroads: New Contributions on His 1738 and 1739 Seasons” [ca. 10,000 words, in final stages].
“Handel Recovering: Fresh Light on his Affairs in 1737,” Eighteenth-Century Music 5/2 (2008) [in press].
“English Oratorio in London: The 1765 Season,” Händel-Jahrbuch 54 (2008) [in press].
“Handel’s Reception and the Rise of Music Historiography in Britain,” in Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers & Fads, ed. Zdravko Blazekovic (New York: RILM, 2008) [forthcoming].
“A Handel Relative in Britain? (also Cutting through the 1759 Fence in Handel Studies),” The Musical Times, vol. 148, no. 1898 (Spring 2007): 49-58.
“A Chubby
Orpheus: Handel’s Corpulence as a Prerogative of Genius,” in Consuming
Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Narratives of Consumption, 1700-1900,
ed. Tamara S. Wagner and Narin Hassan (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007),
193-204.
“Set Theory in Xenakis’ EONTA,” in International Symposium Iannis Xenakis, ed. Anastasia Georgaki and Makis Solomos (Athens: The National and Kapodistrian University, 2005), 241-49.
“The ‘Artusi-Monteverdi’ Controversy: Background, Content, and Modern Interpretations,” British Postgraduate Musicology 6 (2004), online.
“Eine Faust-Symphonie and Lawrence Kramer’s Reading of the ‘Gretchen’ Movement,” Journal of the American Liszt Society 50 (Autumn 2001): 9-17.
review, Winton Dean, Handel’s Operas, 1726-1741 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2006), The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 41/2 (Spring 2009) [commissioned].
“A Handelian Piracy during a ‘Handel’ Year” [in preparation].
“Handel, Hogarth, and the Artistic Continuum in Georgian England” [ca. 4,800 words, in final stages].
“Oratorio à la Mode: Esther and Fielding’s The Modern Husband (1732)” [2,000 words, submitted].
“Handel References in The Evening Advertiser (1754-1756),” The Handel Institute Newsletter 19/1 (Spring 2008), [4-5].
“‘It’s good to be a King’: George I goes to the Masquerade (1721),” North American British Music Studies Association Newsletter 4/1 (Spring 2008), online.
“La Musique du Diable (1711),” Society for Eighteenth-Century Music Newsletter 11 (October 2007): 7-9.
“His Majesty’s Choice: Esther in May 1732,” Newsletter of The American Handel Society 22/2 (Summer 2007): 4-6.
“A ‘fam’d Oratorio
… in old English … sung’: Esther on 16 May 1732,” The
Handel Institute Newsletter 18/1 (Spring 2007): [4-7].
“Charles
Handell, Esq. (? – 1776),” Newsletter
of The American Handel Society
21/1 (Spring 2006): 1, 3.
“Report, 2003-04 Aubrey Williams Research Travel Grant,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies News Circular 136 (Fall 2005): 7-8.
“A New Handel Dissertation,” Newsletter of The American Handel Society 19/2 (August 2004): 5.
Letter to the editor [“Beethoven and Freedom: Another Way of looking at Things?”] The Beethoven Journal 18 (2003): 58-59.
Communication, Journal of the American Musicological Society 56 (2003): 221-24.
“Nicolas Astrinidis: Oratorio Saint Demetrios,” Mousikotropies 1/1996, 13-20 [Gr].
“Glimpses of a Vision for Twenty-First-Century Scholarship,” Musical Objects: A Postgraduate Review 1 (1995): 65-66.
“Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 14, op. 27, no. 2, First Movement – A Hermeneutic Analysis,” Mousikotropies 3/1995, 40-45 [Gr].
Nicolas Astrinidis: Oratorio Saint Demetrios, booklet for CD with extracts from the oratorio (Thessaloniki: Thalassa Records, 1994), 15 pp.
“F. Chopin: Prelude op. 24, nr 14. An Example of Monophonic Counterpoint in Romantic Music,” Mousikotropies 1/94, 23-31 [Gr].
Third Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, York University, Toronto, 31 July – 3 August 2008:
“A Founding Father of Social Responsibility in
Music? Handel in Georgian Britain”
39th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, 27-30 March 2008:
“Public Discipline and Handel’s Oratorios” [cancelled]
18th Congress of the International Musicological Society, University of Zurich, 10-15 July 2007:
“Handel as a transitional figure”
2007
American Handel Festival, Princeton University, 19-21 April 2007:
“‘How
is the hero fall’n!’: New Light on Handel’s Darkest Hour (1745)”
29th Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory (jointly with AMS), “Scholars for Social Responsibility” session, Los Angeles, 2-5 November 2006:
“A Founding Father of Social
Responsibility in Music? Handel in
Georgian Britain”
Second Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, 4-5 August 2006:
“A ‘Scale to Measure the Merits of Musicians’
(1776)”
Twelfth Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, University of
Warsaw, Poland, 26-30 July 2006:
“Born in the Press: The Political Context of
Handel’s Esther (1732)”
“Music and Consciousness,” University of Sheffield, UK, 17-19 July 2006:
“Cyril Scott’s Musical Platonism”
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) International Conference 2006, Durham University, UK, 6-9 July 2006:
“Couples
and Coupling in Beethoven’s Fidelio”
Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, University of California, Berkeley, 6-7 May 2006:
“Handel,
Lady Brown, and Baby-Boomer Musicology” [cancelled]
“Aspects of Hellenism in Music,” Music Megaron of Athens, Athens,
Greece, 5-7 May 2006:
37th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montreal, Quebec, 30 March – 2 April 2006:
“Handel and the Sublime
according to John Baillie (1747)” [cancelled]
35th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, 4-6 January 2006:
“Building the Empire on Sound Art: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763” [cancelled]
“Romania-Enescu-Europe,” The City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, 1-2 December 2005:
“From Romanian Folklore to
Greek Nationalism: The Cultural Migration of Nikos Astrinidis (1921-)”
“Politics [AND/IN] Aesthetics International Conference,” Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece / University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria, 4-9 June 2005:
“National Regeneration
through Art: John Brown’s Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763”
International Symposium Iannis Xenakis, University of Athens / University of Montpellier 3, Athens, Greece, 18-20 May 2005:
“Set theory in Xenakis’ EONTA”
(in collaboration)
Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 30 April—1 May 2005:
“Sid Caesar,
‘Argument to Beethoven’s Fifth’: A Comic Misreading of Cultural Consequence”
36th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, 31 March – 3 April 2005:
“Quantifying Genius: British Adaptations of de
Piles’ Scale of Painters”
2005 Joint Meetings of College Music Society Pacific Central Chapter, West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis, and Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory, University of San Francisco, 18-20 March 2005:
“Chopin’s
‘Prelude’ Op. 28, No. 14: A Case of Monophonic Counterpoint in Romantic Music”
(March 19)
The American Handel Society Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 17-20 March 2005:
“Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio” (March
18)
“Music’s Intellectual History: Founders, Followers & Fads,” The City University of New York Graduate Center, 16-19 March 2005:
“Handel’s Reception and the Rise of Music
Historiography in England” (March 17)
34th Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, UK, 6-8 January 2005:
“Quantifying Genius: British Adaptations of de Piles’ Scale of Painters”
“Britannia (Re-)Sounding,” The First North American British Music Studies Association Biannual Conference, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH, 18-19 June 2004:
“From Stage to Cathedral: Cultural Mobility of
English Oratorio in 18th-Century Britain”
Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, University of San Francisco, 1-2 May 2004:
“Quantifying Genius: Justice Balance’s ‘hit parade’
of Composers, 1776”
Renaissance Conference of Southern California, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 20-21 February 2004:
“An Advertisement of Music’s Power? Temporal Symmetry in the Prologue of L’Orfeo”
33rd Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, 3-5 January 2004:
“Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio”
11th Quadrennial Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 3-9 August 2003:
“National Regeneration through Art: John Brown’s
Reform of Handelian Oratorio, 1763”
Annual joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters, California State University, Fullerton, 3-4 May 2003:
“Born in the Press: The Public Molding of Handel’s Esther into an English Oratorio”
The American Handel Festival, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, 27 February – 2 March 2003:
“Re-Inventing a Genre: John Brown’s Reception of
Handelian Oratorio”
Winter meeting of the Northern California AMS chapter, University of San Francisco, 8 February 2003:
“‘Like a Dictionary to a Novel’: A C.P.E. Bach Entry
in Beethoven’s Op. 2, No. 3?”
68th meeting of the American Musicological Society, Columbus, OH, 31 October – 3 November 2002:
“The Doomed Challenger: John Brown’s Reform of
Handelian Oratorio”
Pacific Southwest and Northern California AMS chapters joint meeting, Stanford University, 27-28 April 2002:
“The Doomed Challenger: John Brown’s Reform of
Handelian Oratorio”
Fellow lecture, Stanford Humanities Center, 14 February 2002:
“Early Reception and the Moral Claims of Handel’s
Oratorios, 1732-1784”
“Ron Alexander Memorial
Lecture in Musicology,” Stanford University, 9 April 2001:
response to Reinhard Strohm, “The End of the Middle
Ages and the End of Modernity”
Undergraduate Seminar in Composition (instructor: Professor Melissa Hui), Stanford University Department of Music, 13 April 1999:
“Ilias Chrissochoidis, Piano Concerto”
Royal Musical Association 29th Research Students’ Conference, Royal Holloway College, University of London, 20-23 December 1995:
“‘Was Monteverdi a Misogynist?’ and ‘Does Anyone
Really Care About It?’”
Royal Musical Association 28th Annual Research Students’ Conference, University of Manchester, December 1994:
“Towards the Emancipation of the Musical Work”
Armenian Cultural Center, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 1993:
“The Life and Works of Nicolas Astrinidis”
School of English,
University of Liverpool, June 1992:
“Baconian
or Stratfordian Theory?”
“Fragmentation in Classical Era Instrumental Music” (research paper, fall 1998).
“Three Moments in Music Aesthetics” (paper, fall 1998).
“An Essay on Schenker and Some of his Intellectual Affinities with Hanslick and Schopenhauer” (research paper, spring 1998).
“Beethoven’s Heiliger Dankgesang” (research paper, spring 1997).
“An Exploration of Anti-Teleological Moments in Beethoven’s Fidelio” (research paper, winter 1997).
“Couples in Beethoven’s Fidelio (1814)?” (seminar paper, fall 1996).
“The Canon and how one can blow it up: Improvisation on a commonly obscure theme” (seminar paper, April 1995).
“An Analysis of John Williams’ Star Wars (Main Title)” (seminar paper, January 1995).
“Baconian or Stratfordian Theory?” (seminar paper, June 1992).
“[MT]” (1500 words).
“Infernal diva,” (1500 words).
“Mozart’s Handel Reception” [under review] [Gr].
“René Descartes, Compendium
musicae (1618)” [under review] [Gr].
“György Ligeti, Zehn Stücke für Bläserquintett (1968): Κομμάτι αρ. 3 (“Lento”) [under review] [Gr].
“Το νέο look του Μότσαρτ,” Πολύτονον
29 (July-August 2008): 26-29 [Gr].
“Η μουσική
ανακάλυψη της
χρονιάς είναι ...
εικαστική: Ένα
νέο πορτραίτο
του Μότσαρτ,” ΒΗΜΑ
Ιδεών 14 (June 2008): 4-5 [Gr].
“Political History of Greece in the 20th Century: A Musicotropic Attempt toward National Self-Awareness,” Πολύτονον 15 (March-April 2006), 27-29 [February 2005; Gr].
“[MVAM]” (diagnostic statement, 26 October 2005).
“Amateur Suicide or Professional Execution? The Fate of Musical Objects” (letter to the editor of British Postgraduate Musicology, 31 July 2002).
“Opera at Mannheim Court, 1742-1778,” Mousikotropies 1-2/2002 [Gr].
“Nicolas Astrinidis: Pianist-Composer-Conductor. Live Recordings,” CD liner notes (Thessaloniki: Thalassa Records, 200?).
“The Early Years of Alexander the Great,” oratorio by Nicolas Astrinidis (program notes), 7 February 2002, Symphony Orchestra of the Municipality of Thessaloniki concert [Gr].
“Aesthetic Ingenuity or Historical Authenticity?” (news story, -14 March 1999) [Gr].
“Nicolas Astrinidis: The Youth of Alexander the Great,” liner notes for CD with extracts from the oratorio (Thessaloniki: Thalassa Records, 1998).
“Jean-Philippe Rameau: Traité de l’Harmonie (1722) (1st Book),” translated into Greek by Sakis Laios, Mousikotropies 2/1998, 13-18 [Gr].
program notes, recital for two pianos, Nicolas Astrinidis, J. Prunner, 30 May 1996, Italian Institute, Thessaloniki.
“Johann Sebastian Bach: Overtüre nach Französischen Art (BWV 831),” Mousikotropies 4/1995, 42-49 [Gr].
“Nicolas Astrinidis: Fantaisie Concertante, op. 19 (1949),” program notes, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, 1 June 1995 [Gr].
“Examples of Applying Speculative Thinking on Musical Phenomena” (translation of Joscelyn Godwin, Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The Spiritual Dimension of Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde [London: Thames and Hudson, 1987]), Mousikotropies 4/1994, 38-47 [Gr].
“Theme – Music: A Catalyst for the Synthesis of Sciences,” Mousikotropies 4/1994, 28 [Gr].
“‘The Artistic Creation must be a Challenge...When a Young Composer indulges in Mannerism, He also dies Young’: a Conversation with Theodore Antoniou” (interview), Mousikotropies 4/1994, 19-28 [Gr].
“Manos Hadjidakis: in Obscuritatem,” Mousikotropies 3/1994, 18-19 [Gr].
“Beethoven’s Place in Music History” (translation of Barry Cooper’s article from The Beethoven Compendium: A Guide to Beethoven’s life and music, ed. by Barry Cooper et al. [London: Thames and Hudson, 1991]), Mousikotropies 2/1994, 41-43 [Gr].
“Music in Kircher’s Work” (translation of chapter six [“Music”] of Joscelyn Godwin, Athanasius Kircher: a Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge [London: Thames and Hudson, 1979]), Mousikotropies 3-4/1993, 70-77 [Gr].
“Music and Philosophy: The End of the Music,” Mousikotropies 3-4/1993, 59-61 [Gr].
“Theme: Three-Dimensional Scores,” Mousikotropies 2/1993, 56 [Gr].
“An Essay on Rhythm,” Mousikotropies 2/1993, 48-55 [Gr].
“A Conversation with Nicolas Astrinidis” (interview), Mousikotropies 1/1993, 26-31 [Gr].
“Theme (The Influence of the Frequency Environment on Human Beings),” Mousikotropies 3/1992, 61 [Gr].
“The Cross in Musical Creation and Re-creation,” Mousikotropies 3/1992, 59-61 [Gr].
“Sight Reading (prima vista): Performance Ability or also Interpretation Technique?” Mousikotropies 1/1992, 61-63 [Gr].
“A Letter to Mozart after ‘Mozart’s Year,” Mousikotropies 1/1992, 8-10 [Gr].
“Nicolas Astrinidis: Sto Christo, sto Kastro,” program notes, Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, 19 December 1991 [Gr].
“Tradition: the Double-Edged Sword of Civilization,” Mousikotropies 3/1991, 58-63 [Gr].
“Music and Cooking: Piano-Barbecue,” Mousikotropies 3/1991, 12-14 [Gr].
“The Transposition Principle as a Manifestation of the Multifieldity [= Multifield State] of the Universe,” Mousikotropies 2/1991, 60-61 [Gr].
“The Musical Work: a High Energy Transformer,” Mousikotropies 1/1991, 63-64 [Gr].
“Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950),” Mousikotropies 1/1991, 23-31 [Gr].
“Specialization in Musical Life: Conquest or Hindrance?” Mousikotropies 4/1990, 76-77 [Gr].
“Manifestations of Medicity [= Mediating Function] in Musical Creation and Re-creation,” Mousikotropies 4/1990, 32-35 [Gr].
“Duty in the Life/Work of Dimitris Mitropoulos,” Mousikotropies 3/1990, 63-74 [Gr].
“‘The Bird, the Mediocre Person, and the Being Existing on a Low Evolutionary Level’ (A-sopou’s Tale) and the Case of Dimitris Mitropoulos,” Mousikotropies 3/1990, 11-17 [Gr].
“Theme (What is Music?),” Mousiki Periodiki Ekdosi 2/3 (April 1990), 27 [Gr].
“Plan of a Method for a more thorough Approach of the Musical Work,” Mousiki Periodiki Ekdosi 2/3 (April 1990), 18-27 [Gr].
“What is Music? A Quest for a Definition of Music. Injective part,” Mousikotropies 2/1990, 54-62 [Gr].
“What is Music? A Quest for a Definition of Music. Second Part: Towards a Quest for a Definition of Music. First Section: Three Fundamental Propositions,” Mousikotropies 1/1990, 38-43 [Gr].
“What is Music? A Quest for a Definition of Music. First Part: On Definition in general,” Mousikotropies, announcement issue (November 1989), 17-28 [Gr].
“The Perfect Training of the Fingers: in their Combination, with the Restriction of non-repeating the Same Finger in Each Combination” (method), Mousiki Periodiki Ekdosi 1 (April 1989), 35-40 [Gr]; reviewed and partly reprinted in Chronis Moysiadis and Haralampos C. Spyridis, Applied Mathematics in the Science of Music (Thessaloniki: Ziti, 1994), 87-90, 219-25.
“Sharing as Practice” (program notes to personal piano recital, 6 February 2002).
“A Spiritual Perspective on the September 11 Attacks: Panel Discussion and Public Forum” (introductory remarks, 1 December 2001).
“On the UN’s Peace Nobel Prize” (program notes to personal piano recital, 17 October 2001).
“The Case for Sharing” (program notes to personal piano recital, 4 April 2001).
“You are right…but I’m not convinced” (entry for the “Center of Teaching and Learning Speech” contest, 1 November 2000).
“A 1767 UFO Sighting?” (communication to various UFO-research electronic boards, 27 August 2000).
“Religion, Morality, and the University,” The Thinker 6/1 (October 1999): 3, 5.
“1999 Stanford Founders’ Day Speech” (competition entry, 22 February 1999).
“1998 Stanford Founders’ Day Speech” (competition entry, 20 February 1998).
“A Meditation on Time and History” (essay, 30 November 1995) [also in Gr].
(major themes: defending the Humanities in a corporate academia
uniting personal spiritual freedom and social justice)
“Πρώτο Ανάθεμα,” troktiko blog, 8 March 2008 [Gr].
“Προσκόλληση
σε εικονική
πραγματικότητα”
[original title: “Μια
μούμια μα ποιά
μούμια;”], To Vima, 23 January 2008, A14 [Gr].
“Η χαμένη
ευκαιρία του
ΠΑΣΟΚ” (column, 5 November 2007) [Gr].
“Η 12η
Νοεμβρίου
ευκαιρία για
τη νεολαία του
ΠΑΣΟΚ” (column, 29 October 2007) [Gr].
“ΠΑσόκ χωρίς
δέος” (column, 24 October 2007), excerpted as “Ο Β.
Βενιζέλος έχει
τις απαντήσεις,”
Ta Nea, 9 November 2007, 19 [Gr].
“ΠΑΣΟΚ Romantique” (column, 19 October 2007) [Gr].
“Ψεύτικα διλήμματα [False dilemmas]” [original title: “Τα ψεύτικα διλήμματα τα δόλια”], To Vima, 18 October 2007, A9 [Gr].
“Apple Cider Vinegar can help fight the flu” (letter, 10 November 2005).
“Humanity is one and indivisible” (editor’s title; letter), The Stanford Weekly, 21 July 2005, pp. 4-5.
“Fiorina’s fall scratches Stanford” (column, 10 February 2005).
“Secretary Rice a challenge for US diplomacy” (column, 31 January 2005).
“Berman’s view of America utterly simplistic” (letter, 17 January 2005).
“Where are the WMD?” (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 7 October 2004, p. 6.
“Kerry’s secret ally?” (column, 25 August 2004).
“Op-ed on Iraq was deceptive” (letter), The Stanford Daily, 20 April 2004, p. ?.
“Fundamentalist views on Jesus hinder interfaith dialogue” (letter, 2 March 2004).
“Current anti-Americanism not culture-based: A Response to Russell Berman” (column, 27 January 2004).
“What a president should be made of: Kucinich is the right man for the job” [original title: “The stuff that makes a president: Kucinich at Stanford”] (op-ed column), The Stanford Daily, 11 November 2003, p. 5.
“Harmful Chemicals at Home” (letter, 28 March 2003).
“Calls for war should be matched with