Hagiopolites Choir directed by Ioannis Arvanitis in Sicily

Nikolaos Giannoukakis said:

Look at the reference list Mr. Gugushvili and read those books.

You're misreading the context. The reference to "Albanian" refers to a geography and not an ethnosocial and cultural conditioning.

Arvanites are not Albanians ethnosocially/culturally. Q.E.D. Read the books in the reference list for a complete picture.

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Nikolaos Giannoukakis said:

Mr. Nassis,

You stated: "The “Arvanites,” of course, are Greeks whose heritage is Albanian"

I dare you to call an Arvaniti an Albanian. At the very least you will get slapped verbally. At the worst.....

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Greek487 said:

Did I not label the text I copied and pasted as such?

(From Richard Barrett's blog at http://leitourgeia.wordpress.com/201...know-that-guy/)

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Nikolaos Giannoukakis said:

I am not attributing it to you.

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Dimitri said:

[Moderator's note] Dear friends, I believe you all agree with me that this thread has been derailed into off-topic matters and I will ask for this exchange to end here. This is not the place to resolve ethnic origin disputes.

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greek487 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuJR...layer_embedded



(From Richard Barrett's blog at http://leitourgeia.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/hey-i-know-that-guy/)

In March of 2008, Ioannis Arvanitis directed the Hagiopolites Choir at a conference focusing on Dom Lorenzo Tardo, an Italian musicologist who was evidently interested in the reception and transmission of Byzantine chant in Sicily’s Greco-Albanian colonies. K. Arvanitis also delivered a paper called “Towards a Modern Interpration of Grottaferrata’s Musical Manuscripts” (seems to me I heard somewhere he knew something about those). The concert was in the Cathedral of St. Demetrius.

The location of the conference was a place called Piana degli Albanesi, one of the Greco-Albanian colonies that interested Tardo so much, dating back to the end of the fifteenth century. Like the abbey in Grottaferrata, they are Byzantine Catholics who are Italian by geography and communion but Greek and/or Albanian by culture and liturgy.

The “Arvanites,” of course, are Greeks whose heritage is Albanian; K. Arvanitis’ involvement certainly seems fitting.


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