July 9, 2021
8 PM
POETIC TRIBUTE TO THE MARTYRS:
PART I
A Presentation in Three Parts: The Epic Poem “9th of July” by Vasilis Michaelides
as translated into English for the first time and as included in the published work
"Slaughter Us All and Make our Blood a River...”
by Andreas Antoniou Melas
Recited by Students of Cypriot Descent and Friends of Cyprus
with an Introduction by Andreas Antoniou Melas

DISTINGUISHED GUEST:
Mr. Andreas Antoniou Melas

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HYMNOLOGIC ENCOMIUM
Archbishop Kyprianos of Cyprus and the Martyrs of July 1821
“The Triodion of the Hieromartyr”:
PART I
A Set of Prosomoia and Doxastica composed in authentic Byzantine hymnologic tradition
and in the English language, dedicated
to the Cypriot Hieromartyr
Αrchbishop Kyprianos (+1821)
Presented in Three Sets (“Odes”)
By members and friends of the Byzantine Choir of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis