Augustin d'Humières teaches ancient Greek at a high school in Meaux. His students evoke his teaching with enthusiasm and the plays in which they participated.
Robert CLARKE speaks to Léon Van HOVE, director of CERN: he quickly retraces the history of the knowledge of matter, since the Greeks in antiquity, fathers of physics with notably Democritus, which evokes the first the notion of atom, inseparable material,
Report in Paris on the theatre club of the Lycée Louis le Grand. The students at Louis-Le-Grand High School are acting out. They play a piece written in the 4th century BC, lost and found for some years: Dyscolos, by the Greek author Ménandre. Interview with Monsieur André BATAILLE, the adapter of the Greek play, seated in the theatre, who explains the play "Le dyscolos" by Ménandre and then his young director: a former pupil of Louis the Great.
A show devoted to Byzantine music with the participation of the Greek Byzantine choir of Athens, conducted by Lycourgos ANGELOPOULOS Interviewed by N. LOSSKY, the musician talks about the creation of this choir in 1977 and the characteristics of Byzantine music. The Greek Byzantine choir in Athens performs various pieces of liturgical music including a eleison kyrie.
In Paris, the association "Hellenic knowledge" brings together lovers of ancient Greek: Seine coast, a man sitting on a bench reads a Greek book, interview with Jean Victor. VERNHES (teacher of Greek at the University of Aix): speaks about the book he wrote for all those who want to learn the language. A member of the association, André BRETON, a member of the association, declaims a text in ancient Greek on a bicycle in the Bois de Vincennes and then evokes what ancient Greek has brought him,
Programme devoted to Byzantine music with the participation of the Greek Byzantine choir of Athens, conducted by Lycourgos ANGELOPOULOS. Interviewed by N. LOSSKY, he talks about the creation of this choir in 1977 and the characteristics of Byzantine music. The Greek Byzantine choir in Athens performs various pieces of liturgical music including several eleison kyrié.
At the Sorbonne, Jean BAERT interviews André AYMARD, Dean of the Faculty of Letters, in his office about the organization of the courses. Explanations on the lectures taking place through the example and on the images of a lecture course with inscription in the Greek alphabet taking place in the Turgot amphitheatre.
Following the conciliar decisions of Vatican II concerning the liturgical reform, the Catholic Church is in search of her music. By authorizing the use of modern languages in certain parts of the liturgical services, the Council places the Church in a certain way under the obligation to go in search of new music. How to maintain the repertoire of sacred music and accept the use of the living language in liturgical songs? What will remain of Gregorian chant? What will replace traditional singing? This is the controversy that this report tries to answer through, among other things, the interviews of church people and musicians. The Reverend Father Diaize discusses at length the necessary adaptation of the Church in the matter of liturgical songs. The composer Gaston LITAIZE also gives his opinion on the use of French in liturgical songs.
Students from a college have chosen to take the Greek option. They explain their motivations, often under the influence of their parents, and then their teacher of Classics explains the cultural enrichment that this ancient language represents for the students.
In a classroom in Greece, young students take a Greek course. On the board, a schoolboy compares the Greek alphabet and the French alphabet: "alpha, beta, kappa, delta, epsilon, pi, gamma, psi"
Traditional Christmas Mass in the cathedral of Rouen, hundreds of faithful participated to celebrate the birth of JESUS CHRIST in the presence of Monsignor DESCUBES. The chamber choir of Saint Evode of the cathedral participated in this office.
In Haillan, the students of a primary class take modern Greek lessons given by a secondary and university teacher, Theodore Papanicolaou through songs.
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