From the darkness into the light
Concert for the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit TraffickingIn collaboration with 18 ANO
Wed. 26 June 2013 21:00
Plato's Academy
The Athens State Orchestra joins forces with 18ANO, the drug addiction unit of the Athens Psychiatric Hospital, for the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in a concert symbolically entitled “From the darkness into the light”. Two classical masterpieces –Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Mozart’s magnificent Jupiter Symphony, his forty-first and last-bookend Giovanni Bottesini’s Concerto for Double Bass, in which Angelos Repapis, our Orchestra’s lead double bassist, plays the solo part. The concert will be conducted by Vassilis Christopoulos.
Event Programme
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
(1770–1827)
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
(1756–1791)
Symphony No.41 in C major, KV551 “Jupiter”
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
(1821-1889)
Concerto for double-bass and orchestra
Event Programme
Featuring
CONDUCTOR
Vassilis Christopoulos
SOLOIST
Angelos Repapis, double bass
