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An... imaginary musical journey
08 November 2026
Last Friday's concert of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, held in collaboration with the Thessaloniki Film Festival at the A.U.T.H. Ceremonial Hall, was literally an invitation to a musical journey into the imagination.
The program opened with Kurt Weill's 'Symphonic Fantasy', a dark and at the same time sharp work, with which the brilliant composer reacts to the rising star of Nazism.
The orchestra elaborately expressed all the creator's anguish for the darkness spreading in the world, but also the points that the regime mocks by exorcising it.
Then the exceptionally talented clarinetist from the TSSO family, George Karagounis, performed Aaron Copland’s iconic Clarinet Concerto, a work with enormous technical demands, which masterfully combines classical structure with elements of American jazz and Latin American music.
To the just apotheosis of the audience, Karagounis responded with an even more demanding encore.
The second part focused on the mythical music of the Star Wars films, starting from the source of its inspiration and ending with their famous and beloved music itself.
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's music for the film Kings Row is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of the Golden Age of Hollywood and changed the way film music is written forever, while it was a source of inspiration for John Williams when he composed the music for Star Wars, and specifically the iconic march of the film's opening titles, the structure of which, its heroic tone, the majestic brass parts and its impressive fanfare were used by Williams in the Luke Skywalker theme.
The climax therefore arrived with the legendary musical themes of the iconic films of the first trilogy of the franchise, with the well-known 'Main Theme' followed by the 'Princess Leia Theme, the Empire's March, the Yoda Theme and ending with the final theme of the trilogy with the triumphant march of the Throne Room and the hopeful Finale.
The TSSO's guide on this trip was the leading Bulgarian conductor Naiden Todorov, who loves film music and in fact the Star Wars music is his favorite of all.
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