The Concert at the Riviera of Lake Geneva

Friday 14 June 2013

The Beautiful ABC Foundation presented 4 fantastic fund raising concerts between december 2012 and June 2013 in collaboration with “Continuum”: two master musicians, patient and plastic surgeon together, exhibiting an unedited masterpiece of classical music representing the experiences during and after the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

 

A musician and her surgeon.

CONTINUUM, a vivid witness to and reminder of the extraordinary benefits Art may bring about, both in the hospital milieu and in the healing process. A source of hope, illuminating how a painful ordeal, once transcended, may suddenly reveal itself to be a way forward to a deeper, richer, totally transformed life.

The carrier of a gene that almost certainly predisposes her to cancer, a musician makes the courageous decision to undergo preventative surgery, an ordeal that brings much pain but also lays bare her inmost being.
A friendship is born between the artist and her plastic surgeon, all the more natural in that the surgeon is also a musician. The story of this human journey is told completely through music and text, in ten scenes, and is performed by the very people who lived through it: the violinist Anne Robert, and her doctor, the pianist Alain Gagnon, with the participation of two actors.The carrier of a gene that almost certainly predisposes her to cancer, a musician makes the courageous decision to undergo preventative surgery, an ordeal that brings much pain but also lays bare her inmost being. A friendship is born between the artist and her plastic surgeon, all the more natural in that the surgeon is also a musician.

More info here.

 

Special thanks to our godmother and godfather 

Mlle Laura Chaplin
Mlle Laura Chaplin petite fille du célèbre cinéaste Charlie Chaplin et artiste aux talents multiples sera la marraine de l’événement. Outre les représentations de son grand-père, Laura Chaplin se plaît à peindre des nus de femmes. En plus de parrainer l’événement, elle a souhaité faire don des recettes d’une de ses oeuvres pour soutenir directement notre fondation.







Vincenzo Sauto
Le parrain de la soirée est le célèbre pilote automobile Vincenzo Sauto, champion du monde Ferrari Challenge en Coupe Shell en 2009 et 2012. M. Sauto nous fait l’immense honneur de porter les couleurs de notre fondation sur sa Ferrari de course cette année, nous apportant ainsi une visibilité mondiale.



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