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ATHENS CONCERT
HALL
Monday, May 21(Time: 19:00)
Ada Yonath: “Bears' Winter Sleep, Everest,
Ribosomes and Antibiotics”
MEGARON PLUS IN COLLABORATION
with the Embassy of Israel
SPEAKER:
Prof. Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize in
Chemistry 2009
Ada Yonath is the first woman since Marie Curie
to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
The Israeli researcher decrypted the structure and
function of ribosomes (the cell's protein factories), a
finding of crucial importance for the development of
new generation antibiotics.
In English, with simultaneous translation
Thursday, May 31th and Friday June, 1st
"Theo" Angelopoulos - In memoriam
Symposium
MEGARON PLUS
International Symposium in the memory of
Theodoros Angelopoulos
The Athens Concert Hall had scheduled an event,
featuring a discussion between Theo
Angelopoulos and Wim Wenders on the global
economic and cultural crisis, art and cinema,
along with a showing of his film “Ulysses' Gaze”.
In order to honour the great Greek director, the
Athens Concert Hall has scheduled an interna-
tional symposium in his memory. The symposium
will include a presentation of his movies.
A tribute to the “poet of pictures”, the director that
changed the face of Greek cinema and honoured
Greece all over the world.
The detailed timetable will be announced on
Friday, May 11(Time: 8:30 PM)
Athens State Orchestra
“YOUNG CREATORS – AND RE-CREATORS”
CYCLE
–Panayotis Kokkoras: New Work (commissioned
by the Athens State Orchestra)
- Bohuslav Martinů: Symphony No. 4, H. 305).
– Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2,
opus 18
SOLOIST Sevasti Simonidou piano
CONDUCTOR Mikhail Agrest
Friday, May 18 (Time: 8:30 PM)
Athens State Orchestra
- Carl Nielsen: Concerto for violin and orchestra,
opus 33
- Béla Bartók: Concerto for orchestra
SOLOIST Henning Kraggerud violin
CONDUCTOR Vassilis Christopoulos
Friday, May 25 (Time: 8:30 PM)
Athens State Orchestra
“MOZART+1” CYCLE
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Symphony No. 34, K. 338
Horn Concerto No. 2, K. 417
- Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1, opus 11
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41,
K 551 “Jupiter”
SOLOIST Radovan Vlatković horn
CONDUCTOR Vassilis Christopoulos
Friday, June 1(Time: 9:00 PM)
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