500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Reformation

Five centuries since Luther nailed his 95 theses in the door of the Wittenberg cathedral, the Christian world (not only the Evangelic one) honors the reformer who stood up against the status quo of the religious order in his era. Rationally, the Athens State Orchestra presents the Mendelson’s Symphony which is directly inspired by Luther’s figure, completing the program with Shostakovich’s dramatic 5th Symphony, a composition equally bounded to the need of reform -in another, certainly, historic time and place.