Leonidas Platanias, MD
@LeonidasPlatan1
Director of the Lurie Cancer Center @LurieCancer of Northwestern University. Medical oncologist and cancer researcher. Views & opinions here are my own.
"The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity." Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955)
“Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.” Edgar Varèse (1883-1965)
They certainly got it wrong. Bruckner #21, Handel #20. They are both top ten.
We asked 174 composers to choose their 50 favourite composers of all time – but with so many famous composers to choose from it was a tough task. Here's how they rank... classical-music.com/composers/50-g…
"Oλα τελείωσαν. Το σημείωμα να το, σύντομο, απλό, βαθύ, καθώς ταιριάζει, αδιαφορία, συγχώρηση γεμάτο για κείνον που θα κλαίει και θα διαβάζει." Kostas Karyotakis (November 11, 1896 - July 21, 1928)
With my great friend Dina Bair from @WGNTV at the Bocce tournament she organizes every year to raise funds for cancer survivorship research @LurieCancer. Always very grateful for her amazing support of our efforts!
And here are some great 6th symphonies. Among the greatest of all time.
Τελετή αναγόρευσης του Καθηγητή Λεωνίδα Πλατανιά σε επίτιμο διδάκτορα της Ιατρικής Σχολής - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=rxwU1K…
And here is another group of symphonies with incredible finales. Clearly among the greatest ever.
And here is the incredible finale of Bruckner 4.
Happy birthday Maestro Blomstedt!
And here are some symphonies with incredible finales. Among the greatest of all time.
Bruckner, 8th symphony.
The soundtrack of the creation of the universe 🖤
Finale of Bruckner 8. Possibly the greatest finale of any symphony ever. Maybe together with the finale of Beethoven 9.
💪🎶 Zooming in on the timpani in Bruckner's Symphony No. 8: can you hear them rolling beneath the brass and strings? Bruckner pulled out all the stops for the finale of his last completed symphony, conducted here by Andris Nelsons in 2024. digitalconcerthall.com/concert/55636?…
Bruckner 5. Possibly the greatest 5th symphony of all time.
💛🎶 #SoundsoftheSeason: in the coming days, we look back at the 24/25 season highlights. First up: Kirill Petrenko conducting Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 at the season opening. digitalconcerthall.com/concert/55624?…
Happy 165th birthday, Gustav Mahler! Explore a photo gallery that illustrates the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s long history of performing and recording Mahler’s symphonies — including the U.S. premiere of his Seventh under Frederick Stock in 1921. cso.org/experience/art…
We’re thrilled to share new research led by Dr. Shuhua (Steve) Zheng, one of our outstanding trainees in Radiation Oncology at Northwestern University, that may shift how we think about preoperative decision-making in pancreatic cancer. In this study, Dr. Zheng and team…
