 Hello I'm not professor Jeffrey sacks from Columbia University I'm professor who chapiro from the Weizmann Institute of Science Apparently these days it's easier to get from Israel to here than from the east side of Manhattan to the west side so Professor sacks will join us soon and he will open the concert, but starting from the second half So I will I will host you for now So welcome to our concert for a sustainable planet Changing reality The title of our concert has two meanings Observing reality as it changes and striving to change reality and we will relate in this concert to both meanings We will open the concert with two pieces that together reflect on our changing reality specifically on climate change Spring as perceived almost 300 years ago by Vivaldi lively pleasant ordered predictable Followed by spring as perceived by Ronan Shapiro today chaotic and unpredictable Welcome to the players