Leonard Cohen, Prince of Asturias Award for Letters

[Roy]

Leonard Cohen Bestowed With The 2011 Prince Of Asturias Award For Letters

The Ceremony is in October. Not sure of the day yet.

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“I am most grateful to be recognized by the countrymen of Machado and Lorca, and my friend Morente, and the incomparable companions of the Spanish guitar”.
Leonard Cohen

New York, 2nd June 2011

01 of June of 2011

Leonard Cohen has been bestowed with the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. The decision was announced by the Jury in Oviedo today.

Considered one of the most influential authors of our time, his poems and songs have beautifully explored the major issues of humanity in great depth.

Leonard Norman Cohen was born in Montreal (Canada) in 1934 into a family of Jewish emigrants. Interested in literature from childhood, he graduated in this subject from McGill University, Montreal in 1955. He first came into contact with music at this time, forming part of The Buckskin Boys, an amateur country-folk group. He later moved to New York thanks to a scholarship that allowed him to study at Columbia Graduate School.

He received a grant from the Canada Council in 1956 to write a book and published his first book of poems, entitled Let us Compare Mythologies, inspired by Federico García Lorca, for whom he has always expressed great admiration. This is a compilation of poems written between 1949 and 1954, in which Leonard Cohen reflects on the themes that are to be recurrent in his work, such as the persecution of the Jews, relationships and religion. Author of thirteen books, in the 60’s he set up home for a time on the island of Hydra, Greece, and started to compose songs, though without forsaking literature. During these years, he published his second book, Spice-Box of Earth (1961), his first novel, The Favourite Game (1963) and a new book of poems, Flowers for Hitler (1964). These were to be followed by the novel Beautiful Losers (1966), the collection of poems Parasites of Heaven (1966) and the works The Energy of Slaves (1972) and Book of Mercy (1984). Book of Longing (2006), a collection of poems, prose and drawings, was the first poetry book to reach the top of list of best selling books in Canada. He published Poems and Songs in 2011.

He returned to the USA temporarily in 1967 and published his first record, Songs of Leonard Cohen, which included some of his best-known songs such as Suzanne and Sisters of Mercy. This album was followed by Songs from a Room (1969), which received great public acclaim, and Songs of Love and Hate (1971), which confirmed him as one of the most outstanding songwriters of the time. He toured worldwide throughout the 70’s and 80’s, as well as publishing albums such as Live Songs (1973), New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977), Recent Songs (1979) and Various Positions (1984), whose song Hallelujah has cover versions by over 150 different artists. He subsequently published I’m Your Man (1988) and The Future (1992), in which he managed to convey the spirit of his time perfectly. Since then, he has recorded Ten New Songs (2001), Dear Heather (2004) and Blue Alert (2006). After celebrating his 40th anniversary as an artist, Cohen gave 84 concerts all over the world in 2008, attended by more than 700.000 people on a tour that meant his return to the stage after an absence of 15 years. He subsequently edited Songs from the Road, a live album recorded during the tour that includes his most emblematic songs. Admired by renowned artists, many have interpreted his songs and have recorded tribute albums like I’m your Fan (1991), Tower of Song (1995) –in which singers such as Billy Joel, Sting, Elton John and Bono participate–, Leonard Cohen: I’m your Man (2006) and According to Leonard Cohen (2007).

He is an Officer and Companion of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest-ranking civilian order, and a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 2008, he entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was distinguished with the Grammy lifetime award in 2010. He was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011.

Leonard Norman Cohen was born in Montreal (Canada) in 1934 into a family of Jewish emigrants. Interested in literature from childhood, he graduated in this subject from McGill University, Montreal in 1955. He first came into contact with music at this time, forming part of The Buckskin Boys, an amateur country-folk group. He later moved to New York thanks to a scholarship that allowed him to study at Columbia Graduate School.

He received a grant from the Canada Council in 1956 to write a book and published his first book of poems, entitled Let us Compare Mythologies, inspired by Federico García Lorca, for whom he has always expressed great admiration. This is a compilation of poems written between 1949 and 1954, in which Leonard Cohen reflects on the themes that are to be recurrent in his work, such as the persecution of the Jews, relationships and religion. Author of thirteen books, in the 60’s he set up home for a time on the island of Hydra, Greece, and started to compose songs, though without forsaking literature. During these years, he published his second book, Spice-Box of Earth (1961), his first novel, The Favourite Game (1963) and a new book of poems, Flowers for Hitler (1964). These were to be followed by the novel Beautiful Losers (1966), the collection of poems Parasites of Heaven (1966) and the works The Energy of Slaves (1972) and Book of Mercy (1984). Book of Longing (2006), a collection of poems, prose and drawings, was the first poetry book to reach the top of list of best selling books in Canada. He published Poems and Songs in 2011.

He returned to the USA temporarily in 1967 and published his first record, Songs of Leonard Cohen, which included some of his best-known songs such as Suzanne and Sisters of Mercy. This album was followed by Songs from a Room (1969), which received great public acclaim, and Songs of Love and Hate (1971), which confirmed him as one of the most outstanding songwriters of the time. He toured worldwide throughout the 70’s and 80’s, as well as publishing albums such as Live Songs (1973), New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977), Recent Songs (1979) and Various Positions (1984), whose song Hallelujah has cover versions by over 150 different artists. He subsequently published I’m Your Man (1988) and The Future (1992), in which he managed to convey the spirit of his time perfectly. Since then, he has recorded Ten New Songs (2001), Dear Heather (2004) and Blue Alert (2006). After celebrating his 40th anniversary as an artist, Cohen gave 84 concerts all over the world in 2008, attended by more than 700.000 people on a tour that meant his return to the stage after an absence of 15 years. He subsequently edited Songs from the Road, a live album recorded during the tour that includes his most emblematic songs. Admired by renowned artists, many have interpreted his songs and have recorded tribute albums like I’m your Fan (1991), Tower of Song (1995) –in which singers such as Billy Joel, Sting, Elton John and Bono participate–, Leonard Cohen: I’m your Man (2006) and According to Leonard Cohen (2007).

He is an Officer and Companion of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest-ranking civilian order, and a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 2008, he entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was distinguished with the Grammy lifetime award in 2010. He was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011.

Prince of Asturias Awards

According to the Statutes of the Foundation, the Prince of Asturias Awards aim “to reward the scientific, technical, cultural, social and humanistic work performed at an international level by individuals, institutions or groups of individuals or institutions”. As part of this spirit those “whose creative work or research represents a relevant contribution to universal culture in the fields of Literature or Linguistics” may be nominated for the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.

This year a total of 32 candidatures from Argentina, Austria, Australia, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Cuba, Chile, China, France, Guatemala, Georgia, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Netherlands, Macedonia, Mexico, Portugal, Rumania, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States and Spain ran for the award.

This is the fifth of the eight Prince of Asturias Awards to be bestowed in what is their thirty-first edition. The Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts went to Italian conductor Riccardo Muti, the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences was given to US psychologist Howard Gardner, the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities went to British institution The Royal Society and the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research was jointly bestowed on neuroscientists Joseph Altman, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla and Giacomo Rizzolatti. The Award for International Cooperation will be made public next week. The Prince of Asturias Awards for Sports and Concord will be announced in September.

Each Prince of Asturias Award, which date back to 1981, comprises a diploma, a Joan Miró sculpture representing and symbolising the Awards, an insignia bearing the Foundation's coat of arms, and a cash prize of 50,000 Euros. The awards will be presented in the autumn in Oviedo at a grand ceremony chaired by H.R.H. the Prince of Asturias.

At its meeting in Oviedo, the Jury for the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters, made up of Mr. Andrés Amorós Guardiola, Mr. Luis María Anson Oliart, Mr. J. J. Armas Marcelo, Mr. José Manuel Blecua Perdices, Ms. Carmen Caffarel Serra, Ms. Amelia Castilla Alcolado, Mr. Juan Cruz Ruiz, Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart y Martínez de Irujo, Count of Siruela, Mr. José Luis García Martín, Ms. Pilar García Mouton, Mr. Manuel Llorente Manchado, Ms. Rosa Navarro Durán, Ms. Berta Piñán Suárez, Mr. Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente, Mr. Fernando Sánchez Dragó, Ms. Diana Sorensen,. chaired by Mr. Víctor García de la Concha and with Mr. Román Suárez Blanco acting as secretary, has decided by majority vote to confer the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters on the Canadian poet and novelist Leonard Cohen for a body of literary work that has influenced three generations of people worldwide through his creation of emotional imagery in which poetry and music are fused in an oeuvre of immutable merit. The passing of time, sentimental relationships, the mystical traditions of the East and the West and life sung as an unending ballad make up a body of work associated with certain moments of decisive change at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century.

Oviedo, 1st June 2011

[Roy]

Video of the October 2010 Ceremony

http://www.fpa.es/especial-premios-2010 ... a/especial

I'm guessing this award is in Spain? Am I right?

[imaginary friend]

Oviedo is in Spain

I really liked the way the bio is written; presenting a whack of info about LC's entire career (hopefully all facts were correct), yet with informed appreciation for his artistry...

...decided by majority vote to confer the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters on the Canadian poet and novelist Leonard Cohen for a body of literary work that has influenced three generations of people worldwide through his creation of emotional imagery in which poetry and music are fused in an oeuvre of immutable merit. The passing of time, sentimental relationships, the mystical traditions of the East and the West and life sung as an unending ballad make up a body of work associated with certain moments of decisive change at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century.

[Roy]

Famous Names In The 2011 Prince of Asturias Award For Letters Biography for Leonard Cohen:

The Buckskin Boys, Federico García Lorca, Adolf Hitler, Billy Joel, Sting, Elton John, Bono, Glenn Gould

[Roy]

I can't wait for the day!!

[Roy]

ARTISTS WHO WERE AWARDED THE GLENN GOULD PRIZE, INDUCTED INTO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND RECEIVED THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR LETTERS IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2011 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE AWARDED THE GLENN GOULD PRIZE AND INDUCTED INTO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2011 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE AWARDED THE GLENN GOULD PRIZE AND RECEIVED THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR LETTERS IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2011 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND RECEIVED THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR LETTERS IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2011 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME AND RECEIVED THE GRAMMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2010 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND RECEIVED THE NATIONAL ORDER OF QUEBEC IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2008 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE JUNO/CANADIAN MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND RECEIVED THE ORDER OF CANADA IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 1991 - Leonard Cohen

[Chema]

I think the Prince of Asturias Prize ceremony will be on 22nd October in Oviedo. That is in my oponion...

[fannumberone]

The Ceremony will be on October, 21, 2011 (18:30 h). Teatro Campoamor, Oviedo.

http://www.fpa.es/schedule/

[Roy]

The 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters

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Registration period for the 2011 Prince of Asturias Awards now open


26 of September of 2011
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14th October is the registration deadline.

The 2011 Prince of Asturias Awards grand presentation ceremony is to be held on Friday, 21st October at 6.30 pm. The venue for the event is Oviedo’s Campoamor Theatre. Journalists wishing to report or cover this event or any event programmed and organised for the week of the ceremony must register at the Prince of Asturias Foundation (Tel: +34 985 964 594 and fax: + 34 985 231 256, or prensa@fpa.es and acreditaciones@fpa.es).

For security reasons, the name and surname, National Identity Card or passport number, place and date of birth of the person wishing to register and his or her job title (reporter, photographer or technician) must be provided. The limited space available at some of the venues may mean that access will only be allowed to a limited number of journalists and that press pools will be used. The deadline for registration is Friday 14th October.

Our Press Department is available to complete registration and to provide further information regarding other events still pending inclusion in the final programme, schedules, possible press conferences and any other details you may require. The Office in the Hotel Barceló Oviedo Cervantes (calle Cervantes, n.º 13, 33004 Oviedo) will provide press files, copies of speeches, and information about upcoming events and late changes to the original programme during the whole week leading up to the Prince of Asturias Awards presentation ceremony.

The Press and Credentials Office provides telephone lines, fax machines, photocopiers and computers for the media. There is 40Mbit high-speed broadband internet connection with WiFi (wireless) or cable access available for journalists and graphic reporters, so portable equipment can be connected with ease.

Each of the eight Prince of Asturias Awards is endowed with 50,000 euros in cash, a specially commissioned Joan Miró sculpture, a diploma and an insignia.

[fannumberone]

You can see the Ceremony online.

http://www.rtve.es/noticias/directo-la-1/
(October, 21, 18:30 GMT)

[Roy]

You can see the Ceremony online.

http://www.rtve.es/noticias/directo-la-1/

(October, 21, 18:30 GMT)

THANK YOU!

Video of the October 2010 Ceremony - LOOK AT THAT BLUE CARPET! CAN'T WAIT TO SEE LEONARD WALK IT!!

http://www.fpa.es/especial-premios-2010 ... a/especial

[Chema]

The press of Asturias reports (Translated by Google translator):


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Leonard Cohen, tribute in Gijon

The instrumentalist Javier Mas, The Webb Sister , Laura García Lorca and musical Asturians will honour the author, who will represent as spectator

Leonard Cohen will have an honoring in Gijon taking advantage of his visit to receive the prize " Prince of Asturias " of the Letters. It will be a peculiar and very special meeting in which there will take part musicians who have formed a part of the professional life of the Canadian author and others whom his music and texts have influenced. Soothsayer will be observing. Between the protagonists of this event there is Javier Mas, a guitarist very recognized in the world scene who touches in addition other instruments of rope as the lute, the bandurria or the archilaud.

Mas accompanied Cohen in his last tour and was precisely, route another honoring, which the author of " The favourite game " discovered to the Aragonese guitarist. They were diverse musicians of the planet those who intervened in that tax. Artist of wide tour as Kiko Veneno, Jackson Browne or Luz Casal, between others, together with the own Mas.

With Javier Mas will be Charley and Hattie Webb in this act in Gijon (the place will be known in the next hours), " The Webb Sister ". Britishers very linked to the world folk and also very tied to Cohen and the mentioned tour.

The public who is present at this event will have the opportunity to enjoy the review of Leonard Cohen's work, which will come to Asturias next 18th, but also of taking the own Cohen as "a" "colleague", since the writer and singer will be between the public, following his work across Javier Mas, " The Webb Sister " and a representation of the musical scene of Gijon very tied to the called " Xixon sound ". Between them there will be Nacho Vegas, a passionate singer of the work of the Cohen who has in his digest a version of the classic one " The foreigner ".

There adds to this event Laura García Lorca, niece of the poet admired by Cohen. In fact, the singer intervened actively in the album " Poets in New York ", dedicated to Federico García Lorca produced by Manolo Díaz and with front page designed by Eduardo Úrculo. A disc in which also they collaborate Chico Buarque, Paco de Lucía or Moustaki and which Cohen opens with " Take this waltz ". Precisely a part of this meeting in Gijon with the author will turn on Cohen and his relation with Spain, besides Soothsayer and the literature.

[Roy]

Email confirmation from Attorney Robert Kory: Leonard Cohen will be attending Prince of Asturias Award Ceremony!

[BEATRIZ SALLES]

From the Principe de Asturias Foundation official web:

http://www.fpa.es/en/press/news/program ... -ceremony/

Programme of the cultural events the days prior to the 2011 Prince of Asturias Awards ceremony.

[Roy]

13 MORE DAYS!

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Considered one of the most influential authors of our time, his poems and songs have beautifully explored the major issues of humanity in great depth. Leonard Norman Cohen was born in Montreal (Canada) in 1934 into a family of Jewish emigrants. Interested in literature from childhood, he graduated in this subject from McGill University, Montreal in 1955. He first came into contact with music at this time, forming part of The Buckskin Boys, an amateur country-folk group. He later moved to New York thanks to a scholarship that allowed him to study at Columbia Graduate School.

He received a grant from the Canada Council in 1956 to write a book and published his first book of poems, entitled Let us Compare Mythologies, inspired by Federico García Lorca, for whom he has always expressed great admiration. This is a compilation of poems written between 1949 and 1954, in which Leonard Cohen reflects on the themes that are to be recurrent in his work, such as the persecution of the Jews, relationships and religion. Author of thirteen books, in the 60’s he set up home for a time on the island of Hydra, Greece, and started to compose songs, though without forsaking literature. During these years, he published his second book, Spice-Box of Earth (1961), his first novel, The Favourite Game (1963) and a new book of poems, Flowers for Hitler (1964). These were to be followed by the novel Beautiful Losers (1966), the collection of poems Parasites of Heaven (1966) and the works The Energy of Slaves (1972) and Book of Mercy (1984). Book of Longing (2006), a collection of poems, prose and drawings, was the first poetry book to reach the top of list of best selling books in Canada. He published Poems and Songs in 2011.

He returned to the USA temporarily in 1967 and published his first record, Songs of Leonard Cohen, which included some of his best-known songs such as Suzanne and Sisters of Mercy. This album was followed by Songs from a Room (1969), which received great public acclaim, and Songs of Love and Hate (1971), which confirmed him as one of the most outstanding songwriters of the time. He toured worldwide throughout the 70’s and 80’s, as well as publishing albums such as Live Songs (1973), New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974), Death of a Ladies’ Man (1977), Recent Songs (1979) and Various Positions (1984), whose song Hallelujah has cover versions by over 150 different artists. He subsequently published I’m Your Man (1988) and The Future (1992), in which he managed to convey the spirit of his time perfectly. Since then, he has recorded Ten New Songs (2001), Dear Heather (2004) and Blue Alert (2006). After celebrating his 40th anniversary as an artist, Leonard Cohen gave 84 concerts all over the world in 2008, attended by more than 700,000 people on a tour that meant his return to the stage after an absence of 15 years. He subsequently edited Songs from the Road, a live album recorded during the tour that includes his most emblematic songs. Admired by renowned artists, many have interpreted his songs and have recorded tribute albums like I’m Your Fan (1991), Tower of Song (1995) –in which singers such as Billy Joel, Sting, Elton John and Bono participate–, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (2006) and According to Leonard Cohen (2007).

He is an Officer and Companion of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest-ranking civilian order, and a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 2008, he entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was distinguished with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. He was awarded the Glenn Gould Prize in 2011.



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Programme of cultural events involving the Laureates during the days prior to the 2011 Prince of Asturias Awards Ceremony

Self-portrait of Leonard Cohen.

07 of October of 2011

The 2011 Prince of Asturias Awards Laureates are to take part in a cultural, scientific, dissemination and institutional programme, called “Awards Week”, which will take place the days prior to the awards ceremony to be held at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo on 21st October.

The activities featuring this year’s Laureates will include talks, exhibitions and meetings with young people in Oviedo, Gijón, Avilés, Llanera and La Felguera.

In addition, the scientists Arturo Álvarez-Buylla and Giacomo Rizzolatti, co-laureates of the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, and the psychologist Howard Gardner, who is to receive the Award for Social Sciences, will participate in three breakfast meetings with experts in their respective fields belonging to research and university centres from different parts of Spain.

Since 1996, the Foundation has scheduled different activities in diverse locations in Asturias aimed at bringing the Laureates and their contributions to the world of science, culture or any other field in which they work closer to society at large. The Laureates will combine the activities with diverse meetings with the press, the schedule for which will be announced in the coming days.

This series of events is sponsored by Banco Herrero-Sabadell, ThyssenKrupp and Cajastur.

Appendix: Programme of activities involving the Laureates

INFORMATION OF INTEREST:

Programme subject to change.

The breakfast meetings will feature exclusively graphic coverage. (Specific calls to participate will be sent out).

Virtual Press Office access codes valid until 23rd October:

Username: prensa
Password: premios11

PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES

MONDAY, 17TH OCTOBER

12:00 Public opening of the exhibition “Transactions. Spain in the history of The Royal Society”, which will bring together more than one hundred original exhibits of great historical and scientific value, such as the first ever microscope, histological drawings by Ramón y Cajal and the map of Colombia drawn by Felipe Bauza during the Malaspina expedition. The exhibition will be open to the public until 13th November

At the University of Oviedo Historic Building Library. Open: Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 21:00 and Sunday from 9:00 to 15:00.

TUESDAY, 18TH OCTOBER

19:30 Talk between Howard Gardner, 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, and Eduard Punset, jury member for the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research. The speech therapist Jorge Ruiz, leader of the musical group “Maldita Nerea”, will also take part in the event. Questions may be submitted via the Avilés City Council website.

Admission by invitation only. At the Palacio Valdés Theatre (Avilés). (Two tickets per person may be collected from the box office of the “Casa de Cultura” in Avilés from Saturday, 15th October on).

19:30 Meeting featuring the three Prince of Asturias Award Laureates for Technical and Scientific Research: Joseph Altman, Giacomo Rizzolatti and Arturo Álvarez-Buylla. The event will be chaired by Manuel Toharia, scientific director of the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia and member of the jury that conferred the award.

Free admission until all seats are taken. At the Auditorium of the Cajastur Cultural Centre San Francisco 4 (C/ Mendizábal. Oviedo).

WEDNESDAY, 19TH OCTOBER

19:00 Official opening of the exhibition “Transactions. Spain in the history of The Royal Society”. The following institution and individuals have collaborated in the organisation of the exhibition: The Royal Society, the City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia, the Cajal-CSIC Institute, the National Geographic Institute, the Marine Hydrographical Institute of Spain, the Spanish National Museum of Natural Sciences-CSIC, the Seville Royal Academy of Medicine, the Madrid Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country, Juan Fernández Santarén, Antonio García Bellido and Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s heirs.

At the University of Oviedo Historic Building Library.

19:30 Scientific meeting “The Universe in a nutshell. The major challenges of the science of the future”. Featuring the President of The Royal Society, Sir Paul Nurse (Nobel Prize 2001) and Rafael Rodrigo, President of CSIC. The event will be chaired by César Nombela, jury member for the Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.

Free admission until all seats are taken. At the University of Oviedo Historic Building “Paraninfo” Hall (C/ San Francisco, 3. Oviedo).

20:00 A Tribute to Leonard Cohen. With the participation of the Spanish guitarist Javier Mas and the Webb Sisters, who accompany Cohen on tour, the Spanish singer-songwriter Nacho Vegas, the flamenco singer Duquende and the Prince of Asturias Foundation Youth Choir. Also featuring Andrés Amorós and Laura García Lorca.

Admission by invitation only. At the Jovellanos Theatre (Gijón). (Tickets may be collected from the theatre box office from Saturday, 15th October on. Two tickets per person only).

THURSDAY, 20TH OCTOBER

12:30 Opening of the exhibition of prints by Leonard Cohen, entitled “Leonard Cohen. The B-side. Drawings and engravings of a multidisciplinary artist”. The exhibition will be open to the public until 13th November.

At the “Aulario B” lecture halls building on the University of Oviedo Humanities Campus.

16:30 Bill Drayton, Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, will visit Villabona Prison Therapeutic and Educational Unit, a pioneering project in the Spanish prison system led by Faustino Zapico, an Ashoka social entrepreneur. Drayton will meet with the inmates participating in the programme.

Exclusive access to media only. Arrival one hour before is mandatory.

18:30 Meeting between Bill Drayton and young entrepreneurs belonging to the “Young Social Entrepreneurs” programme developed by Valnalon and established by José Manuel Pérez (Pericles), an Ashoka social entrepreneur. Bill Drayton will also visit an outdoor exhibition depicting the projects developed by students during the past year, the profits of which go to a school in a developing country.

Admission by invitation only. At the “Nuevo Teatro” in La Felguera.

20:00 Music Week Finale Concert, presided over by T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Asturias. Conducted by Riccardo Muti, 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, with the participation of the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and the Prince of Asturias Foundation Choir, who will perform Luigi Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor.

Admission strictly by invitation only. At the Prince Felipe Auditorium (Oviedo).