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Nov-10-2012, 15:07 GMT
Netherlands
 | Tickets for Paul Simon´s Ellmann Lecture series available Dec. 3
By Elaine Justice | Nov. 8, 2012
Tickets for the 2013 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University, featuring award-winning musician/songwriter Paul Simon, will be available beginning Monday, Dec. 3.
Simon will be appearing in four public events at Emory, including:
Two lectures at 4:15 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, and 8:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, both in Glenn Memorial Auditorium;
A conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at Emory´s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts; and
A musical performance with guitarist Mark Stewart at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, also at Emory´s Schwartz Center.
Tickets are free, but are limited to two tickets per person, per event. Tickets may be reserved beginning at 10 a.m either online (tickets.arts.emory.edu), by phone (404-727-5050) or in person at the Arts at Emory Box Office (1700 N. Decatur Rd. Suite 251, Atlanta, GA 30322, open M-F 10 a.m.-6 p.m.).
Tickets must be either mailed or picked up in person prior to the events. There will be no will call at any of the events. For more information visit emory.edu/ellmann.
Simon´s lectures are expected to concern, in part, an overview of the historical antecedents of the music made between 1966 and 1970.
Simon joins a distinguished roster of authors that has made the Ellmanns one of the leading literary lectures series in the English-speaking world. Ellmann Lecturers have included Nobel Prize laureates Seamus Heaney (1988) and Mario Vargas Llosa (2006), Salman Rushdie (2004), Umberto Eco (2008) and Margaret Atwood (2010).
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2012/11/upress_paul_
simon_tickets/campus.html
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Bodo
Nov-10-2012, 23:53 GMT
Austria
  | Interesting, you need tickets for a University reading, good they are free :-)
Is it really limited on the period 1966-1970? I mean, what he has written in the last 10 years is much more sophisticated than those old songs - at least for students it would be more interesting I would thnk. |
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Brenda
Nov-14-2012, 05:43 GMT
Australia
  | Hopefully it will include Paul's later work as it did say the lectures would concern in part the period 1966-1970. Also the videos promoting the event have included discussions on Graceland and SBOSW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6572PNb99C4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqQ_umy1lYQ
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Nov-14-2012, 09:57 GMT
Netherlands
| Thanks Brenda, it must be very interesting to attend these lectures and the conversation with Billy Collins. Hope they record some of it and show it on their Youtube channel.
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Michiel
Nov-18-2012, 10:28 GMT
Netherlands
| Thanks Ans, interesting.
I hope too the span is longer than 1966.1970 |
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Scaaty
Nov-18-2012, 11:08 GMT
Ireland
 | I rewatched the Gershwin award show last night - billy Collins registered with me for the first time. Seemly he has a collection of poems - questions about angels- I wonder was this where Simon got his song title from? could billy demand royalties would he? Should he? At least they are still talking - would have loved to attend a session like this! |
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Brenda
Feb-09-2013, 00:17 GMT
Australia
| Paul is unable to attend the lectures beginning on Sunday due to illness {flu}. Very disappointing for the organizers and ticket holders. Hope he makes a good recovery soon.
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/02/upress_paul_
simon_postponed/campus.html |
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Baylee
Feb-09-2013, 01:30 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | He probably wouldn't have made it anyway due to Connecticut
getting a blizzard today! |
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Brenda
Feb-11-2013, 04:13 GMT
Australia
| Here is the link to the playlist for the Emory videos on Paul's lyrics. I had missed a couple of them. Hopefully Paul will recover shortly and be able to reschedule in the near future.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDSBylqXf9oH
CDRRXjU3AnUPONaCSvurx |
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Brenda
Apr-04-2013, 14:17 GMT
Australia
| Rescheduled dates for Emory Lectures
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2013/04/upress_paul_
simon_lectures_rescheduled/index.html
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