Ah well, Candice
As I understand it, this professor of medicine here in Edmonton, Dr Kim
Solez, is a stone Cohen fan, & about 7 years ago decided there should
be celebrations around Leonard's birthday, & there have been rather big
Leonard Cohen Nights here in Edmonton, along with similar celebrations
held in other cities, not just around Canada, but around the world.
This year, he had a two night celebration, the big one, with musicians
& all, on Saturday, when I was attending the final big reading of the
Word! symposium that Sheila & I participated in as panelists earlier
that day, & a birthday party, with a smaller audience the night before,
where I read my two poems based on Cohen poems, & a Grade Twelve kid's
video based on
Dance me to the end of love' was shown, & Sherri-D WIlson read a bunch
of Cohen poems, lesser know ones, & one of the musicians appearing on
Saturday gave us a taste of his interpretations of Cohen's songs (&
very good they were too).
And that's what these nights are all about....
Doug
On 22-Sep-07, at 5:43 AM, MC Ward wrote:
> Doug,
>
> Please tell us more about those Leonard Cohen nights--
>
> Candice
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