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21/09/2006

Must-hear Dylan lecture series at New York’s Morgan Museum

New York’s Morgan Library & Museum’s mighty Bob Dylan season includes a must-hear lecture programme to complement the must-see exhibition outlined in The Dylan Daily yesterday:

* Photographing Bob Dylan
Daniel Kramer
Award winning photographer Daniel Kramer will show his pictures and discuss photographing Bob Dylan in 1964-65 during the year the singer/songwriter moved from folksinger to international rock star and changed the landscape of popular music. Many of these iconic images appeared in Kramer's book Bob Dylan, the first major work about Dylan in book form.
Friday, October 20, 6:30 PM

* Bound for Glory: The Legacy of Woody Guthrie
Nora Guthrie
This presentation features an exclusive screening of Woody Guthrie: Legacy (1999, 18 minutes), a documentary directed by John Paulson and created specially for the This Land Is Your Land: The Life & Legacy of Woody Guthrie exhibition that toured the United States from 1998 to 2001. Following the screening, Nora Guthrie leads a discussion about Woody Guthrie's legacy in the music community.
Friday, November 3, 6:30 PM

* Off the Iron Range: Bob Dylan In and Out of Hibbing High
Greil Marcus
Greil Marcus, author of The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes and Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads, looks at Bob Dylan's present-day music in light of a recent visit to Hibbing High School, Dylan's extraordinary alma mater.
Thursday, November 16, 6:30 PM

* The Times They Are a-Changin'
Performance and Discussion with the Stars of the New Broadway Musical
The lead actors from the new Broadway musical The Times They Are a-Changin' will perform numbers from the show and talk to acclaimed journalist/author Bill Flanagan about the experience of creating characters and narrative arcs for a musical from the lyrics of Bob Dylan.
Participants: Bill Flanagan, Michael Arden, Thom Sesma, Caren Lyn Manuel
Monday, November 20, 7 PM

* Bohemia Before Bob: The First Hipster Generation (1910s) and How They Turned Greenwich Village into America's First Bohemia
Barry Lewis, architectural historian
Bob Dylan and his "folkie" generation were not the first to bring bohemian doings to New York City's MacDougal Street and Greenwich Village. Join us to learn why Dylan, the Beats, and the folkies of the early 1960s did their strumming on MacDougal Street and how they were following a half century old tradition of bohemian addressmanship.
Friday, December 8, 6:30 PM

* Making Blonde on Blonde
Sean Wilentz
In October 1965, Bob Dylan began recording a new album in New York City. He finished work in Nashville the following March, and the result was Blonde on Blonde. Join Sean Wilentz, historian and writer, as he talks about those recording sessions-until recently shrouded in mystery-which caused stylistic mixtures and musical explosions that still reverberate in Dylan's music and in American culture at large.
Monday, December 11, 7 PM

Series of 6 events: $85 for Non-Members; $60 for Members
Single ticket: $17 for Non-Members; $12 for Members


Info: The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016-3405. Tel 212.685.0008. www.themorgan.org

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