Leonard Cohen, Prince of Asturias Award for Letters

[BEATRIZ SALLES]

Leonard Cohen has donated the Principe de Asturias award (50.000€) to the Oviedo University


From "La Nueva España", an Asturias newspaper, today:

http://www.lne.es/sociedad-cultura/2013 ... 70483.html

Leonard Cohen donates prize money of Prince Asturias to the Oviedo University.
The poet and songwriter wishes, with 50,000 euros of the envelope, to start a chair bearing his name 02/18/2013 |

The poet and Canadian singer who writes his own songs Leonard Cohen will donate 50.000 Euros of endowment of the prize Prince of Asturias of the Letters that it obtained in 2011 to the University of Oviedo to stimulate a chair that will take his name. This initiative will begin to take form in a few months, as has announced today the rector of the academic institution, Vicente Gotor, after the meeting of the University Government.
Cohen received in 2011 the award of the Letters and, during his stay in Asturias to receive the prize, was an object of several honorings, some of which possessed the collaboration of the academic Asturian institution. This way, the students of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters honoured Cohen for his artistic path in the one that could turn " the music in poetry and the poetry in song ", as a pupil wrote in one of the numerous messages that they stopped in the panel of which hung the exhibition " Cohen: The face B. Drawings and engravings of a multidisciplinary artist ".
Also the university Auditorium received a qualified concert " First we take Milan ", a name that was evoking one of the Cohen's songs and the influence of the author on the musical movement arisen in the decade of the 90s in the campus ovetense of The Milan.

[Tchocolatl]

I bow to this.

Thanks for the info Beatriz Salles

[lizzytysh]

Perfect!

Thanks, Beatriz, for this confirmation of what he always intended for this money, that it go to good use.



~ Lizzy

[BEATRIZ SALLES]

Another confirmation on "El Comercio"

http://www.elcomercio.es/v/20130219/ast ... 30219.html

...."The rector of the University of Oviedo revealed yesterday that Leonard Cohen, Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature 2011 "has meant" the € 50,000 prize for his "creation" of a chair bearing his name in the Asturian academic institution. "But that will be in the future""....

[BEATRIZ SALLES]

Another confirmation on "El Comercio"

http://www.elcomercio.es/v/20130219/ast ... 30219.html

...."The rector of the University of Oviedo revealed yesterday that Leonard Cohen, Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature 2011 "has meant" the € 50,000 prize for his "creation" of a chair bearing his name in the Asturian academic institution. "But that will be in the future""....

[holydove]

Thank you for the info, Beatriz. A very gracious & honorable act, sending the prize back out into the world, so that others can benefit from it. Beautiful. Very moving.

[BEATRIZ SALLES]

I don't think these videos have ever been posted before.

From the tribute concert at Teatro Jovellanos in Gijon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nnSvUwV ... ata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilKLYmA6 ... ata_player

Nice to see very well known faces, Webb sisters, Javier and Mario Mas and Alex Bubinstchi



From old Oviedo University (Milan campus) students concert tribute, "First we take Milan"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK-FdBFD ... ata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWUFcvUK ... ata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVEqrTrB ... ata_player


Both concerts were filmed and hopefully will be edited and released as part of the activities of the new Leonard Cohen Cathedra.


From the art exhibit at Oviedo University

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seYoVzNa ... ata_player

[sturgess66]

Thanks for all the info and links, Beatriz.

Allan Showalter (DrHGuy) posted a most lovely tribute video last week - uploaded to Vimeo by Eloy Alonso -

http://vimeo.com/92956812

"Las lágrimas de un Príncipe"
Nace la Cátedra Leonard Cohen, Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras
Born Cathedra "Leonard Cohen", Prince of Asturias Award for Letters

http://drhguy.com/2014/04/30/video-las- ... as-awards/