Patti Smith sang and gushed. In the ceremony of delivery of Nobel prizes, on Saturday afternoon, in Stockholm, the artist has had a time lock, forgot lyrics, stopped the performance, apologized saying that she was very nervous, asked the orchestra to begin again, and resumed the song The hard rain’s a-gonna fall, Bob Dylan.
The singer-songwriter american was chosen by the Swedish academy to receive the Nobel prize for Literature. Started by not even answering the phone at the gym that wanted to give him the news, just by accepting the prize, but decided not to go receive it by having other commitments – the Nobel prize is always delivered on 10 December, the day that marks the death of the industrialist and philanthropist Alfred Nobel. Instead of a presence, Dylan asked his friend and also singer Patti Smith to represent you.
With her long gray hair Patti Smith, dressed in white and black, was visibly touched and for a moment had his voice. When interrupted, the orchestra has continued to play until she apologized. At this time, the audience of 1500 guests slapped her palms. But the north american was not the only thrill with the words that he sang in the audience also there were those who would take the hand to the face to dry the tears. In the end, the ovation of the audience was prolonged.
Shortly before, the academic Horace Engdahl, a member of the Swedish Academy and of the Committee for the Nobel Literature prize, justified the award of the prize to Bob Dylan, whilst ensuring that this changed the idea of what poetry can be and how it can work.
also Recalled that the notion of literature has changed over time, and that Bob Dylan returned to "the language of poetry to its highest exponent that was lost since the romantics". And that Dylan did not sing about the eternities, but to talk about everything that surrounds us: "As if the oracle of Delphi was to read the news of the end of the day."
Horace Engdahl said that the award-winning dedicated himself "body and soul, to the popular music of the TWENTIETH century, the kind of music that is heard on radio stations and on the disks for common people, white and black: songs of protest, country, blues, rock primary, gospel, and music more commercial. He listened to music day and night, trying everything in their instruments, trying to learn. But when he tried to write songs like these, they came out different. In their hands, the material changed”.
"all Of a sudden, a large part of the poetry of our books seemed to be anaemic, and the lyrics of the songs routine that his colleagues wrote seemed to gunpowder antiquated after the invention of dynamite. Quickly, people no longer compare to Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams to turn to Blake, Rimbaud, Whitman, and Shakespeare.”
In the morning, the ceremony of delivery of Nobel Peace prize laureate was in Oslo, Norway, where the colombian President Juan Manuel Santos received the award and said that the peace process in your country can be an example to the world –, this afternoon, the ceremony continued in Sweden, in Stockholm, where they were handed over the prizes of Physics at the british David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz; the Chemistry of the frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, the british Fraser Stoddart and the Dutch Bernard Feringa; the Medicine to a japanese Yoshinori Ohsumi; and the Economy to the british Oliver Hart, and to the Finnish Bengt Holmström.
Dylan will receive the award at the next year, even if you do not know the date; but this night, at the banquet that ends the delivery of the prizes, will read the speech of the singer-songwriter.
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