Perla Batalla presents The Gospel According To LC (in LA)
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Perla Batalla presents The Gospel According To LC (in LA)
Forgive me if someone has already posted news of this LC tribute concert....
http://www.performingarts.ucla.edu/even ... ent_ID=370
Anybody planning to attend it?
http://www.performingarts.ucla.edu/even ... ent_ID=370
Anybody planning to attend it?
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I'm going!
Yes, my husband and I are taking a trip to LA just for this show (we're in the bay area, so it isn't far) -- can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart
W.B. Yeats
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart
W.B. Yeats
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It's a very beautiful video, where her personality and happiness for living is reflected.
I would want to add:
Perla Batalla - Cucurrucucu Paloma
Perla Batalla - Bird on a Wire (audience video)
Me too.Dick wrote:Reports, photos, and recordings will be much appreciated!
Perla Batalla presents The Gospel According to Leonard Cohen.
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Thank you hardly says it, AnToni... I await seeing this with sound
!!
Perla ! I love your gyspy look, your gypsy ways, your flourish, your verve, your whirling and twirling and swirling, bringing life to you, as you give it back in equal measure.
I'm always so entranced by kitchen scenes with people making their food... perhaps, it's because of the life force within food itself.
Beautiful video...
~ Lizzy

Perla ! I love your gyspy look, your gypsy ways, your flourish, your verve, your whirling and twirling and swirling, bringing life to you, as you give it back in equal measure.
I'm always so entranced by kitchen scenes with people making their food... perhaps, it's because of the life force within food itself.
Beautiful video...

~ Lizzy
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I tried to PM the Bay area person to maybe see about hitching a ride with them, but, that might be pushing it. And, I'll bet the other confirmed attendee is our Goddess Val? Well...looks as if this LA trip will not happen for me. But wonder who the folks in the Bay area are? I'm in Sacramento and would love to go but the damn train doesn't go from Northern California to LA. You have to take a bus, etc. What a pain.
Hi Lizzie et al...
Thanks for your (preseumed) intercession - after I let you know the show had sold out before I got it together to purchase tickets - BUT:
the good news is I went on Craig's List and found two really good tickets - and purchased them yesterday from a season ticket holder at Royce Hall who cannot make this concert.
I'm still looking/hoping to find one more for my daughter - who was "started" on Hydra and loves Leonard's music - since she was heavily inundated with it during her formative years!
So I will be reporting back on our attendance after all.
Thanks for your (preseumed) intercession - after I let you know the show had sold out before I got it together to purchase tickets - BUT:
the good news is I went on Craig's List and found two really good tickets - and purchased them yesterday from a season ticket holder at Royce Hall who cannot make this concert.
I'm still looking/hoping to find one more for my daughter - who was "started" on Hydra and loves Leonard's music - since she was heavily inundated with it during her formative years!
So I will be reporting back on our attendance after all.
Jazz
Bingo, Jazz
. Since your stopping by here seems a tad irregular, it didn't seem it could hurt to ask
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Before I read your response here, but had seen your name on the 'here right now' list at the bottom of the Index page, I PM'd you to let you know that you were the "two" that I was referring to, and that if I got any response, I'd put you in touch with whoever had written me. Glad to know
that 2 out of 3 have been addressed. How attached are you all to sitting next to each other? Seems it might even be not so hard to come up with a single ticket... you know how people are about having to sit next to each other at these things... even when the only thing that might get exchanged is a smile or a nudge... or, perhaps, the "soft.soft tremor as of unheard bells between" them
.
I'm sure that, now, if anyone here comes up with one, they'll be contacting you directly
.
Enjoy the show... now I can add you two on to my "be jealous of" [NOT
] list... I'm thrilled for you
. Wish I were closer.
~ Lizzy


Before I read your response here, but had seen your name on the 'here right now' list at the bottom of the Index page, I PM'd you to let you know that you were the "two" that I was referring to, and that if I got any response, I'd put you in touch with whoever had written me. Glad to know


I'm sure that, now, if anyone here comes up with one, they'll be contacting you directly

Enjoy the show... now I can add you two on to my "be jealous of" [NOT


~ Lizzy
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Dar --
If I'm the one you pm'ed, I didn't get a message -- maybe I don't have that feature enabled.... I'll have to check.
We are going down for a long weekend with a packed car of paintings to deliver, so sadly we can't offer a ride (only room for 2 ppl in the car as it is....) Otherwise, I'd love to meet you.
If I'm the one you pm'ed, I didn't get a message -- maybe I don't have that feature enabled.... I'll have to check.
We are going down for a long weekend with a packed car of paintings to deliver, so sadly we can't offer a ride (only room for 2 ppl in the car as it is....) Otherwise, I'd love to meet you.
Now that my ladder's gone
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart
W.B. Yeats
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart
W.B. Yeats
Nice article on Perla's concert tomorrow night at this link...
http://www.dailybulletin.com/music/ci_5282778
Will be anxious to read the fabulous reviews of a wonderful evening. Too bad Asher is too young...
dick
http://www.dailybulletin.com/music/ci_5282778
Will be anxious to read the fabulous reviews of a wonderful evening. Too bad Asher is too young...

dick
You're so right, Dick. My favourite portions of the beginning of it are bolded. Lucky you who are able to attend! Even though I already know what the jist will be, looking forward to hearing everyone's feedback. Oh... how I hope these two women will be able to attend in Edmunton!Ancient scriptures, parables and legends — along with romance in all its tangled forms — have always inspired the poetry and songs of Leonard Cohen.
In songs like "Story of Isaac," the poet, novelist and singer recasts Abraham's attempted sacrifice of his son as a contemporary morality play. Another number, "Who by Fire," is derived from a Jewish prayer recited on Yom Kippur, and one of Cohen's most famous songs, "Hallelujah," compares spiritualism to romantic yearning.
It's the spiritual aspect of Cohen's huge body of work that Perla Batalla, a former backup singer for the bard, aims to illuminate at Saturday's tribute concert to Cohen at UCLA's Royce Hall.
Batalla's "The Gospel According to Leonard Cohen," presented by UCLA Live, brings together singers Jackson Browne, Michael McDonald, Howard Tate, Dave Alvin and Julie Christensen in the service of such enduring songs as "Bird on the Wire," "Sisters of Mercy" and "Joan of Arc."
Cohen's music "will live forever," Batalla says. "The songs and themes are beautiful, and they will be discussed and appreciated for as long as people are on this planet."
~ Lizzy