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Yes I have, Lizzytysh. We will know the details in due course.
Partisan is making use of his splendid built-in mix of humour and
skepticism but contents of the press release have been written seriously.
If we speculate about the schedule it could go like this:
a) Book of Longing - b) Blue Alert - c) Leonard's own album -
d) tour to promote that album.
No dates available yet, this is a long-term plan!

The possibilitie to see Leonard Cohen on stage makes me definitely want to go dance in the park tomorrow! I mean just right now in front of the computer.

BuuUUt!! I warn you Mr. Cohen! Please do not try to compete with Mr. Dylan : no good show but just a circus, people paying to see a monster (of Love in your case). Be good.

There is a "clown" from Concordia (McGill would certainly not have done this with one of its alumni) that made a lecture entitled "The Rise and Fall of Leonard Cohen". Please make him do another one, now : "The fall (just to left him a kind of dignity) and the rise of Leonard Cohen". OK?

Yes, to be fair with and to Leonard, I was returning to add that there would be some changes in the verbiage for such an exchange to be truly accurate. However, in that it's not Leonard, but the music industry that I distrust, I remained concerned regarding the jist of Partisan's conjecturing [albeit humoured, in Partisan's definition of the term].

Bottom line is that I'm relieved and buoyed in my faith simply knowing that you have, indeed, spoken with Leonard about it. Difficult to imagine that you would've posted such a paradigm shift without having consulted with him, but when such news makes its ways to my eyes, I must cover all the bases before I allow hope to spring eternal, once again, much less, belief!

The long-term aspect is no problem. Gives me more time to save. This is truly the best news EVER anticipated on this site!

Now, we must check out Anjani's album, along with Perla's, and never-to-be-forgotten Julie's most recent one, as well!

[Tee-Hee, Tchocolatl ~ good ideas, there, on the Rise/Fall/Rise phenomena......as for performing, Leonard will outclass them all .]

Thank you for such exquisitely good news, Jarkko !

Love,
Elizabeth

Hi Tchoco,

Actually, a prof. from McGill did try to get his colleagues involved in publishing papers on Leonard and the contribution he's made to literature. His colleagues did not respond, and the papers were written by graduate students.

The prof's rationale was that his colleagues did not think that "poetry that people can dance to" was literature. I know that there are those that don't agree. I used that phrase recently in a post - and there are those that don't agree . Anyway, it was his project, his words and our loss.

Linda.

Lizzy, how did you get back in there so fast!!??

[As compared to what, Linda?] I guess I was propelled by a lapse in time secondary to a reality warp triggered by this incredible news .

I guess I was propelled by a lapse in time secondary to a reality warp triggered by this incredible news .

Yes, Lizzy, I guess that would explain it.

This tour news is the best news I've heard since becoming part of the international LC fan and cyber community five years ago! Wow!

Mind you, the sceptic in me will wait until I see the tour schedule officially announced and promoted! The ultimate proof will be when I hear that some of you have actually been to a concert and it was really Leonard performing!

I couldn't find anything on (what appeared to be) the Macklam Feldman Management web-site, but it may be too early for that to have happened. However, I have found a link that duplicates this news item, as follows:

http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=14620

Cheers
Andrew (Darby)

too funny Lizzytysh!

I did not know Linda. What a loss indeed. Do you want to know what I think about this debate true/no true? (even if you don't I'm afraid you'l know
) Well, it is much more difficult to analyse a poem that is also a song. It takes knowledge that these persons may not have. No loss then, in this regard (you know, sometimes people are not doing things, not because they did not want, but just because they can not do it). The real loss, though is that lit. and mus. have not share this common project. But univ. is just taking into account "the head". Real life is much more interesting, such is Mr. Leonard Cohen.

Andrew:

I don't know who Macklam is but the Feldman is S.L. Feldman & Assoc. from Vancouver. They do manage the bunch that is listed, along with some others. Feldman has been in the management biz for years and was once partnered with a man by the name of Bruce Allen (Bryan Adams and others).

A side-note here, is that Denise Donlan used to work for Feldman and then went on to be VP or even Pres. of Sony until the merger with BMG - they then had to pick just one and Denise lost.

Linda.

When we say 'world wide tour' will that include Matlock or will I have to travel all the way to Chesterfield?
Pete

Real life is much more interesting, such is Mr. Leonard Cohen.

Yes, Tchoco, you are right there.

Linda.

Linda:

Where in western Canada are you from? If you'll divuldge that information to a young fruit cake.

Blimey!!!!

Good job I was already sitting down. Will raise a glass to that wonderful news tonight.

Diane

Hello icecreamtruck,

I'm from Vancouver. Now living in a dinky town just northeast, but Vancouver is my home.

Linda.