To the 2010 World Tour organizers: Cities Wish List

[LEONKA]

HI Wimmer,

I wish you from the heart, you will see that the concert will be wonderful. Leonard is sensational and very sexy. Look at his beautiful eyes, his beautiful voice and smile. But something sensational. His songs sound like seduction. But what I write.

[SuzanneT]

I agree with the view that it will be fine when Leonard placed in his Tour some of the countries of Central Europe .. Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland and to be one of the Baltic republics - Latvia, Lithuania there ... finally has its roots . One place where the concert was really successful is Poland, where Leonardo loved for years ... and in Krakow in August we held a meeting Cohenites
Of course, that I personally most want to visit to the Czech Republic, Slovakia or Poland. Leonard, come, we see you and hear from you ... you give us more than we can pay the money!

[remote1]

Found on "2010 - when to expect new confirmation?" thread:

I have been in contact with both AEG and the tour management, and their replies indicate that right now they don't have any more confirmations for us. Anyway, we will be the first to know!

Perhaps it's taking them a long time to go through our Cities Wish List! It has become fairly long...

[LEONKA]

Only three weeks and we have Christmas. Therefore, write, write, write, Christmas is the desire to be fulfilled.

[ingmar27]

I don't know if in the 12 pages of replies someone has mentioned it, but I would love for Leonard to come to Pittsburgh. I assume the World Tour would swing back through the US for a little...maybe. After the Cleveland show I need to go to another one. He hasn't played Pittsburgh in a loooong time. So how bout we tack Pittsburgh on, huh?

[suenodelasmanzanas]

MUNICH!!! Please please please please please please please please please please.....

[Laura]

"suenodelasmanzanas"-dream of the apples?!! That's some name! (though I'd rather dream of other things)

Laura

[olive branch]

A very apt name though as it appears in one of the greatest poems of Fedorico Garcia Lorca, which Leonard used to often quote from in concert, Gacela de la muerte oscura.

"Quiero dormir el sueno de las manzana,".........

The english translation I like best is by Merryn Williams but she changes "dream."

Gacela of the Dark Death

I want to sleep the sleep of the apples,
to leave behind the noise of cemeteries.
I want to sleep as did that child who wanted
to cut his heart on the high seas.

I do not want to hear again that corpses keep their blood,
nor of the thirst the rotting mouth can't slake.
I do not want to know of the torments grass gives,
nor of the moon with a snake's mouth
that toils before daybreak.

I want to sleep for a short time,
a short time, a minute, a hundred years;
but all should know I have not died,
that there is a stable of gold on my lips,
that I am the friend of the west wind,
that I am the vast shadow of my tears.

Cover me with a veil,
throw fistfulls of ants at me at dawn,
and wet my shoes with hard water,
that it may slide on pincers like a scorpion.

Because I want to sleep the sleep of apples,
to learn a lament that will purify me;
because I want to stay with that dark child who wanted
to cut his heart on the high seas.

[remote1]

I believe Joan Baez gives a reading of that poem in Baptism, using 'the dream of the apples' version...

Speaking of Wales, the above poem reminds me quite a lot of Dylan Thomas's "And death shall have no dominion".

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

I wonder what you think? The themes appear very close and the metaphors are similar...

[Tripping]

Cape Town, South Africa.

PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!

[MiLoOo]

Stockholm plzzz

[remote1]

Hey, you're right, all the beautiful poetry is off topic!
Let's hope the World Tour organizers like poetry anyhow, and let's get back to some serious wishing!

[Mikeaus]

There is a rumour that Leonard will be back in Australia in 2010 (I started it!). Oh that the rumour turned into reality.

[LEONKA]

Jarkko,
please, please, what is it true that Leonard will have a concert in Slovakia in March 13,2010? This is the term that was initially canceled.

[remote1]

Hi Leonka,
Where did you hear that the concert was back on?