December 3, 2004

  • Crimson

    on St. Cecilia’s Day

    “… from the Age that is past,

    To the Age that is waiting before.”
    – Samuel Gilman, “Fair Harvard

    Published by The Harvard Crimson
    on Monday, November 22, 2004:

    Dylan Performs
    for Sold-Out Crowd

    By KATHERINE CHAN
    Harvard Crimson Contributing Writer

    Shouts of “Make way! Moses is here!” filled a restless crowd as
    legendary musician Bob Dylan closed off his College tour last night
    jamming in front of a sold out audience of Harvard undergraduates and
    Cambridge residents….

    The turnout for last night’s two-hour show was greater than many of the
    student audience members anticipated…

    But despite the legendary hits and massive crowds, several students said they were disappointed with the show.

    “I love Bob Dylan. I just don’t know what he’s saying,” said Alexander A.C. De Carvalho ’08.

    Recommended reading

    for Harvard students:

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    From an entry of October 29, 2004:

    “Each epoch has its singer.”
    Jack London, Oakland, California, 1901

    “Anything
    but the void. And so we keep hoping to luck into a winning combination,
    to tap into a subtle harmony, trying like lock pickers to negotiate a
    compromise with the ‘mystery tramp,’ as Bob Dylan put it….”
    – Dennis Overbye, Quantum Baseball,
        New York Times, Oct.  26, 2004

    “You said you’d never compromise

    With the mystery tramp,
        but now you realize

    He’s not selling any alibis

    As you stare into
        the vacuum of his eyes

    And ask him do you want to
        make a deal?”

    – Bob Dylan, Like a Rolling Stone

    From The New York Times today:

    “It’s official, I guess. Forty years after he recorded it, Bob Dylan’s
    ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ was just named the greatest rock ‘n’ roll song
    of all time….”

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