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This video was recently uploaded by the Glenn Gould Foundation. ---Arlene

DK Ibomeka, with Andrew Craig at the keys, performed Hallelujah for Leonard Cohen and guests at the Ninth Glenn Gould Prize Gala Dinner on May 14, 2012 at Arcadian Court, Toronto.

https://vimeo.com/42843114

Prior to the Awards Ceremony and Concert at Massey Hall, an exclusive Dinner was held to honour Leonard Cohen and benefit The Glenn Gould Foundation in the newly renovated Arcadian Court. Leonard Cohen was in attendance with over 250 special guests, including guest speakers The Rt. Honourable Adrienne Clarkson and Michael Ondaatje.

Does anyone happen to know if there is video of Jimmie Dale Gilmore performing Tower of Song?
I've searched and can find nothing but would love to see it if it is available!
Thanks to all who have previously posted info,
and Arlene...what an exciting experience for you!!

goaskaliceok wrote:Does anyone happen to know if there is video of Jimmie Dale Gilmore performing Tower of Song?
I've searched and can find nothing but would love to see it if it is available!
Thanks to all who have previously posted info,
and Arlene...what an exciting experience for you!!

Well, I didn't take one because he came on immediately after I was cautioned about no videos taking LC's speech.
AEG/Goldenvoice did film the gala tribute. I suppose it is being edited for later broadcast. We all have to be ....patient.

What I can tell you is, Gilmore's cover was great even though he flubbed the lyrics and the audience tittered. And I was very excited to see Neil Larsen on the PIANO backing him. So I grabbed a quick photo. Neil was the Musical Director of the Gala concert. He is such a superb keyboardist, he could fill in anywhere.

---Arlene

Thanks, Arlene,
I will "patiently" await the release of the film!
I'm a big fan of JDG; sorry to hear he flubbed the lyrics.

goaskaliceok wrote:Does anyone happen to know if there is video of Jimmie Dale Gilmore performing Tower of Song?

Here is an AUDIO of Gilmore's terrific cover of Tower of Song.
DivShare File - GG goaskalice.mp3

Neil Larsen on piano was brilliant.
I will leave it up for a few days and then take it down "to avoid consequences".

---Arlene

Wow, Arlene! Thanks so much!
I thoroughly enjoyed that. I listened twice and will listen again before you remove it!
Great to hear Neil Larsen on piano, too!

(l) LC & Robert Kory, (r) LC & a party guest
(video screenshots)

Glenn Gould Prize after party at Fran's restaurant, Toronto 5-4-12

Leonard Cohen's song Tower of Song is played to him personally by Lighthouse the night he is awarded the Glen Gould Prize

Video uploaded by: joaniemc1
http://youtu.be/zvyMR0Y8rs4

---Arlene

Thank you so very much Arlene ... such a beautiful clip ... Leonard really enjoy it and at some moments He seems to sing along with them
don't know if you are here by now , but wouldn't that be something great for FB !!? I just love it !!

Susy wrote: wouldn't that be something great for FB !!? I just love it !!

Thanks, Susy. I did post this on FB https://www.facebook.com/arlenedick
as a link to Arlene's Leonard Cohen Scrapbook.
http://onboogiestreet.blogspot.com/2012 ... prize.html

---Arlene

Here is a good quality news bite by ZNews (pronounced Zed News in Canada) with some great snippets of LC and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
http://youtu.be/6o1Ipf1LBr4

---Arlene

Nice slideshow: 'Leonard Cohen at the Glenn Gould Award Gala (and Fran’s Restaurant)'

http://www.torontolife.com/daily/hype/p ... rty-animal

This is sweet -

Uploaded by SistemaToronto -

Sistema Toronto sings Hallelujah for Leonard Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVNavmskSV8

Hallelujah for Leonard Cohen
Sistema Toronto children singing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
Leonard Cohen, recipient of the 2012 prestigious Glenn Gould prize, awards Sistema Toronto with the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protege Prize.
Photo credits Donald Gislason.

The Leonard Cohen Acceptance Speech

I actually met Glenn Gould. It was the end of the '50's or the early '60's. Holiday Magazine asked me to interview him and he apparently had heard of a little book I had written and he accepted the interview. I was cautioned not to shake his hand. I went to Toronto and we met at the apartment building where he was living, downstairs in the lobby. This was before the days of tape recorders. He began to speak and I began to scribble. The interview was supposed to be for just minutes but it lasted for a couple of hours. After a minute or two I was so engrossed with what he was saying and I stopped writing and stopped taking notes and thought these words were burned into my soul. After the interview was over, I thanked him. It had been really a memorable afternoon. I came back to my little room on Mountain Street in Montreal and I couldn't remember a thing. The editor of Holiday Magazine called me and asked me how it was coming along. I said it's coming very well. The editor called me a couple days later and I had the same answer. The editor called me a couple weeks later and I said it's taking me a little bit longer than I thought, and then finally I stopped answering the phone. It was in the days of telegrams. I finally joined the witness protection program.

I met him again curiously enough about several years later. It was in a studio in New York, a Columbia Records studio. He was recording something sublime and I was recording something otherwise. I met him in the hall and we recognized each other. I was infected in those days with the new hip thing which was beginning to unveil among musicians and people in the entertainment world. I said "Hey man, what's shakin'?" He said, "I didn't know you were from Memphis, Tennessee." Thank you so much friends. I just I want to say to the musicians and singers, if there is any anxiety about singing my songs in front of me, let it dissolve immediately because I go into an immediate childish ecstasy and paroxysms of gratitude when an artist covers one of my songs. Thank you so much friends.

Photos of the ceremony added on the Glenn Gould site

http://glenngould.ca/galleries/