Happy birthday to Bob Dylan, 80 years-old today.
Dylan sings “Blowin’ in the Wind” (television, 1963):
George Crumb’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” from his “American Songbook VI: Voices from the Morning of the Earth” (2008):
Dylan sings “Mr. Tambourine Man” (Newport Folk Festival, 1964):
John Corigliano’s “Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan” (2000):
As the title indicates, there are seven songs in all, original settings of Dylan’s verse. If you let it run too long, it will go into Corigliano’s music for “Altered States.”
Both Crumb and Corigliano are Pulitzer Prize winners. Dylan said hold my beer – in 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The times they are a-changin’.
