Tickets for Paul Simon´s Ellmann Lecture series available Dec. 3
By Elaine Justice | Nov. 8, 2012
Tickets for the 2013 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University, featuring award-winning musician/songwriter Paul Simon, will be available beginning Monday, Dec. 3.
Simon will be appearing in four public events at Emory, including:
Two lectures at 4:15 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, and 8:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, both in Glenn Memorial Auditorium;
A conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at Emory´s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts; and
A musical performance with guitarist Mark Stewart at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, also at Emory´s Schwartz Center.
Tickets are free, but are limited to two tickets per person, per event. Tickets may be reserved beginning at 10 a.m either online (tickets.arts.emory.edu), by phone (404-727-5050) or in person at the Arts at Emory Box Office (1700 N. Decatur Rd. Suite 251, Atlanta, GA 30322, open M-F 10 a.m.-6 p.m.).
Tickets must be either mailed or picked up in person prior to the events. There will be no will call at any of the events. For more information visit emory.edu/ellmann.
Simon´s lectures are expected to concern, in part, an overview of the historical antecedents of the music made between 1966 and 1970.
Simon joins a distinguished roster of authors that has made the Ellmanns one of the leading literary lectures series in the English-speaking world. Ellmann Lecturers have included Nobel Prize laureates Seamus Heaney (1988) and Mario Vargas Llosa (2006), Salman Rushdie (2004), Umberto Eco (2008) and Margaret Atwood (2010).
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