Bodo
May-03-2010, 10:19 GMT
Austria
 | Paul Simon will now play some songs for the students at the Brandheis University on May 23. The students have started a facebook campaign which requests Paul to sing. Later the rector contacted Pauls management and he seemed to be happy fulfilling this wish.
Paul will also receive an honorary degree at the ceremony.
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Klausi
May-04-2010, 07:04 GMT
Germany
 | Wikipedia sais Brandeis (who was the first jewish US supreme court justice) -University is private, with about 5.000 students, half of them jewish, but open for everybody and liberal.
Their homepage is quite serious and moderate.
Simon will perform one (?) song and make a speech on May 23. |
matthew
May-04-2010, 08:33 GMT
United Kingdom
 | From their site:
"Honorary degrees will be awarded at the ceremony to physician, humanitarian and social activist Paul Farmer, a founder of Partners in Health; the Honorable Judith S. Kaye, the first woman to serve as chief judge of New York State; Spanish author Antonio Muà±oz Molina, a leading interpreter of the modern European experience; National Security Council member Dennis B. Ross, a veteran Middle East policymaker and scholar; and iconic singer-songwriter Paul Simon, winner of 12 Grammy Awards. Ambassador Oren also will receive an honorary degree...Paul Simon is one of the best-known and most successful American singers and songwriters of the last half-century. He wrote the music for "The Graduate," a classic of the Baby Boomer generation, and produced `Graceland,â? an album inspired by South African Township music that helped fuel the anti-apartheid movement. He has received numerous awards for his music, including the first annual Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, and is a member of the Songwriters` Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
A proponent of music education for children, Simon is a supporter of Little Kids Rock, a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and free lessons to children in public schools throughout the United States. He is also a major benefactor and one of the co-founders of the Children`s Health Fund."
The full story is here: http://www.brandeis.edu/now/2010/april/commencemen
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Gerard
May-05-2010, 01:53 GMT
New Zealand
 | Keeping to an educational theme, Paul Simon should sing a medley of the following songs:
ME & JULIO DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD
KODACHROME (... all the crap in high school...)
OUTRAGEOUS ("It´s Outrageous the food they try to serve at a public school. Outrageous the way they talk to you like you´re some kind of a clinical fool")
THAT´S ME ("Here I go, it´s my graduation. I´m picking up a bogus degree")
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