April 5, and it’s now been 25 years since Allen passed away. We’re commemorating it by posting the video 1998 of the complete memorial for him held at Cathedral Church of St John the Divine. Check AllenGinsberg.Org for today’s post. We’ll post clips of it here on IG throughout the week as well. These have only just recently been transferred so the footage has never been made public till now.
It’s Patti Smith and Philip Glass’ first time sharing a stage together and they totally blew us away with “On the Cremation of Chogyam Trungpa, Vidyadhara” and “Spell”, Patti’s version of Allen’s ‘Footnote to Howl.’
other participants include Jayne Cortez, Anne Waldman, Pedro Pietri, Natalie Merchant, Andy Clausen, Danny Schechter, Patti Smith and Philip Glass performing for the first time together, The Fugs, David Greenberg, Eliot Katz, David Dellinger, pretty much everyone on the poster except for Amiri Baraka who showed up just after the show ended. Emceed by Bob Rosenthal & Ed Sanders
