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Hi Linda ~

I know what you're saying regarding the bandwagon; however, I feel the only way that aspect might have been entering in is by some people saying "Let's check into this man deeper... there sure are a lot of distinguished, qualified, and lettered people who highly respect and are even enthralled by his work. David, can you do some research here for us please?" Some, maybe many, on the committee are already aware of Leonard and his body of work. Even so, David does his job and researches Leonard and returns to the committee with an amazing report, which warrants the committee itself doing its own additional research. The committee follows up on their own and over the course of subsequent meetings, it is determined that "This man definitely warrants inclusion on our honour. I'd like to see it done with our next induction. Shall we take a vote."

Follow up: Press Release.


~ Lizzy

Saturday, October 1, 2011 is the induction ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Any word yet on whether or not Leonard Cohen will be attending?

Email from Robert Kory: I regret that scheduling is likely to preclude Mr. Cohen's attendance.

ARTISTS WHO WERE AWARDED THE GLENN GOULD PRIZE, INDUCTED INTO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AND RECEIVED THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR LETTERS IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2011 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE AWARDED THE GLENN GOULD PRIZE AND INDUCTED INTO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2011 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE AWARDED THE GLENN GOULD PRIZE AND RECEIVED THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR LETTERS IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2011 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AND RECEIVED THE PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR LETTERS IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2011 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME AND RECEIVED THE GRAMMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2010 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND RECEIVED THE NATIONAL ORDER OF QUEBEC IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 2008 - Leonard Cohen

ARTISTS WHO WERE INDUCTED INTO THE JUNO/CANADIAN MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND RECEIVED THE ORDER OF CANADA IN THE SAME YEAR:

01. 1991 - Leonard Cohen

This is all we will be getting as far as bio on Leonard Cohen

http://www.amacad.org/news/classlist2011.pdf

THE 2011 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
CLASS IV - HUMANITIES AND ARTS
Page 8 - SECTION 5B - Performing Arts - Criticism and Practice
Foreign Honorary Member - Performing Arts - Criticism and Practice
Leonard Cohen, Montreal, Canada

THE 2011 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INDUCTION CEREMONY IS TODAY, BUT LEONARD COHEN WILL NOT BE ATTENDING.

The ceremony was at Harvard University. Not much photos have surfaced yet.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=ame ... a=N&tab=wi

THE 2011 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES INDUCTEES

http://www.amacad.org/news/classlist2011.pdf

Marsha Berger, Alex Eskin, Thomas Y. Hou, Kazuya Kato, Laurent Saloff-Coste, Shou-Wu Zhang, Thomas Banks, George William Crabtree, Sylvester James Gates, Jr., Michael Sol Gruner, Andrei Dimitriyevich, Gregory W. Moore, Ann E. Nelson, Hugh David Politzer, Shoucheng Zhang, Geoffrey W. Coates, Robert Howard Crabtree, Marcetta York Darensbourg, Martin P. Head-Gordon, Todd Joseph Martinez, Chad Mirkin, Ei-Ichi Negishi, Henry S. White, Jr., Hisashi Yamamoto, Joseph Klafter, R. Paul Butler, Chester Charles Langway, Jr., H. Jay Melosh, William Jason Morgan, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Roberta L. Rudnick, Yuk Ling Yung, James C. Zachos, Frances Hamilton Arnold, Wanda M. Austin, Juan J. de Pablo, Glenn H. Fredrickson, Sharon C. Glotzer, Leah H. Jamieson, L. Gary Leal, Howard A. Stone, Edmund M. Clarke, Edward W. Felten, Eric Horvitz, Michael I. Jordan, Shree K. Nayar, Patricia Griffiths Selinger, Peter Williston Shor, Avi Wigderson, Raymond J. Deshaies, Robert E. Kingston, Kevan M. Shokat, Gisela T. Storz, Wesley Ian Sundquist, Jean Y.J. Wang, Marvin Pete Wickens, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Victor Ambros, Scott E. Fraser, Maxwell E. Gottesman, Jeffrey H. Miller, Richard Isamu Morimoto, David Conrad Page, Rodney J. Rothstein, Martine F. Roussel, Eric Ursell Selker, Richard Warren Aldrich, David Paul Corey, John P. Donoghue, Russell Dawson Fernald, Okihide Hikosaka, Amita Sehgal, Brian A. Wandell, Anna Kay Behrensmeyer, Robert K. Colwell, Farish Alston Jenkins, Jr., Trevor Douglas Price, Peter B. Reich, David N. Reznick, Sybil Putnam Seitzinger, Svante Paabo, Clara Derber Bloomfield, George Q. Daley, Chi Van Dang, Vishva Dixit, Jonathan A. Epstein, Joseph Francis Fraumeni, Jr., Daniel Arie Haber, Katherine Ann High, Talmadge Everett King, Jr., Lewis Lee Lanier, David W. Russell, John Andrew Bargh, Melissa Foster Bowerman, Anthony S. Bryk, Michael K. Tanenhaus, Sandra Robin Waxman, Daniel Merton Wegner, Roland J.M. Benebou, Steven Neil Durlauf, David Laibson, John A. List, David G. Pearce, Monika Piazzesi, Larry Samuelson, Christopher R. Udry, Timothy J. Besley, Timothy J. Colton, Martha Finnemore, Jonathan N. Katz, Katherine S. Newman, Scott E. Page, Thomas Romer, Charles Haines Stewart III, Adam Roberts, Elizabeth J. Cabraser, Marcel Kahan, Geoffrey P. Miller, Roberta Cooper Ramo, Michael H. Schill, Louis Michael Seidman, Stephen Campbell Yeazell, Luc Anselin, Penelope Dorothy Eckert, Claude S. Fischer, Nancy Foner, Catherine S. Fowler, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Bruce David Smith, Lothar von Falkenhausen, Franklin I. Gamwell, Daniel E. Garber, James Higginbotham, E. Brooks Holifield, Frances Myrna Kamm, Beatrice Longuenesse, Margaret Mary Mitchell, Ann Taves, Angelika Neuwirth, James Clifford, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, William Roger Louis, Mark Mazower, Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Thomas J. Sugrue, Barbara Weinstein, Mary Beard, Stanley A. Corngold, Peter W. Culicover, Philip Fisher, Jeffrey Henderson, Jay Harold Jasanoff, James S. Shapiro, P. Adams Sitney, Herbert Tucker, John Guare, Oscar Hijuelos, Edward Hoagland, Bill McKibben, Michael Scammell, Yves Bonnefoy, Luisa Valenzuela, Mario Vargas Llosa, Thomas P. Campbell, Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Jenny Holzer, C. Brian Rose, Michael R. Van Valkenburgh, Eduardo E.M. Souto de Moura, Philip V. Bohlman, Dave Brubeck, Ken Burns, Daniel Day-Lewis, Bob Dylan, Sarah A. Fuller, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Paul Simon, Samuel A. Waterston, Robert Wilson, Leonard Cohen, Paul Griffiths, Helen Mirren, Jesse Huntley Ausubel, Edward P. Djerejian, Julio Frenk, W. Thomas Johnson, Alex S. Jones, Louis Menand, Robert D. Reischauer, Paul Gardner Allen, John E. Bryson, James Ireland Cash, Jr., Ernest H. Cockrell, Hugh Grant, Robert D. Haas, Robert F. Higgins, Robert Kraft, Morton L. Mandel, Miles D. White, David de Rothschild, Douglas Joseph Bennet, Jr., Francisco G. Cigarroa, Ray A. Hammond, Linda P.B. Katehi, Steven Knapp, William Barlow Neaves, Malcolm Austin Rogers, David J. Skorton, Debora L. Spar, Raghunath A. Mashelkar

WOW! I had not realized this until today when I read the whole list of inductees.

THE 2011 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES INDUCTEES
THE PERFORMING ARTS CATEGORY

Dave Brubeck
Bob Dylan
Paul Simon
Leonard Cohen
Ken Burns
Daniel Day-Lewis
Helen Mirren

I don't think it was a coincidence that Dave Brubeck, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen were all inducted the same year. I bet that's how the American Academy wanted it to be! It doesn't look like Brubeck and Dylan attended, but Paul Simon did.

PAUL SIMON ATTENDED AND HE ALSO CLOSED THE CEREMONY BY PERFORMING.

http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/i ... _robe.html





MORE PHOTOS HERE

http://www.daylife.com/photo/08XS7NTaGr ... University

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&cp=47 ... 66&bih=667

Poll added to the bottom of the Leonard Cohen | Halls of Fame site

Go Vote

http://www.leonardcohenhallsoffame.com

Leonard Cohen's entry in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences Book of Members 1780-Present

I WILL ADD THIS TO THE HALLS OF FAME BIOS

http://www.amacad.org/publications/Book ... mbers.aspx

http://www.amacad.org/publications/Book ... apterC.pdf

Cohen, Leonard Norman (1934–) Election: 2011, FHM
Affiliation at election: Montreal, Canada
Residence at election: Montreal, Canada
Career description: Musician (singer, songwriter); Novelist; Poet
Current Affiliations: Same

VIDEOS FROM THE 2011 INDUCTION CEREMONY

http://www.amacad.org/events/Induction2011/

PAUL SIMON

http://www.amacad.org/events/Induction2 ... mance.aspx

THE 2011 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
CLASS IV - HUMANITIES AND ARTS
SECTION 5B - Performing Arts - Criticism and Practice
Foreign Honorary Member - Performing Arts - Criticism and Practice
Leonard Cohen, Montreal, Canada

http://www.amacad.org/news/classlist2011.pdf

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Book of Members 1780-Present
Leonard Norman Cohen (1934–)
Election: 2011, Foreign Honorary Member
Affiliation at election: Montreal, Canada
Residence at election: Montreal, Canada
Career description: Musician (singer, songwriter); Novelist; Poet
Current Affiliations: Same

http://www.amacad.org/publications/Book ... apterC.pdf

http://www.amacad.org/publications/Book ... mbers.aspx

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Book of Members 1780-Present

http://www.amacad.org/publications/Book ... mbers.aspx