to singer-songwriter american Patti Smith became today the main protagonist of the ceremony of delivery of Nobel Prizes, although it received no award, and with his voice overshadowed the absence of the laureate in Literature, Bob Dylan, who performed the theme “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”
Smith filled of feeling the act, in which intervened after the filing of the figure Dylan, absent of Stockholm for other commitments, by professor Horace Engdahl of the Swedish Academy was not able to invite the singer, as tradition, to come forward and receive the award from the hands of the king Carlos Gustavo.
After a round of applause from the more than 1,500 guests to the ceremony in honor of Dylan, he began to sound like a guitar that is joined by the voice of Smith, who sang from the place reserved for the orchestra above the stage.
An excited Smith that ended up going wrong, he had to stop and asked to go back to start. “We can get back to this verse. Sorry, I’m so nervous,” he pointed out between a big round of applause for the singer, who had a second stumbling block, just before you join your voice with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Stockholm.
And is that “Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” are almost seven-minute song with a complicated lyric composed by Dylan in 1963, and plagued by disturbing visions. “I saw a newborn baby surrounded by wolves / I saw a highway of diamonds that no one came there / I saw a branch black dripping still fresh blood”.
The performance of Smith was followed very closely from the stage by the kings Carlos Gustavo and Silvia, as well as the crown princess, Victoria, and her husband, prince Daniel, like the rest of these were dedicated to him the standing ovation of the ceremony.
The new Nobel prize of Literature is “a singer who deserves a place next to the greeks, along with Ovid, together with the visionary, romantic, next to the kings and queens of the blues, along with the teachers forgotten, of brilliant quality,” said Engdahl of Dylan.
His revolution has been to return “to the language of poetry to its high-style, lost since the romantics,” but not to “sing eternities, but to talk about what is happening around us. As if the oracle of Delphi was reading the evening news”.
Dylan belongs to the world of literature because “the beauty of their songs is of the highest category, an artist that has changed “our idea of what may be poetry.”
In fact, the people “soon stopped might compare him” with the musicians Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams to do it with Blake, Rimbaud, Whitman, or Shakespeare.
Engdahl did not miss the opportunity of referring to those who have not seen with good eyes that the Nobel is for a singer-songwriter and said that “if the people in the literary world groans, is to remind them that the gods did not written, but rather that they dance and sing”.
Although Dylan is not in Stockholm has sent a text that will be read at the end of the gala banquet, when a winner per category take the word.
The ceremony began with a speech by the president of the Nobel Foundation Carl-Henrik Heldin, who warned of the extension of populism and of how political leaders of Europe and the united States “are gaining votes with the denial of knowledge and scientific truths”.
“The terrible truth is that we can no longer take for granted that people believe in science, facts and knowledge”.
The delivery of the Nobel, governed by a strict protocol had another moment out of the ordinary, featuring one of the laureates in Physics, David Thouless, 82-year-old, who had to be helped at all times to walk, and shortly after collecting the award he retired from the stage.
The king gave in to the award-winning, all male and most of them born in Europe, a medal and a diploma, after listening to the members of the academy to comment upon their findings.
In Physics, Thouless, Ducan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, “have established the foundations of a new way of describing the matter”, while in Chemistry James Fraser Stoddart, Bernard Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage have been “pioneers and sources of inspiration” with the development of molecular machines.
The award-winning in Medicine, Yoshinori Ohsumi, has opened with his research on autophagy, “a new field of biology,” and the prize-winners in Economics, Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, have helped with their theories to “write better contracts to improve cooperation and well-being”.
the national anthem of The Swedish “Du gmala, du fria” (“Thou ancient, thou free”) marked the end of the act and the kings and their guests were moved to the Stockholm city Hall for a banquet in honor of the awardees.
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