Allen Ginsberg at high school in Olomouc sings Blake’s “The Tyger“

This is a real treasure. I just dug out some old stuff and here it is. It´s Allen Ginsberg singing Tyger, Tyger by William Blake. AG himself composed music to it. The footage was captured at high school Slovanske gymnázium where I taught then. Ginsberg was staying in Olomouc (my hometown in the Czech Republic) for a couple of weeks and I invited him for a show. The classroom was full of students, and it was a big success, amazing event. It´s 1993, so you can imagine the quality of the material is not
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