WeHa Library To Explore Music Of Dylan

WEST HARTFORD, CT — Legendary American folk singer/songwriter Bob Dylan will not be at the West Hartford Public Library's Noah Webster branch this week.

But music lovers can enjoy the next best thing, a program dedicated to analyzing his music and listening to his music by a noted musical academic.

Robert Cohen, an accomplished music teacher who has taught in New York, Philadelphia and Boston, will be at the Noah Webster Branch, 20 S. Main St., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 6:30 p.m.

There, Cohen will offer analysis and discussion about Dylan's work, with guests listening to a plethora of Dylan's songs either sung by him or written by him and performed by others.

Dylan has been dubbed as a performer who shaped the generation that came of age in the turbulent 1960s.

Cohen has spoken and taught at the Fifth Avenue New York Public Library; the New England Conservatory of Music; New School University in New York; Boston College’s Center for Christian-Jewish Learning and School of Theology and Ministry; the Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum in Philadelphia; the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, N.Y; and the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

He has also produced and hosted more than 100 radio programs in New York on Jewish culture and identity and wrote the NPR documentary "One People, Many Voices: American-Jewish Music Comes of Age.”

To register for this program, click on this link.