Professor David Peimer
Art Garfunkel: Grandchild of Romania
Summary
Professor David Peimer discusses the life and work of Art Garfunkel and explores why his journey was a classic immigrant story.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
That’s really interesting. Not as far as I know, really, in any way that he would call professional standard.
No, I said that it has Black, African-American connection to a gospel group who made a song of it based on a religious, spiritual song from the 19th century, that Paul Simon was inspired by. And, he took the line from that gospel group, and he wanted to make it a hymn, originally. And I spoke about the third verse and what Garfunkel, with a full spectre influence, radically changed, and he introduced the third verse.