ERIC MEOLA
Bruce Springsteen in 1975.
The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch has released additional details and tickets information for its previously announced Born to Run 50th anniversary celebration, taking place in September.
Tickets will go on sale at noon July 16; visit springsteenarchives.org.
Tickets for the main event — which will be a day-long symposium at the university’s Pollak Theatre, Sept. 6 — will be $150. According to a press release, “The symposium will feature panels, presentations, and interviews with members of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, as well as with journalists and historians, music industry legends, and special guests.”
In the press release, Archives executive director Robert Santelli noted that Springsteen wrote songs for the album “Just a few blocks from where the symposium will take place … to revisit the making of the album and to examine Born to Run’s place in American music history is a great honor and a quintessential example of the way the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music works to deliver unique insights about, and preserve the legacy of, our cherished American music genres and artists.”
The cover of Bruce Springsteen’s”Born to Run” album, featuring a photo by Eric Meola.
Also:
• The celebration will also include a showing of rare footage from album recording sessions and Springsteen’s 1975 tour, hosted by filmmaker Thom Zimny, a longtime Springsteen associate. This event will be on Sept. 5, also at the Pollak Theatre, and tickets will be $50.
• There will be an academic conference, Sept. 7 at the university’s Pozycki Hall, with more than 100 papers presented by scholars from around the globe, plus a performance of some of the Born to Run songs, “reimagined” by students associated with Monmouth University’s student-run label, Blue Hawk Records, which will also released a Born to Run Reimagined EP on Sept. 5. Monmouth University’s Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences will co-sponsor the academic conference, and tickets will be $100.
• An exhibition of the photography of Eric Meola, who took the striking Born to Run cover photo of Springsteen and Clarence Clemons, will be open to the public, at no charge, at the DiMattio Gallery at Monmouth University’s Rechnitz Hall from Sept. 6 to Dec. 18.
• Walking tours of the West End section of Long Branch, where Springsteen lived in 1974 and 1975, will be offered on Sept. 7, with tickets priced at $40.
• On Sept. 2, the university’s Tuesday Night Record Club series will offer a free discussion about Born to Run at the university’s Great Hall Auditorium and via Zoom. Registration is required at springsteenarchives.org.
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