On April 8, 2013, Silver Jews singer David Berman, who had retired from making music in 2009, was the inaugural guest in a new speaker series on ethics and resistance at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York. It was one of a handful of rare public appearances by Berman during the more than 10 years between the end of the Silver Jews and the rise of Purple Mountains. This is an audience recording of his speech. RIP DCB. 

For more information on the event, here is the press release Macaulay Honors College sent out in February 2013 to promote it: https://macaulay.cuny.edu/press/Berman_Release.pdf

David Berman's Macaulay Honors College Lecture from April 8, 2013

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