Perhaps there's another performance of Hallelulia that I'd like better, when
he was younger, or that sounds more melodic? The words are dark. At least
the melody of Suzanne is pretty. But when you read the article about him, a
very long, in depth article, you see that he's suffered from depression on
and off throughout his life, has, of course, taken all kinds of drugs, has
struggled with various belief systems and their associated disciplines so, I
guess one would expect his lyrics to reflect that.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Abby Vincent
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He performed Hallelulia during opening ceremonies for the Van Coover
Olympics. It is a beautiful but dark song. I heard it once at a Good
Friday service. We all felt such despair that we were compelled to come
back Sunday to see what happens.
Suzanne, his other famous song about a woman who is either hauntingly
seductive
she touches your body with her mind
or crazy. I cant imagine
either of these songs as poetry without the music.Abby
Abby
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Carl/Miriam:
The following may be of interest to you.
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Leonard Cohen (b. 21st September 1934 in Montréal, Quebec) is a Canadian
poet, novelist and musician. His musical career has largely overshadowed his
prior work as a ...
On 10/18/2016 7:34 PM, Carl Jarvis wrote:
This is cool. I am writing while Leonard Kohen is "singing?" in the
background. Something still draws me to his music. But then I'm a
true blue Bob Dylan fan, too.
Still and all, give me the Moody Blues over them all.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/18/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<mailto:miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All you need to do is google what I googled which was
Leonard Cohen's music
And I got a whole bunch of song titles and You Tube links.
I'd forgotten
the
names of the songs but Google knew. It's terrifying!
Miriam
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I don't know that I know that kind of music. The name sounds
only vaguely
familiar to me. You might provide a link to the examples you
mentioned.
On 10/18/2016 6:35 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
Any of you guys know of a song writer and performer
named Leonard Cohen?
He's about 83 years old and there was a long article
about him in the
Audible October 17th edition of The New Yorker that
is on BARD. I
never heard of him, but the article was fascinating
so I found some of
his
music
on the web. His big song is Hallelulia. There's
another one, Dance Me
To
Love. It's the stranges stuff I've ever heard. I
mean it's poetry sung
to two or three notes by someone who, as far as I'm
concerned, doesn't
have a singing voice. But I'm old and my taste in
music is very
strange and
speicific: old classical, big band music, romantic
ballads, folk
music, country music, old fashioned negro
spirituals, (that's what
they're called), almost nothing popular written
after Slow Boat To
China. David Remnick, who wrote the article on
Leonard Cohen, also has
one on Bob Dillon and his prize for literature. His
article is on the
web with links to a number of Dillon's songs on You
Tube. I listened
to a few with which I'm unfamiliar. Like Cohen's,
they're like
complicated
poetry, except they're a bit more lyrical.
So Bob, Roger, you people who know this kind of
music, what are your
thoughts?
Miriam .
