Hallelujah Moose wrote:
<<The heck with all this political hand wringing.
<<<Leonard Cohen, Transplant from the Great North, went to meet "the Lord of
Song" yesterday.
<http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792>
<<<<There's news about how the world is different than the day before.
<<<I've never found him too dark, nor depressive at all. A clear vision and
truth telling about the relationship <<<between light and dark seem to me
something we all could use. Thank goodness for recording, so I can <<<still
hear not just the words, but that voice delivering them.
<<<His son said "He was writing up until his last moments with his unique brand
of
<<<humor."
<<<He said his youthful ambition was to be a successful minor poet - because he
couldn't understand the <<<major ones. I'm guessing he won't get a Nobel for
his lyrics, but he's right up there for me.
Thanks for that.
I certainly noticed this event. Here is another obit.
http://tinyurl.com/jujqljl
Marnie and I had been thinking of him as his tune "Who by fire" was performed
at our synagogue this year. It is a poetic interpretation of the ancient Yom
Kippur liturgy Unetanneh Tokef.
Judging from its style probably composed in Israel during the Byzantine period
(namely 330–638). All I know, though am on the atheist fringe of the agnostic
wing of our congregation (am told that is almost 1/2) it was moving and
left me with goose bumps.
And who shall I say is Calling? Mike
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