I wasn’t there, so this is a little once removed, but from what I saw on TV something of a standout moment at the bushfire memorial service yesterday in Melbourne was a massed choir reading of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah.
First thought was ‘Can’t they leave that song alone!’, but there’s more. How did this admittedly very [...]
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What does Hallelujah have to do with it?
February 23, 2009 – 11:36 am
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