Leonard Cohen:  Suzanne

Leonard Cohen: Suzanne

I started talking yesterday about Country Music. As I said, I’m really not down with classifications. A good song is a good song. It tells you something about yourself, or at a minimum shows you another epoch or slice of humanity in a way you can understand. Ideally...
Leonard Cohen:  Take this Waltz

Leonard Cohen: Take this Waltz

“This poet ruined my life,” Leonard Cohen said of the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.  Cohen, a singer/songwriter and poet, himself, took great liberty with the original text of the haunting poem it is based on,”Pequeño vals vienés” (Little...
Leonard Cohen:  Famous Blue Raincoat

Leonard Cohen: Famous Blue Raincoat

We cover quite a bit of arcana in NYFOS concerts. Forgotten composers, obscure corners of the repertoire from A to Z. We delight in finding these treasures. Many of them defy classification. Is it a folk song, or a pop tune? We don’t think that’s of any importance...
Leonard Cohen:  Who by Fire

Leonard Cohen: Who by Fire

Shanah tovah umetukah! I’m honored to be curating this week’s NYFOS Songs of the Day as Jews all over the world welcome the new year 5777 today and tomorrow. The great Canadian singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen drew inspiration from the traditional Rosh...