KW-13-2022: Why Leonard Cohen joined a war to sing for his brothers, and never spoke of it again

Using Cohen’s own notes, and recollections of Israeli soldiers who heard him, Matti Friedman teases out the astounding story of the Jewish singer-priest on the Yom Kippur frontline

By David Horovitz          29 March 2022, 11:15 am SOURCE:

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KW-13-2022: WHO BY FIRE: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai – March 29 at 7:30 pm PT at the Skirball in LA, Matti will be in conversation with Rabbi David Wolpe, and April 4 at 6pm ET at the Streicker Center in NYC,

WHO BY FIRE: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai (Spiegel & Grau; April 5) by Matti Friedman is the little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs.
Spiegel & Grau publishing is excited to share with Leonard Cohens fans a special book trailer about a book which will surely be of interest to you!
Matti Friedman, the author, also has two events coming up which this Leonard Cohen community can attend: March 29 at 7:30 pm PT at the Skirball in LA, Matti will be in conversation with Rabbi David Wolpe, and April 4 at 6pm ET at the Streicker Center in NYC, Matti will be in conversation with Abigail Pogrebin with a special performance of Cohen’s songs by Cantor Gideon Zelermyer, known for his backing vocals on Cohen’s “You Want It Darker.” Both events can be attended virtually or in-person.
We sincerely hope you will enjoy this inspiring and moving Leonard Cohen story.
The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs
In October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen?thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end?traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and bloodshed of the Sinai desert when Egypt attacked Israel on the Jewish high holiday of Yom Kippur. Moving around the front with a guitar and a group of local musicians, Cohen met hundreds of young soldiers, men and women at the worst moment of their lives. Those who survived never forgot the experience. And the war transformed Cohen. He had announced that he was abandoning his music career, but he instead returned to Hydra and to his family, had a second child, and released one of the best albums of his career. In Who by Fire, journalist Matti Friedman gives us a riveting account of those weeks in the Sinai, drawing on Cohen’s previously unpublished writing and original reporting to create a kaleidoscopic depiction of a harrowing, formative moment for both a young country at war and a singer at a crossroads.

Portrait

MATTI FRIEDMAN is an award-winning journalist and author. Born in Toronto and based in Jerusalem, his work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, and elsewhere. Friedman’s last book, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, won the 2019 Natan Prize and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for history. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War was chosen in 2016 as a New York Times Notable Book and one of Amazon’s 10 best books of the year. His first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize and the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal.

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KW-13-2022: Diese Woche erscheint ein neues Live-Archiv-CD-Boxset. – EXTRAORDINARY 5xCD BOX-SET OF RARE LIVE COHEN

EXTRAORDINARY 5xCD BOX-SET OF RARE LIVE COHEN • Beginning his music career in 1967 at the age of 33, Leonard Cohen had spent the later 1950s and early-mid 1960’s as a poet and novelist. His first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), was followed by three more records of what was essentially acoustic folk music. 1977’s effort, Death Of A Ladies Man, co-written and produced by Phil Spector, was a move away from his previous minimalist sound, and for the next 40 years he released a fascinating and enticing body of work, albeit sporadically and often occasionally (during the 1990s he released just one new studio album.) • Remaining today, more than 6 years since his sad passing, a true icon of the contemporary music age, Cohen has both kept and attracted millions of fans, new and old, and still sits at the top table of the rock and pop hierarchy. • This new boxed set collection brings together five CDs of obscure, live recordings from across the great man’s career, all originally broadcast on television or FM Radio between 1968 and 1983. Including full shows performed in Zurich, Switzerland and Reykjavik, Iceland, in addition to a full disc of radio in-house sessions recorded for the BBC, this new release will prove a delight for Leonard Cohen fans worldwide. Tracks: DISC ONE 1 Dance Me To The End Of Love 6:11 2 The Future 7:15 3 Ain’t No Cure For Love 5:50 4 Bird On The Wire 7:05 5 Everybody Knows 6:09 6 Anthem 6:26 7 First We Take Manhattan 5:56 8 Avalanche 4:43 9 Chelsea Hotel #2 4:01 10 Tower Of Song 5:49 11 Democracry 8:03 12 Waiting For The Miracle 9:05 DISC TWO 1 I’m Your Man 5:51 2 Joan Of Arc 7:01 3 Closing Time 7:33 4 Take This Waltz 7:22 5 Sisters Of Mercy 6:39 6 Hallelujah 7:59 7 I Tried to Leave You 11:15 8 So Long Marianne 5:45 9 There Is A War 7:06 10 The Future 7:12 DISC THREE 1 Dance Me To The End Of Love 7:44 2 Ain’t No Cure For Love 4:58 3 Who by Fire 6:48 4 Bird On The Wire 7:40 5 I’m Your Man 5:22 6 Sisters Of Mercy/Heart With No Companion 9:37 7 First We Take Manhattan 6:07 8 Avalanche 6:57 9 Chelsea Hotel 4:10 10 Tower Of Song 6:37 11 Stranger Song 5:11 12 Everybody Knows 5:53 13 Joan Of Arc 5:45 DISC FOUR 1 Story Of Isaac 5:57 2 Hallelujah 7:00 3 Passing Through 6:50 4 Take This Waltz 7:10 5 The Partisan 5:40 6 If It Be your Will 3:47 7 Coming Back To You 4:01 8 Suzanne 4:06 9 So Long, Marianne 5:12 10 I Can’t Forget 4:08 11 A Singer Must Die 3:26 12 First We Take Manhattan (Second Performance) 6:38 13 Famous Blue Raincoat 6:34 14 I Tried To Leave 9:12 15 Wither Thou Goest 2:27 DISC FIVE 1 You Know Who I Am 3:52 2 Bird On A Wite 4:21 3 The Stranger Song 6:13 4 So Long Marianne 7:54 5 Master Song 8:03 6 There’s No Reason Why you Should 1:41 7 Sisters Of Mercy 3:53 8 Teachers 3:50 9 Dress Rehearsal Rag 5:52 10 Suzanne 3:59 11 Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye 4:10 12 Story Of Isaac 3:56 13 One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong 4:00 14 Bird On A Wire 3:43 15 You Know Who I Am 3:16 16 Hey, That’s No Way To Say Goodbye (with Julie Felix) 3:02 17 So Long Marianne 8:02

KW-13-2022: „Wir sind nicht verrückt. Wir sind menschlich. Wir wollen lieben, und jemand muss uns die Wege vergeben, die wir zur Liebe gehen, denn die Wege sind zahlreich und dunkel, und wir sind leidenschaftlich und grausam auf unserer Reise.“ – More rules for living well by Leonard Cohen : “We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.” (Leonard Cohen) – Leonard Cohen`s rules for living well – part 2 and more  –

KW-13-2022: More rules for living well by Leonard Cohen : “We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.” (Leonard Cohen) – Leonard Cohen`s rules for living well – part 2 and more  – collected by TomTaylor in FAROUTMAGAZINE on 21st of septembre 2021, but published so many times before in different interviews in the past….. this statement is from 2009, published in English Newspaper THE GUARDIAN.

 

„Wir sind nicht verrückt. Wir sind menschlich. Wir wollen lieben, und jemand muss uns die Wege vergeben, die wir zur Liebe gehen, denn die Wege sind zahlreich und dunkel, und wir sind leidenschaftlich und grausam auf unserer Reise.“

KW-13-2022: Nachgereicht: H (Marillion Singer & Frontmann Steve Hogarth) performed Leonard Cohen`s “Everybody Knows” in Hamburg am 29.1.2022, Kulturkirche Altona, Hamburg, Germany

Setlist

Danke an Daniel, ein Marillion-Fan, der bei dem Solo-Konzert des Marillion-Frontmanns vor Ort war. Das Konzert wurde vom deutschen Marillion Fan Club veranstaltet. Die sog. „h-natural“-Auftritte sind dafür bekannt, daß Sie keiner bestimmten Setlist folgen und somit eine Menge Song-Überraschungen geschehen können. Die Leonard Cohen-Cover-Version „Eveybody Knows“ gehörte zu den Überraschungen an diesem Abend , der konzerttechnisch etwa 3 Stunden dauerte.

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