On Leonard Cohen
with Christophe Lebold featuring Michael Dubue and Rebecca Noelle
Hosted by CKCU’s Susan Johnston
In Person Streaming History Memoir Music
This is a rhapsodic and fluidly written new take on Canadian poet/crooner/troubadour and pessimistic, introspective social commentator Cohen...This big biography of Cohen will appeal to a wide variety of readers, especially the philosophically minded.
Presented with support from the Embassy of France
Join us for an evening of conversation and music honouring the legendary singer and poet, Leonard Cohen. Professor, actor and biographer Christophe Lebold joins us from France alongside live renditions of three key Cohen songs courtesy of Michael Dubue and Rebecca Noelle.
After more than two decades of research and travels, Christophe Lebold, who befriended the poet and spent time with him in Los Angeles, delivers a stimulating analysis of Cohen’s life and art. Gracefully blending biography and essay, he interrogates the mission Cohen set out for himself: to show us that darkness is just the flip side of light.
Leonard Cohen has aimed high: to be all Jewish heroes at once. Like Jacob, he struggled with angels. Like David, he sang psalms and seduced women. But he never ceased doing what he did best: going from city to city and reviving our hearts. Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall follows the singer’s cosmopolitan life from Montreal and New York to the Greek island of Hydra and examines his perpetual dialogues with himself, God, and avalanches.
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