Hallelujah

On Thursday night Stuey and Nora were a part of the St Mary's Christmas Concert.  This year instead of the usual Christmas play it was all students singing carols.  I really enjoyed it.  

Earlier this Fall the kids would come home singing the carols they were learning at school.  So by the time I went to the play I had a pretty good idea about the identity of a few of the songs.  They particularly like to practice 'Hallelujah' originally written by Leonard Cohen.  And I had one of those 'hair lifting at the back of the neck' moments when one morning after listening to them singing Hallelujah to each other I read that Leonard Cohen had passed away the day before.

I read his obituary (click here), and it brought new meaning to the song.  Wow! But that guy lived an interesting life.

And so on Thursday night when the kids finished the Christmas Concert with their rendition of 'Hallelujah' the hair again rose at the back of my neck.  Thank you Leonard 1934 - November 2016, and thank you St Mary's for the lovely concert.  

 Patrick

 Listen for yourself on the short 27 second Youtube clip of all the St Mary's students singing Hallelujah. Copy and paste the Youtube address below to find the video - for some reason the embed code did not work.

 https://youtu.be/K-ThSS1chsg

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