My dad has tried to find out for over 2 years who the young lady in the original video is. Is there any way at all of finding this out?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks 🙂

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“It’s curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that’s why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt.”

DNW: You might start here and here.”

Thanks.

Followed your link and also went to Youtube.

Cohen: as in the author of that “Suzanne” song sung by Judy Collins, or by a fellow who I always, for some reason, assumed was Chris Christopherson.

Just knowing it wasn’t Christopherson makes it instantly more listenable.

One of the older comments indicated he was a practitioner of Zen. Or at least lived in a Zen monastery. That’s interesting.

Thanks, I’ll try and work up the nerve to watch it a little later. I’m kind of squeamish about some things and these Grandfather Waltz type presentations, or so I suspect it to be, are one of them.

I’ll look up Leonard Cohen on Wikipedia first to see who he is. If that is him with his hand outstretched, it looks like he’s been around for a while.

I don’t know why I never heard of him …

Cohen knows that his deep voice is very nicely set off by female voices of a certain type. He almost always has two female backup singers. Their identities have varied over the years (usually NOT twins). Some of them are quite well-known in their own rights, such as Jennifer Warnes.

My wife and I are just starting to plan what we want to do for our 30th wedding anniversary coming up in a few months, and then you post this…

I’ve always been a Leonard Cohen fan, but his videos have always been a little over the top. This one is pretty good though except for the parts you mentioned.

Thanks for posting this.

Yes indeed. Your write-up interested me, so I watched the video with the sound turned down because I was at work. All of the staged pieces (young dancers, the band, the singer) were dull to me. The first time I saw one of the elderly couples approach and embrace in front of their wedding photo, my breath caught in my chest and I got a lump in my throat. And it happened with every “then and now” scene. The ones where the lone woman gazed at the empty chair and the lone man gazed at the photo were almost unbearably poignant.

Astounding art trapped in an otherwise banal video.