Coachella Festival, Indio, California, Friday, April 17, 2009
How fitting that Leonard Cohen’s performance of “Hallelujah,” his most famous song, would still come as a glorious shock. After all, that’s what the melody does: It seeps into your heart and lies dormant, then erupts as pure emotion. When the keys kicked up the first strains, those ascending notes led a seismic reaction - offstage, as an ecstatic audience sang every word back in hymnal, and onstage, where Cohen removed his hat and peered out into audience with reverent, brimming tears.
Photograph by Luke Holwerda
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