As “Hallelujah” -- one of Cohen’s most popular and most frequently covered songs -- suggests, human destiny is simple: It is to sing God’s praises. In the end, I’ll stand before the Lord of Song With ...

It's the season for Handel's "Messiah," with glorious renditions of the "Hallelujah" chorus soaring from small church rafters to symphony halls to shopping mall flash mobs. Yes, it's technically an ...

To some, the video is giving conniptions. “Hallelujah,” one of the Canadian-Jewish songwriter/singer’s most popular compositions, was penned in 1984 and quickly zoomed past fan-favorite territory to ...

Editor's Note: This has been updated since it was first posted. May 17 is celebrated as the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (Year B) in the United States, except in the Archdioceses of Boston; ...

In the early 1980s, Leonard Cohen sat on the floor of a New York hotel room, wearing only his underwear and remembered “banging my head on the floor and saying, ‘I can’t finish this song.’” He had ...

Sunlight streamed through the window as the Hallelujah chorus of Handel’s Messiah filled our little kitchen nook. The children gathered around my husband as held up the word “Alleluia” scrawled out on ...