It begins with the violins — orderly and baroque. The choir rises. The audience rises. And before you know it, the concert hall, church, rec center or school auditorium fills with the triumphant sound ...

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is one of the most-covered songs in the world, but it took a few different people to make it that way. Do you remember the first time you heard “Hallelujah?” Was it in ...

Eating a diet of mostly raw plant-based food may be the Holy Grail of weight loss. At least that’s according to the Rev. George Malkmus and his wife, Rhonda, who developed the biblically inspired ...

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 ...

The filmmakers had rare access to notebooks from the artist. By Gary Graff After enjoying glory on the film festival circuit, the documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is ready for ...

On a footbridge leading to the Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building, about three dozen people are intoning “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord,” giving barely a pause after the short, four-line verse ...

What do Bono, Susan Boyle and Jon Bon Jovi have in common with Jeff Buckley? For better and for considerably worse, they are amongst the hundreds of musicians to have covered Hallelujah, the song ...

There are many reasons one might be annoyed at Pentatonix, the ruling a cappella group of our time. The singing quintet is hokey and saccharine in the way only a cappella groups can be. They were ...

Familiarity breeds contempt, or at least a powerful inclination to take someone or something for granted. I admit that I don’t give thanks every time clean hot and cold water flows from my taps each ...

Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah is one of the best examples of a slow-burning hit. It took years of work, multiple revisions and a slew of voices to cement it as one of the most powerful and ...