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With equal parts gravitas and grace, Cohen teased out a startlingly inventive and singular language, Welcome to Hallelujah: depicting both an exalted spirituality and an earthly sexuality. He set the blunt and brilliant instru- The Leonard Cohen Tribute Encore. ment of his famous voice —a ‘velour foghorn’—so deep and cavernous or, more recently, his raspy chant-like whispers—to beautiful melodies and simple arrangements that belied a great musical The original show, sponsored by the First Presbytarian Church Music for Mission series, was so intelligence. His interweaving of the sacred and the profane, of mystery and accessibility, was such a enthusiastically received we thought it was only right to bring it back, this time to the Lyric Theatre. We compelling combination that it became seared into memory. —John Zeppetelli and Victor Schiffman extend our gratitude to all the musicians on the stage tonight who bring their hearts, souls, talent and countless hours of hard work to share these songs with you. As I write this, I’m thinking of my father’s unique blend of self-deprecation and dignity, his approachable elegance, his charisma without audacity, his old-world gentlemanliness and the hand-forged tower of At his 2013 concert at the Louisville Palace Theatre, Leonard Cohen said, “Thank you so much, friends, his work. There’s so much I wish I could thank him for, just one last time.” —Adam Cohen for remembering these songs.” We pass his thanks on to you tonight. Anita Courtney/Purple Carrots Productions In Leonard Cohen’s Own Words Christine Huskisson, Tom Martin, Art Shechet / UnderMain “When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.” Speaking of Leonard Cohen “This is not paradise. Once you understand that deeply, life gets easier.” What gave Leonard Cohen’s work its uncommon gravitas wasn’t that he knew the answers but that he “I didn’t think you had to be anything.” never stopped looking. He searched for clues in bedrooms and warzones, in Jewish temples and Buddhist “They said I knew three chords when I knew five.” retreats, in Europe, Africa, Israel and Cuba. And whenever he managed to painfully extract some nugget of wisdom, he would cut and polish it like a precious stone before resuming the search. Funny about “I would sing whether I had an audience or not. I like to sing.” himself but profoundly serious about his art, he liked to describe his songs as ‘investigations’ into the “I try to look my age.” hidden mechanics of love, sex, war, religion and death—the beautiful and terrifying truths of exis- “To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.” tence. A Leonard Cohen song is an anchor flung into a churning sea. It has the kind of weight that could “And as I grew older, I understood the instructions that came with this voice. The instructions save your life. —Dorian Lynskey were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty” The rest of us would be very humbled by the stuff he threw away. — Leonard Cohen made me feel less heartbroken because he was heartbroken with me. And he made me “I wish women would hurry up and take over.” see the beauty through the darkness. —Ezra Furma He’s been decried as depressing, but he’s one of the funniest writers we have. I can’t think of a lyric that “Now I bid you farewell, I don’t know when I’ll be back doesn’t have a smile hidden in the lines. There are two things going on all the time: warmth and a wicked They’re moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track wit.” –Nick Cave But you’ll be hearing from me baby, long after I’m gone I’ll be speaking to you sweetly When people talk about Leonard, they fail to mention his melodies, which to me, along with his lyrics, From a window in the Tower of Song” are his greatest genius. Even the counterpoint lines—they give a celestial character and melodic lift to every one of his songs. As far as I know, no one else comes close to this in modern music. —Bob Dylan Brought to you by Purple Carrots Productions and UnderMain, Inc.

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Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 5 4/16/18 4:20 PM Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 6 4/16/18 4:20 PM Come celebrate after the show at Le Deauville restaurant / 199 North Limestone (across from Sayre School). Cash bar and dinner. Special French Cocktail: Suze Lemon Tart Menu: Cheese plate, French Onion Soup, Endive Salad w/ Blue Cheese, Mussels and Fries, Burger and Fries, Seared Salmon w/ Sorrel Sauce and Fresh Sage, Pasta of the Day

Coming in November: The Joni Mitchell Tribute

Brought to you by First Presbyterian Church Music for Mission Series (sponsors of the first Leonard Cohen Tribute)

Hallelujah.

• Cohen spent years struggling with his song ‘Hallelujah’; he wrote perhaps as many as 80 verses before paring the song down and recording it on the 1984 album . His label, CBS Records, refused to release Various Positions, not realizing that ‘Hallelujah’ would become one of the most haunting, mutable, and oft-performed songs in American musical history. —Janet Maslin

• My tiny trouble is that before I can discard a verse, I have to write it. I have to work on it, and I have to polish it and bring to as close to finished as I can. It’s only then that I can discard it. —Leonard Cohen

• It’s become this timeless ballad that is very appropriate at all times. It can relate to difficult situations, whether it’s about war, whether it’s about peace or love or hate. It’s this unifying expression of human existence—hallelujah—it’s just life, in a sense. —Rufus Wainwright

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Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 7 4/16/18 4:20 PM Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 8 4/16/18 4:20 PM We Extend Our Deep Appreciation to the Sponsors Who Helped Make This Concert Possible

Gift of a Golden Voice $500 Bourbon Barrel Guitars Menschlichkeit Fund at Blue Grass Community Foundation Tom Martin and Sheila Kenny

My Oh My $250 Republic Bank

Amen $100 Nancy Schoenberg and Mark Swanson Carol Donnelly, KC Wellness Mary Anne Courtney Susan and Ray Hill

Special thanks to Diane Arnson Svarlien, Marlon Hurst, Cara Blake Coppola, Walter Tunis, Sheila Kenny, Kathy Martin, Miki Wright, Jason Ervin., Howard Stovall, Marjorie Guyon, Kopana Terry Le Deauville restaurant

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Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 9 4/16/18 4:20 PM Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 10 4/16/18 4:20 PM Hallelujah: Colin Fleming: Suzanne The Leonard Cohen Tribute Concert Encore The Quantum Mechanics: Democracy, Who By Fire Introduction: Tom Martin, UnderMain Jasmine Fouts, Joe Berry and Nathan Brown

One Lane Bridge: Treaty, Night Comes On The Sherry Sebastian Trio: Ain’t No Cure for Love, Tatsiana McGee and Mike Mankel Sherry Sebastian, Steve Armstrong and Adam Luckey

Daisy Helmuth: The Partisans: , So Long Marianne Chelsea Hotel No. 2 Art Mize, Diane Timmons and Claire Rose

Paper Moon: Bird on a Wire, Everybody Knows JoAnna James with Anna Hess and Richard Young: Ande Wirtzberger, Elise Melrood and Matt Meighan Ballad of a Runaway Horse, Anthem

Lauren Hill, Lorne Dechtenberg and Diane Arnson Svarlien: Nevi’im: Land of Plenty, Dance Me to the End of Love Joan of Arc Marilyn Robie, Tom Green, Margie Karp Rebecca Kiekenapp and Kim Berryman-Smith Four Leonards (and a Fifth): Amen, My Oh My Rebecca Rudd, Melissa Snow-Groves, David Hurst, Ensemble: Hallelujah: arranged by Lorene Dechtenberg Andrew Perkins, Marlon Hurst The audience is invited to join in the singing of each chorus of Hallelujah.

Doc Feldman with Art Shechet: , If It Be Your Will FOH Engineer: Seth Murphy Deck Sound: Chris Wheeler Program Design: Miki Wright Intermisssion It’s Closing Time: The audience is invited to join the musicians after the show at Le Deauville restaurant / 199 North Limestone. Cash bar and limited dinner menu.

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Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 13 4/16/18 4:20 PM Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 14 4/16/18 4:20 PM Artist Biographies Lorne Dechtenberg is Artistic Director of Bluegrass Opera, as well as Mu- sician-in-Residence at Lexington’s Temple Adath Israel. He holds degrees in music The music of One Lane Bridge, an acoustic duo featuring Tatsiana composition and conducting, and the genesis of his Honeymoon Symphony was chron- McGee and Mike Mankel, is described as “Soulful Americana with a European icled in KET’s documentary Composer at Work. In addition to his work in the Western Art folk flair.” Tatsiana is a classically trained pianist and vocalist from Belarus. Mike is a self- Music tradition, Dechtenberg has over twenty years of experience as a singer-, taught guitarist and vocalist. Together, they passionately bring over 73 years of musical performing songs by Leonard Cohen and many other artists, as well as his own original experience to the world. While the depth of Leonard Cohen’s music is a relatively recent material, throughout the United States. discovery for them, his life’s work will continue to inspire the music of One Lane Bridge. Diane Arnson Svarlien’s verse translations of the plays of Euripides are widely Daisy Helmuth is a junior at Bryan Station High School who released her self-titled read and performed. Her current translation project is Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Women at EP in 2016. She is a singer/songwriter who has been playing professionally for two years. the Thesmophoria, Frogs (Hackett Publishing, forthcoming). Diane sings alto, together Daisy was led to Leonard Cohen by encountering “Hallelujah” as covered by Jeff Buckley with Lauren Hill, in Shir Adat, Temple Adath Israel’s choir directed by Lorne Dechtenberg. (which she performs with guitar and ukelele) and “Chelsea Hotel” as covered by . Diane has been a Leonard Cohen fanatic since age twelve, when she brought home from the public library. Since 2015, Paper Moon has been entertaining the people in central Kentucky with their blend of traditional jazz and contemporary tunes played with a jazzy twist. Matt Four Leonards & A Fifth is a group of friends who sing together in the First Meighan and Elise Melrood provide the perfect accompaniment for Ande Presbyterian Church choir: Wirtzberger’s smooth, soulful voice. The trio is perfectly suited for small intimate shows, dinners, weddings and other celebratory events. Melissa Snow-Groves (drums, backing vocals) is an accomplished water sports enthusiast. Lauren Hill grew up in California doing musical theater and vocal jazz. In college, she was in the Barnard Bacchantae, a women’s a cappella group—yes, JUST LIKE Pitch David “Demón” Hurst (bass guitar, backing vocals) originally started playing Perfect. After college, she started The Barbie Syndrome in Nashville—four girls singing bass at age 10 because regular guitar was too hard, and he wanted an excuse to stand in feminist a cappella. She then spent some time living the rock and roll dream, singing back the corner and hide. He is a founding and ending member of the so-far-underground- up and playing percussion for Sha Sha Boom, an alternative rock band that toured the you’ve-never-heard-of-them punk band, the Homicidal Schizophrenics. Southeast, recorded an album, and got kicked out of a few hotels. She has been in edu- cation since 1990, teaching in a prison, a middle school and a high school before coming to Andrew Perkins (lead guitar, backing vocals) from Symsonia, Kentucky, is a music Leestown Middle this year to teach 8th grade English. She’s also the founder and director theorist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. He has worked as a session musician and of Classroom Teachers Enacting Positive Solutions. recording engineer for up-and-coming rock, R&B, and country artists. As a college educator, he has taught undergraduate music theory courses since 2009. Andrew is a Ph.D. candidate in music theory at UK, and is currently writing a dissertation on the music of Bruce Hornsby.

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Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 15 4/16/18 4:20 PM Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 16 4/16/18 4:20 PM Rebecca Rudd (lead vocals, killer tambourine) received her Bachelor’s degree Creek High School he sang in all of the choral ensembles, and was selected for All-State in Music from the University of Kentucky. Currently a member of the First Presbyterian Choir for four years. He currently studies guitar with Ross Whitaker. He is the lead guitar- Church choir, she has performed with the Kentucky Bach Choir, Thy Will Be Done Oratorio ist, singer, and songwriter for Shakeriver, and has written 30 songs. Chorus, The Rep Musical Theatre Company, UK Opera Theatre, and The Lexington Singers. She’s grateful to participate in tonight’s tribute to Leonard Cohen, whose poetry and The Quantum Mechanics: performances have provided longstanding inspiration. In early 2007, Joe Berry organized a low-key jam session at his cabin in rural Bald Knob, Franklin County. Among the attendees that night were two friends-of-friends who had Marlon Hurst, elder brother of David, and fellow punk-band member, is joining recently moved to Frankfort, Nathan Brown and Jasmine Fouts. From the them on trumpet for Amen. Toward the end of his undergraduate days in the late 1980s, outset, each was undeniably a great singer in their own right, but by the end of the night, it was Marlon abandoned his failing career as a trumpet player when he realized he’d never have apparent that the whole was much greater than the sum of its parts. With an obvious joy and the chops to play the requisite recital for graduation as a trumpet major. Lacking other an undeniable magic in the blending of their voices, the three have been playing together ever viable options, he switched to a field in which he’d never be called upon to make another since. The band’s sound is informed by its members’ diverse individual tastes—ranging from sound professionally—conducting! He has done just that since being appointed the hip-hop to ambient electronica to gypsy jazz—but is always firmly rooted in the fertile soil of Director of Music and Arts at First Presbyterian Church in Lexington in 2003. Since 2009 Americana: soul, folk, country, and rock & roll. What started that night in Bald Knob has now he has also been the Artistic Director for the Kentucky Bach Choir. His appreciation for endured the birth of children, career changes, moves away and back, near-death experiences, Leonard Cohen intersects with his own interests in contemplative spirituality as expressed and three presidencies. in both Western and Eastern traditions. Sherry Sebastian Trio: Founding member of Psych Folk outfit Good Saints, Doc Feldman released his Sherry Sebastian is a civic-minded community volunteer. She has performed critically acclaimed solo album Sundowning at the Station via This Is American Music in musically since 1995, and currently sings in the Sherry Sebastian Duo and in Twist of 2013. “For me, ‘You Want It Darker’ cuts at the very core struggle within Judaism to find Fate, a central Kentucky-based Classic Rock band. Of Leonard Cohen, she admires his rich, light and meaning in a world that can be not just indifferent to our suffering but actually weathered voice and the soulful delivery of his evocative lyrics. They are both timely and sadistic and intentionally cruel. What kind of God allows such things to happen? What timeless … “There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.” She and her family should we as human beings do about it? Do we just give up or do we try to fix it, even when live in Frankfort. no help from above ever comes?” Steve Armstrong: “I bought my first guitar from a pawn shop when I was 12 year- Arthur Shechet serves as a chazzan at Ohavay Zion Synagogue. He is honored to sold. At 16, I was playing in bands—it gets in your blood and it is hard to give up! I’m still be part of this tribute to Eliezer ben Nisan HaKohein u’Masha. doing it at 70+! I enjoy all types of music: Classic Rock is fun to play, but I enjoy listening to World Folk, Classical, and many other types of music. I’m also a sculptor, and for the last Colin Fleming first started playing the guitar at age 10. He studied classical guitar twenty-something years I have made my living as an artist. I feel that the urge to make art with Michael Fogler before branching off into his own style and songwriting. At Tates and music comes from the same place. There are common threads that run through both disciplines: composition, form, symmetry, narrative, emotion, irony, color, and on and on.

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Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 17 4/16/18 4:20 PM Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 18 4/16/18 4:20 PM I’m especially attracted to music and art that takes me someplace I’ve never been before, JoAnna James Trio: that approaches poetry, and that alludes to a shared experience with another person. This Singer-songwriter JoAnna James moved to Lexington in 2016 by way of Minneapo- is what I find appealing about Leonard Cohen’s music: he reveals to us, in his lyrics and lis, L.A. and NYC. She has released three CDs: JoAnna James, Desire and Back of My Mind. JoAn- melody, things we know to be true but haven’t been able to articulate—or maybe they na has written and collaborated with Alain Whyte (Morrissey), Dan Wilson (Adele), Josh Grange can’t be articulated.” (Sheryl Crow) and Jessy Greene (Foo Fighters) in addition to writing for a variety of television shows and side projects. Her first introduction to Leonard Cohen’s music was in high school Adam Luckey is an actor, educator and musician living in Lexington. He plays bass when she heard Jeff Buckley’s version of “Hallelujah.” Like countless others, she was instantly for the band Twist of Fate and plays bass and guitar in The Forthlins. Adam teaches acting entranced by the song and proceeded to wear out her tape cassette trying to learn it by ear. classes and works with many of the theater companies in the area. He is honored to partic- ipate in this tribute for Mr. Cohen. Anna Hess (violin) is the program director for North Limestone MusicWorks and holds degrees from the University of Kentucky in Violin Performance and Music Education. She is The Partisans: a violinist in the Volare String Quartet and teaches lessons in Lexington. Diane Timmons is currently singing with the Kentucky Bach Choir and Good Shep- herd Episcopal Choir. She also sings and plays guitar, flute, mandolin and percussion in a Richard Young (double bass) is a classically trained double bassist and studied variety of groups: The Jarflies, Crazy Quilt, The Many-Splendored Things and in duet with at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati with the renowned her husband Art Mize. She is a founding member of Spacecraft and is a regular feature in Albert Laszlo. He has played with professional orchestras across the region, performed in projects with Carla Gover and Zoe Speaks. Diane teaches piano, voice and music theory. multiple chamber music ensembles, and is one of the main organizers of the Origins Jazz Festival that launched in Lexington this year Art Mize has performed as a fiddler and vocalist since the early 80s with artists like Homer Ledford, Stoney Creek, Pale Stout and Amber, and The Kentucky Trio. He can cur- Nevi’im: rently be heard with The Jarflies, Crazy Quilt and with his wife Diane Timmons. He operates Marilyn Robie is a founding member of The Bats, has performed in UK’s Grand Mize Violin Shop, where he restores violin family instruments. Art also teaches fiddle, Night For Singing, and sings in her a cappella synagogue choir. She is also a member of guitar, and mandolin. He is a Kentucky Performing Artist and was the first recipient of the the Nick Stump Blues Band and fronts several tunes with Lee Carroll’s C the Beat. Homer Ledford Award. Kim Berryman-Smith is a gifted singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and A student of Arts and Sciences at BCTC, Claire Rose danced for 15 years at Bluegrass a member of The Bats. The mother of three beautiful daughters (and an equally lovely Youth Ballet and starred recently as Jean Tatlock in the interactive theater performance granddaughter), Kim is also a newlywed, and a fierce tennis player. of Trinity at the Loudon House. Claire currently performs in an all-accordion quartet known as The Dischordions. She also sings, writes, and plays guitar. Leonard Cohen is one Tom Green is a prolific songwriter who regularly performs at the Bluebird Café in Nash- of her inspirations. ville and at various Lexington venues. He has also competed at the O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships in Austin, for which his many proud friends bought him a one-way ticket.

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Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 19 4/16/18 4:20 PM Anita Leonard Cohen Program-Final2.indd 20 4/16/18 4:20 PM Margie Karp teaches violin and viola at the UK School of Music, is co-assistant con- certmaster of the Lexington Philharmonic, and during the summer teaches and performs at the Brevard Music Center. She and Benjamin Karp have two tall and talented sons with whom they perform as a family string quartet on occasion.

Rebecca Kiekenapp is a professional cellist who plays with the Lexington Philharmonic. She is also Principal Cellist in the Lexington Chamber Orchestra, and a member of the Endless Road Strings, a string quartet that plays classical, bluegrass, pop and , often backing up touring solo artists. Rebecca teaches cello in the Central Kentucky area as well. She has graciously offered to join Nevi’im for this reprise of the Leonard Cohen concert.

Notes on the songs Nevi’im selected: “Land of Plenty”: Eighteen years before the 2016 presidential election, Leonard Cohen addressed the role of truth (and the courage to speak it) in a political system where riches and lies can easily prevail. Co-written with the deeply gifted Sharon Robinson, Land of Plenty feels like a prayer we sincerely need to offer up.

Dance Me to the End of Love: This song was inspired by the story of a string quartet of Jew- ish musicians forced to play for fellow prisoners going to their deaths at Auschwitz. But it conveys an awe for the transforming mystery of love. It tracks the heart from passionate beginnings, through the holiness of family building, to the inevitable pain of loss. The violin’s Eastern European motif is as poignantly mournful and moving as are Leonard Cohen’s lyrics.

Aaron, the brother of Moses, was the first in the long line of priests, or Kohanim, which continues to this day. Leonard Cohen was of that line, a direct descendant of Aaron, a Kohein. Tonight he has sanctified our gathering, and with his songs, he has once again blessed us. —Tom Green

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