Minor Fall, Major Lift

A few months ago during a marketing and communications meeting for the ISO, the VP of marketing was recalling the previous night’s performance in which Chris Botti played with the orchestra, and closed the night with an instrumental take on Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. It wasn’t until this discussion that I realized that Leonard Cohen wrote the song. I was only familiar with Jeff Buckley’s fragile and heart-wrenching version. Since it fit Buckley so well, I never questioned whether he wrote it....