4000 voice Choir! sings L. Cohen’s “Hallelujah”.
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- Опубліковано 3 лют 2025
- Two shows, one amazing vid of 4000 strangers singing Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah” at the National Arts Centre in the nation's capital!
Earlier this year, we enjoyed two sold out shows at the NAC in Ottawa with our Hallelujah: Epic Anthems Sing-Along.
It was an absolutely incredible day that we will never forget + here's what it sounded and felt like…
Get up and sing along!
Absolutely WONDERFUL!! ❤
The older I get (now 73), the more this song means inside my heart!! Love it!! 😊
Agreed. I am 72
Agreed...it actually is a very sad song, but for me it's more of a nostalgia sadness..you know that bittersweet, sad yet grateful all at the same time.?
I thoroughly enjoyed the choir
Greetings from South Africa goosebumps overload. Its the togetherness of voices that makes me want to be part of these voices. Awesome ❤
I am ex SA living in Israel. I also got goosebumps.
Hi sis Rose, hope you are well. Deo(volent)'s younger sister here🥰
Please feel free to sing along! 💖
YES!!!💞💙💞
Beautiful
We thank Jesus
Greetings from China
God bless you my friend from auckland nz
Just so touching to hear this sung by so many people! Especially was touched to see the Muslim woman joining in! Perhaps a little touch of heaven! One can hope! Merry Christmas to All!
Muhammad did say his followers could not believe in Him is they didn't also believe in Moses and Jesus!💞 This heart moving song touches ALL hearts, no matter the background. Probably even non believers!
It is just SO deeply moving to have SO many singing this. It brings the very very deepest emotion to the heart!!!❤😊
The verses could lose the words & just hum & this music would still touch the soul & bring tears
I do, and it does, sometimes.
I love this song. "I cry for happy" ever time I hear it. God bless this group. Hallelujah.
YES, same!!💞💙💞
This is a true Canadian Music Anthem. Everyone I have ever met has sang this in the shower, car and everywhere else they could. Thank you for keeping this masterpiece alive, and showing the world how beautiful the human voices can be.
Good to know! TFS!! 😊
I first heard this only a few years ago, heard SO MANY beautiful versions ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
When I saw this was coming to Ottawa, I so wanted to participate. If ever it comes back, I will attend even if I'm alone. What a beautiful experience!
Oh, DU 💖 mein über alles GELIEBTER GOTTVATER 💖
dieser Song 🎵 macht mich immer wieder sprachlos und versetzt mich in einen Zustand von
❤ PURER ❤ GLÜCKSELIGKEIT ❤
🙏🏼 DANKESCHÖÖÖN 🙏🏼
🙏🏼💝🙏🏼
@@MrWokuh Thank you. Where in Germany are you located? I speak Sehr wenig Deutsch. Can you translate comment to English please? I lived in Mainz Germany. I miss it. I only lived there 3 yrs. Guten Tag!!
@@sherylpatterson6022
Dear Sheryl ❤
we 💑 live in Hamburg ❤⚓❤
with 🙏🏼JESUS🙏🏼 in our Hard ❤
an live fore GOD 💖
🤗 OUR GODFATHER 💖 with FREEDOM & LOVE 🕊❤🕊
fore 👍🏻💓HAPPYNESS💓👍🏻
ALL WE NEED IS LOVE
💛 🧡 ❤ 💜 💚 💙
Lovely 💕Greetings from Doris and Wolfgang 🙋🏼♀️🙋🏼♂️ 🕊💌🕊
I simply cried on listening to this rendition and the amazing 4thousand voices in harmony giving praise to our Lord and Saviour.
Mr Cohen sture up our Faith again and again. Thank You
I am singing along with you all with full emotion of peace happiness and love .. Thank M Cohen for this beautiful legacy to human kind ❤🇨🇦❤
So spiritual. Instant healing and feeling of all things good. GOD is GOOD. The ALL OF ALL!🙏🏻
Hallelujah is the Highest Praise!!! HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!🙌🙌🙌🙌
❤ ich muss wohl sagen dieses Lied Halleluja habe ich so oft schon gehört und finde es immer wieder schön
Gerade zu Weihnachten 🌲🕯️ wo die Menschen enger zusammen rücken um das Fest der Liebe zu feiern ❤ allen da draußen ein gesegnetes Fest und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr 2025 ❤
Exquisite. Up to 4000 singers now. What a contest.
Love this song! pentatonic group does a fantastic job!!
Marvellous how everyone in the world should sing together with love and praise to THE ALMIGHTY LORD JESUS and stop the killing....
Leonard Cohen was Jewish.
It’s a very Jewish song as well…
Leonard is smiling from Heaven
Wonderful beautiful rendition of Hallelujah ❤Love this❤️🫶🏼❤️💫
Hallelujah the spirit of spiritual songs feels the heart with happiness, cheerful times for the coming days waiting anxiously to celebrate the beautiful day and the coming year.
Every so often, I just love listening to this piece ….. “simply beautiful” Jag alskar ❤ the simplicity of the acoustic guitars and the magnificent voices
Absolutely beautiful ❤❤
Hallelujah Praised God 🙏 🙌
Amen and Amen 🙏 🙌
God is so good all those beautiful voices and people gathered together as one👏🏾👏🏾💐🌺Bravo Bravo
How lovely!!
Beautiful. Leonard z"l was a brilliant, tormented, gorgeous creator. Wow.
Keep up the music guys, you're incredible
Three words in an I am crying. Merry Christmas everyone,Praise the Lord God,Jesus Christ and The Holy Ghost.
This is so amazing! Praise god! ❤🙌🏼
Goosebumps!!!! Thank you sharing the beauty. The only way this could be more perfect, would be to have a guest appearance by k.d. lang.
This is, at its core, a song about songwriting and about chasing beauty. While I love Leonard Cohen's original better than any recorded cover with which I'm familiar, I do appreciate this more complex vocal arrangement.
I totally respect your appreciation of Leonard Cohen, but I can't agree. I think KD Lang sings this one best
Or Rufus Wainwright did a great rendition.
@dll9954 better yet was Rufus Wainright WITH Choir! Choir! Choir! a few years ago. I was there and it was awesome!
Jeff Buckley’s version is my personal favorite…raw and unadorned.
I believe LC's version(s) to be the best.
🎉I'm in tears,that that many sang together God is alive in America again
That may be but this was in Canada
The 2000 singers (not 4000, as claimed) were in Canada's National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
The songwriter was a Canadian. The song was popularized by Canadian singer k.d. Lang.
What's the American connection?
“When at age 50 Cohen first recorded the song, he described it as "rather joyous", and said that it came from "a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way, but with enthusiasm, with emotion." He later said "there is a religious hallelujah, but there are many other ones.”
@@LakeConstan His name is Leonard Cohen of Canada. What I find to be very interesting is it is a wonderful tribute to a “Levite’’ from the priestly tribe of Israel.❤
@Benmelech I know Leonard Cohen. There's a film clip (in the documentary "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen") of Cohen being hosted by my mother-and father-in-law at a cocktail party in the '60s, after he gave a poetry reading.
Such a beautiful song 🫶🎶
GLORIOUS VOICES...
REACHES HEART & SOUL ❤🎶 🙏
Stunning! Thank you. ❤😢
Geweldig , groet uit Nederland!😊
My favourite song. I hope I will sing this song with choir choir choir soon somewhere 🙏
Wow 🤩
Goosebumps on my goosebumps
Magnificent version of this most beautiful song. Merry Christmas. May the blessed family grant the world their Devine intervention to help save our world from Satan's clutches AMEN
So beautiful!
What a beautiful gathering, can you imagine what heaven will be like❤ God is alive and well. Thank you for gathering his people together to send us hope and a beautiful gift to Jesus! Hallelujah ❤❤❤
Beautiful ❤️🇨🇦🎄
Wow!! Just wow! Absolutely beautiful ❤
Hallelujah praise be to God happy new year. May there be peace on earth for all. God bless everyone from Dublin Ireland Hallelujah ❤ 🤲
Wow! Amazing! Wonderful! ✨️👏👏👏
Unreal 👏
Leonard Cohen's songs bring joy to my soul. I hope before I leave this world I can face my creator with open arms and also say: הנני I'm ready to go.
God willing, me too!!💞💙💞
Greetings from France! Happy holidays to everyone!
Gorgeous!!! I still love KD Lang's the most, but this is lovely 💌🥰
I smile and cry at once listening and watching these people singing their hearts out. So uplifting, it makes me proud to be human seeing these people
Wow.. well done.
I Pray GOD does something beautiful in all there lives!!!BEAUTIFUL🙏🏻👍👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
BAPPY BIRTHDAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY SAVIOR ! 👍🙏🏻❤️🌹THANK YOU FOR THESE 92yrs. WITH YOU, AMEN 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The entire world needs this, especially now. Thank you so much.
Замечательно! Пою вместе со всеми! ❤
Always amazing......
So beautiful ❤️❤️! Relaxing music 😌🎶🎶
Powerful… tears…
Beautiful ❤
Vielen herzlichen Dank!!!
Makes all the difference in the world when everyone is in one accord
So true!! ❤🙏🏼
Beautiful it makes goosebumps to my soul . Praise the Lord for all your amazing voices. God is good all the time 🙏🙏💕
Hallelujah ❤
Wow beautiful❤️❤️❤️
This was so magical to be a part of 🥰
I cry every time I hear this song... And I'm atheist... It's just a beautiful song... Thank and RIP mister Leonard Cohen
This is really awesome. During covid Vancouver singer Matthew Presidente did the World is Watching series along with musician friends around the world. His performance along with his friends is so honest and touching during a time when our world was so isolated.
Amazing ,wonderful ....
Blessings and love to all
Gorgeous
Nice song of god,praise the lord
If you read the lyrics to this song it is anything but godly. It’s about sex
I remember when Saturday Night Live did this in a live open the Saturday after the 2016 election in America. And now I am drawn to listening over and over, to perhaps help so many of us thru another four years....
Praise God. He is our Great Creator. We cannot imagine a forever life with our Father. I walk each day with Jesus. I consider Jesus Christ my best friend. His friendship is overwhelming.❤❤❤
Hallelujah is for the joyous part of a religious service, mainy for Easter Sunday and the period after it.
Love from Nigeria.
Such an great song lm going have song at my funeral
Praise God
Love this ❤❤❤❤❤❤
AMEN
6:15 oh how beautiful
Thank you
Dieses Lied passt ganz besonders zu diesem Weihnachtsfest.
Wir Christen müssen wieder zusammenrücken und zeigen, dass unser christlicher Glaube für unser Leben, unsere Kultur und unsere Vaterlandsliebe wichtig und überlebensnotwendig sind.
Halleluja !!
Leonard Cohen who wrote this was of Jewish faith.
Amen !!! ❤🙏🎉🎉
Beautiful!!
Definition of : Hallelujah
IS JEHOVAH!
JEHOVAH IS GOD THE FATHER'S NAME.
I know He loved this.
His name was removed from the KJV
over 7000 times.
You can still find few places Psalms 83:18 is one.
Jesus is God's Son.
Just beautiful
Hallelujah is Praise Jah which is God's name Jehovah (translated in English). Hebrew consonants YHWH.
Does it really matter?? The main thing is that the people live in peace with each other!! Amen!! 🙏🏼❤ Believing is the most important thing, not the religion!!
Greetings from New Zealand. Hallelujah Happy 2025. 💝💝💝💝💝💝💝
❤
I love you Billy, your sister Christy and Brian.❤
I just missed my daddy.
Thanks
I always marvel that people revere this song as some kind of holy, religious anthem. Do they listen to the lyrics??? I love this song and I most like Leonard Cohens own rendition the best. But just because it's chorus is "Hallelujah" doesn't mean this intended for religious services.
I agree, but it tells the story of King David falling in love with Bathsheba and composing a psalm.
Cohen once said that considering all the pain of life, the only thing one can do is be in constant prayer. I'm not sure exactly how he's defining prayer, but it isn't the same way a contemporary christian would.
Many consider it to be a spiritual Rorschach test. It has both religious and secular elements. Live and let live.
@@jeffmaehre7150 we’re but our fathers’ debts, seeking atonement.
4:12 Sheila McCarthy from Die Hard 2 and Little Mosque on the Prairie!
What a truly negative attitude 🙄
??? But it's her, I don't understand what's negative about that...??🤷♀️@@tillytogs
😊
Leonard Cohen was Great, this song is great but just because this song has the word hallelujah in it does not mean its a Christmas song, it is absolutely not, nor should be treated as such, it carries a much different weight in the soul
Your right. This is not a Christmas song, however there is a Christmas version of this song by Overton check it out. Beautiful song!! 😍
@shellyleabch7631 there is only one version , Cohen owns the copyright anything else is artistic theft
@ can he actually still own it now that he has passed?
@jeffhouk7040 his estate owns it
I stand corrected Hipgnosis owns the rights to Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" and all of Cohen's other songs and derivatives. Hipgnosis acquired these rights after Cohen's estate sold his publishing catalog in March 2022.
Which show was this from? Afternoon or evening?
It’s a mix of both shows. to many amazingly talented people to not use both!
Let's go really big ❤ get the world singing together . . . All things are possible
“When at age 50 Cohen first recorded the song, he described it as "rather joyous", and said that it came from "a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way, but with enthusiasm, with emotion." He later said "there is a religious hallelujah, but there are many other ones.” It isn’t a Christian song about God.
To everyone commenting here, understand that Cohen's lyrics are purely secular, and never, ever had anything to do with religious spiritualism! Please read through the many verses to Cohen's lyrics (he added many over decades) and try to understand them for what they really mean and what he was actually describing. Performing this in a religious or spiritual setting is completely inappropriate.
The song is about King David
Listen to the lyrics
Jesus Christ is King
Inappropriate? Hardly. You wanna sing. Sing. For the love of sanity.
I wondernhow all these people practice and learn their parts
Wonder where this is at???
National Arts Centre in Ottawa
It says it at the end of the performance!!
🫂
Keep Christianity alive
Awesome. Would like to hear it with more male voices. Was abit high piched. Still great though