This is the moment a cellist performed a moving rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah on the streets of panic-stricken Brussels. The Belgian city is currently on ‘lockdown,’ after police confirmed there was ‘various operations’ underway due to a ‘terrorist threat’.

Excerpt, photo, and video from “Beauty amid terror: Musician performs haunting rendition of Hallelujah on the deserted streets of Brussels” by John Hutchinson (Daily Mail: 23 November 2015)

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I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted Nov 23, 2015.