{"id":12729,"date":"2016-11-11T07:37:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/?p=12729"},"modified":"2016-11-11T07:37:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:37:32","slug":"murio-leonard-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/?p=12729","title":{"rendered":"Muri\u00f3 Leonard Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/es\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"google\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"es_LA\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"crsyvrs\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">El compositor, novelista, poeta y cantante canadiense ten\u00eda 82 a\u00f1os. Hace un mes hab\u00eda lanzado \u00abYou Want it Darker\u00bb, su \u00faltimo disco.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12730 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Leonard-Cohen.jpg\" alt=\"leonard-cohen\" width=\"604\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Leonard-Cohen.jpg 604w, http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Leonard-Cohen-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Leonard Cohen<\/strong>, destacado compositor, novelista, poeta y cantante canadiense, un exquisito artista pop, muri\u00f3 a los 82 a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A modo premonitorio, en su \u00faltimo disco <em><strong>\u00abYou Want it Darker\u00bb<\/strong><\/em>, publicado apenas un mes atr\u00e1s, el artista profundiz\u00f3 una tem\u00e1tica ligada a la muerte, seguramente debido a una resquebrajada salud que le impidi\u00f3 dar forma final a varias canciones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Al momento de publicar el decimocuarto \u00e1lbum de estudio de su trayectoria de medio siglo en la m\u00fasica, se hab\u00eda declarado<strong> \u00abpreparado para morir\u00bb<\/strong> y enseguida dijo: \u00abS\u00f3lo espero que no sea demasiado inc\u00f3modo\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cohen naci\u00f3 en 1934 en el seno de una familia acomodada jud\u00eda de Montreal. Acudi\u00f3 a la <strong>Roslyn Elementary School,<\/strong> y desde 1948, a<strong> Westmount High School,<\/strong> donde se involucr\u00f3 en el consejo de estudiantes y estudi\u00f3 m\u00fasica y poes\u00eda. Comenz\u00f3 a interesarse al poco tiempo en la poes\u00eda de Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, y durante su adolescencia, aprendi\u00f3 a tocar la guitarra y form\u00f3 <strong>The Buckskin Boys<\/strong>, un grupo de country-folk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Public\u00f3 novelas como <em><strong>\u00abThe favourite game\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> (1963) y<em> \u00abBeautiful Losers\u00bb<\/em> (1966), aunque la poes\u00eda fue quiz\u00e1s el g\u00e9nero que m\u00e1s lo deslumbraba.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Entre sus vol\u00famenes de poemas figuran <em><strong>\u00abThe Spice-Box of Earth\u00bb<\/strong> <\/em>(1961), <em><strong>\u00abThe Energy of Slaves\u00bb<\/strong><\/em> (1972) y <em><strong>\u00abBook of Mercy\u00bb<\/strong> <\/em>(1984). Su habilidad para las letras lo llev\u00f3 a recibir en 2011 el Premio Pr\u00edncipe de Asturias y a ser candidato al Nobel de Literatura en varias oportunidades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sin embargo, los ingresos que obten\u00eda por sus libros no le alcanzaban para vivir y as\u00ed fue como, en los a\u00f1os 60, volvi\u00f3 a los escenarios musicales con gran \u00e9xito.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cohen public\u00f3 a los 33 a\u00f1os su primer \u00e1lbum,<em><strong> \u201cSongs of Leonard Cohen\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (1967), al que lo prosiguieron <em><strong>\u201cSongs of love and hate\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>(1971),<em><strong> \u201cVarious positions\u201d<\/strong><\/em> (1984) y<em><strong> \u201cI\u2019m your man\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>(1988).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sus canciones hablan de amores perdidos, de nostalgia, de la b\u00fasqueda de Dios, de sexo, \u00e9xtasis, desencanto, religi\u00f3n y pol\u00edtica. Temas como \u00abSuzanne\u00bb, \u00abSo Long, Marianne\u00bb, \u00abFirst We Take Manhattan (Then we take Berlin)\u00bb, \u00abHallelujah\u00bb y \u00abChelsea Hotel #2\u00bb pasaron a la historia como cl\u00e1sicos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despu\u00e9s de recibir el Grammy a la carrera art\u00edstica en 2010 casi como un regalo de despedida, el int\u00e9rprete, famoso por su voz grave y \u00e1spera, lanz\u00f3 tres \u00e1lbumes (el ya citado \u00abYou Want it Darker\u00bb y, anteriormente, \u00abOld Ideas\u00bb en 2012 y \u00abPopular Problems\u00bb en 2014) y realiz\u00f3 varios exitosos tours mundiales.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/es\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"google\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"es_LA\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"crsyvrs\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/es\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"google\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"es_LA\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"crsyvrs\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>El compositor, novelista, poeta y cantante canadiense ten\u00eda 82 a\u00f1os. Hace un mes hab\u00eda lanzado \u00abYou Want it Darker\u00bb, su \u00faltimo disco. Leonard Cohen, destacado compositor, novelista, poeta y cantante canadiense, un exquisito artista pop, muri\u00f3 a los 82&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/lang\/es\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"google\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"es_LA\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"crsyvrs\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[5254],"class_list":["post-12729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literatura","category-musica","tag-leonard-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cronicasyversiones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}