Hallelujah
Follow-up to Berlusconi's decay and the rise of debtocracy from Around Europe 2010-12
Italian people could not restrain from celebrating despite the not-so-rosy prospects. And in the occasion they confirmed some national stereotypes: musical creativity through a performance of Händel's Hallelujah in front of the presidential palace, and not so much sportmanship towards the defeated...
It is worth watching a full Hallelujah performance:
...although it is the last words of a very different Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen's, from a different but not totally off the topic context (sex), that come to my mind:
And even though it all went wrong
I will stand before the Lord of Songs
With nothing on my tongue than Hallelujah
Guglielmo Meardi
13 Nov 2011 08:28
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