About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Education in Westmount, Quebec, People from Westmount, Quebec, Norma Shearer, Leonard Cohen, Don Getty, William Shatner, Dawson College, CKGM, Westmount-Saint-Louis, Richard Foltz, Selwyn House School, Westmount-Ville-Marie, Marianopolis College, May Cutler, Joseph Cassidy, Charles Drury, Arthur Deane Nesbitt, James Kewley Ward, Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School, Trevor Ferguson, Douglas Shearer, Elyse Gasco, St. George's School of Montreal, Richard Holden, The Study, The Royal Montreal Regiment, Kenneth Farmer, Peter Trent, Mary Meigs, Westmount Examiner, Athole Shearer, Westmount Square, Lawrence Garvie, J. Aird Nesbitt, Paul Cowan, Greene Avenue, Edward O. Phillips, Westmount Rugby Club, Westmount High School, Villa Sainte-Marcelline, Nicholas Hoare, Katie Malloch. Excerpt: Leonard Norman Cohen, (born 21 September 1934) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Famously reclusive, having once spent several years in a Zen Buddhist monastery, and possessing a persona frequently associated with mystique, he is extremely well regarded by critics for his literary accomplishments, for the richness of his lyrics, and for producing an output of work of high artistic quality over a five-decade career. Musically, Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1967 album, Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music. In the 1970s, his material encompassed pop, cabaret and world music. Since the 1980s, his high baritone voice has dipped into lower registers (bass baritone and bass), with accompaniment from a wide variety of instruments and female backup singers. Over 2,000 renditions of Cohen's songs have b...
