Behind The Song: On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken by Michael Munnik
How a hidden gem of a song shaped Michael Munnik’s creative path—from Canada to Cymru Michael Munnik’s Collaboration with Leonard Cohen In an alternate timeline, Michael Munnik might never have become a journalist or university lecturer. Instead, a single song—his musical setting of Leonard Cohen’s On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken—could have changed everything. Munnik’s connection to Cohen began in childhood and deepened in his teens. He received a poetry collection as a gift, he chose Cohen’s Stranger Music—a pivotal […]
