Legendary singer Leonard Cohen would have turned 90 this year on 21 September. That's why the premiere will take place on the same day at the Kaunas State Philharmonic. Hallelujah, Who By Fire, Suzanne, Everybody Knows - these are just a few of the songs that will be brought to life in the unique concert by Dainotas Varnas and the Kaunas Big Band, a dedication to Cohen's World. Arrangements by Jievaras Jasinskis and visuals by Karolis Bratkauskas will help to reveal the mood of the programme. Songs will be performed, and Cohen's voice will speak about the sugar and salt of his life and ours.

Canadian poet, writer, singer and songwriter Leonard Cohen has been regarded by his fans as a renaissance personality who does not fit into the boundaries of the artistry. Art critic Bruce Eder, assessing Cohen's entire career in popular music, noted that Cohen, with his low, rich baritone voice, was one of the most enchanting and enigmatic singer-songwriters of the late 1960s, a singer who sustained an audience over four decades of music-making and became a legend.

Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) was born in Montreal, Quebec, into a middle-class Jewish family. His mother Marsha (Masha) Klonitsky was the daughter of Solomon Klonitsky-Kline, a rabbi and Talmud scholar of Lithuanian Jewish descent. As a teenager, he learned to play the guitar and formed the band "Buckskin Boys". After becoming acquainted with the work of the Spanish writer Federico García Lorca, he began to write himself.

Fans of Litvak Cohen's songs who have been interested in his biography know that he was the hero of all kinds of unbelievable stories that turned out to be true. On the other hand, Cohen, who was only 25 years old, was already considered the pride of Canada, and was even predicted to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

After Cohen's death, the Rolling Stones, the famous music group of the time, wrote: "He was a man who shaped the opinions of the opinion-makers. As a child of music, Leonard Cohen threw himself into literature, where he explored themes he cared about - religion, loneliness, sexuality, interpersonal relationships - and more broadly, he was a creator and a humanist.  2011 . In 2011, Cohen was awarded the Spanish Prince of Asturias Prize for his achievements in literature, and the jury appreciated the "lasting value" of the artist's work.

Project is organized by the Kaunas Santaka CI, partly financed by the Goodwill Foundation.