Lorca, Cohen and The Alhambra

Myth and admiration come together in one place, two people and one song

Leonard Cohen, who died in 2016, was a great admirer of Federico García Lorca. Years ago he decided to dedicate Take this waltz, a song based on Lorca’s poem Little Viennese Waltz, to him. And he could only record it in one place: looking at the Alhambra as its walls reddened in the evening sun.