Re: Arlo Guthrie et al.

[Mark H. David <mhd...>]

At 11:36 AM 1/4/00 PST, Robert Cohen wrote:
>   BTW, I'm not sure if Aliza Greenblatt was a songwriter, or "just" (not to 
>demean!!!) a poet some of whose poems were set to music.  Am curious about 
>this, if anyone knows -- Robert Cohen

It's true she didn't write the music, and she was officially working as a
poet.
But I think by the later part of her writing/publishing prime years, there
was some pretty regular and automatic interaction between her and the folks
that did write the music (Vladimir Chayfets, Mikl Gelbart, et al, so I would 
say she was practically writing the poems as songs.  And some of her later 
poetry books are also music books, i.e., with musical notation, notably
"Ikh Zing" (1947).

-- Mark


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