Re: Zionist songs by Leonard Bernstein?

[Victor Tunkel <V.Tunkel...>]

>I just got the November/December 2000 issue of Strings magazine in
>the mail yesterday, and there's an article on page 15 on "New Plans
>at the 92nd Street Y".  Towards the end of the article it mentions
>"... a program of Zionist songs composed by Kurt Weill, Leonard
>Bernstein, and Darius Milhaud."
>
>Is anyone on the list familiar with Leonard Bernstein's Zionist
>songs?  The closest thing I can think of is "There's a Place For Us"
>from _West_Side_Story_, a beautiful slow hora melody with lyrics
>that are not explicitly Zionist but can be so construed.
>
>-- Bill B.

I think that in the association with Milhaud and Weill it may refer to the
book in which the songs of these three (and others) feature:  "Synagogue
Music by Contemporary Composers" edited by Putterman in 1957.  For "zionist"
read "synagogue" ?
Victor Tunkel

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