Re: Zionist songs by Leonard Bernstein?

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

According to the liner notes on AMERICAN-JEWISH ART SONGS (now on CD; I have 
the LP), LB wrote words and music for the song "Silhouette"--which, they 
say, he wrote during a trip to Israel and is based on an Arabic tune he 
heard in the mountains of Galilee.

It's an English-language art song, w/ evocative, pastoral images in the 
lyrics of olive groves, jeeps, and Arab shepherds.

It's certainly inspired by the Land of Israel and I would think, despite the 
lack of a polemical text, qualifies as a Zionist song in a broad, but 
perfectly valid (even core) sense.

--Robert Cohen



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