Dana Dana Dana autograph.

[Judah Cohen <jcohen...>]

Believe it or not:  the entire (original) autograph orchestration (parts and
4-part vocals) of Dona Dona seems to exist in digital form on the Web,
though it's not particularly easy to find.

Go to: http://www.yap.cat.nyu.edu/
Click on Skip intro.
Click on Second Avenue Online.
Then, in the lefthand menu column, click on "Collections" (it's in the
"Archives" subsection).
>From there, click on "Sholem Secunda Collection" (it should be the only
option)
Click on "Esterke."
Click on "Dona Dona Dona."
Voila.

And while you're there, it seems there are dozens of digitized manuscript
music pages from Secunda's shows.  Have a ball.  What a resource!

Judah.

> From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
> Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 13:42:31 -0500
> To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> Subject: Dana dana dona dona redux
> 
> I was just perusing the liner notes to a collection of music by the NAMA
> Orchestra, an international folk group that dabbled in Yiddish folk music, as
> well as klezmer, during the mid-seventies to mid-eighties in LA. (Review,
> http://www.klezmershack.com/bands/nama/bestof/nama.bestof.html ).
> 
> Anyway, they claim, as I believe others here claimed, that the original
> nonesense rhyme in the song was "dana dana dana" not "dona dona", that the
> song was from a yiddish theatre production, "Esterke", about Casimir the Great
> of Poland (not about the Holocaust), in 1940. The author of the words was
> Aaron Zeitlin. The NAMA notes claim that Sheldon Secunda is often shown as an
> author due to his father's success with "Bei mir bistu shein"; his father is
> credited on the album with the music, however.
> 
> The album is interesting, and may be worth the price just for the liner notes,
> which appear to have been reasonably researched. (In this case, for instance,
> sources cited include the original Esterke book, Zeitlin's original working
> script, via his widow Rachel.)
> 
> ari
> 
> 
> ari
> 
> 
> Ari Davidow
> ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
> list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
> 

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