RE: Dona, dona

[music <music...>]

Teddy Schwartz told me once that Aaron Zeitlin had specifically
told her (I *think* it was he telling her, rather than second-hand;
I know she told me so, anyway) that he intended them only as
nonsense syllables, *not* to refer to G*d.

--Robert Cohen


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Dona, dona
> From: "Joe Kurland & Peggy Davis" <ganeydn (at) crocker(dot)com>
> Date: Fri, December 19, 2003 9:26 am
> To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
> 
> At 9:11 AM +0200 12/7/03, David Baron wrote:
> >Maybe scat, but there are Polish/Russian Jewish songs which Dona,
> Donai, et
> >al, refer to G-d.

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