Re: Dona, dona

[Lori M Simon <lorelecs...>]

Robert, you confirm what Mashe told me that Sholem Secunda told her.  I
just happened to look on the back of a piece of Metro Music published in
1937 and it has listed under "New Publications of Jewish Folk Songs and
Classics" the song # 309, "Dana, Dana, Dana" by Zeitlin and Secunda. 
Anyone know when Esterke first appeared?  I wonder when it changed from
Dana to Dona.

Lorele


On Tue,  9 Dec 2003 10:19:33 -0700 music (at) sterlingmp(dot)org writes:
> 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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