Creator Bio
Sholem Secunda
1894–1974
Born in the town of Aleksandria (present-day Ukraine), Sholom Secunda was a composer of classical and commercial music, best known for his numerous contributions to the American Yiddish theater. Secunda displayed a keen musical talent early in life and was sought after even as a young boy as a cantor and synagogue chorister in both his native Ukraine and, after his family immigrated in 1907, in New York. A graduate of the Institute of Musical Art, in New York, Secunda produced music and scores for some eighty melodramas, operettas, and other shows for Yiddish theaters into the early 1970s.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Donna Donna
On a wagon, bound for market
There’s a calf with a mournful eye
High above her, there’s a swallow
Winging swiftly through the sky
How the winds are laughing
They laugh with all their might
Laugh…