Donna Donna
Aaron Zeitlin
Sholem Secunda
1940
Creator Bio
Aaron Zeitlin
Creator Bio
Sholem Secunda
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.
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