Zambankanzonoj

Subject: Zambankanzonoj
From: Haruo
Date: 12 Dec 11 - 04:15 AM

Zambankanzonoj are songs written to be sung at Zamenhof's Birthday celebrations. (Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, 12/15/1859-1917, was the creator of the international language Esperanto, published in 1887.) The term is a telescoping of "Zamenhof-Banked-Kanzonoj" (Zamenhof-Banquet-Chansons), and originally described the songs written by Dr. D. K. Jordan to be sung to traditionally Christmassy tunes.

At Sunday's Zamenhof Luncheon in Seattle, we sang three such songs. PDFs are on my Google hymnsite:

Malamikete de las nacjes
Portu lumon, ho Ludovikego
Feliĉegan naskiĝtagon

Haruo