Word: romberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operettas, became minor classics and were repeatedly performed by stock light-opera companies throughout the U. S. During the peak years of U. S. operetta (1910-20), four composers dominated the field: Irish-born Victor Herbert (Naughty Marietta, etc.), Bohemian-born Charles Rudolph Friml (Katinka), Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg (In Blossom Time), and Manhattan-born Jerome David Kern (Sally, Show Boat...
Died. Baron Maximilian Hugo Converse Wilhelm von Romberg. 28, polo player and aviator, grandson of the late Edmund C. Converse, founder of Bankers Trust Co. of New York; when his airplane crashed into the North Shrewsbury River near Red Bank...
...William Randolph Hearst at a Communist meeting. Nelson Eddy, back from his ill-fated venture at West Point, has also been democratized; but the results in his case are all for the good. The story is very far-fetched, and suffers from an insipid happy ending; but Sigmund Romberg's excellent music, sung as only Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy can sing, together with a good supporting cast and the rich browns and delicate blues of the sepia-platinum photography, make the picture entirely worthy of its Easter-weekend billing...
...Toscanini, have often become famous for other things than cello playing. But the greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular Bernhard Romberg (1767-1841), Russia's handsome, dashing Charles Davidov (1838-89), bearded Alsatian Hugo Becker (1767-1841), and 78-year-old Saxon Julius Klengel...
...Pomp and Circumstance," MarchElgar *"In the Spring," Overture Goldmark *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *Hungarian Dances, No. 5 and No. 6 Brahms *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini Framingham State Teachers College Glee Club (with orchestra) *"Maytime," Selection Romberg *Mosquito Dance White *Torch Dance from "Henry VIII" German *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...