Word: romberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Composer Sigmund (Lover, Come Back to Me) Romberg, 62, miffed at the absence of good music on television programs, lamented: "You just see girls jumping up & down...
...Romance (adapted from Edward Sheldon's Romance; music by Sigmund Romberg; book & lyrics by Rowland Leigh; produced by the Messrs. Shubert) gives the effect, with almost none of the enjoyment, of a huge Thanksgiving dinner. It is operetta at its most oppressive. The audience would not have too bad a time if it simply (like Joan of Arc) heard voices; the Sigmund Romberg songs are conventionally melodious and the singing is quite up to snuff. But otherwise the audience has a great deal to endure...
...Jitterbug," declared veteran composer Sigmund Romberg (Student Prince,Blossom Time), "is the healthiest kind of exercise. There's no sex in it like those 'lights low' dances after the last war. But I predict its eventual demise...
Nothing like it had ever happened to a Sigmund Romberg operetta before. In Detroit, the Civic Light Opera Association decided that Romberg's My Maryland needed a bright boy to jive it up a little-and they knew just the right boy to do it. Frank ("Sugar Chile") Robinson, a young Negro (who is eight according to his father, eleven according to school records), is a piano-playing natural...
...Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor; Grieg's Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra; Schubert's Symphony No. 8 [Unfinished] in B Minor; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; Arturo Toscanini conducting Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite; a medley of Sigmund Romberg show tunes; Vladimir Horowitz playing piano pieces by Saint-Saëns, Czerny and Tchaikovsky; and an album called Two Sisters from Boston, in which the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior sings Hollywoodian "arias...