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Music in the Air (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Works of Sigmund Romberg...
...Sweethearts), Franz Lehar, Oscar Straus and Sigmund Romberg (see above); in Manhattan...
Died. Sigmund Romberg, 64, who filled the world's ear with the melodies from more than 2,000 songs and scores of gushing, Viennese-style operettas; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his hotel suite in Manhattan. An immigrant from Hungary, he started out at 22 in a Manhattan pencil factory at $7 a week, advanced to a pianist's job in a Second Avenue cafe at a salary of $15 plus all the goulash he could eat. Before long he was writing tunes for his own orchestra, caught the attention of Broadway's Shuberts, who asked...
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...