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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Philosophic Mind | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sugar Chile to the Rescue | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hit Parade | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Eveninq with Romberg (Tues. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Composer-Conductor Sigmund Romberg leads his orchestra in semi-classical music. Soloists: Soprano Genevieve Rowe and Basso Reinhold Schmidt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Evening with Romberg (Tues. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Composer Sigmund Romberg directs the orchestra in a half-hour of modern music, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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