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Sacramento, Calif., Music Circus: Sigmund Romberg's 1926 solution to French North African troubles. The Desert Song...
Desert Song, taught him the basics of writing for the musical stage. Sigmund Romberg, confining his highest praise to the words "It fits, it fits." taught him the virtues of a 16-hour work day.* Jerome Kern, who gave him the tall captain's table on which Hammerstein thereafter wrote standing up, taught him-ordered him, rather-never to use the word Cupid in a lyric. After hearing Kern's next melody for Show Boat (the music came first with Jerome Kern; words were filled in later), Hammerstein fired back lyrics that began...
Hollywood Chic. The harpsichord boom is concentrated in college towns and big cities. Los Angeles had two 20 years ago (one of them was Sigmund Romberg's), now there are more than 30. José Ferrer and Edie Adams each have one as the newest thing in Hollywood chic. Pomona's retired English Professor Harlan Smedley, 53, who plays a harpsichord as "a countermeasure to all the tensions and noisiness of the day," thinks that "you can't be a pest on a harpsichord." Most harpsichord buffs are piano players who discovered baroque music on LPs; once...
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). From Rossini to Romberg, with Rise Stevens, Heidi Krall, Brian Sullivan, Jerome Hines and the Akron Symphony Orchestra-a sentimental journey for all those who mourn the Voice's imminent silencing...
...punch based on a Spanish drink called "Blood" * Beaumont beat out his 20th Century Folk Mass last week for the benefit of his church servers, who clustered around the vicarage piano. Designed for use by a small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless Thee"). At several points...