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...Capitan," March Sousa *Overture to "Euryanthe" Weber *The Music Box Liadov *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *"Hejre Kati", Hungarian Czardas Hubay *Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Seans Violin Solo: Julius Theodorowicz *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *Selection, "Maytime" Romberg *"Night and Day" Porter *Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms...
...Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, "Tannhauser" Wagner *Suite Corelli *Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj *Finale from the Fourth Symphony Tchalkovsky *A Siegfried Idy II Waguer *Minuet from the Symphony in G Minor *Bolero Ravel *"Maytime" Selection Romberg *"Roses from the South" Walifacs Sfrauss *Seventh Slavonie Dverak...
Forbidden Melody (book & lyrics by Otto Harbach; music by Sigmund Romberg; Kirkland & Grisman, producers) is a spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame...
...Wine is Opus 67 for Sigmund ("Rommy'') Romberg. Born 48 years ago at Nagy-Kanizsa, Hungary, he started out to be a bridge engineer. The success of a composition called Soldiers of Mercy, dedicated to the Hungarian Red Cross, turned him toward music. The first tune he published in the U. S. was Some Smoke, a turkey trot, in 1913. Following year he wrote his first operetta, The Blue Paradise, and the first of his 19 Winter Garden shows. Of all the scores he has written in the past generation, he likes The Student Prince, The New Moon...
...short, plump man, Romberg is at his best composing martial music to be sung by a stageful of actors, played by a pit full of musicians. He gets thundering effects while writing his music in his penthouse on Manhattan's Park Avenue by an arrangement which permits him to play a piano and an organ at the same time. More like ponderous Rudolf Friml than graceful Jerome Kern, ''Rommy" Romberg is probably the best-known second-flight popular composer in the world...