July 29 - Sigmund Romberg (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for July 29th are here: Peter Schreier (2019), Sigmund Romberg (2020), and Mikis Theodorakis (2021)

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Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, I Believe in Yesterday

Well into the 1950s, it was said that the sun never set on a Blossom Time or Student Prince company, referring to the fact that those two shows were being performed by professionals and/or amateurs somewhere in the world every night. – naxos.com

As the musical became grittier in content and the structure shifted to deeper integration of book and music, Romberg's style began to date and seem more like a throwback to a vanished era. – naxos.com

Except that’s it’s a easy rhyme

We wouldn’t mention Blossom Time;

And it’s been years, (well, decades) since

The public asked for Student Prince;

And it has been at least as long

Since Broadway saw The Desert Song.

Envoi

While faded sentiment still clings

To what the operetta brings,

And Hope, of course, eternal springs,...

The world has moved to other things.

 

 

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