Gems From Sigmund Romberg Volume 1 Shellac 78 RPM 10" Album 4-Record Set

Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. Gems From Sigmund Romberg Volume 1 Shellac 78 RPM 10" Album 4-Record Set Record Grade per VJM Standard: V+ It is nearly four decades since Sigmund Rom-berg’s music first began to enchant Americanaudiences. Up in Central Park, the fabulousBroadway production, marked his seventy-seventh musical hit show, climaxing a careerwhose expression has become the symbol of"melody magic’’. Considered by many as thetrue exponent of that grand old master, Vic-tor Herbert, Sigmund Romberg has pro-duced a world of fantasy and color, never los-ing in his approach, the freshness and thespontaneity essential to any creative process.He was born in Hungary in 1887. Educatedas an engineer, he looked forward to a careeras bridge constructor. By necessity, in 1909,the young man was forced to turn his talentselsewhere in order to "keep the wolf from thedoor”; and accordingly, there followed a pe-riod in which he worked as pianist in smallorchestras. Later, realizing that his lifeworkwas to be in this field, he began writing in-cidental music for revues. In Vienna, he re-enforced his training by study with Heu-berger. Since the year 1913, when he firstcame to this country, he has been a residentof New York.Sigmund Romberg calls his music ’’middlebrow,” cleverly defining the term as "musictoo lowbrow for a symphony conductor andtoo highbrow for a jazz conductor.” It isimportant, he maintains, that the expressionbe of a quality that will attract all people—and his recipe for this is melody. Surely hisprolific output bears testimony to this. Forthere are few composers who can boast such astaggering array of gems—gems that neverdie, but have become a part of the Americantradition.His great wealth of musical comedy beganin 1913 with Midnight Girl. The years thatfollowed produced such romantic favoritesas May time, (1917), Blossom Time, (1921),Rose of Stambul, (1922), The Student Prince,(1924), Princess Plavia, (1925), Desert Song,(1926), My Maryland, (1927), New Moon,(1928), and Melody, (1933). Blossom Timeran for eighteen months on Broadway, andhas since been presented somewhere in theUnited States every year. The Student Princehas enjoyed the same longevity; and Maytime,Desert Song, and New Moon have eachachieved the record of having been made intomotion pictures twice. Altogether, since hisarrival in this country, Sigmund Romberg haswritten more than two thousand composi-tions. It is estimated that some Romberg mu-sic is being played over a radio station some-where every minute of every day; he has beencalled "the most hummed man in the world.”A few years ago Romberg conceived theidea of organizing his own troupe consistingof an orchestra of about fifty pieces and care-fully selected soloists to tour the country. Hisplan was to bring his ’’middle brow” musicto more people—and his success of this andthe tours that followed is now musical his-tory. Incorporating in his program the worksof such composers as Gershwin, Kern, Leharand Friml, plus, of course, his own composi-tions, he not only recreated some of the mostdelectable bits of light operatic music in exist-ence, but succeeded in providing many a nos-talgic moment for the vast audiences thatflocked to hear him. "An Evening with Sig-mund Romberg,” as his concerts were called,became an event of tremendous importanceand anticipation. On one tour, for example,the scheduled plan for appearances in sixcities grew to the phenomenal number of twohundred and seventy-seven appearances in ahundred and twenty-eight cities. The Acad-emy of Music in Philadelphia, foreseeing theliteral danger of a Romberg concert, con-vinced him (and rightly so) that the only con-cert hall in Philadelphia for him was theArena!On the stage, screen and radio, Mr. Rom-berg has furthered the enjoyment of his mu-sical idiom; but his activities do not end there.From his work as composer, conductor andpianist, he still finds time to serve as presidentof the Songwriters’ Protective Association. Inaddition, he is noted for his interest and dis-covery of young stars. Indeed, his associationwith the tremendous list of names in hismounting number of shows embraces today agood percentage of all the singing stars in theentertainment world of the past thirty-fiveyears. During the war, much of his time wasdevoted to studying and trying to supply themusical needs of the men in the armed forces.The genial Mr. Romberg, whose personal-ity and music both reflect a combination ofold world and new, of Austrian and Ameri-can style, is a man whose interests are manyand varied. In his own field, he has the dis-tinction of owning one of the greatest oper-atic libraries in the world, including many ofthe unpublished works from the pens offamous composers.Through the medium of RCA Victor, themagic of Romberg melody is being heard bythousands. We are proud to present thesefavorites of a nation—gems from the superband beloved productions, Desert Song, May-time, The Student Prince and New Moon,plus the M-G-M film, The Night is Young. lp1471

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