By Clotilde Frazier January 2, 2011
Stop and drink in a moment of joyful recollections when our world of hard-core social manipulation becomes unbearable. Ask: are the operettas' video-snippets below evidence of the past's phony fluff and let's pretend? All things considered, the answer is a firm, No!
When Composer, Sigmund Romberg and Lyricist, Dorothy Donnelly, can create soul-stirring songs to describe the joy, exuberance, and the bitter sweet, we know it is real and eternal. Moreover, and happily, we learn that romance is not the domain of women alone, Deo gratias.
All who have endured know that emotions emanating from Romberg's music is very real, and close to many who experienced it in a time and circumstance when innocence was protected by the church, the arts, and society. Although short-lived, youthful romantic attraction is nonetheless real, deep, abiding and worth its attendant pheromone driven pain. Enjoy, and reflect on what it was that we lost in Mario Lanza's passing. Gaudeamus! Rejoice!
Stop and drink in a moment of joyful recollections when our world of hard-core social manipulation becomes unbearable. Ask: are the operettas' video-snippets below evidence of the past's phony fluff and let's pretend? All things considered, the answer is a firm, No!
When Composer, Sigmund Romberg and Lyricist, Dorothy Donnelly, can create soul-stirring songs to describe the joy, exuberance, and the bitter sweet, we know it is real and eternal. Moreover, and happily, we learn that romance is not the domain of women alone, Deo gratias.
All who have endured know that emotions emanating from Romberg's music is very real, and close to many who experienced it in a time and circumstance when innocence was protected by the church, the arts, and society. Although short-lived, youthful romantic attraction is nonetheless real, deep, abiding and worth its attendant pheromone driven pain. Enjoy, and reflect on what it was that we lost in Mario Lanza's passing. Gaudeamus! Rejoice!
Editor's note: Edmond Purdom passed in 2009. His lip sync performance of Mario Lanza's voice was outstanding.
Drink Drink Drink
Lyrics
Mario Lanza lyrics - Drink, Drink, Drink lyrics
Summer Time in Heidelberg
Serenade
Deep in My Heat Dear
Beloved
I'll Walk With God
Gaudeamus Igitur
