Columbus Suite / Irish Rhapsody / etc

Victor Herbert, beloved name in American music, was one of the most prodigiously multi-talented musicians in our history. He was a major orchestral conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony, and even a candidate to be music director of the New York Philharmonic), orchestral, opera and film score composer, presenter of pops concerts (The Victor Herbert Orchestra), a fabulously successful bandmaster (he led New York's 22nd Regiment Band which competed with Sousa), a leading composer of Broadway musicals (nearly fifty in all, including Babes in Toyland, Naughty Marietta and The Red Mill) and, to top it off, for a time he was America's premier solo cellist.