Knickerbocker Holiday

Knickerbocker Holiday is an operetta by American playwright Maxwell Anderson and German-born American composer Kurt Weill. It premiered in 1938 and is known for its satirical take on American politics and society, set during the Dutch colonial period in New York. The operetta features a popular song, "September Song". The name "Knickerbocker" itself is associated with a group of writers in early 19th-century New York City, who aimed to establish a national American culture, and also with the fictional narrator Diedrich Knickerbocker, created by Washington Irving for his satirical A History of New York.123