Robert Greenberg

Music History Monday

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Exploring Music History with Professor Robert Greenberg one Monday at a time. Every Monday Robert Greenberg explores some timely, perhaps intriguing and even, if we are lucky, salacious chunk of musical information relevant to that date, or to … whatever. If on (rare) occasion these features appear a tad irreverent, well, that’s okay: we would do well to remember that cultural icons do not create and make music but rather, people do, and people can do and say the darndest things.

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Robert Greenberg

Episodes

Music History Monday: Too Late to Matter for Georges Bizet, though Better Late Than Never for the Rest of Us 26.02.2024 21:07

Music History Monday: Frankie and Johnny, and Helen and Lee 19.02.2024 18:43

Music History Monday: Unauthorized Use 12.02.2024 24:53

Music History Monday: Getting Back to Work! 05.02.2024 19:37

Music History Monday: Idomeneo 29.01.2024 22:12

Music History Monday: Johannes Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1 22.01.2024 19:14

Music History Monday: American Pie 15.01.2024 26:24

Music History Monday: Pianist, Conductor, Composer, and a Cuckold for the Ages 08.01.2024 29:56

Music History Monday: Shostakovich Symphony No. 13 18.12.2023 22:47

Music History Monday: The “Amusa” 11.12.2023 15:49

Music History Monday: Unplayable 04.12.2023 13:49

Music History Monday: Richard Strauss, Stanley Kubrick, Friedrich Nietzsche, and “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” 27.11.2023 21:35

Music History Monday: The Great-Grandmother of All Concert Tours: Elton John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour” 20.11.2023 18:01

Music History Monday: Gioachino Rossini and the Comedic Mind 13.11.2023 19:54

Music History Monday: The March King 06.11.2023 19:26

Music History Monday: Franz Schubert: An Unfinished Symphony; An Unfinished Life 30.10.2023 24:59

Music History Monday: Al Jolson and the Painful Legacy of Blackface 23.10.2023 21:33

Music History Monday: Mathilde Made Him Do It! 16.10.2023 29:59

Music History Monday: The Parrot 09.10.2023 17:52

Music History Monday: 710 Ashbury Street, San Francisco, California 02.10.2023 17:52

Music History Monday: In a Class by Himself 25.09.2023 27:00

Music History Monday: Jimi Hendrix and the 27 Club 18.09.2023 24:26

Music History Monday: They Did Not Go Gently… 11.09.2023 20:08

Music History Monday: On the Spectrum 04.09.2023 25:59

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) in 1896, wearing the Order of Franz Joseph, in a portrait by Josef Büche We mark the birth on September 4, 1824 – 199 years ago today – of the composer and organist Josef Anton Bruckner, in the Austrian village of Ansfelden, which today is a suburb of the city of Linz.  He died in the Austrian capital of Vienna on October 11, 1896, at the age of 72. It was Gustav Ma...

Music History Monday: Lohengrin 28.08.2023 21:11