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: Where is the “Sin” in “Synthesizer?: Robert Moog and “Synthetic” Sound 21.08.2023 24:28

Music History Monday: Worst. Timing. Ever 14.08.2023 23:02

Music History Monday: All Hail The King! 07.08.2023 30:04

Music History Monday: Nepo Babies 31.07.2023 22:44

Music History Monday: Ernest Bloch 24.07.2023 25:54

Music History Monday: Elaine Stritch: An Appreciation 17.07.2023 22:46

Music History Monday: When You Dance with the Devil 10.07.2023 26:13

Music History Monday: Leoš Janáček: Composer, Patriot, and Patriot Composer! 03.07.2023 17:02

Music History Monday: You’ve Got to be Kidding 26.06.2023 19:47

Music History Monday: Our Kind of Musician 19.06.2023 20:11

Music History Monday: Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea 12.06.2023 17:26

Music History Monday: Never Eat Anything That Can Bite You Back! 05.06.2023 18:11

Music History Monday: Isaac Albéniz 29.05.2023 20:21

Music History Monday: Giuseppe Verdi and the Requiem for Alessandro Manzoni 22.05.2023 20:24

Music History Monday: All the Music That’s Fit to Print 15.05.2023 19:24

Frontispiece to the Harmonice musices odhecaton A , published on May 15, 1501 On May 15, 1501 – 522 years ago today – the first polyphonic (that is, multi-part) music printed using moveable type was released to the public by the Venice-based publisher Ottaviano dei Petrucci. (The publication features a dedication dated May 15, 1501, so we assume that this corresponds with its release date.) The...

Music History Monday: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, or What Happens in Oakland Does Not Stay in Oakland 08.05.2023 26:33

Music History Monday: The Enduring Miracle 01.05.2023 19:04

Music History Monday: A Voice Like Buttah! 24.04.2023 25:18

Music History Monday: I Left My Nerve in San Francisco 17.04.2023 17:08

Music History Monday: A Mama’s Boy, and Proud of It! 10.04.2023 25:01

Music History Monday: The Death of Johannes Brahms 03.04.2023 19:23

Music History Monday: Papa’s Last Appearance 27.03.2023 12:16

Music History Monday: The First Night: Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville 20.02.2023 22:13

Music History Monday: A Man for All Symptoms: The Death of Wagner 13.02.2023 20:20

Music History Monday: Johannes Ockeghem and the Oltremontani 06.02.2023 19:29