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: Francis Poulenc: “a bit of monk and a bit of hooligan” 30.01.2023 21:24

Music History Monday: Paul Robeson: Truly Larger Than Life 23.01.2023 25:29

Music History Monday: The Blockhead – Anton Felix Schindler – and Beethoven’s Conversation Books 16.01.2023 20:00

Music History Monday: An Impresario for the Ages: Rudolf Bing 09.01.2023 21:15

Music History Monday: Getting Personal: Édith Piaf 19.12.2022 16:43

Music History Monday: The Garden State Hall of Fame 12.12.2022 17:06

Music History Monday: Myths of Mayhem and Murder! 05.12.2022 26:37

Music History Monday: Aaron Copland in New York 28.11.2022 25:38

Music History Monday: Henry Purcell and British Music Restored! 21.11.2022 23:55

Music History Monday: The Other Prodigious Mendelssohn: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel 14.11.2022 19:39

Music History Monday: Listening to the Thundah from Down Undah 07.11.2022 16:27

Music History Monday: The Grandmother of All Drop Parties 31.10.2022 14:23

Music History Monday: Carl Ruggles 24.10.2022 20:24

Music History Monday: Name the Composer/Pianist 17.10.2022 19:34

Music History Monday: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky, AKA “Vernon Duke” 10.10.2022 15:31

Music History Monday: Carl Nielsen 03.10.2022 18:54

Music History Monday: Béla Bartók’s American Exile 26.09.2022 20:33

Music History Monday: Day Gigs 19.09.2022 18:02

Music History Monday: Robert and Clara, Sittin’ in a Tree… 12.09.2022 19:46

Music History Monday: Fire 05.09.2022 18:19

Music History Monday: Bird 29.08.2022 17:49

Music History Monday: Debussy 22.08.2022 24:58

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) in 1902 We celebrate the birth on August 22, 1862 – 160 years ago today – of the French composer and pianist Claude Debussy.  Born in the Paris suburb of St. Germain-en-Laye, he died in Paris on March 25, 1918, at the age of 55.  Let’s tell it like it is: Monsieur Debussy was one of the great ones.  For all of its sensual beauty – and Debussy did ind...

Music History Monday: Woodstock: A Triumph of Locational Branding! 15.08.2022 20:25

We mark the opening of the so-called “Woodstock Festival” on August 15, 1969 – 53 years ago today - “so-called” for the following reasons. “Woodstock.” Even without considering the original festival that bears its name, “Woodstock”, as a placename has a homey, countryside-like quality to it. And a beautiful, quaint town it is, with a population – in 1970 – of 5714 people (it’s just about the same...

Music History Monday: Abbey Road, and This and That 08.08.2022 17:22

August 8 is a great day, a signal day, an epic day for both good and bad reasons in the history of popular, rock, and jazz music. We’d observe a few of today’s date-related events before moving on to our featured story. First, with heads respectfully bowed, we would note some of those who have passed away on this date. On August 8, 1940 – 82 years ago today – the jazz clarinetist and alto saxophon...

Music History Monday: The Wayward Bach, His Wayward Daughter, and the Bachs of Oklahoma 01.08.2022 20:12

We mark the death on August 1, 1784 – 238 years ago today – of the German composer and organist Wilhelm Friedemann Bach in Berlin at the age of 73. Born in the central German city of Weimar on November 22, 1710, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, who from here on we will refer to as Friedemann Bach, was the second child and first son of Johann Sebastian Bach (who from this point forward we will refer to as...