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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Music History Monday: An American in Paris 26.08.2024 20:08

We mark the London premiere on August 26, 1952 72 years ago today of the film An American in Paris. With music by George Gershwin (1898-1937), directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly,

Music History Monday: Serge Pavlovich Diaghilev 19.08.2024 18:59

We mark the death on August 19, 1929 95 years ago today of the Russian impresario, patron, art critic, and founder of the Ballets Russes Serge (or Sergei) Pavlovich Diaghilev, in Venice. Born i

Music History Monday: Giovanni Gabrieli and the Miracle That is Venice! 12.08.2024 22:29

Giovanni Gabrieli (circa 1555-1612)We mark the death on August 12, 1612 – 412 years ago today – of the composer Giovanni Gabrieli.  Born in Venice circa 1555, he grew up and spent his professional life in that glorious city, and died

Music History Monday: The First Professional Composer 05.08.2024 22:32

Easy Times! Weve been having a good time, an easy time here at Music History Monday these last few weeks. Five of our last six MHM posts have featured fairly recent musical events from the popular

Music History Monday: Cass Elliot and the Making of an Urban Legend 29.07.2024 18:10

We mark the death of Cass Elliot on July 29, 1974 50 years ago today in an apartment at No. 9 Curzon Street in Londons Mayfair District. Born on September 19, 1941, she was just 32 years old at

Music History Monday: Shake, Rattle, and Roll 22.07.2024 10:49

Only July 22, 2023 one year ago today Taylor Swift (born 1989; she has, according toForbes, a present net worth of $1.3billion) literally shook up Seattle: her concerts in that city shook the

Music History Monday: An Indispensable Person 15.07.2024 24:01

Indispensability The title of this blog An Indispensable Person might be considered controversial. Thats because any number of very smart people would argue that there is, in fact, so such thin

Music History Monday: What’s in a Name? 08.07.2024 17:41

We mark the birth on July 8, 1935 89 years ago today of the American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer, actor, and comedian Steve Lawrence, in Brooklyn, New York. He died just four months ago,

Music History Monday: The Sony Walkman: A Triumph and a Tragedy! 01.07.2024 17:57

We mark the introduction on July 1, 1979 45 years ago today of the Sony Walkman. The Walkman was the first entirely portable, high-fidelity (or at leastfairlyhigh-fidelity) audio cassette playe

Music History Monday: Boogie Fever 24.06.2024 11:58

On June 24, 1374 650 years ago today the men, women, and children of the Rhineland city of Aachen began to dash out of their houses and into the streets, where inexplicably, compulsively, and un