Robert Greenberg
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Dr. Bob Prescribes: Chick Corea and Béla Fleck
February 12th, 2019
Chick Corea My Dr. Bob Prescribes post of December 25, 2018 was dedicated to one of my very favorite jazz pianists, the late, great, Dave McKenna. During the course of that post, I offered up a short list of those jazz pianists who have most powerfully influenced my own playing. (I am a designated Steinway Artist based on my abilities as a composer and as a jazz pianist, and certainly not based on my abilities…
Music History Monday: The Right Composer at the Right Time and the Right Place
February 11th, 2019
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) in 1843 On February 11, 1843 – 176 years ago today – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata (The Lombards of the First Crusade) received its first performance at the Teatro La Scala in Milan. It was the 29-year-old Verdi’s fourth opera. His third opera, the monumentally successful Nabucco (as in…
Doctor Bob Prescribes: Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
February 5th, 2019
Bessie Hurwitz in 1916 As I know I’ve mentioned all-too-many-times, my paternal grandmother, Bessie Hurwitz Greenberg, graduated in 1916 with a degree in piano from the New York Institute of Musical Art (renamed the Juilliard School in 1926). For the next fifty-plus years, she tortured generations of piano students from her studio in Queens, New…
Music History Monday: John, Yoko, and Strom
February 4th, 2019
John Lennon in 1972 On February 4, 1972 – 47 years ago today – Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina sent a memo to John Mitchell, the Attorney General of the United States, in which he demanded that John Lennon be deported! Why would the not very nice Mr. Thurmond want to do such a… Robert Greenberg | Copyright © 2019 All Rights Reserved