Robert Greenberg
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Dr Bob Prescribes: Gustav Holst – The Planets
December 18th, 2018
Oh my. This was going to be a straightforward review of my favorite recording of one of my favorite orchestral works, Gustav Holst’s The Planets. However, having done my research I have come face to face with an issue and an attendant moral dilemma that has caused me to question whether (or not) I should have recommended this recording and, having done so, by what justification. Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Gustav Holst Gustavus Theodore von Holst…
Music History Monday: Buried Treasure
December 17th, 2018
Manuscript of Franz Schubert’s Symphony in B Minor, “Unfinished”, movement 1, page 1 On December 17, 1865 – 153 years ago today – the two complete movements that make up Franz Schubert’s so-called “Unfinished Symphony” received their premiere in Vienna, in a performance conducted by Johann von Herbeck (1831-1877). Schubert had completed those two movements in…
Dr. Bob Prescribes: Adventures in Geekdom
December 11th, 2018
I am, uncharacteristically, presently screaming with joy; alternately dancing and weeping and generally making a scene in the thankful privacy of my home office/studio. What – pray tell – should have inspired such a broad and sustained outburst of emotion? Have I won the Lottery? Been the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Grant? Finally binge-watched…
Music History Monday: The Best of Intentions or With Friends Like These…
December 10th, 2018
Boris Godunov On December 10, 1896 (or November 28 in the old-style Russian Julian calendar) – 122 years ago today - Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s rewritten and re-orchestrated version of Modest Mussorgsky’s greatest masterwork, the opera Boris Godunov, received its premiere in St. Petersburg Russia at the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Rimsky-Korsakov’s version of… Robert Greenberg | Copyright © 2018 All Rights Reserved