Robert Greenberg
Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author
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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 “The Complete Gilligan’s Island” DVDs (complete with secretly filmed NC-17 outtakes of the Professor and Mary Ann playing doctor)? As…
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…
Dr. Bob Prescribes: Hummel: Piano Concertos Opp 89 & 85
December 4th, 2018
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) Hummel as a young man Hummel was born in Pressburg – what is now Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia – on November 14, 1778. He died in Weimar, in what today is central Germany, on October 17, 1837, where he held the position of Kapellmeister for eighteen years. Hummel was a…
Music History Monday: A Concerto, by George!
December 3rd, 2018
George Gershwin ca. 1925 On December 3, 1925 – 93 years ago today – George Gershwin’s Concerto in F for piano and orchestra received its world premiere at Carnegie Hall, with Gershwin at the piano and the New York Symphony Society Orchestra under the baton of Walter Damrosch. Statement: George Gershwin is among the handful… Robert Greenberg | Copyright © 2018 All Rights Reserved