Robert Greenberg
Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author
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Dr. Bob Prescribes Emil Gilels
October 15th, 2019
This post continues the celebration of Beethoven’s upcoming semiquincentennial (250th anniversary of his birth) by featuring what is, for me, my out-of-the-ballpark favorite performance of what is, for me, my favorite Beethoven Piano Concerto. We contemplate, for a moment, youth, innocence, and the inevitable loss of both. Lillian Patricia Clymer Greenberg, age 13, heaven help us all I am writing this post on October 14, 2019. Today is my daughter Lillian Patricia’s 13th birthday; for…
Music History Monday: Der Bingle
October 14th, 2019
Harry Lillis “Bing” (Der Bingle) Crosby (1903-1977) We mark the death on October 14, 1977 – 42 years ago today – of the American singer and actor Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby of a so-called “widow maker”: a massive, dead-before-he-hit-the-ground heart attack. We sense that he went out the way he would have chosen to go…
Dr. Bob Prescribes: Jessye Norman
October 8th, 2019
Death comes for us all, even the goddesses among us. Pardon me such a lachrymose opening line, but Jessye Norman died on September 30, 2019 at the age of 74 and how can that be. I had planned to write today about Johannes Brahms’ glorious vocal quartets (for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass voices and…
Music History Monday: The Bombs Bursting in Air: Bombing The Star-Spangled Banner
October 7th, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ZQawbo4Mo José Feliciano performing the Star-Spangled Banner on October 7, 1968 José Feliciano circa 1968 On October 7, 1968 – 51 years ago today – the Puerto Rican-born singer and songwriter José Feliciano (b. 1945) performed the Star-Spangled Banner in Detroit, before the fifth game of the World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the… Robert Greenberg | Copyright © 2019 All Rights Reserved