Robert Greenberg
Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author
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In this series of 24, 45-minute lectures, Professor Robert Greenberg gives you a guided tour of the concerto from its conception as a child of Renaissance ideals, through its maturation in the Classical age, its metamorphosis in the Romantic era, and its radical transformation in the 20th century. The course closes with a look into…
Great Courses favorite Professor Robert Greenberg of San Francisco Performances returns with one of his most provocative, most compelling, and most rewarding courses ever. In Great Music of the 20th Century, Professor Greenberg unfurls a huge spectrum of new works and material that have not been covered in depth in previous courses. Ranging across the…
Mozart in 1789 by the German portrait artist Dora (Doris, Dorothea) Stock (1760-1832) We mark the completion, on August 10, 1788 â 232 years ago today â of Mozartâs Symphony in C major, catalogued by Ludwig Köchel as K. 551 and nicknamed the âJupiterâ. It was Mozartâs final symphony, a towering, innovative masterwork, the greatest…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZEtFwev630 A robotic performance of George Antheilâs Ballet MĂ©canique (sans airplane engines) staged at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in March 2006 We mark the birth on July 8, 1900 â 119 years ago today â of the composer, pianist, author, inventor and self-described âbad boy of musicâ, George Antheil (pronounced Ann-tile). …
Five years ago, my Dr. Bob Prescribes post for January 15, 2019 recommended Alan Walkerâs epic (25 years in the research and writing!), three-volume biography of Franz Liszt. In that post, I mentioned â that our Maine Coon cat Teddy (who, sadly, kicked the Kibble on December 24, 2022) â was often paid the highest…
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was not just a great composer, but a wonderful writer as well. He left behind a not-insignificant body of prose. In the 1830s he made much of his living writing reviews and essays (and continued to write reviews almost to the end of his life, even when he no longer needed the…
Let us contemplate the word âcolonel.â No, weâre not talking about a discreet unit of corn, âk-e-r-n-a-lâ; rather, weâre talking about the military rank and honorific of âcolonelâ: âc-o-l-o-n-e-l.â The word itself is of Italian origin; its root is the word colonna, which means âcolumnâ; in this case, as in a âcolumn of soldiersâ. By…
[caption id="attachment_2356" align="alignright" width="245"] Martha Graham and Aaron Copland at the premiere of Appalachian Spring at the Library of Congress on October 30, 1944.[/caption] On this day in 1944 â 73 years ago - Aaron Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring was first performed by the Martha Graham Dance Company in Washington, DC. From that moment, it…
October 23 is one of those dates on which virtually nothing of interest has (yet) happened in the world of music. On such days, I typically turn to the day before or the after for my âMusic History Mondayâ topic; and indeed, both October 22nd and 24th are rich in events about which I could…
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