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[caption id="attachment_964" align="alignright" width="300"] Trio 180 rehearsing the world premiere of my work â180 Shiftâ[/caption] My music is now being digitally published by Sheet Music Plus. By September 1, 18 pieces will be âliveâ with scores and parts available for digital download. In addition, a recording of each piece can be heard free-of-charge on the…
[caption id="attachment_489" align="alignright" width="300"] Okay, she is admittedly something less than "natural", but then so were the girls I dated as a teenager. Welcome to Mr. Greenberg's neighborhood.[/caption]I am just naĂŻve enough to believe that almost all music is accessible â on some level or another - to almost all people. Obviously Iâve hedged, because…
Theater-an-der-Wien, opened 1801, circa 1815 Beethovenâs Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 is the first of his âmatureâ piano concerti. While he had sketched bits and pieces of it as far back as 1799, he didnât get to the nuts and bolts/nitty-gritty/down ânâ dirty essentials of composing the thing until early 1803,…
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975) on the cover of Time magazine, July 20, 1942 July 20th was a very important date in the life of the Soviet composer Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich. On July 20, 1942 â 78 years ago today â he appeared on the cover of Time magazine, wearing his Leningrad firefighterâs helmet and becoming,…
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) in 1907 Mahlerâs first four symphonies, composed between 1888 and 1901, are âprogram symphoniesâ: multi-movement works that tell an extra-musical, literary story. In order to help his audience follow those âstoriesâ, Mahler (1860-1911) prepared written âprogramsâ for each of his first four symphonies. For example, in reference to the titles he gave…
Anne Rice (b. 1941) Given all of its terminological pitfalls, referencing music is notoriously difficult for non-musicians. I read a lot, both fiction and non-fiction, and far more often than not music references are bungled by both authors and their editors (who allow those bungles to slip through). (It has only just now occurred…
The standard repertoire of âConcert Musicâ is music written primarily by dead Euro-males between roughly 1650 and 1900, music typically heard in the rather formal environs of a concert hall.  Yes, this music is often referred to as âclassical musicâ, which is as useless a phrase as âreal imitation margarine!â When we call something âclassicâ,…
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) circa 1930 We mark the birth on May 11, 1888 â 132 years ago today â of the Russian-born American songwriter Irving Berlin (1888-1989). Berlin wrote the words and music to over 1500 songs across a 60-plus year career. He is an American institution, whose life was, according to his obituary in…
Before getting to the Puffster, Iâd like us to recognize three other noteworthy musical events that have fallen on this date. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1726) On March 16, 1736 â 284 years ago today â the Italian composer Giovanni Pergolesi died in Pozzuoli Italy, a city that today is part of metropolitan Naples. Pergolesi passed…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ZQawbo4Mo JosĂ© Feliciano performing the Star-Spangled Banner on October 7, 1968 JosĂ© Feliciano circa 1968 On October 7, 1968 â 51 years ago today â the Puerto Rican-born singer and songwriter JosĂ© Feliciano (b. 1945) performed the Star-Spangled Banner in Detroit, before the fifth game of the World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the…
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