Robert Greenberg
Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) was born and raised in the cold, dank, north German city of Hamburg. (As an adult, he habitually vacationed in the warmer climes of Italy; it would seem that it took him half a lifetime to warm his frozen bones!) Johannes Brahms at twenty Physically, Brahms matured very slowly. By the age…
âWhat Right Had He to Write This Thing?â Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) and Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) in 1911; Nijinsky is costumed as Petrushka A happy vernal equinox to everyone and sundry! Yes, technically the first day of spring in 2023 was yesterday, March 20. But I was taught that the first day of spring is usually…
Advertising postcard picturing Wagner (with his father-in-law Franz Liszt directly behind him) greeting Kaiser Wilhelm I at the inaugural Bayreuth Festival in 1876 The Giving of Gifts It is appropriate that today, on St. Valentineâs Day, we celebrate a piece of music given as a gift of love from a husband to his wife: Richard…
Yesterdayâs Music History Monday post celebrated the birth of the opera impresario Sir Rudolf Bing in 1902 and, using excerpts from his memoir 5000 Nights at the Opera, sketched his life and career up to 1950: the year he took over as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Bing was not the first, nor â…
My copy of The Quincunx, which I have kept for reasons unknown Some 30 years ago, I was given a novel by the English author Charles Palliser called The Quincunx. The good friend who gave me the book claimed that it was, hands down, her favorite novel of all time. Back then, when someone gave…
Ădith Piaf (1915-1963) We mark the birth on December 19, 1915 â 107 years ago today â of the French singer and actress Ădith Piaf in the Belleville district of Paris. Born Ădith Giovanna Gassion, she came to be considered Franceâs national chanteuse, one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century, a French…
Before moving forward, the title of this post - âThe Grandmother of All Drop Parties!â â demands an explanation-slash-definition. Naked woman (center) frolicking in a casket beneath the stage at Led Zeppelinâs famed drop party in the Chislehurst Caves in southeast London, October 31, 1974 A âgrandmotherâ is the mother of a parent, though…
Michael Tilson Thomas (born 1944) and Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director Seiji Ozawa (born 1935) backstage at Tanglewood in 1971; Tilson Thomas served as the BSO associate conductor from 1970 to 1972 The backstory: in 1970, the 26-year-old Tilson-Thomas conducted Rugglesâ masterwork â Sun-Treader â in concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (That performance was…
Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) was, in his lifetime, considered Beethovenâs equal as a pianist and, if not his equal as a compositional innovator, then a rather more listenable alternative. The former head music critic for The New York Times, Harold Schonberg, put it this way: Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837), circa 1814 âHe [Hummel] was a…
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