Robert Greenberg
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My Fair Lady, original Broadway cast, left-to-right: Colonel Hugh Pickering (Robert Coote, 1909-1982); Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison, 1908-1990); Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway, 1890-1982); Eliza Doolittle (Julie Andrews, born 1935) We mark the opening performance on March 15, 1956 – 65 years ago today – of the Broadway musical My Fair Lady at the…
A portrait of Mozart dating from 1782/83 by his brother-in-law, Joseph Lange. The portrait is incomplete; Lange planned to depict Mozart playing a piano. Incomplete or not, Lange’s portrait was considered by Mozart’s contemporaries to be the most accurate depiction of Mozart ever made. We mark the birth on January 27, 1756 – 264 years…
The Beatles taking a break while recording their first full album, February 11, 1963: left-to-right, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, and George Martin We mark the birth on January 3, 1926 – 96 years ago today – of the English record producer, arranger, conductor, composer, audio engineer, and musician Sir George Martin,…
Before moving forward, the title of this post - “The Grandmother of All Drop Parties!” – demands an explanation-slash-definition. Naked woman (center) frolicking in a casket beneath the stage at Led Zeppelin’s famed drop party in the Chislehurst Caves in southeast London, October 31, 1974 A “grandmother” is the mother of a parent, though…
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) in 1865 Gioachino Rossini was born on February 29, 1792, in the Italian seaport city of Pesaro, on the Adriatic Sea. He was the only child of Giuseppe Rossini (1758-1839), a professional trumpet and horn player; and Anna Rossini (1771-1827), a seamstress and later, a professional operatic soprano (hers was, indeed,…
It was sometime in the spring of 1980. I was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, living in a studio apartment in a dilapidated old brown shingle house south of campus, across from a package store. I made my dollars as a teaching assistant in the music department and by giving private…
As those who read via blog and/or listen via podcast to Music History Monday know, as often as not I’ll mention two, three, or even more date related items before getting to the “main attraction” of a particular post. However, every now and then, one of those preliminary items will take on a life of…
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 Ruggles’ masterwork – Sun-Treader – in concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (That performance was…
The Job of a Record Producer Here’s how The Recording Academy (formally the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, or NARAS) defines a record producer: “The person who has overall creative and technical control of the entire recording project, and the individual recording sessions that are part of that project. He or she is present in the…
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