Robert Greenberg
Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author
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121 years ago today – on November 27, 1896 – Richard Strauss conducted the premiere performance of his sprawling orchestral tone poem Thus Spoke Zarathustra in Frankfurt. A momentary if gratuitous diversion… Over the course of the first half of my musical life I played a lot of gigs, both in bands and as a…
Édith Piaf (1915-1963) We mark the birth on December 19, 1915 – 107 years ago today – of the French singer and actress Édith Piaf in the Belleville district of Paris. Born Édith Giovanna Gassion, she came to be considered France’s national chanteuse, one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century, a French…
Pierre Monteux (1875-1964) in 1952, San Francisco We acknowledge the death - on July 1, 1964, 55 years ago today – of the French-American conductor and teacher Pierre Monteux, who passed away at his home in Hancock, Maine at the age of 89. Conductors: love them or hate them, we can’t live without them. Composers…
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…
Unplayable? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) circa 1875 Yesterday’s Music History Monday post observed how two beloved concert staples by our great and good friend Pyotr (Peter) Ilych Tchaikovsky - his Piano Concerto No. 1 (of 1874) and his Violin Concerto in D major (of 1878) – were deemed unplayable by their initial dedicatees. Those “dedicatees”…
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1593) We mark the presumed birth on February 3, 1525 – 495 years ago today – of the Rome-based Italian composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Unlike virtually every other great composer of the Renaissance, a list of which includes such formidable names as Josquin des Prez, William Byrd, Giovanni Gabrieli, Guillaume…
[caption id="attachment_1553" align="alignright" width="225"] My two youngest kids – Lillian and Daniel[/caption] The Alexander String Quartet and I are doing a benefit fundraiser for the Montclair Elementary School in Oakland on October 10. The Montclair Elementary School is a public K-5 school in the Oakland Hills. Founded in 1925, it numbers among its present students…
Mic Gillette (1951-2016) We mark the death on January 17, 2016 – six years ago today – of the American trumpet, trombone, flugelhorn, and tuba player and teacher, Mic Gillette, of a heart attack in the San Francisco Bay Area city of Concord. Born on May 7, 1951, in Oakland, Gillette was 64 years old…
Teatro alla Scala We mark the opening on August 3, 1778 – 242 years today – of the grandmother of all opera houses, the Teatro alla Scala, or simply “La Scala.” The inaugural performance was the premiere of Antonio Salieri's opera Europa Riconosciuta, or “Europe Rewarded”. Professional baseball in a time of COVID I trust…
[caption id="attachment_2369" align="alignright" width="256"] Maestro Bach wishing a fond farewell to Wilhelm Ernst, Prince of Weimar[/caption] Exactly 300 years ago today – on November 6, 1717 – the great Johann Sebastian Bach was tossed into jail and spent nearly a month cooling his heels courtesy of his boss, Prince Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar. You see,…
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