Robert Greenberg
Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author
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[caption id="attachment_2148" align="alignright" width="216"] Richard Wagner in 1871 at 58 years of age.[/caption]May 22 is a day so rich in music history that choosing a particular event to write about might seem to be a challenge. For example, May 22, 1790 saw the first performance of Mozart's String Quartets in D, K. 575 and B-flat,…
[caption id="attachment_2049" align="alignright" width="234"] Richard Wagner photographed in Paris in 1861[/caption]156 years ago today – on March 13, 1861 - Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Imperial de l'Opéra. The Paris production of Tannhäuser remains one of the greatest operatic flops of all time: a scheduled ten-performance run that…
[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 naïve enough to believe that almost all music is accessible – on some level or another - to almost all people. Obviously I’ve hedged, because…
[caption id="attachment_1763" align="alignright" width="231"] Shostakovich on the cover of Time Magazine, July 20, 1942, wearing his fireman’s helmet during the siege of Leningrad (St. Petersburg).[/caption]Last week’s “Music History Monday” was about the premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 on December 18, 1962 and the official Soviet silence that greeted that premiere on December 19,…
Phoenix Symphony Hall I will admit to being a baseball fan. However, to be honest, I am no longer a fan of attending baseball games. Don’t get me wrong; I used to love going to games, where I was happy to submerge myself into the Zen of things baseball: the slowing of time; the sudden…
Erik Satie (1866-1925) in 1920 We mark the birth, on May 17, 1866 – 155 years ago today – of the French composer and provocateur Erik Alfred-Leslie Satie. He was born in the ancient port town of Honfleur, situated in Normandy at the mouth of the Seine River on the English Channel, roughly 100 miles…
Pronunciation! Before we can get to the extraordinary man whose beneficence built America’s premiere concert hall and brought Tchaikovsky to New York in order to break it in, we must deal with a sticky issue of pronunciation. Andrew Carnegie’s surname is pronounced Car-NEH-gie, with an accent on the second syllable. Likewise, the Car-NEH-gie Corporation of…
A friend sent me the video below of a “child prodigy” with a request that I “comment”. Here goes. I would begin with a rhetorical question: is there anything more tiresome, more irksome than a “child prodigy”? Prodigies: they stand as a reminder of our own mediocrity, and if we could, we’d squash ‘em like…
[caption id="attachment_1553" align="alignright" width="225"] My two youngest kids – Lillian and Daniel – toasting their father’s webcam venture. (Okay, not really: they were visiting the Statue of Liberty in July with their mom and our dear friend Kimberly Gott, but darned if they don’t look like they’re raising a lemonade-flavored torch of knowledge to us…
I am well aware that today is July 4 and that, perhaps, the patriotic thing for me to do today would be to celebrate the national anthem of the United States – The Star-Spangled Banner – and, perhaps, a famous arrangement of that very anthem. Sadly, no-can-do, because it has already-been-done: just last year, in…
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