Robert Greenberg
Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author
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Giuseppe Verdi circa 1870 In June of 1870, the 57-year-old Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) agreed to compose an opera for the brand-new Cairo Opera Theater. The Khedive Ismail Pasha of Egypt handled the negotiations personally; the opera was to celebrate nothing less than the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. No expense was spared, either…
[caption id="attachment_3679" align="alignright" width="201"] Rugerro Leoncavallo in 1910[/caption] On May 21, 1892 – 126 years ago today – Ruggero Leoncavallo’s two-act opera I Pagliacci (“The Clowns”) received its premiere at the Teatro dal Verme in Milan under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. It was a phenomenal hit from the first and remains an A-list opera…
Classics for Pleasure and Music for Pleasure The British record label Classics for Pleasure was introduced in 1970 as a budget, “classical music” label. The majority of its releases are reissues from the EMI/His Master’s Voice (HMV) catalog. Classics for Pleasure is a subsidiary of the London-based Music for Pleasure Limited, a holding company for…
Paul Creston circa 1943, at age 37 When I and my compositional colleagues were ignorant graduate students (yes, ignorant and arrogant: I thought I was so freakin’ smart in my mid-twenties, only to realize, as real life unfolded, how colossally naïve I really was), when we were ignorant graduate students, among the nastiest things me…
On June 10, 1865 – 154 years ago today - Richard Wagner’s magnificent music drama Tristan und Isolde received its premiere in Munich under the baton of Hans von Bülow (with whose wife, Cosima, Wagner was carrying on an affair). Ludwig and Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld as Tristan and Isolde at the first performance of…
[caption id="attachment_525" align="alignright" width="300"] A happy (if dentally challenged) little fella dancing away on the lawn at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival.[/caption]Suggestion number four for getting and keeping our kids interested in music (FYI, suggestions numbers one through three were posted, respectively, on February 21, 24, and 25): introduce them to the unparalleled joy of live music,…
Salvatore (“Sal”) Joseph Mosca (1927–2007) Let’s say it upfront: Salvatore (“Sal”) Joseph Mosca (1927–2007) is the greatest jazz musician you’ve likely never heard perform. Readers of my posts have heard of Maestro Mosca, as I’ve mentioned him repeatedly as being among my favorite, best-of-the-best jazz pianists ever. But I would hazard to guess that the…
One sort of Boogie Fever: Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989) cuttin’ the rug at New York’s Studio 54, circa 1978 On June 24, 1374 – 650 years ago today – the men, women, and children of the Rhineland city of Aachen began to dash out of their houses and into the streets, where – inexplicably, compulsively, and…
[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…
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