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Music History Monday

Music History Monday


Music History Monday

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Length:
120 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

Exploring Music History with Professor Robert Greenberg one Monday at a time. Every Monday Robert Greenberg explores some timely, perhaps intriguing and even, if we are lucky, salacious chunk of musical information relevant to that date, or to … whatever. If on (rare) occasion these features appear a tad irreverent, well, that’s okay: we would do well to remember that cultural icons do not create and make music but rather, people do, and people can do and say the darndest things.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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Music History Monday: The Evolution of Western Pop Music: USA (1960-2010)

We mark the public release, on May 6, 2015 – nine years ago today – of a scientific/sta...

16 minutes
May 06, 2024

Music History Monday: The Duke

We mark the birth of The Duke on April 29, 1899 – 125 years ago today – in Washington D...

15 minutes
Apr 29, 2024

Music History Monday Replay: “The Empress” – Bessie Smith

I am writing this post from my hotel room in what is presently (but sadly, not for long...

20 minutes
Apr 15, 2024

Music History Monday: The Guy Who Wrote the “Waltz”

We mark the death on April 8, 1858 – 166 years ago today – of the Austrian composer, ed...

19 minutes
Apr 08, 2024

Music History Monday: Bob Dylan: Nobel Laureate

On April 1, 2017 – 7 years ago today – Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, 1941) wa...

26 minutes
Apr 01, 2024

Music History Monday: The Towering Inferno

We mark the birth on March 25, 1867 – 157 years ago today – of the cellist and conducto...

21 minutes
Mar 25, 2024

Music History Monday: Fake It ‘til You Make It

We mark the birth of the Russian composer Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov on March ...

24 minutes
Mar 18, 2024

Music History Monday: An Opera Profane and Controversial: Verdi’s Rigoletto

We mark the first performance on March 11, 1851 – 173 years ago today – of Giuseppe Ver...

20 minutes
Mar 11, 2024

Music History Monday: Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Some Myths Debunked

We mark the first performance of the ballet Swan Lake on March 4, 1877: 147 years ago t...

21 minutes
Mar 04, 2024

Music History Monday: Too Late to Matter for Georges Bizet, though Better Late Than Never for the Rest of Us

We mark the premiere on February 26, 1935 – 89 years ago today – of Georges Bizet’s Sym...

21 minutes
Feb 26, 2024