Music History Monday
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An American in Paris
20 mins; August 26, 2024
Serge Pavlovich Diaghilev
18 mins; August 19, 2024
Giovanni Gabrieli and the Miracle That is Venice!
22 mins; August 12, 2024
The First Professional Composer
22 mins; August 05, 2024
Cass Elliot and the Making of an Urban Legend
18 mins; July 29, 2024
Shake, Rattle, and Roll
10 mins; July 22, 2024
An Indispensable Person
24 mins; July 15, 2024
What’s in a Name?
17 mins; July 08, 2024
The Sony Walkman: A Triumph and a Tragedy!
17 mins; July 01, 2024
Music History Monday: Boogie Fever
11 mins; June 24, 2024
Unsung Heroes
0 secs; June 17, 2024
Let Us Quaff from the Cup: Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
0 secs; June 10, 2024
Ludwig von Köchel and the Seemingly Impossible Task
0 secs; June 03, 2024
“Inappropriate”
0 secs; May 27, 2024
A Difficult Life (Clara Schumann)
20 mins; May 20, 2024
What Day is Today?
20 mins; May 13, 2024
The Evolution of Western Pop Music: USA (1960-2010)
16 mins; May 06, 2024
”The Duke” - Duke Ellington
15 mins; April 29, 2024
“The Empress” - Bessie Smith (Replay)
20 mins; April 15, 2024
The Guy Who Wrote the “Waltz” — Anton Diabelli
19 mins; April 08, 2024
Bob Dylan: Nobel Laureate
26 mins; April 01, 2024
The Towering Inferno - Arturo Toscanini
21 mins; March 25, 2024
Fake It ‘til You Make It - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
24 mins; March 18, 2024
An Opera Profane and Controversial: Verdi’s Rigoletto
20 mins; March 11, 2024
Music History Monday: Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Some Myths Debunked
21 mins; March 04, 2024
Music History Monday: Too Late to Matter for Georges Bizet, though Better Late Than Never for the Rest of Us
21 mins; February 26, 2024
Frankie and Johnny, and Helen and Lee
18 mins; February 19, 2024
Unauthorized Use
24 mins; February 12, 2024
Getting Back to Work!
19 mins; February 05, 2024
Music History Monday: Idomeneo
22 mins; January 29, 2024
Music History Monday: Johannes Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 1
19 mins; January 22, 2024
Music History Monday: American Pie
26 mins; January 15, 2024
Pianist, Conductor, Composer, and a Cuckold for the Ages
29 mins; January 08, 2024
Shostakovich Symphony No. 13
22 mins; December 18, 2023
Music History Monday: The “Amusa”
15 mins; December 11, 2023
Unplayable
13 mins; December 04, 2023
Richard Strauss, Stanley Kubrick, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra
21 mins; November 27, 2023
Music History Monday: The Great-Grandmother of All Concert Tours: Elton John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road: The Final Tour”
18 mins; November 20, 2023
Gioachino Rossini and the Comedic Mind
19 mins; November 13, 2023
The March King
19 mins; November 06, 2023
Franz Schubert: An Unfinished Symphony; An Unfinished Life
24 mins; October 30, 2023
Al Jolson and the Painful Legacy of Blackface
21 mins; October 23, 2023
Mathilde Made Him Do It!
29 mins; October 16, 2023
The Parrot
17 mins; October 09, 2023
Music History Monday: 710 Ashbury Street, San Francisco, California
17 mins; October 02, 2023
In a Class by Himself
27 mins; September 25, 2023
Jimi Hendrix and the 27 Club
24 mins; September 18, 2023
Music History Monday: They Did Not Go Gently…
20 mins; September 11, 2023
Music History Monday: On the Spectrum
25 mins; September 04, 2023
Lohengrin
21 mins; August 28, 2023
Where is the “Sin” in “Synthesizer?: Robert Moog and “Synthetic” Sound
24 mins; August 21, 2023
Worst. Timing. Ever.
23 mins; August 14, 2023
All Hail The King!
30 mins; August 07, 2023
Nepo Babies
22 mins; July 31, 2023
Ernest Bloch
25 mins; July 24, 2023
Elaine Stritch: An Appreciation
22 mins; July 17, 2023
When You Dance with the Devil
26 mins; July 10, 2023
Leoš Janáček: Composer, Patriot, and Patriot Composer!
17 mins; July 03, 2023
Music History Monday: You’ve Got to be Kidding
19 mins; June 26, 2023
Our Kind of Musician
20 mins; June 19, 2023
Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea
17 mins; June 12, 2023
Never Eat Anything That Can Bite You Back!
18 mins; June 05, 2023
Isaac Albéniz
20 mins; May 29, 2023
Giuseppe Verdi and the Requiem for Alessandro Manzoni
20 mins; May 22, 2023
All the Music That’s Fit to Print
19 mins; May 15, 2023
Music History Monday: Louis Moreau Gottschalk, or What Happens in Oakland Does Not Stay in Oakland
26 mins; May 08, 2023
The Enduring Miracle
19 mins; May 01, 2023
Music History Monday: A Voice Like Buttah!
25 mins; April 24, 2023
I Left My Nerve in San Francisco
17 mins; April 17, 2023
A Mama’s Boy, and Proud of It!
25 mins; April 10, 2023
The Death of Johannes Brahms
19 mins; April 03, 2023
Music History Monday: Papa’s Last Appearance
12 mins; March 27, 2023
The First Night: Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
22 mins; February 20, 2023
A Man for All Symptoms: The Death of Wagner
20 mins; February 13, 2023
Johannes Ockeghem and the Oltremontani
19 mins; February 06, 2023
Francis Poulenc: “a bit of monk and a bit of hooligan”
21 mins; January 30, 2023
Paul Robeson: Truly Larger Than Life
25 mins; January 23, 2023
The Blockhead - Anton Felix Schindler - and Beethoven’s Conversation Books
20 mins; January 16, 2023
An Impresario for the Ages: Rudolf Bing
21 mins; January 09, 2023
Getting Personal: Édith Piaf
16 mins; December 19, 2022
The Garden State Hall of Fame
17 mins; December 12, 2022
Myths of Mayhem and Murder!
26 mins; December 05, 2022
Aaron Copland in New York
25 mins; November 28, 2022
Henry Purcell and British Music Restored!
23 mins; November 21, 2022
The Other Prodigious Mendelssohn: Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
19 mins; November 14, 2022
Listening to the Thundah from Down Undah
16 mins; November 07, 2022
The Grandmother of All Drop Parties!
14 mins; October 31, 2022
Carl Ruggles
20 mins; October 24, 2022
Name the Composer/Pianist: in his lifetime considered one of the greats and in ours almost entirely forgotten?
19 mins; October 17, 2022
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky, AKA “Vernon Duke”
15 mins; October 10, 2022
Carl Nielsen
18 mins; October 03, 2022
Béla Bartók’s American Exile
20 mins; September 26, 2022
Day Gigs
18 mins; September 19, 2022
Music History Monday: Robert and Clara, Sittin’ in a Tree…
19 mins; September 12, 2022
Fire
18 mins; September 05, 2022
Music History Monday: Bird
17 mins; August 29, 2022
Debussy
24 mins; August 22, 2022
Woodstock: A Triumph of Locational Branding!
20 mins; August 15, 2022
Abbey Road, and This and That
17 mins; August 08, 2022
The Wayward Bach, His Wayward Daughter, and the Bachs of Oklahoma
20 mins; August 01, 2022