Robert Greenberg, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Robert Greenberg

Robert Greenberg is music historian-in-residence with San Francisco Performances and has performed, taught and lectured extensively across North America and Europe. Dr. Greenberg has recorded a forty-eight lecture course entitled “How to Listen to and Understand Great Music” and twenty-five other courses for the Teaching Company/Great Courses Program. He is the author of How to Listen to Great Music. Dr. Greenberg received a BA in music from Princeton University and a PhD. in music composition from the University of California, Berkeley.

Is Classical Music a Dying Tradition?

By Robert Greenberg|2018-08-29T12:45:19-05:00August 29th, 2018|Categories: Culture, Music, Quotation|

If Mozart and Wagner and Puccini and Respighi are “dead art,” I would suggest we’ve forgotten how to properly live. In an age of brainless media that celebrates victims, some of us actually seem to believe that we are the victims of a Eurocentric musical repertoire iconographic of phallocentric imperialism and repression. As if there’s [...]