Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Professor Robert Greenberg, Ph.D. ** ** 8 Lectures, 46 minutes ** ** January 31, 2018 -Introduction and Early Life ** February 7, 2018 - A Career in Music * February 14, 2018 -The First Masterworks ** February 21, 2018 - Maturity ** February 28, 2018 - Three Women– Tayana, Antonina, and Nadezhda ** March 7, 2018 - “My Great Friend” ** March 14, 2018 - “A Free Man” ** March 21, 2018 - The Last Years, or Don’t Drink the Water ** ** ** The life of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) exhibits as close a link as you will find anywhere between an artist's inner world and the outward products of that artist's creative activity. As a man, Tchaikovsky was defined by and indivisible from his music, which became an outlet for all the shifting moods of his turbulent soul. As Professor Robert Greenberg says, "If Tchaikovsky felt it, it found a way into his music."