SAVE THE DATE: Reddit AMA with Robert Greenberg 12/19/14
Don't miss your chance to ask'Scandalous Overtures' host & historian Robert Greenberg anything on Reddit on Friday, December 19th starting at 12 PM PT.
WATCH & WIN: Mozart #ScandalousOvertures Quiz-away!
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Mozart's Death: An Irresistible Conspiracy Theory
Are you aware that global warming is fake, the moon landing was staged, vaccinations cause autism, Paul McCartney is dead (that’s why he’s barefoot on the Abbey Road cover) and has been portrayed by a double since 1966? Oh those whacky conspiracy theories...
Prof. Greenberg Talks Wine With William Shatner
Prof. Robert Greenberg gives his musical opinion on a crisp white wine with Brown Bag Wine Tasting host William Shatner.
WATCH & WIN: Joseph Haydn & Peter Tchaikovsky #ScandalousOvertures Quiz-away!
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Peter and Bruce
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and William Bruce Jenner: really, can we imagine a more unlikely pair? Tchaikovsky was a nineteenth century Russian composer of exquisitely lyric music; Bruce Jenner is an athlete, actor, racecar driver, businessman and, since 2007, a reality TV star.
Joseph Haydn: A Head Of His Time
Why would anyone want to hack the head off of Joseph Haydn’s corpse, scoop out its eyes and brain, boil off its hair and skin, bleach the skull, and then mount it on a black velvet pillow?This strikes us as gross and more than a little weird. But happen it did.
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Their music may be well-known, but the mayhem surrounding their lives is not."Scandalous Overtures" reveals the shocking stories behind history's most cherished classical musicians, the original bad boys of music.From Mozart to Beethoven to Tchaikovsky, world-renowned composer and historian Robert Greenberg shares the incredible and outrageous tales of murder, drugs, sex and scandal, ripped from the tabloid headlines of yesterday.The world's favorite music...like you've never heard it before.
