Robert Wyatt

Solo Piano Recital
2017-03-21 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Helen Porter Home, 30 Porter Drive, Middlebury, VT

The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
2017-03-23 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540
British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a global empire unrivaled in the history of musical theatre. In 1983, he was the first composer to have three musicals simultaneously on Broadway and in London’s West End, a feat he duplicated five years later. The New York production of The Phantom of the Opera, which opened in 1988, is now nearing 12,000 performances and was joined this season by a Broadway revival of another of the composer’s megahits, Cats.
Lloyd Webber’s phenomenal successes can be attributed to a particular blend of showmanship and superb craft—the genesis of which began in childhood. The son of professional musicians, he also possessed passions for architecture, history, mechanics, and staging, which fostered in him an ability to envision productions of astonishing complexity and grandeur.
His early collaborations with lyricist Tim Rice—Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita—launched his career as an innovative musical force, and long-running shows like Cats and Phantom turned him into an international phenomenon. Glenn Close stars in a revival of another of his biggest hits, Sunset Boulevard, on Broadway next season.
There have also been some disappointments and failures along the way—among them Starlight Express, By Jeeves, and the recent Stephen Ward—and the long-awaited sequel to Phantom, Love Never Dies received mixed reviews and a West End run of just a year and a half. Nonetheless, tours and revivals of Lloyd Webber’s shows continue to fill theaters around the world, and compositions such as “Memory,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” and “The Music of the Night” are among of the best-known and loved musical theatre songs.

The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
2017-03-25 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540
British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a global empire unrivaled in the history of musical theatre. In 1983, he was the first composer to have three musicals simultaneously on Broadway and in London’s West End, a feat he duplicated five years later. The New York production of The Phantom of the Opera, which opened in 1988, is now nearing 12,000 performances and was joined this season by a Broadway revival of another of the composer’s megahits, Cats.
Lloyd Webber’s phenomenal successes can be attributed to a particular blend of showmanship and superb craft—the genesis of which began in childhood. The son of professional musicians, he also possessed passions for architecture, history, mechanics, and staging, which fostered in him an ability to envision productions of astonishing complexity and grandeur.
His early collaborations with lyricist Tim Rice—Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita—launched his career as an innovative musical force, and long-running shows like Cats and Phantom turned him into an international phenomenon. Glenn Close stars in a revival of another of his biggest hits, Sunset Boulevard, on Broadway next season.
There have also been some disappointments and failures along the way—among them Starlight Express, By Jeeves, and the recent Stephen Ward—and the long-awaited sequel to Phantom, Love Never Dies received mixed reviews and a West End run of just a year and a half. Nonetheless, tours and revivals of Lloyd Webber’s shows continue to fill theaters around the world, and compositions such as “Memory,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” and “The Music of the Night” are among of the best-known and loved musical theatre songs.
Join music specialist Robert Wyatt as he raises the curtain on a lively evening that examines and celebrates Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatrical artistry, filled with clips and recordings that cover the full range of his career from his earliest to most recent works.

We've Grown Accustomed to Lerner & Loewe
2017-03-29 14:00 - 16:00 UTC | Goodwin House, 4800 Fillmore Street, Alexandria, VA, United States
In temperament, personality and background, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe were perhaps the most dissimilar of all of the great songwriting teams. Yet together they penned some of the most original and successful musicals written during the Golden Age of Broadway, hits beginning with Brigadoon in 1947 and ending with Gigi in 1973. Between those bookends fell Paint Your Wagon, the blockbuster My Fair Lady which made Julie Andrews an over-night sensation, and Camelot, pairing Ms. Andrews with a young Richard Burton. Often at odds with each other personally, their resulting music was both inspired and enduring.
Learn the origins of immortal songs like “Almost Like Being in Love,” “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “If Ever I Would Leave You,” and “They Call the Wind Mariah,” explore their film adaptations, while delving into the personal lives of the songwriting team, underscored with correspondence, testimonials and film footage.

The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
2017-03-30 18:45 - 21:00 UTC | Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, Independence Ave and 7th St SW, Washington, DC, 20560
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British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a global empire unrivaled in the history of musical theatre. In 1983, he was the first composer to have three musicals simultaneously on Broadway and in London’s West End, a feat he duplicated five years later. The New York production of The Phantom of the Opera, which opened in 1988, is now nearing 12,000 performances and was joined this season by a Broadway revival of another of the composer’s megahits, Cats.
Lloyd Webber’s phenomenal successes can be attributed to a particular blend of showmanship and superb craft—the genesis of which began in childhood. The son of professional musicians, he also possessed passions for architecture, history, mechanics, and staging, which fostered in him an ability to envision productions of astonishing complexity and grandeur.
His early collaborations with lyricist Tim Rice—Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita—launched his career as an innovative musical force, and long-running shows like Cats and Phantom turned him into an international phenomenon. Glenn Close stars in a revival of another of his biggest hits, Sunset Boulevard, on Broadway next season.
There have also been some disappointments and failures along the way—among them Starlight Express, By Jeeves, and the recent Stephen Ward—and the long-awaited sequel to Phantom, Love Never Dies received mixed reviews and a West End run of just a year and a half. Nonetheless, tours and revivals of Lloyd Webber’s shows continue to fill theaters around the world, and compositions such as “Memory,” “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” and “The Music of the Night” are among of the best-known and loved musical theatre songs.
Join music specialist Robert Wyatt as he raises the curtain on a lively evening that examines and celebrates Andrew Lloyd Webber’s theatrical artistry, filled with clips and recordings that cover the full range of his career from his earliest to most recent works.

Solo Piano Recital
2017-04-11 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)

Solo Piano Recital
2017-04-15 07:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540

Cole Porter: Sophisticate of American Song
2017-04-21 15:30 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Residence at Otter Creek, 50 Lodge Road, Middlebury, VT, 05753
His energy was unparalleled, his charisma addictive and the monikers inevitably attached to his name — dilettante, hedonist, snob — were simply tossed off with an impish smile and a shrug while the tunes continued to spin magically from his fingertips. For whatever Cole Porter was as a person, his reputation as a quintessential creative genius has never been questioned.
Walk through Porter’s life on Broadway and in Hollywood, 40 years that produced 33 stage shows and almost 20 films. Rare archival film clips and recordings of original cast members, including Ethel Merman, Fred Astaire, Patricia Morison, Gertrude Lawrence, Mary Martin, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, are featured along with Porter himself singing and playing “You’re the Top,” which he was.

NPR Broadcast: The Music of Jerome Kern
2017-05-10 09:30 - 10:30 UTC | WCAI – 90.1 FM
Jerome Kern might be best remembered for Showboat, his epoch-launching 1927 musical, or for “almost” writing the music for Porgy and Bess and Annie Get Your Gun. The irascible Dorothy Parker (“And, oh how I do like Jerome Kern’s music!”) knew him as an enlightened Jazz Age tunesmith and fourteen-year-old Richard Rodgers queued at the Standard Theatre on upper Broadway over a dozen times to be enchanted by Kern’s Very Good Eddie.
Kern’s career spanned sixty years that produced over 700 songs in more than 100 works for stage and film. Delight in some of his immortal tunes—”A Fine Romance,” “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “All the Things You Are,” “The Way You Look Tonight”. Jerome Kern was a musical giant who laid the cornerstone for American musical theatre.

The Music of Jerome Kern
2017-05-11 19:00 - 22:00, 2017-05-13 19:00 - 22:00 UTC | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540
Jerome Kern might be best remembered for Showboat, his epoch-launching 1927 musical, or for “almost” writing the music for Porgy and Bess and Annie Get Your Gun. The irascible Dorothy Parker (“And, oh how I do like Jerome Kern’s music!”) knew him as an enlightened Jazz Age tunesmith and fourteen-year-old Richard Rodgers queued at the Standard Theatre on upper Broadway over a dozen times to be enchanted by Kern’s Very Good Eddie.
You will be guided through Kern’s life in New York and California, sixty years that produced over 700 songs in more than 100 works for stage and film. Delight in some of his immortal tunes—”A Fine Romance,” “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “All the Things You Are,” “The Way You Look Tonight”—and enjoy samplings of live piano performance, personal correspondence, film clips and recordings of the masterworks which established Jerome Kern as the musical giant who laid the cornerstone for American musical theatre.

The Music of Jerome Kern
2017-05-18 18:45 - 21:00 UTC | Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, Independence Ave and 7th St SW, Washington, DC, 20560

Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Master of Marvel
2017-05-19 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | Goodwin House, 4800 Fillmore Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

Solo Piano Recital
2017-05-29 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Thirwood Place, 237 North Main Street, South Yarmouth, MA, 02664

Solo Piano Recital
2017-07-05 07:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Heatherwood, Route 6A , Yarmouth Port, MA , 02675

Irving Berlin: the Last Troubadour
2017-07-14 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York)
It was truly a “ragtime to riches” path chosen by the immigrant Russian Jew Israel Baline. A teenaged waif slumming an existence in the Bowery during the earliest years of the twentieth-century, Irving Berlin, as he was later known, began writing songs before he knew how to read music. A self-taught and rather pathetic pianist, he morphed into a genuine musical icon by the age of 23 and remained the standard bearer for all songwriters until his death at the age of 101. Perhaps Jerome Kern describes it most succinctly: “Irving Berlin has no ‘place’ in American music—Irving Berlin IS American music.”

Bluegrass Music
2017-08-03 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540
If you have an urge to stomp your feet while enjoying some of the finest music you’ve ever heard, allow Robert Wyatt to present a lecture on Bluegrass music. A historical narrative of the musical style will be included, beginning with the immigrants from the United Kingdom who brought their tunes, words and instruments to Appalachia, and moving through the decades to the thrilling musicians of the present day. But best of all, you will listen to recordings and see clips of dozens of artists who have made Bluegrass music a national treasure.

Private Piano Recital
2017-08-24 19:00 - 20:00, 2017-08-28 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540

The Ragtime Craze!
2017-09-15 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Residence at Otter Creek, 50 Lodge Road, Middlebury, VT, 05753
Although ragtime music was first heard at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, it took another seven years for the syncopated music to become the rage of the new century. Scott Joplin wrote the bulk of the most-remembered classical piano rags, but dozens of other composers vied for his recognition. From Kansas City came James Scott and Joseph Lamb who arrived in New York City from across the river in New Jersey. But then the barons of the music publishing industry on Tin Pan Alley flooded the market with cheap imitations which soured the buyers of sheet music. Ragtime music was finished by 1917, the year that Joplin died. This program includes scores of archival recordings and clips, as well as live performance by Dr. Wyatt.

Gilbert and Sullivan
2017-11-02 09:00 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | WCAI – 90.1 FM
The musical theatre of the Victorian era radiated the brilliance of librettist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan and to the works they jointly created. Between 1871 and 1896 they collaborated on fourteen comic operas of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known. Along with Gilbert’s clever and fanciful words, Sullivan added melodies which could convey both humor and pathos. Together, their brilliance of form and composition opened the doors for the pioneers of the American musical theater who emerged early in the twentieth century.

The Joy and Drama of Gilbert and Sullivan
2017-11-02 19:30 - 21:00, 2017-11-04 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540

Solo Piano Recital
2017-11-06 07:30 - 09:00 UTC | Devonshire at PGA National, 350 Devonshire Way, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, 33418
Steinway artist Robert Wyatt delights audiences with a rare blend of pianistic savvy and engaging storytelling that makes each performance a creative event. His recitals have garnered sterling reviews nationwide.

All of Robert Wyatt’s recitals are presented in a narrative performance format.
Programs take approximately 90 minutes with intermission.

The Enigmatic Life of Frank Sinatra
2017-11-13 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Goodwin House, 4800 Fillmore Street, Alexandria, VA, United States
Sinatra’s career took flight from the Rustic Cabin in Englewood Cliff, NJ, when trumpeter Harry James rescued him from the ranks of singing waiters in 1939. Yet not until Tommy Dorsey coaxed him into his band later that year did Sinatra begin to soar as the idol of the bobby-soxers. Within three years, he led the male singer polls in both Billboard and Downbeat magazine and by 1946 his discs for Columbia Records were selling 10 million copies a year.
The evening’s fare will also sample Sinatra’s forty-year movie career. Teaming with Gene Kelly in two early films, Anchors Away and On the Town, Sinatra appeared in fifty-six films including From Here to Eternity, in which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Enjoy clips from those films and others including Guys and Dolls with Marlon Brando, Pal Joey co-starring Rita Heyworth and Kim Novak, The Manchurian Candidate and two of Cole Porter’s movie scores, Can-Can and High Society, which paired Sinatra with his childhood idol, Bing Crosby.

The Enigmatic Frank Sinatra
2017-11-13 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Goodwin House, 4800 Fillmore Street, Alexandria, VA, United States
Baritone Frank Sinatra was indisputably the 20th century’s greatest singer of popular song. Though influenced by Bing Crosby’s crooning, and by learning from trombonist Tommy Dorsey’s breath control and blues singer Billie Holiday’s rhythmic swing, Frank Sinatra mainstreamed the concept of singing colloquially, treating lyrics as personal statements and handling melodies with the ease of a jazz improviser. His best work is standards —Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and the Gershwins —but Sinatra, despite his 1957 denunciation of rock & roll as degenerate, has recorded songs by the likes of Stevie Wonder, George Harrison, Jimmy Webb, and Billy Joel. Not only did his freely interpretive approach pave the way for the idiosyncrasies of rock singing, but with his character a mix of tough-guy cool and romantic vulnerability, he became the first true pop idol, a superstar who through his music established a persona audiences found compelling and true.

Gilbert and Sullivan
2017-11-14 18:45 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, Independence Ave and 7th St SW, Washington, DC, 20560

The Enigmatic Life of Frank Sinatra
2017-11-17 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York)

The Ragtime Craze!
2017-12-04 19:00 - 20:30 UTC | Florida Atlantic University, Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, Boca Raton Campus, Boca Raton, FL, United States
Although ragtime music was first heard at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, it took another seven years for the syncopated music to become the rage of the new century. Scott Joplin wrote the bulk of the most-remembered classical piano rags, but dozens of other composers vied for his recognition. From Kansas City came James Scott and Joseph Lamb who arrived in New York City from across the river in New Jersey. But then the barons of the music publishing industry on Tin Pan Alley flooded the market with cheap imitations which soured the buyers of sheet music. Ragtime music was finished by 1917, the year that Joplin died. This program includes scores of archival recordings and clips, as well as live performance by Robert Wyatt.

Gershwin, by George!
2017-12-07 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Valentia Pointe, 7410 Boyton Beach Boulevard, Boyton Beach, FL, 33437, United States
The evening includes live performances of the solo version of Rhapsody in Blue, early and unpublished music, the piano improvisations and other Gershwin hits. Rare film footage obtained from the Gershwin family is projected, along with unpublished photographs of the composer and his friends. Archival recordings of his 1932 – 33 radio programs, Music by Gershwin, are also featured.
