Robert Wyatt

Judy Garland: Climbing Over the Rainbow
2018-07-13 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753
Enjoy your remembrances of Judy Garland as American music specialist Robert Wyatt takes you through her extraordinary life. Film clips will be abundant, starting with The Broadway Melody of 1938 and moving through 1944 blockbuster Meet Me in St. Louis, The Harvey Girls, Cole Porter’s gem-ridden The Pirate of 1948 and the sizzling A Star is Born, the 1954 masterwork which became her last bravura film. TV specials like the 1962 The Judy Garland Show with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, the specials that featured Robert Goulet still basking from Camelot, and of course, the prized duos with daughter Liza Minnelli, will stimulate your evening.

They All Played Ragtime
2018-06-28 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Goodwin House, 4800 Fillmore Street, Alexandria, VA, United States
Join pianist and ragtime enthusiast Dr. Robert Wyatt perform many of the more popular rags including Joplin’s “The Entertainer,” “The Maple Leaf Rag,” “Solace,” “The Cascades” and “Bethena” as well as the best rags of James Scott, Lamb, Jelly Roll Morton and George Gershwin. Contemporary rags written in the 1970s by William Bolcom and William Albright will also be performed to showing the versatility of the style. Included in the evening’s fare will be historic photographs and archival recordings of ragtime greats. The audience will exit with an appreciation of the influence of classical ragtime music and a better understanding of its relationships to the blues, stride piano and jazz.

Judy Garland: Climbing Over the Rainbow
2018-06-27 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Smithsonian Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr SW, Washington, D.C., DC, United States

The Cotton Club
2018-06-11 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753
The Cotton Club, favored by the city’s elite, was dubbed “the Aristocrat of Harlem.” Its patrons included British royalty and celebrities like George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Paul Whiteman and Marlene Dietrich. Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway conducted their innovative jazz bands and great black entertainers like Ethel Waters, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Lena Horne and Josephine Baker played the room to the delight of the all-white audience.
Feel the magnetic attraction of the Cotton Club in this lecture/recital presented by Robert Wyatt. Film and sound clips will partner with colorful stories which illustrate the musical and social life of New York in the 1920s and 30s.

Judy Garland: Climbing Over the Rainbow
2018-06-08 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Residence at Otter Creek, 50 Lodge Road, Middlebury, VT, 05753
Enjoy your remembrances of Judy Garland as American music specialist Robert Wyatt takes you through her extraordinary life. Film clips will be abundant, starting with The Broadway Melody of 1938 and moving through 1944 blockbuster Meet Me in St. Louis, The Harvey Girls, Cole Porter’s gem-ridden The Pirate of 1948 and the sizzling A Star is Born, the 1954 masterwork which became her last bravura film. TV specials like the 1962 The Judy Garland Show with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, the specials that featured Robert Goulet still basking from Camelot, and of course, the prized duos with daughter Liza Minnelli, will stimulate your afternoon.

Shall We Dance?
2018-05-30 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753

Solo Piano Recital
2018-05-06 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540

The Cotton Club
2018-05-05 10:00 - 12:00, 2018-05-03 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540

The Cotton Club
2018-04-24 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | WCAI – 90.1 FM
The Cotton Club, favored by the city’s elite, was dubbed “the Aristocrat of Harlem.” Its patrons included British royalty and celebrities like George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Paul Whiteman and Marlene Dietrich. Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway conducted their innovative jazz bands and great black entertainers like Ethel Waters, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne and Josephine Baker played the room to the delight of the all-white audience.

They All Played Ragtime
2018-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753

Judy Garland: Climbing Over the Rainbow
2018-03-23 15:30 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Residence at Otter Creek, 50 Lodge Road, Middlebury, VT, 05753
Spanning forty-five years of achievement with vaudeville, films, TV specials and voluminous concert extravaganzas, Judy Garland thrilled audiences who adored her stunning intellect. Whiz kid Frances Ethel Gump was twelve years old when she changed her name to Judy Garland in 1934. Louis Mayer began her enchantment the next year by signing her at MGM, and enrolling his “little hunchback” in the Metro school with starlets Elizabeth Taylor, Lana Turner and Ava Gardner. After nine Andy Hardy films with Mickey Rooney, she expanded her gleam in 1939 when both “The Wizard of Oz” and “Babes in Arms” were released, as only three decades of stardom and struggle awaited “America’s Sweetheart.”
Enjoy your fantasies and remembrances as American music specialist Robert Wyatt takes you through Garland’s extraordinary life. Film clips will be abundant, starting with The Broadway Melody of 1938 and moving through 1944 blockbuster Meet Me in St. Louis, The Harvey Girls, Cole Porter’s gem-ridden The Pirate of 1948 and the sizzling A Star is Born, the 1954 masterwork which became her last bravura film. TV specials like the 1962 The Judy Garland Show with Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, the specials that featured Robert Goulet still basking from Camelot, and of course, the prized duos with daughter Liza Minnelli, will stimulate your evening.

Irving Berlin: The Last Troubadour
2018-03-20 13:00 (America/New_York) | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753
It was truly a “ragtime to riches” path chosen by the immigrant Russian Jew Israel Baline. A teen aged 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.”

Sweet and Low-Down at the Cotton Club
2018-02-22 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Coral Lakes, 12751 El Clair Ranch Road, Boyton Beach, FL, 33437, United States
The Great War was over, times were upbeat and a sense of prosperity, freedom and excitement was evident across the country. In New York City, the Harlem nightclubs were the happening places. From dusk to dawn their rooms were filled with boisterous patrons, the aroma of cigarette smoke and alcohol, and the sounds of a new music that tied it all together: jazz. One ballroom, the Cotton Club, on the second story of a building at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue, was the crème de la crème of Manhattan’s nightspots. It was the favorite of the elite, the “Aristocrat of Harlem,” and its patrons included celebrities like George Gershwin, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Paul Whiteman and Marlene Dietrich. Harold Arlen and Dorothy Fields wrote and produced the stage shows, Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway conducted their snappy jazz bands, and the great black entertainers like Ethel Waters, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Lena Horne and Josephine Baker played the room to the delight of the all-white audience. Live piano music from the era will be performed coupled with archival music and newsreel footage of Harlem during its glory days.

Rodgers & Hammerstein
2018-02-13 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753
In this lively and engaging afternoon, pianist, raconteur, and American music specialist Robert Wyatt celebrates the lives and works of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Through original cast recordings, film clips, interviews, correspondence, and other primary materials furnished by The Library of Congress and The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, learn about the lives of these two icons of the American musical, experience their great productions, and listen to their music which has kept the American public hopeful through wars, recessions, natural disasters, and political intrigue.

Solo Piano Recital: First Night Chatham
2017-12-31 20:00 - 22:00 UTC | St. Christopher’s Church, 625 Main Street, Chatham, MA, 02633
Robert Wyatt will be performing at St. Christopher’s Church for First Night Chatham. Robert is a Steinway Artist who has performed throughout the USA and internationally, gathering critical acclaim for sensitive and colorful solo and chamber music recitals, Mr. Wyatt is one of the nation’s foremost Gershwin scholars who is also known for chamber music recitals.

Holiday Music
2017-12-09 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540
Holiday music always warms the spirits. Sing your favorite carols, hymns or popular Christmas music.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

Gilbert and Sullivan
2017-11-02 09:00 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | WCAI – 90.1 FM

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.

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