Robert Wyatt

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

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

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

Judy Garland: Climbing Over the Rainbow
2018-06-08 15:00 - 16:30 | 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.

The Cotton Club
2018-06-11 13:00 - 14:00 | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753

Judy Garland: Climbing Over the Rainbow
2018-06-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Smithsonian Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr SW, Washington, D.C., DC, United States
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 | 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
2018-07-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753

Gershwin, By George!
2018-07-25 14:30 - 16:00 | The Residence at Summer Street, 14 Second Street, Stamford, CT, 06905
Join pianist and Gershwin authority Robert Wyatt, co-editor of Oxford University Press’ The George Gershwin Reader, in this lively program exploring George Gershwin’s life and legacy. 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.

They All Played Ragtime
2018-08-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-08-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540

Solo Piano Recital
2018-08-10 08:00 - 17:00 | Heatherwood, Route 6A , Yarmouth Port, MA , 02675

The Enigmatic Life of Frank Sinatra
2018-08-17 14:30 - 15:30 | Westview Meadows, 171 Westview Meadows Road, Montpelier, VT, 05602, 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 Cotton Club
2018-09-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Residence at Otter Creek, 50 Lodge Road, Middlebury, VT, 05753

The Cotton Club
2018-10-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Goodwin House, 4800 Fillmore Street, Alexandria, VA, United States

George Gershwin's World
2018-10-03 12:30 - 13:30 | Georgetown University, 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington D.C., 20057
The end of the First World War in 1918 signaled the beginning of a new era of economic prosperity, the relaxation of Victorian mores, and a national fascination in entertainment. Heroes were quickly identified: John Barrymore, Fanny Brice, Babe Ruth, Mary Pickford, and, in 1924, a young Jewish man born in Brooklyn, George Gershwin. During the next 17 years his fame would grow meteorically, catapulting him to international fame before his tragic death in 1937. Gershwin is one of the giants of American music, unique in that he was both a brilliant writer of popular songs (“Swanee,” “I Got Rhythm,” “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”) and of more serious music, including Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess.

Gershwin, by George!
2018-10-03 18:45 - 21:00 | Smithsonian American Art Museum, F St., NW & 8th St., NW,, Washington, DC, 20004, United States

Judy Garland: Climbing Over the Rainbow
2018-10-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2018-10-06 10:00 - 12:00 | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540

Gershwin, by George!
2018-10-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Trinity United Methodist Church, 361 Sumner Ave., Springfield, MA, 01108, United States

Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Master of Marvel
2018-11-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Twentieth Century Club, 4201 Bigelow Boulevard , Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, United States
British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a global empire unrivaled in the history of musical theater. In 1983, he was the first composer to have three musicals appear simultaneously on Broadway and in London’s West End, a feat he duplicated five years later. Mr. Webber has collected a variety of honors including knighthood, seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, an Oscar and the Kennedy Center Honors Award. His ninth musical, The Phantom of the Opera, celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance in 2012, the first production ever to do so.

Solo Piano Recital
2018-11-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Longwood at Oakmont, 500 Route 909, Verona, PA, 15147, United States

Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Master of Marvels
2018-11-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753

The Cotton Club
2018-12-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Valentia Pointe, 7410 Boyton Beach Boulevard, Boyton Beach, FL, 33437, United States

Cole Porter: Sophisticate of American Song
2018-12-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Florida Atlantic University, Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, Boca Raton Campus, Boca Raton, FL, United States
Dilettante, hedonist, elitist, snob: Cole Porter was called all of them during his glittering yet troubled life. Whatever detractors may have said about him personally, Porter’s reputation as a musical genius has never been questioned. The lecture surveys Porter’s life on Broadway and in Hollywood, covering 40 years that produced 33 stage works and the music for 23 films. Rare archival film clips and recording of original cast members, including Ethel Merman, Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, and Bing Crosby are featured, along with Porter himself singing and playing “You’re the Top”—which he was.
Through the use of a grand piano and a PowerPoint presentation, the audience will sway with the songs that people enjoy humming, masterworks like “Night and Day,” “Another Op’nin’, Another Show,” “Begin the Beguine,” “I Love Paris” and many, many more. American music specialist Robert Wyatt will walk you through Cole Porter’s dramatic and fascinating life.

Cole Porter: A Sophisticate of American Song
2018-12-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753

The Sound of Music
2019-01-29 09:00 - 10:00 | WCAI – 90.1 FM
The original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel, opened in 1959 and won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, out of nine nominations. The first London production opened at the Palace Theatre in 1961. The show has enjoyed numerous productions and revivals since then. It was adapted as a film musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, which won five Academy Awards. It is the most popular film musical ever produced. The Sound of Music was the last musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein; Oscar Hammerstein died of stomach cancer nine months after the Broadway premiere.

The Sound of Music
2019-02-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Historic Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02540

Gershwin at the Piano
2019-02-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Project Independence, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT, 05753
Rose Gershwin had a piano to her home for her eldest son, Ira, to learn to play. Instead, George ran to the instrument and began with a rag. No one knows where he learned to play but it was the love of his life. An early girlfriend, Mabel Schirmer, spoke that “George made the piano do things for him. When he sat down at the piano, he not only played what was written—he was improvising all the time. George could make the piano laugh, he could make it sad, he could make it do anything”
