Through the Years
Articles by Don Robertson
We are in the process of bringing online all of the articles written by Don Robertson over a sixty-year period. As the articles are edited and transferred here, the titles below will turn from black to red, providing a link to the article.
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Articles About Music
Read Psychedelic Daze – San Francisco Music and Culture 1965-1969
An Article Series by Don Robertson on the San Francisco Historical Society Website
“What Happened to Good Music?” (1962 unpublished)
“Musical Numerology” (1970 – DoveSong.com)
“The Historic Cycle of Music and Art” (2016 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com. Revised in 2022)
“The Lost Art of Listening to Music” (Sonflower Magazine, May 1980)
“Music” (1983)
“About Positive Music” (1997 – DoveSong.com)
“A Brief Statement about Twentieth-Century Classical Music” (1997)
“What Happened to the Popular Music of the 1950s” (1998)
“Arnold Schönberg – The Father of Negative Music” (1999 – DoveSong.com)
“The Music of Holy Week” (2000 – DoveSong.com)
“Classical Music in the 21st Century” (2000- DoveSong.com)
“Music – The State of the Art” (2001 – DoveSong.com)
“Dawn – The Making of an Album” (2001 – DonRobertsonMusic.com)
“Popular Music” (2003 – DoveSong.com)
“If Plants Could Sing – Serenading the Marigolds” (2005 – Dovesong.com, 2016 Musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“Atonality and Noise” (2005 – DoveSong.com, revised in 2016 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“The Ostracism of the Tonal Composers” (2005 – DoveSong.com, revised in 2016 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“The Hero from Across the Sea” (2005 – DoveSong.com, Revised 2023)
“Minimalism and the Return to Tonality” (2005 – DoveSong.com, revised in 2016 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“The Genesis of New Age Music” (2005 – DoveSong.com, revised in 2016 & 2024 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“Vincent d’Indy’s Tableaux de voyage” (2005 – Musikproduktion Höflich, Munich Germany)
“Vincent d’Indy’s Istar” (2005 – Musikproduktion Höflich, Munich Germany)
“Vincent d’Indy’s Souvenirs” (2006 – Musikproduktion Höflich, Munich Germany)
“Vincent d’Indy’s Jour d’été” (2006 – Musikproduktion Höflich, Munich Germany)
“Richard Wagner’s Das Liebesverbot” (2006 – Musikproduktion Höflich, Munich Germany)
“Richard Wagner’s Influence on French Culture” (2006)
“Nero Fiddles While Rome Burns” (2010 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“Guy Ropartz – A Truly Forgotten Great Composer” (2010 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“The Destruction of Our Music” (2010 – from The Scale)
“My Choices for the Top Five Western Classical Music Composers of All Time” (2011 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“Facing the Music and A New Beginning” (“The Scale” 2014)
“The Birth of Impressionist Music in 19th-Century France” (c.2016 – Not published)
“The Sacred Choral Music of the Renaissance” unfinished (2016 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
“Psychedelic Daze” (2016 – www.sfhistory.org/publications/san-francisco-music-and-culture-1965-1969)
“The New Acoustic Popular Music” (2016 – musicfuturist.blogspot.com)
Technology Articles
“OSI – Boondoggle or Network Standards of the Future?” (IBM Internet Journal, February, 1993)
“ATM – Technology for Tomorrow” (Stacks – The Network Journal, August, 1993)
“Multiprotocol Transport Networking – A Boon for the Enterprise Network” (Stacks – IBM Internet Journal, February, 1994)
Interviews
Ben Kettlewell Interview – National Public Radio (1988)
Ben Kettlewell Interview (2000)
Diego Oscar Ramos – First Interview (2004)
Diego Oscar Ramos – Second Interview (2009)
Dustin Mahrt – Interview (2013)
Dustin Mahrt – Interview (2020)