by Kenneth Woods | Mar 29, 2006 | A view from the podium
This is a site for listeners and audience members who like to keep track of my concert work. They can use these pages to follow me on my travel, get insights into how concerts happen, and get my thoughts on the concerts they’re coming to or just attended. I’ll also be...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 28, 2006 | Explore the Score, Mahler, Mahler 2 Notes
After the highly-charged, dramatic and ultimately tragic arc of the first movement, it is natural that one would need some time to recover. After all, Mahler waited five years after completing Totenfeier before continuing on to the second movement. As it turns out,...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 27, 2006 | Explore the Score, Mahler, Mahler 2 Notes
There is a strong relationship in Mahler’s 2nd between the first and last movement: in essence the finale resolves the questions posed in the first movement, both musically and spiritually. Likewise the 2nd and 3rd movements of the symphony form a pair. Both are...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 25, 2006 | Explore the Score, Mahler, Mahler 2 Notes, Nuts and bolts
The third movement of this symphony ended with nothing less than “the appalling shriek of this tortured soul.” How magical, then, is the moment that follows? Mahler instructs us that the third, fourth and fifth movements should be played without any break, and so from...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 22, 2006 | Explore the Score, Mahler, Mahler 2 Notes
As the fourth movement resolves into a vision of heavenly rest one could easily believe that our journey is at its end, but of course this short movement (only four minutes) could hardly balance out and resolve all the issues and challenges the symphony had posed up...
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