by Kenneth Woods | Jul 31, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Just as a follow-up to yesterday’s piece on state funding of the arts…. There are lots of conversations going on in the blogosphere, in newspapers and around the water-cooler about the so-called crisis in classical music. One central idea I have been trying to...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Much as I’m happy to see Shostakovich getting so much attention in his 100th anniversary year, I’ve been a bit sad to see the 150th anniversary of the death of Robert Schumann go almost completely unnoticed, except at On An Overgrown Path. I actually very lovingly...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Have a look at this piece in today’s Guardian, and be sure to read the numerous comments that follow. I find it interesting that the discussion so quickly deteriorates into an argument about market economics versus socialism. One reader extols the virtues of artistic...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 28, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Just came across this post in the Guardian on the future, or lack of it, of MTV. Discovering MTV was a major turning point in my life. I found the channel just a few months after it went on the air, and soon became completely addicted. In that first summer, I was...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Much as I prefer to avoid autobiography on this blog, I have to share a very surprising and exciting piece of news. This afternoon at 2:20 PM United Airlines finally delivered my suitcase into my hands here in Cardiff. I’m not sure I have the verbal tools to...
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