by Kenneth Woods | Nov 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Nuts and bolts
“Conductors question scores for a living. Actual conducting is something you just have to do to share the answers you’ve found to the questions you’ve asked.” Practical questions about music are important (and fun!) to answer. When a real music lover tells me he or...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 29, 2006 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Nuts and bolts
One of my first “official” conducting teachers told us all that “conductors study scores for a living. Actual conducting is just something you get to do for fun as a reward for the studying.” It’s a point of view I took to heart and have often repeated to both...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 28, 2006 | A view from the podium
So this is where I went to work over the weekend- Pretty sweet gig, eh???? These photos are of the interior quadrangle of the University of Glasgow, home of the Kelvin Ensemble. (Of course, speculation is wide-spread in Pendleton that I am only posting pictures...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 24, 2006 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
UPCOMING CONCERT Kelvin Ensemble, Glasgow 15th Anniversary Concert – Saturday 2nd December 2006, 7.30pm – Bute Hall, University of Glasgow Conductor: Kenneth Woods Soloist: Veronika Toth (viola) Tommy Fowler – 15th Anniversary Commission “Repezzatura...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 23, 2006 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Dvorak 8 was the first score I ever went out and bought and subsequently tried to analyze. We had played the work in my youth orchestra under the guidance of James Smith, a truly great musician and orchestral trainer. I’d always been interested in conducting,...
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