by Kenneth Woods | Jun 23, 2007 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Seven PM. Best thing about the Electric Theatre is that they have a great little café and bar. I had a fantastic mezze plate- lots of lovely homemade hummous, sundried tomatos, asparagus, fresh mozzarella and the like. I normally don’t eat before concerts, but if one...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 23, 2007 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
Just offstage after the second half of SMP dress rehearsal. God its flippin’ hot. It’s so hot that I’m not the only one sweating. Everyone’s sweating. I find it kind of a relief, since I’m always hot. Schumann went well. What a piece- it’s the sort of music that...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 23, 2007 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
This hall has wireless, so this is my first-ever mid-dress rehearsal blog post, which I thought would be an interesting exercise…. We’ve just finished the Shostakovich. We rehearse in a very loud, reverberant room, and this is a very dead, but clear hall. For the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 23, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
I’m just flipping through scores before my SMP dress rehearsal this afternoon and realizing what an incredible challenge we have ahead of us tonight. Shostakovich’s Third Quartet is in five movements, and five movement works almost always are built on some concept of...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 21, 2007 | A view from the podium
Rostislav Dubinsky was the founding first violinist of the Borodin Quartet, who worked intimately with Shostakovich in preparing performances and recordings of all of his fifteen string quartets. I studied chamber music with him at Indiana University from 1986-8....
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