by Kenneth Woods | Sep 29, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
By the official tally, this is my 400th post on Vftp, a milestone I can only gawk at in astonishment. Have I really wasted so much time in the last 18 months?!?!?!? The blog idea was originally suggested to me by the harpist of the OES (and founder of Harp Specturm),...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 29, 2007 | A view from the podium
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande Possibly no single literary work after Romeo and Juliet had such a prodigious impact on the world of music as Maeterlink’s symbolist drama, Pelléas and Mélisande. Within a few years of its publication in 1892...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 26, 2007 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Next week, the Surrey Mozart Players kick off their season (more on that soon). As the Strauss Romanze is something of an oddity, the orchestra asked if I would write some notes for the program. Richard Strauss- (1864-1949) Romanze for Cello and Orchestra in F major,...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 25, 2007 | A view from the podium
A big Happy Birthday to Sir Colin Davis, who is 80 years old today. He’s had a remarkable career, having managed to hold a major position in London almost without a break for forty-five years, going from Sadler’s Wells to the BBC to Covent Garden to the LSO. For...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 25, 2007 | A view from the podium
…deserve what you get As my musical life has taken me back and forth around the world, I’ve noticed that certain religious orders and sects place a special emphasis on the value of classical music, for which we can all be grateful. Given this, one quickly finds...
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