by Kenneth Woods | May 30, 2008 | A view from the podium
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m not going to explain…...
by Kenneth Woods | May 28, 2008 | A view from the podium
I find May to be the strangest time of year for me professionally, as it hangs in this netherworld between the concert-season/school-year and the summer-festival season. In fact, one often experiences the cognitive dissonance of doing a summer festival in early May,...
by Kenneth Woods | May 24, 2008 | A view from the podium
We don’t do reviews here at Vftp (part of my “glass houses” policy), but I thought the odd concert report might allowable. Most musicians and music lovers have their own version of “the list.” That is the list of performers you want to catch before they or you die....
by Kenneth Woods | May 23, 2008 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
I’ve recently been following a somewhat heated discussion of the attacca- the musical practice of joining two movements of a multi-movement work without pause. Surprisingly, many musicians cannot seem to agree on the definition of an attacca. In fact, the true...
by Kenneth Woods | May 20, 2008 | A view from the podium
Terrible news in Berlin. Knowing all too well the toll that fire and fire fighting can take on instruments, music and archives, I fear not only for what the orchestra has lost, but what the world may have lost. UPDATE- Somewhat more encouraging news from the...
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