by Kenneth Woods | Dec 30, 2008 | A view from the podium
I was so sad this morning to learn of the death of Freddie Hubbard from Doug Ramsey at Rifftides, who has an excellent remembrance here. Hubbard was one of the last of the true giants of jazz history still with us, a man whose career spanned epoch after epoch, and...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 29, 2008 | A view from the podium
I came across a piece in the news today about the ongoing war between Warner and 20th C. Fox over the fate of the upcoming movie, The Watchmen. This storm has been brewing for a long time, maybe years. Who owns this movie, the people who made it or the people who...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 29, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Thanks to Sven from Brainerd for sending us a collated list of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s rep for 2008. I’m a huge Harnoncourt fan, even though he’s as likely to make me scream in horror as cheer in admiration, sometimes in the same piece. Just this weekend I heard his...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 29, 2008 | A view from the podium
For those music lovers who’ve not found quite the motherload of new CDs in the post-Christmas sale, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (recently declared the best band on the planet by the Gramophone) are offering the world a nice little holiday present. It’s part of...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 27, 2008 | A view from the podium
I do hope you all had a happy Christmas holiday and managed to eat a lot of turkey, drink some lovely wine and listen to a bunch of Bach and Messiaen. I’m shaking off my own turkey coma and will be back up to full blogging speed soon. Meanwhile, I’m happy to point you...
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