by Kenneth Woods | Dec 20, 2008 | A view from the podium, Study with Ken
I’m really excited to be able to announce the details for the 2009 Ischia Festival of Music. Last year was my first year at the festival, and my efforts in spreading the word about the institute had to be slightly tempered by the fact that it was my first spring...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 19, 2008 | A view from the podium
The brass section of the Chicago Symphony were refered to the other day in my post refereing to Kim Diehnelts Elgar article. Writing that post reminded me of a wonderful article I read some years ago on CSO principal trombonist Jay Friedman’s website. Mr Friedman’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 18, 2008 | A view from the podium
Daniel Wolf at Renewable Music takes the discussion of current repertoire in an interesting direction, towards the question of “how much music do you, or can you, know well….” Back in my training days as an ethnomusicologist, we were taught some of the basic questions...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 18, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Peter from Houston rembers former HSO Music Director Christoph Eschenbach fondly for what he calls “many years of transformative and inspiring leadership,” so he’s processed Eschenbach’s 2008 repertoire as it appears on his website here. Thanks Peter! At over 103...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 16, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Well, having looked at my rep list for the last two years, one of my former students tactfully chimed in with the obvious question “gee Ken, that’s a fair number of pieces, but how many pieces does a real conductor conduct in a year?” After I cleaned up the blood, I...
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