by Kenneth Woods | Oct 22, 2009 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
For some strange reason, my blog post “Haydn-More Talented Than Mozart” has left some readers with the impression that I somehow don’t get or don’t like Mozart. Far from it- in fact, those who pay attention to these sorts of things will no doubt have noticed that...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 22, 2009 | A view from the podium
Mozart’s Paris Symphony was the first work I conducted with the Oregon East Symphony. Here is a somewhat pained description of the difficulties of rehearsing what I had thought was a relatively straightforward classical work- “I was exceedingly anxious at rehearsal,...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 20, 2009 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
With my OES tenure now in its final week, I wanted to take a look back over our work together and see if we’ve accomplished anything. It seemed a good time for a special edition of the Repertoire Report- in this case, a complete listing of every work I’ve performed...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 13, 2009 | A view from the podium
“I like/dislike the leaner textures of the new Urtext edition of the Beethoven Symphonies by Jonathan Del Mar, and loathe/prefer the more robust sound of the old Breitkopf edition…” This quote is typical of many reviews I’ve come across recently, both favorable and...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 13, 2009 | Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
After a spring and early summer in which I felt every bit as much a cellist as a conductor (which was a nice feeling), my cello has been sitting in the case for an alarming number of weeks while we finished the summer run, took a vacation and I dealt with the...
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