by Kenneth Woods | Aug 10, 2013 | A view from the podium, Lists
Whether it was folklore or fact, I’m not in a position to say, but in the latter years of his career, it was reputed that Rostropovich’s fee for a performance of the Dvorak Cello Concerto hovered around $80,000. For any of the 60 or so works written for him, however,...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | A view from the podium
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 7 Yesterday morning, all that remained (after the stack of emails) was the final 100 miles or so to the Manchester Airport, a quick flight to Philly and concert at Penn. Hah! As we pulled away from the house, I heard an ominous noise....
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo- day 5 and 6 Wednesday morning I awoke with a sense of gleeful expectation, in spite of another raft of emails. Why? If you think I was looking forward to the concert, you guessed wrong. Longtime Vftp readers may have twigged that for me,...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 4 Tuesday morning- our final, main concert at St Thomas was to be a noon recital, so there was just time for coffee, lots of stressy emails, scales, packing and the drive in to St Thomas before we met Wesley and Nadja at 10:30. As...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 2 and 3 We set off early for New Brunswick, with over 300 miles to cover. We’d never done such a big trip as a trio before (the previous record was more like 2 or 3 hours), but it was a pleasant drive in good company. Somewhere along...
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