by Kenneth Woods | Sep 8, 2008 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
We’re coming to you today from the beautiful island of Procida, off the coast of Naples. This week, our piano trio is performing the first concert of the “Fish and Music” festival in the grande marina. I’ve never played at an occasion named for a food before, although...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 2, 2008 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
The second KCYO rehearsal of our 2008 course presented a formidable set of challenges, primarily because of the diversity of those challenges. Each work has not only its own stylistic language, but its own sound world, from the quintissential French perfumed...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 23, 2008 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
My late summer staycation (a word I had never heard before this year which is now everywhere, and will no doubt hopelessly date a forgetable blog post) comes to an end this week. Tomorrow morning, we are heady to Kent, where I will be spending my next week conducting...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 4, 2008 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Well, my week at Round Top has been going by much too fast. This Texas Festival Orchestra is a marvelous group, one of the best they’ve ever had here, if not the best, and I’ve enjoyed rehearsals immensely. I remember many years ago hearing Ivan Fischer, who I admire...
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 14, 2008 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
I’m a bit sad that the ferociously intense schedule here at the Ischia Festival has made it impossible for me to write more often, as it has been a very interesting and memorable week. First, for all my friends who had thought about coming here as participants, I can...
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