by Kenneth Woods | Aug 20, 2010 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts
Olin Downes, New York Times “Which composers have influenced you most?” Leos Janacek “None.” Last week, I had the good fortune and privilege to conduct a workshop of Janacek’s Taras Bulba. Since so much of Janacek’s life’s work is bound up in his operas, there...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 16, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
“The donkey found it pleasing, and only said Wait! Wait! Wait! I will announce my judgement now. Well have you sung, Nightingale! But, Cuckoo, you sing a good chorale!” On Friday, the intrepid musicians of the Harlech Orchestral Academy performed Mahler’s Fifth...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 30, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Nuts and bolts
You can call it the best program you’ve never heard in your life. You can call it the almost revelatory program that almost happened- what you can’t call it is the program for the final concert of the Harlech Orchestral Summer School, which I’m now preparing for....
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