by Kenneth Woods | Jan 20, 2012 | A view from the podium, Lists
C major. The white keys on the piano. The Symphony has been good to C major, and C major has been good to the symphony, even though there are no Brahms, Mahler or Bruckner symphonies officially in C. Brahms 1 ends in C major (as does Beethoven 5 and Bruckner’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 13, 2011 | A view from the podium
The Pro Arte String Quartet was the first string quartet I ever heard as a young musician growing up in Madison, Wisconsin. The ensemble, in its many incarnations has been based there at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music since it took up the...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 7, 2011 | A view from the podium, Lists
This is a list I’ve been thinking about ever since I first conducted the Prokofiev 2nd Piano Concerto with Daniel de Borah. I was amused at the thought of just how far down the list of the greatest piano concerti of the 20th c. I would go before I got to a piece not...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 28, 2011 | A view from the podium, Lists
Before unveiling the hotly anticipated final 5 of our “Real” Top 20 Conductors, I thought it might be interesting to, er, milk the moment with a little divertimento or two. Regular Vftp contributor Peter Davison beat me to the punch on one topic: “There’s...
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