by Kenneth Woods | Jul 18, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
With a headline like this, I don’t know how this article from Greg Stepanich could possibly not have caught my eye. He writes about a new group, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, who he describes as playing music that sounds “kind of like mild gamelan house music, or...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 17, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
For some time now, I have wanted to write a post in praise of the great, great saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman. Coleman is the founder of a jazz movement called M-Base (Coleman dislikes the labeling of music, and would probably not approve of his music being...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 16, 2006 | A view from the podium
Tom Service of the Guardian on his own experience at a conducting workshop, the St Magnus Centre, directed by Martyn Brabbins. It’s a very similar set-up to the RCICW, excpet that they seem to have a lot of outside funding. Interesting...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 16, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
The greatest music festival in the world, the BBC Proms, got under way on Friday evening with a concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jiri Behlolavek (who I assisted at the NSO a few years back). The major work on the program was Shostakovich’s Fifth...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 15, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
I was very touched and impressed that Tim Managan, who wrote the original piece on Shostakovich and Bowles that inspired my recent essay got in touch to let me know more about the circumstances of Bowles’ original remarks. You can read his comments here. He has two...
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