by Kenneth Woods | Jul 14, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Back in December 2005, my colleague Joyce Rice and I were talking about strategies for marketing the Oregon East Symphony more effectively. In this context, she asked if I had a blog, or had ever thought of doing one, and, if so, perhaps there were ways I could use...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 14, 2006 | A view from the podium
Quick update on David, who collapsed on the last page of The Creation last Saturday with the Gwent Chamber Orchestra and the Brecon Cathedral Singers. Bad news first- Tests confirm that David had a stroke, and he is suffering lack of mobility in his left arm and...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 13, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Fantastic post in the Telegraph on music in education. The author, Frank Furedi, brilliantly describes the cowardice that is killing music education in the western world. What he doesn’t talk about, and what I think really needs to be discussed, is that, just as...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 13, 2006 | A view from the podium
Thanks to Scott Spiegelberg for mentioning my blog on his very readable site Musical Perceptions. I’m touched to know I still qualify as a young conductor at 38. The definition of a young conductor has changed radically in the last 10 years. 50 used to be young...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 13, 2006 | A view from the podium
Some years ago a friend (who happens to be both Jewish and one of the most knowledgeable musicologists in the world) told me about a film he had seen of Furtwangler conducting Wagner’s Meistersinger Prelude in a factory during WW II, under the swastika. He described...
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