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Quote of the Day

by Kenneth Woods | Sep 12, 2006 | A view from the podium

“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put in to it.”  Tom Lehrer,...

Touch that dial, please….

by Kenneth Woods | Sep 11, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media

From the Well-Tempered Blog-       Saturday, September 09, 2006  Performance Today Gets A New Home This really sad in way. I’m glad Minn. Public Radio will take on “Performance Today”, the large context is pretty depressing.”National Public...

More on Mahler’s Instruction Manuals

by Kenneth Woods | Sep 10, 2006 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Nuts and bolts

I was please to see that Patrick Smith at the Penitent Wagnerite picked up on my thread about Mahler scores as conducting lessons with this pseudo-rebuttal. I’m not sure, however, that he and I are really talking about the same thing, as I’m not at all concerned with...

Kondrashin on Shostakovich

by Kenneth Woods | Sep 10, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts

Thoughts on Shostakovich and interpretation from his collaborator and compatriot, Kyrill Kondrashin-   The Interior Shostakovich Statement by Kyrill Kondrashin    read at a symposium held at Bucknell University, New York 9th September 1980 Translated by Antonina W....

In the arena with Rakmaninov and Mahler

by Kenneth Woods | Sep 10, 2006 | A view from the podium, Mahler

I’m afraid I was otherwise occupied with KCYO when Tim Magnan wrote this piece on the art of conducting. Highly recommended. He’s quite right about the importance of the DVD revolution in helping us to better understand the working habits of many historically...
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