by Kenneth Woods | Dec 6, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Check out this interesting piece from Scott Spiegelberg on the state of the classical recording industry. Scott wisely points out that one reason we’re seeing fewer new artists at the major label is that classical recordings were always subsidized from somewhere, and...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 6, 2006 | A view from the podium
I really should have posted the notes to Tommy’s new work before the premiere last week, but better late than never. Hopefully their appearance here helps him snag some more performances with other orchestras KW Rappezzatura Barocco (c10m) Tommy Fowler (b1948) ...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 5, 2006 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
UPCOMING CONCERT Friday, December 8, 2006 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Lancashire Chamber Orchestra St. Anne’s Choir Benefit Concert for St. Anne’s Hospice “Christmas is Coming” Support the work of a wonderful charity by coming out for an...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 5, 2006 | A view from the podium
From the Surrey Advertiser, December 1, 2006 Surrey Mozart Players/Kenneth Woods The small but acoustically favourable Menuhin Hall in Stoke d’Abernon resounded to the music of Mozart and Haydn, as the Surrey Mozart Players under the direction of Kenneth...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 4, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
In the last installment of this series, I tried to look at some of the questions that leading musicians of the past may have been asking when they were performing in ways that we might now find foreign. We can’t go back to that old, Furtwanglerian, manner of...
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