by Kenneth Woods | Jan 15, 2007 | A view from the podium
To those of you waiting anxiously for the next Kindertotenlieder piece, I’m sorry for the delay. I had a long trans-Atlantic this week en route to the current Oregon East Symphony concert, and I’m trying to whip my cello playing back into shape for a concert on...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 15, 2007 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
UPCOMING CONCERT- Oregon East Symphony Saturday, January 20th, 2007 7:30 PM, Vert Auditorium Pendleton Oregon Program- Nielsen- Helios Oveture Grieg- Piano Concerto Rick Rowley, piano Beethoven- Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” Concert information available at oes@uci.net...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 10, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler
Finally, on to the emotional heart of the cycle, “Wenn dein Mutterlein.” If the text of the second song is the most intense, the music of this song is probably the most overtly funereal. Mahler even marks the tempo as schwer (heavy) and dumpf (dull or muffled). If...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 10, 2007 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
Music, even vocal music, is ultimately an abstract art form. Musical ideas, even those attached to words, are inherently abstract. Nevertheless, we all find ourselves searching for the meaning of musical ideas. Wagner went so far as to assign meanings to themes...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 9, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
There are some pieces of music which are widely misunderstood because they’re too popular. I had a “teacher” in grad school who taught the History of Opera course who thought Puccini was an idiot because he was popular, and that we should all be listening to Pfitzner...
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