by Kenneth Woods | Jun 11, 2007 | A view from the podium
Tell them a passage should sound “not together in exactly the right way….” ...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 11, 2007 | A view from the podium
I was rehearsing the first Shostakovich Piano Concerto yesterday, and it occurred to me that we tend to think of composers careers in a rather naïve way. Almost invariably, we tend to hear about composers “developing” or even “improving” throughout their careers, but...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 9, 2007 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Dmitri Shostakovich- Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, op 35 In many ways, Shostakovich was a quintessentially Russian composer. As a symphonist one can certainly hear the influence of Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and even, to an extent,...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 8, 2007 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
Excerpted from Marth Graham, “I am a dancer” …I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each it is the performance of a...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 8, 2007 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
UCPOMING CONCERT Lancashire Chamber Orchestra 7:30 PM Saturday 16 June, 2007 Altrincham Grammar School for Girls Cavendish Road, Altrincham Copland- Quiet City (trumpet solo by John Bush) Shostakovich- Piano Concerto no 1 (soloist Ivan Hovorun, by kind permission of...
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