by Kenneth Woods | Sep 4, 2007 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
From my inbox comes a nice question from Felicity in Colorado, which gives me a rare, and nice, chance to answer a cello related question. “Dear Ken,” she writes, “when you’re playing the Bach Suites, do you use a baroque bow or baroque cello, what sort of A do...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 4, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Thanks to AC Douglas for pointing out this little oddity (more here and here) about and orchestra and a conductor at each other’s throats. I hate to sound glib, but one should really not take these things too seriously. As one of my dear friends in grad school used...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 2, 2007 | A view from the podium
I’m tempted to start a new column here called “things that people state as facts but that aren’t.” Of course, I won’t because I don’t want this blog to be too much of a downer. Nevertheless, every once in a while, I hear or read a comment about music that I think...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 1, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media, Performing Life
I’m back at VFTP International Headquarters after a nice little vacation, which means my musical summer is officially over, and it’s back to the musical salt mines for another year of hard graft…. One thing that I enjoy about the slightly more laid-back work load of...
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