by Kenneth Woods | Oct 9, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Congratulations to my old teacher and mentor Leonard Slatkin on his appointment as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony, where he is succeeding Naime Jarvi beginning in the fall of the 2008-9 Season. Leonard offered the following comment in a press release from the...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 8, 2007 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Upcoming Concert Wilmslow Symphony Orchestra Kenneth Woods, guest conductor Saturday, October 13, 2007 Evans Theatre Wilmslow Leisure Centre Tchaikovsky- Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture Ravel- Mother Goose Suite Kodaly- Dances of Galanta Mussorgsky-...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 8, 2007 | A view from the podium
Back at Vftp International Headquarters, I’m starting to recover (slowly) from a busy concert weekend with the Surrey Mozart Players. I actually thought it was an unusually satisfying program. Mozart- Impresario Overture Fauré- Pelléas and Melisande Suite Saint-Saens-...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 4, 2007 | A view from the podium
We had a very interesting moment tonight in rehearsal with the Surrey Mozart Players- I’m curious if anyone besides me even noticed it…. We were rehearsing the Saint-Saens 2nd Cello Concerto for the first time with our soloist, Parry Karp. Parry is a rare cellist who...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 2, 2007 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
What a frustration it must be for those composers who live to see their music go out of fashion. Mahler famously said just before his death that “my time will come,” but for his contemporary Strauss, it was not easy being something of an anachronism in his later...
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