by Kenneth Woods | Dec 17, 2007 | A view from the podium, Lists, Nuts and bolts
William from Phoenix emailed the following over the weekend- “Dear Maestro Woods- I’m a regular VftP reader and young conductor about to do my own first Messiah at my church this coming week. I read your posts about the piece, but was hoping you might write a...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 14, 2007 | A view from the podium
I thought I would take a minute to follow up on my Bath Philharmonia Messiah, since I had previously mentioned my preparations for it. Of course, all my musician friends and readers are probably well sick of Messiah, since just about everyone I know has played, sung...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 13, 2007 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
One of the most asked questions I get from students and audience members is “how many pieces do you play/conduct in a year.” Well, we paid a conducting doctoral student $.50/hour to alphabetize my concert archive for this year now that I’m...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 13, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
It was a blustery Friday night, and I had a lot on my mind already. It’s always a long drive to rehearsals, Fridays doubly so, and rainy, windy Fridays in the holiday season trebly so. As I ground out the long commute, you might well have thought I was using every...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 11, 2007 | A view from the podium
For those of you who were following my concert with Parrry Karp at the Surrey Mozart Players concert in October, there is a new review of his sonata disc “Late Romantic Music for Cello and Piano,” with Howard Karp at MusicWeb International. The critic, Jonathan Woolf,...
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