by Kenneth Woods | Jan 11, 2008 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
UPCOMING CONCERT Surrey Mozart Players Menuhin Hall, Cobham Saturday, 19 January, 2008 7:30 PM Kodaly- Summer Evening (1905) Schumann- Piano Concerto in A minor Bobby Chen, piano Haydn- Symphony no. 101 in D major (“The Clock.”) Kodaly’s early masterwork, Summer...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 11, 2008 | A view from the podium
The man credited with conquering Everest for the first time, Sir Edmund Hillary, one of the last of humanity’s great explorers has passed away at the age of 88. Though it was his ascent of Everest alongside Tensing Norgay in 1953 that earned him his place in the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 10, 2008 | A view from the podium, Haydn
I’m just back from the first rehearsal for our upcoming SMP concert. As regular readers will remember, we concluded our last concert with a performance of Mozart’s last symphony, which is a work I absolutely adore with all my heart. It is a piece whose title alone...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 8, 2008 | A view from the podium
When I first started this blog, my hope was that it would help bring in some new audiences to the orchestras I conduct, and while it does get read by some very devoted members of the general public (the true, hard-core fanatics!), I think it’s probably morphed into...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 8, 2008 | A view from the podium
The Oregon East Symphony has hard a long, hard slog trying to recover from “the fire,” and as I expected, the worst of it came not in the weeks just after the inferno consumed our offices, but after everyone’s focus had shifted come Autumn and the real...
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