by Kenneth Woods | Mar 11, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
After 100 years with pretty much only one option, conductors now have many choices of what edition of the Beethoven symphonies to use. So what parts have my colleageus been looking at, and what scores have I been? Why? The Edition- In Lancashire they actually used the...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 11, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
I can’t help but smile at the fact that less than 24 hours after finishing my concert with the Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales, I was rehearsing Beethoven 5 and the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Surrey Mozart Players. Preparing the ultimate “warhorse” piece...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 7, 2008 | A view from the podium
In Part Four, Gordon and I turned to a rather well-worn topic, the thorny question of why visual modernism has generally been so much more popular than musical modernism. I have my own ideas about why this is the case, but I was curious to get Gordon’s. You may find...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 6, 2008 | A view from the podium
In part three, we stepped back from a discussion of Downie’s music and I asked Gordon directly whether monderist music is getting a little old-fashioned after 60 years… KW: We’ve spoken before about your music’s connection to the ideas and...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 6, 2008 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score, Nuts and bolts
I’ve been putting a lot of work in on Paul Mefano’s Intererences in the run up to this weekends sessions. Because of the open form techniques Gordon described in Part II of our interview, the notation is about as thorny as it gets. The challenge for the conductor is...
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