by Kenneth Woods | Aug 14, 2008 | A view from the podium
Hi everyone As you can see, we’re having some problems with corruption of this blog’s database. I’m sorry it is giving you all problems. Apparently this is a major bug affecting about 100,000 webpages hosted by Yahoo. They hope to have something...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 13, 2008 | A view from the podium, Haydn, Music and Media
In today’s New York Times Daniel Wakin weighs in on the Elgar-vibrato “kerfuffle” (by the way, I’m not English, I’m not a traditionalist, and I don’t object to Elgar being played without vibrato, I object to the claim that Elgar should be played without...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 13, 2008 | A view from the podium
Interesting discussion of the Elgar brouhaha brought to my attention at Okayplayer, including this…. Sure, we go back and forth on the merits of demerits of this or that producer, Nas’ terrible choice of beats or the question of novelty vs. talent…...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 9, 2008 | A view from the podium
On to happier thoughts. I thought it would either be rather interesting or completely, mind-crushingly dull to chart my preparation, in all it’s mundane quirkiness of a specific work or two this year. So, still moving a bit slow from the long trip to America, I’ve...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 8, 2008 | A view from the podium
I am feeling a bit weak today, because I begin this post today knowing that it means that I will have broken my “glass house” rule two days in a row. I’m sure the karmic gods will make me pay…. I’ve been listening to the now notorious performance of Elgar 1. Safely...
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