by Kenneth Woods | Sep 4, 2008 | A view from the podium
The Sibelius symphonies are full of difficulties for the conductor, instrumentalists and even the audience. Though the whole of his Fifth Symphony is shorter than the Finale of Mahler 2, it’s just as difficult a work to put together, and in some ways more so. For the...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 2, 2008 | A view from the podium
There’s a great feature over at the Guardian by Tom Service on Pierre Boulez’s annual conducting masterclasses at the Lucerne Festival. It includes a nice video interview with some brief footage of his work at the institute. I’ve been told in the past by some of our...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 2, 2008 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
The second KCYO rehearsal of our 2008 course presented a formidable set of challenges, primarily because of the diversity of those challenges. Each work has not only its own stylistic language, but its own sound world, from the quintissential French perfumed...
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