by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2008 | A view from the podium
Tomorrow night I’m playing in a concert that is part of the Master Players chamber music series at the University of Delaware in Newark. This is the fifth year of this series, which was founded by violinist and U of D faculty member Xiang Gao, and it’s become quite a...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 7, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
Ken- We’re nearing the end of our very, very lengthy discussion with conductor Kenneth Woods about his performance last week of Elgar’s epic First Symphony with the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra. Ken, you seemed very happy with the orchestra. Ken- I was...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 7, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
Ken- I’m speaking today with the verbose and loquacious conductor Kenneth Woods about his perforamce of Elgar’s Symphony no. 1 with the Gulf Coast Symphony. Ken, having done Elgar 1 twice now, do you feel your thinking on the piece has evolved? Ken- Well,...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 7, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
I’ve been feeling a bit uninspired here of late- probably a combination of being a bit too busy to really think about writing, and of not doing enough reading to feel I have anything non-autobiographical to discuss. What I really need is a bit of topical guidance-...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 2, 2008 | A view from the podium
In any normal week, this would have been the easy winner of “quote of the week.” At the end of my “words on music” session with the Gulf Coast Symphony, one of the audience paid me this rather unusual compliment. I’d sort of assumed that the folks that come to these...
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