by Kenneth Woods | Apr 17, 2009 | A view from the podium
Dear Colleagues We are fast approaching the priority application deadline of April 30th for the 2009 Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop. In addition to repertoire which includes Haydn- Symphony no. 99, Debussy’s L’apres midi d’un faune, the Beethoven Fourth...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 16, 2009 | A view from the podium
I’m having an early Beethoven year so far- two runs of Beethoven 1 with the SMP last month, now Beethoven 2 in Pendleton, with the 4th to follow in a few weeks at the Helix Ensemble. There hasn’t been a whole lot of time to revisit recordings of these pieces- I’ve...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 15, 2009 | A view from the podium
Monday night I saw our Chorale and the members of the Mid-Columbia Master Singers in Richland, Washington. Our first challenge was getting used to a venue nobody had sung in before- the Master Singers’ usual venue was not open. I was a little nervous about having only...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 15, 2009 | A view from the podium
I attracted a few titters (as opposed to twitters) on Facebook the other day, when my status admitted I was in the process of comparing Urtext editions of Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony by Jonathan Del Mar (published by Barenreiter) and Clive Brown (published by Breitkopf...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 14, 2009 | A view from the podium
Distinguished author Roderick Swanston introduces his piece in the current BBC Music Magazine as follows- “Writing about music is beset by mistakes. “Distinguished” writers peddle false facts which get repeated and spread. So it gave me pleasure to...
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