by Kenneth Woods | Aug 7, 2009 | A view from the podium
Conductor and Kansas City Examiner music writer Erik Klackner takes the Haydn ball and runs with it. The most ruthless among us will stab a person in the back. The most cold and calculated among us will stab a person in the front. But it takes the most creative...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 2, 2009 | A view from the podium, Haydn
Solomon Volkov, best known for his role in assembling Shostakovich’s memoirs, Testimony, once described him as the second (Mussorgsky being the first) great “yurodivy” composer. Volkov defines the yurodivy as follows- “The yurodivy is a Russian religious phenomenon,...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 1, 2009 | A view from the podium
I just want to take a moment to reassure readers that this blog is still in business, despite a recent absence of posts. This year it simply proved impossible to find time to blog during the course of the Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop, and since...
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