by Kenneth Woods | Dec 17, 2009 | A view from the podium
Okay- our webstats here at Vftp show a sudden flurry of hits from a reader or readers obsessed with Pierre Boulez’s Messagesquisse for Solo Cello and Six Cellos. Written at the request of Mstislav Rostropovich as a birthday present for the conductor Paul Sacher,...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 17, 2009 | A view from the podium
Sad news from Madison, courtesy of Jake Stockinger and the Well-Tempered Ear (read more here). Charles S. Lunde, the longtime and beloved record seller at Victor Music and then the Exclusive Company, has died. Charles passed away quietly on Dec. 13 at age 86. Charles...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 16, 2009 | Nuts and bolts
I’ve had so much to say about Elgar 1 lately in the run up to my recent performance of it with the UW Symphony that I haven’t been able to channel it all into readable form, especially while continuing to travel. Finally, with a slightly calmer schedule, I thought I...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 15, 2009 | A view from the podium
https://www.conductorsguild.org/main.asp?pageID=158 My colleagues on the board of the Conductors Guild have been working very hard to put together the best Guild conference ever. It just got better- Two new reasons you absolutely cannot miss the Copenhagen...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 14, 2009 | Nuts and bolts
Not long ago, the IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) had to go offline under legal threat. For those of you not in the know, the IMSLP is a library of scanned music in the public domain, uploaded by volunteers and available for anyone to download and...
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