by Kenneth Woods | Feb 19, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Nuts and bolts
The Scherzo is a damnable movement. It will have a long history of suffering! Conductors will take it too fast for fifty years, and audiences—Oh heavens—what sort of faces will they pull at this chaos…..” (Gustav Mahler, speaking of his 5th Symphony...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 17, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Hi readers- Peter Davison and I have continued to chat about the meaning of the Rott references in Mahler 3, which were further spurred along my the question of sin raised in my Mahler 4 post. He’s made some more very interesting discoveries, especially about the...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 17, 2010 | A view from the podium
(The ghosts of Leningrad, now St Petersberg, as captured by the great Alexey Titarenko) For all that readers are seeing a lot about Gustav Mahler on these pages, the work on my desk right now is Dmitri Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, which I am conducting next week. I...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 16, 2010 | Explore the Score, Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Gustav Mahler is the composer of contradictions and paradoxes. He is the composer of ambiguities, contrasts, complexities and cognitive dissonance. Nothing could make this truth more evident than the move from the 3rd Symphony to the 4th. * The reasons...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 14, 2010 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
There is a great article in today New York Times on guitar demigod, Jeff Beck. (Cool- Jeff Beck) “You look for the guys who can kick you” as a musician, “and Jeff can be filthy, stinky that way,” Mr. Walden said in an interview here. “He’s not just melody, or a guy...
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