by Kenneth Woods | Nov 22, 2010 | A view from the podium
Last Friday’s Orchestra of the Swan performance of the Strauss Emperor Waltz and Mahler’s “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” and “Das Lied von der Erde” were prefaced by a wonderful and thought-provoking pre-concert talk by Mahler...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | A view from the podium
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 7 Yesterday morning, all that remained (after the stack of emails) was the final 100 miles or so to the Manchester Airport, a quick flight to Philly and concert at Penn. Hah! As we pulled away from the house, I heard an ominous noise....
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo- day 5 and 6 Wednesday morning I awoke with a sense of gleeful expectation, in spite of another raft of emails. Why? If you think I was looking forward to the concert, you guessed wrong. Longtime Vftp readers may have twigged that for me,...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 4 Tuesday morning- our final, main concert at St Thomas was to be a noon recital, so there was just time for coffee, lots of stressy emails, scales, packing and the drive in to St Thomas before we met Wesley and Nadja at 10:30. As...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 2 and 3 We set off early for New Brunswick, with over 300 miles to cover. We’d never done such a big trip as a trio before (the previous record was more like 2 or 3 hours), but it was a pleasant drive in good company. Somewhere along...
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