by Kenneth Woods | Mar 8, 2011 | A view from the podium
I did a short interview with the Orchestra of the Swan media team yesterday in preparation for the orchestra’s Spring Sounds Festival May 27-29. I’m conducting Copland’s Rodeo and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the first concert and they asked...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 7, 2011 | A view from the podium
Volume One of our survey of the symphonies of Bobby Schumann and Hans Gal is getting tantalizingly close to reality. The disc itself is in editing as I write this, and the cover has now been added officially to Avie’s upcoming releases catalogue. It’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 7, 2011 | Nuts and bolts
The response to our guest post from trombonist Nige Hughes has been quite overwhelming, so we thought it might be of interest to readers to offer you a window into exactly how it is done. There is also the hope that somewhere in the world, someone takes a clue from...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 3, 2011 | A view from the podium
Regular Vftp readers will have read before about my colleague at the Wrexham Symphony Orchestra, Nigel Hughes. Nigel is the orchestra’s principal trombonist. He is also blind. (He also designed the orchestra’s excellent website). The fact that someone can play...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 3, 2011 | Lists, Music and Media, News and Reviews
It is with a mixture of pride and sheepishness that I write to call readers’ attention to the occasion of Vftp’s 1000th post. It is a sign of the sheer magnitude of time wasting that has gone into this project since 2006 that it is hard to say definitively which post...
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