by Kenneth Woods | Jun 8, 2011 | A view from the podium
Today is June 8th, 2011. It is the 201st birthday of the great Bobby Schumann: author, pianist, publisher, public intellectual, beer drinker, and one of the greatest composers who ever lived. Discovering and exploring the music of Robert Schumann has been one of the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 8, 2011 | A view from the podium
A couple of weeks ago my colleagues in Ensemble Epomeo (Caroline Chin and David Yang) and I were doing a quick sound check before a children’s concert at the Two Rivers Festival. Our young peoples’ concerts are one aspect of the group I enjoy the most. David Yang,...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 8, 2011 | Music and Media, News and Reviews
I had a nice chat a month or so ago with Jeremy Pound, deputy editor of BBC Music Magazine about what I’ve been listening to with particular interest of late. The results of that chat form part of the “Music To My Ears” feature in the July...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 7, 2011 | Nuts and bolts
Many knowledgeable musicians consider Schoenberg to be the musical successor of Brahms. Schoenberg himself thought so too. (You’ve got to hand it to Schoenberg- he managed to position himself pretty convincingly as the heir to both Brahms and Mahler,...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 7, 2011 | News and Reviews
Martin Anderson has a review of my upcoming release of Robert Schumann and Hans Gal’s Third Symphonies with Orchestra of the Swan at the website The Classical Review. Also reviewed is TZ’s recording with Northern Sinfonia of Gal 1 and Schubert 6. At the...
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