by Kenneth Woods | Dec 30, 2008 | A view from the podium
I was so sad this morning to learn of the death of Freddie Hubbard from Doug Ramsey at Rifftides, who has an excellent remembrance here. Hubbard was one of the last of the true giants of jazz history still with us, a man whose career spanned epoch after epoch, and...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 29, 2008 | A view from the podium
I came across a piece in the news today about the ongoing war between Warner and 20th C. Fox over the fate of the upcoming movie, The Watchmen. This storm has been brewing for a long time, maybe years. Who owns this movie, the people who made it or the people who...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 29, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Thanks to Sven from Brainerd for sending us a collated list of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s rep for 2008. I’m a huge Harnoncourt fan, even though he’s as likely to make me scream in horror as cheer in admiration, sometimes in the same piece. Just this weekend I heard his...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 29, 2008 | A view from the podium
For those music lovers who’ve not found quite the motherload of new CDs in the post-Christmas sale, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (recently declared the best band on the planet by the Gramophone) are offering the world a nice little holiday present. It’s part of...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 27, 2008 | A view from the podium
I do hope you all had a happy Christmas holiday and managed to eat a lot of turkey, drink some lovely wine and listen to a bunch of Bach and Messiaen. I’m shaking off my own turkey coma and will be back up to full blogging speed soon. Meanwhile, I’m happy to point you...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 20, 2008 | A view from the podium, Study with Ken
I’m really excited to be able to announce the details for the 2009 Ischia Festival of Music. Last year was my first year at the festival, and my efforts in spreading the word about the institute had to be slightly tempered by the fact that it was my first spring...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 19, 2008 | A view from the podium
The brass section of the Chicago Symphony were refered to the other day in my post refereing to Kim Diehnelts Elgar article. Writing that post reminded me of a wonderful article I read some years ago on CSO principal trombonist Jay Friedman’s website. Mr Friedman’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 18, 2008 | A view from the podium
Daniel Wolf at Renewable Music takes the discussion of current repertoire in an interesting direction, towards the question of “how much music do you, or can you, know well….” Back in my training days as an ethnomusicologist, we were taught some of the basic questions...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 18, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Peter from Houston rembers former HSO Music Director Christoph Eschenbach fondly for what he calls “many years of transformative and inspiring leadership,” so he’s processed Eschenbach’s 2008 repertoire as it appears on his website here. Thanks Peter! At over 103...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 16, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Well, having looked at my rep list for the last two years, one of my former students tactfully chimed in with the obvious question “gee Ken, that’s a fair number of pieces, but how many pieces does a real conductor conduct in a year?” After I cleaned up the blood, I...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 16, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Taken from the concert schedule on his website- conductor Semyon Bychkov’s repertoire for 2008…. BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 2 in B BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 1 in C BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor BEETHOVEN: Piano...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 16, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Below is Paavo Jarvi’s repertoire for 2008 as compiled from his website Please submit your replists to info@kennethwoods.net. Lists should be for one calendar year, in alphabetical order (please DO NOT send lists of programs, or your complete repertoire list for...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 16, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
We’re going to be continuing our discussion of conductor repertoire in an upcoming post. To that end, we’ll be posting repertoire reports for individual conductors in separate blogs posts. Below is Leonard Slatkin’s repertoire from May 08-April 09 (a...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 15, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
You can view the 2008 KW Repertoire report here, which lists every piece of music I’ve performed in the 2008 calendar year. I thought I would take advantage of the painstaking efforts of my research assistant, former Lehman Brothers Executive VP Flurp Van Doogle and...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 15, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
Last year’s repertoire report generated a surprising amount of conversation, so we’ve decided to repeat the experiment this year. Knowing how much conductors love being asked back for repeat engagements, I nearly invited the same conducting grad student to...
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