by Kenneth Woods | Jul 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Have a look at this piece in today’s Guardian, and be sure to read the numerous comments that follow. I find it interesting that the discussion so quickly deteriorates into an argument about market economics versus socialism. One reader extols the virtues of artistic...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 28, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Just came across this post in the Guardian on the future, or lack of it, of MTV. Discovering MTV was a major turning point in my life. I found the channel just a few months after it went on the air, and soon became completely addicted. In that first summer, I was...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Much as I prefer to avoid autobiography on this blog, I have to share a very surprising and exciting piece of news. This afternoon at 2:20 PM United Airlines finally delivered my suitcase into my hands here in Cardiff. I’m not sure I have the verbal tools to...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2006 | A view from the podium
Here is a very moving post from someone named reidmt (see annonymous blogging). I actually know who he is, as will many of my readers, but nevermind, I thought is was a good post. Interestingly, I could have easily been in Pendleton this week for our youth camp at...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2006 | A view from the podium
Here’s a very nice “what I did with my summer non-vacation” from Leonard Slatkin posted at Classical Source. It reads an awful lot like a well-written blog entry. Leonard, are you going to steal my niche????...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2006 | A view from the podium
I’ve been trying to steer friends towards these interviews with Rostropovich for a long time, so I thought I would take Pliable’s idea and post the links here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/shostakovich/ram/rostropovich1.ram...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 26, 2006 | A view from the podium
There are two reasons I don’t do reviews on this blog, much as I might be tempted. The first, and most compelling, reason is that I am aware of what a big, beautiful glass house I live in, and secondly, I don’t particularly want to piss people off in my field....
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 26, 2006 | A view from the podium
I want to call reader’s attention to a lovely comment from Harriet Gedge, daughter of conductor David Gedge. I’m so happy to hear that David is coming along in his march to recovery, but it sounds like a truly arduous process. Other news today- over at oboeinsight, we...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 26, 2006 | A view from the podium
It is unbearably hot in London this week, and it has really sapped my ability to concentrate enough to come up with new stuff. Fortunately, I have a few old things I’ve been meaning to add that were written for discussion groups, editorials and so on. This was...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 25, 2006 | A view from the podium
While in London this week I had the opportunity to see “Underground Surrealism” at the Hayward Gallery, a fascinating look into one very exciting moment in art history as witnessed through the prism of one magazine, Georges Bataille’s “Documents.” The magazine only...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 21, 2006 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Performing Life
Last August, Suzanne and I spent our holiday time traipsing around Normandy and Brittany. One afternoon, we found ourselves in a beautiful and unspoiled little medieval town in western Brittany looking rather aimlessly about. Having quickly found the market and the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 19, 2006 | A view from the podium
Great post from Doug Ramsey on what happens to recordings when selling them ceases to be big money. A good follow-up to my post on copywrong, as it points out the danger access to our cultural heritage when that heritage ceases to be profitable. YouTube was recently...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 18, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
This represents a very unscientific sample, but I think I’ve worked or studied with seven people who, in turn, studied or worked with Copland, including one who was his assistant and another who was both a close collaborator and a boyfriend. All were very gracious in...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 18, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
With a headline like this, I don’t know how this article from Greg Stepanich could possibly not have caught my eye. He writes about a new group, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, who he describes as playing music that sounds “kind of like mild gamelan house music, or...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 17, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
For some time now, I have wanted to write a post in praise of the great, great saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman. Coleman is the founder of a jazz movement called M-Base (Coleman dislikes the labeling of music, and would probably not approve of his music being...
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