by Kenneth Woods | Dec 15, 2009 | A view from the podium
https://www.conductorsguild.org/main.asp?pageID=158 My colleagues on the board of the Conductors Guild have been working very hard to put together the best Guild conference ever. It just got better- Two new reasons you absolutely cannot miss the Copenhagen...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 14, 2009 | Nuts and bolts
Not long ago, the IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project) had to go offline under legal threat. For those of you not in the know, the IMSLP is a library of scanned music in the public domain, uploaded by volunteers and available for anyone to download and...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 4, 2009 | Music and Media
I had a nice chat with long-time Madison music and arts critic and reporter Jakob Stockinger today, which has been posted on his excellent blog, The Well Tempered Ear. Jake’s blog is a fantastic musical resource for the city, and Madison is very lucky to have someone...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 4, 2009 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
Interestingly, what we know as the “Ruckert Lieder” by Mahler were conceived as individual songs, rather than as a cycle like the Kindertotenlieder or the Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen. Mahler orchestrated four out of the five songs, which he conducted once on a...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 2, 2009 | A view from the podium
Well…. What an interesting afternoon. Those of you who have read the last installment here on Vftp will know that my master plan for world conquest today involved stretching out our time on two Mahler songs that use few or no strings to maximize time for sectionals. I...
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