by Kenneth Woods | May 30, 2019 | Explore the Score, Nuts and bolts
Ken will be conducting Vaughan Williams Fifth Symphony with the English Symphony Orchestra at the 2019 Elgar Festival in Worcester Cathedral on Saturday the 1st of June, 2019. Details here. In 1952, when Vaughan Williams was asked to pick one of his symphonies for a...
by Kenneth Woods | May 30, 2019 | Headlines, Mahler, Music and Media, News and Reviews
Thanks to John Quinn from Seen and Heard International for this lovely and comprehensive review of last night’s epic Orchestra of the Swan concert with April Fredrick, soprano. Read the whole thing here. “The concert opened with one of Mozart’s...
by Kenneth Woods | May 25, 2019 | Mahler, News and Reviews
[Re-blogged from MahlerFest.org] BEYERS, DEVANE, KOREVAAR STANDOUT PERFORMERS AT MAHLERFEST XXXII Published in “Wunderhorn”, the Journal of the New York Mahler Society By Kelly Dean Hansen, Freelance Classical Music Writer In its 32nd year, the fourth...
by Kenneth Woods | May 25, 2019 | A view from the podium
For background, see this recent article from the New York Times At the risk of being labelled a grumpy old square, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Helicopter Quartet has to be the biggest pile of steaming bullshit ever to emanate from the tradition of Western art...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 25, 2019 | Mahler
In all the long history of symphonic music, with the possible exception of Berlioz, there has probably never been a symphonic debut as audacious as that of Gustav Mahler in his First Symphony. Becoming Mahler In the 130 years since it was written, this work has become...
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