by Kenneth Woods | Apr 16, 2009 | A view from the podium
I’m having an early Beethoven year so far- two runs of Beethoven 1 with the SMP last month, now Beethoven 2 in Pendleton, with the 4th to follow in a few weeks at the Helix Ensemble. There hasn’t been a whole lot of time to revisit recordings of these pieces- I’ve...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 15, 2009 | A view from the podium
Monday night I saw our Chorale and the members of the Mid-Columbia Master Singers in Richland, Washington. Our first challenge was getting used to a venue nobody had sung in before- the Master Singers’ usual venue was not open. I was a little nervous about having only...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 15, 2009 | A view from the podium
I attracted a few titters (as opposed to twitters) on Facebook the other day, when my status admitted I was in the process of comparing Urtext editions of Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony by Jonathan Del Mar (published by Barenreiter) and Clive Brown (published by Breitkopf...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 14, 2009 | A view from the podium
Distinguished author Roderick Swanston introduces his piece in the current BBC Music Magazine as follows- “Writing about music is beset by mistakes. “Distinguished” writers peddle false facts which get repeated and spread. So it gave me pleasure to...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 13, 2009 | A view from the podium
Bernard Jacobson has a very interesting article in this Sunday’s Seattle Times on the search for a new music director for the Seattle Symphony. I LOVE Seattle, and can’t think of a job I’d rather have, but I think (know) I’m still 5-10 years...
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