by Kenneth Woods | Apr 10, 2009 | A view from the podium
There is a transcendence. It isn’t enough to simply have difficulties with life itself – one has to be able to convey this in music too! A Mahler symphony is about more than emotion, it is also about structure. In a long movement such as, for example, the last...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 10, 2009 | A view from the podium
People often think that a conductor’s job is to make decisions- she or he, after all, appears to decide whether or not to take the repeats, how fast the pieces are played, what are the articulations, what language to sing in and on. My approach is always to try to...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 8, 2009 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
I think one perceptible evolution in my study habits and interests over the last few years has been that I’ve gotten more and more interested in quotation in music. Of course, I suppose I may be putting my neck on the block a bit admitting that, because implicit in...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 5, 2009 | A view from the podium
Hear it live with the English Symphony Orchestra at St John’s Smith Square, 24 April, 2105. Booking information here I once conducted the Mozart Requiem in 2002 with the Grande Ronde Symphony, when I was teaching at Eastern Oregon University. In parallel with...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 2, 2009 | A view from the podium
On my desk this week is the Mozart Requiem, a piece I’m coming back to for the first time since 2002. I can scarcely think of a piece by any composer that affects me the way this one does. It is not easy music to study- it is as terrifying, as personal and as painful...
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