by Kenneth Woods | Jan 28, 2008 | A view from the podium
My Sunday afternoon was spent on an activity not listed in my job description- cooking dinner for some friends of the symphony. This is something we’ve done for a few years as part of our annual auction- people can bid on dinner with the conductor, cooked by the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 25, 2008 | A view from the podium
You know it’s going to be a great week when instead of “Hi Ken, I do the standard cuts * in the last movement of the Tchaikovsky. What time is rehearsal?” I get…. “Glad to hear that the barometer is reading well for the program. I have felt like a climber going up...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 25, 2008 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Performing Life
Somehow, no matter how many times I’ve been here or how many advertures and surprises those trips have held, there always seems to be some shock, some moment of divine cognitive dissonance on my arrival to Pendleton, Oregon. Perhaps the nearby Blue Mountains cast some...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 23, 2008 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
It was an interesting juxtaposition of concerts for me this past weekend. On Saturday, the Surrey Mozart Players returned for our second visit to the Menuhin Hall. Our concert last year was the source of grave trepidation because we had no idea if our regular audience...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 21, 2008 | A view from the podium
My recent reposting of “Tips for Composers” has drawn an unprecedented number of comments to Vftp, most of them positive. Not necessarily so at Sequenza 21, where there were as of this writing 43 comments ranging from positive to downright indignant. I’ve posted the...
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