by Kenneth Woods | Jul 25, 2007 | A view from the podium
Day one of the RCICW is complete. This year Betsy, one of the cellists in the orchestra, kindly and generously organized a welcome party where players, teachers and conducting students could get a chance to meet and socialize. It’s always a challenge to make a...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 24, 2007 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
Tomorrow morning begins the Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop. This is our third year, and I’ve been so busy dealing with the day-to-day administration of the program and putting out various fires that the actual workshop seems to have snuck up on me a bit....
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 23, 2007 | A view from the podium
10:30 PM. Gotterdammerung begins. We’re at the stage where we begin to look backward to the day’s highlights, such as…. Siegfried captures a guy in a bear suit Siegfried slays a wall with tentacles (Fafner) Alberich turns into a six-inch long stuffed toy frog...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 23, 2007 | A view from the podium
And now onto Siegfried. Many consider the toughest nut to crack in the cycle, and it comes at the toughest point in the day, right after we’ve all gone out for Chinese food…. For episode three we’ve turned to the Met and James Levine. After the leather and lasers from...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 22, 2007 | A view from the podium
As we got to the end of Act II of Walkure, it occurred to me that the moments of unintentional hilarity were getting much harder to find. The despair of Wotan at the loss of his free will, the burden of Brunnhilde to ensure the death of the Walsung, Sieglinde’s shame...
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