by Kenneth Woods | Sep 21, 2017 | Not quite the news
Respected composer Maynard Pitchworth is reported to be struggling to come up with an inspiration for his recently completed new orchestral work. Pitchworth’s output includes such popular works as the concert suite “Strips of Bacon” retroactively inspired by the...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 11, 2017 | News and Reviews
A fantastic review from BBC Music Magazine in their August 2017 issue for volume two of the Complete Piano Concertos of Ernst Krenek “All the soloists on this beautifully recorded disc deliver totally committed performances. Special praise, however, is due to...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 31, 2017 | A view from the podium
This is another real YouTube treasure. I’m conducting this mini-masterpiece tomorrow for the first time in about 20 years, but it’s a piece you hear (or least I hear) all the time, and there are many good performances out there under Bernstein’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 25, 2017 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
More international praise for John Joubert – Composer‘s magnificent Jane Eyre- An Opera in Two Acts on SOMM Recordings, this time from Classica in France. ‘The vocal distribution of this creatiòn in Birmingham is of astounding beauty. April Fredrick assumes from end...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 21, 2017 | A view from the podium
A little update on the Brahms Piano Quartet orchestration project, for those of you interested…. A quick summary of how we got to where we are! The arrangement had its genesis in 2008 in Ischia when the idea came to me. I spent a good chunk of that summer...
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