by Kenneth Woods | Feb 2, 2007 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score, Favorite posts, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
It’s probably no coincidence that the two most popular composers of the 20th Century, Shostakovich and Mahler, are also the two whose autobiographies are most intimately associated with their work. However, although their musical work may have been shaped in part by...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 2, 2007 | A view from the podium, Haydn, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
Any regular reader of this blog will have realized that I, like many people, like the music of Gustav Mahler. A lot…. It has occurred to me this week, however, that I could make the perverse case that, much as I am totally thrilled to be doing Das Lied von der...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 1, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler, News and Reviews
This is just a quick reminder to any readers in the Pacific Northwest this weekend that the Rose City Chamber Orchestra will be performing Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in the Schoenberg reduction on Saturday, Feb 3 at 7 PM at the Colonial Heights Presbyterian...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 31, 2007 | A view from the podium
I’ve had a couple of requests from both orchestra members and audience members (weren’t you paying attention?! :) Bad audience, bad!) to repost my pre-performance remarks on Beethoven 6, so here they are….....
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 30, 2007 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
To the January 2007 incarnation of the Oregon East Symphony- Just a very quick shout out to everyone who played in the last OES concert, from the lifers to the new faces…. It was a tough week, a tough schedule, a tough program, lousy weather, cold building,...
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