by Kenneth Woods | Dec 3, 2006 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Nuts and bolts
What then of someone like Furtwangler, who’s Beethoven tempi tend to be quite uninhibited by the metronome? Many leading modern Beethoven interpreters and commentators, including John Elliot Gardiner, Gunther Schuller and Benjamin Zander have all held up Furtwangler’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 1, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
Intermezzo from the score questioning series- Some (late night) thoughts to ponder in Dvorak 8, 1st mvt…. What is the first note of the piece (in the melody)? Middle “D” What is the last note of the cello melody that spans the first 16 bars (yes, the cellos...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 1, 2006 | A view from the podium
A few days ago a friend tipped me off that kennethwoods.net had become the no. 1 ranked “conductor website” result on google, and we’re still there about a week on. Try it, but please click through to us and not New Jersy Semi Conductor who are...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 1, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
The only black-and-white, nuts and bolts questions in musical performance are “what” questions- we can say with specificity what note is being played, what the dynamic is, what instrument is playing it, even what motive it is part of, but the execution of these...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Nuts and bolts
“Conductors question scores for a living. Actual conducting is something you just have to do to share the answers you’ve found to the questions you’ve asked.” Practical questions about music are important (and fun!) to answer. When a real music lover tells me he or...
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