Crumb

Funny that Roger Bourland at Red Black Window would write about Crumb’s graphic scores at more or less the same time I was talking about score marking, including re-baring some experimentally notated 20th c. works to facilitate performance  I’ve done a...

The halftime show

Normally half-time means you get a break, but the looming renewal of my work visa in the UK (fun, fun) completely killed off my modest three free days last week, and now I am back in the maelstrom after a slightly-more-tiring-than-usual flight over to the US....

The future in Philly

An interesting follow-up, one of what I assume will be hundreds, as the Philadelphia Orchestra begin looking to the future.  I don’t know Eschenbach’s work there at all, and wouldn’t comment on it anyway, but I do think music director search issue is...

Score Marking

I thought I might wade in and try to slightly de-mystify the question of score marking by conductors. Orchestral players and audiences alike can often be quite overwhelmed by, and even suspicious of, the complex systems of red and blue, circles, highlights and so on...

Nottingham Philharmonic: Review

From the Nottingham Evening Post   NOTTINGHAM PHILHARMONIC    Albert Hall -Peter Palmer  The Nottingham Philharmonic have long been an orchestra to be reckoned with, but on Saturday there were signs that American guest conductor Kenneth Woods could give a new...