by Kenneth Woods | Nov 1, 2006 | A view from the podium
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...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 1, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
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....
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 31, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
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...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 31, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
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...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 29, 2006 | A view from the podium
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...
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