by Kenneth Woods | Oct 5, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
We’ve thought from time to time about moving to Portland, Oregon. It’s a famously nice place, and it would be very convenient for my work with the Rose City Chamber Orchestra, who are based here, and the OES which is not exactly next door, but Portland is the nearest...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 3, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
This post from Helen Radice is a nice post-script to my piece last week on the rhythms of work. I’m afraid Allan Bennett has it completely wrong. There are always maybe one or two cancers in an orchestra who will exploit every possible loophole to get out of work. I...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 2, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
What makes sense about conducting is that you are really in the best position to evaluate what the musicians are doing as they play. What doesn’t make sense about conducting is that you are in the worst possible position to evaluate what you are doing as the...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 28, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Work loves work. Since I set out on the road to being a full time free-lance conductor some years back, I’ve become exceptionally sensitive to the rhythms of work. This experience and the careful study of my own situation now brings me to my new “special theory...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 25, 2006 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts
I was almost content to let the 100th birthday of Shostakovich pass without comment. Just think, though…. Already, just a few years after his death, we’re beginning to see his body of work recognized as the single most important contribution to Russian culture and...
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