by Kenneth Woods | Aug 18, 2006 | A view from the podium
One thing I like about blogging is that I can feel free to contradict myself. “Concerts matter. We’ve got to deliver. The best way to advance classical music is to give better concerts.” Thus spake me…. I still believe that, but there are many examples of...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 18, 2006 | A view from the podium
In my post yesterday I was trying to make the point that when you compare top conductor salaries to other persons in elite positions throughout the professional world, they don’t look so massive. Also I made the point that in professional orchestras, the...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 18, 2006 | A view from the podium, Haydn
I’d say that admiration for Haydn’s music is a pretty good measure of anyone’s musicianship, taste, maturity, imagination, humility, education, wisdom, sense of humor, appreciation for craft and understanding of human...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 11, 2006 | A view from the podium
From the archives- Written for O-list in 2004 for a discussion about music director salaries. The debate was sparked by a NY Times piece on top music director salaries (everyone else was in agreement that they were overpaid), and I decided to take the devil’s advocate...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 10, 2006 | A view from the podium
Contrary to popular perception, I believe that relevance is one of the great strengths of classical music. At it’s best, music can reflect human experience at it’s most personal, most historic, most universal, most tragic and most humorous. Because it is unhampered by...
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