by Kenneth Woods | Jun 23, 2015 | A view from the podium
I met Gunther at his wonderful festival at Sandpoint in the 1990’s. On the second night of the festival, I ran into him in the bar and in spite of our vast difference in age, achievement and knowledge, had one of the all-time great bar hangs of my life....
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 20, 2015 | A view from the podium
The idea for this orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major, opus 26 came to me spontaneously in a flash of inspiration while I was coaching chamber music at the Ischia Chamber Music Festival in 2008. I vividly remember the bright blue sea and...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 18, 2015 | A view from the podium
I was not aware of what had just happened, but sometimes, it’s better not to know. Today my colleagues (Matthew Sharp, David LePage, Suzanne Casey and Catherine Leech) and I played a noontime recital as part of the English Symphony Orchestra’s Magna Carta 800...
by Kenneth Woods | May 18, 2015 | A view from the podium
This is a Reblog: Read the original official press release from MusicCo International UPDATE- A new interview as Ken speaks to Peter Alexander at Sharps and Flatirons here. Coverage from Norman Lebrecht’s Slipped Disc here: “The Colorado MahlerFest in and...
by Kenneth Woods | May 7, 2015 | A view from the podium
Next week the Berlin Philharmonic picks a new Chief Conductor. Hans Gál and Robert Schumann- Third Symphonies £12.00 There’s always bound to be curiosity about who is going to get the best job in any field of interest to the general public (there seems to be...
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