by Kenneth Woods | May 7, 2013 | A view from the podium
I attended my first Scotia Festival as a student in 1993- Peter Lieberson was the composer-of-the-year, Pierre-Laurent Aimard was the pianist-in-the-house. How could I not want to keep coming back? Over the following years I got to meet and work with composers like...
by Kenneth Woods | May 7, 2013 | Headlines, News and Reviews
A review appeared in Tempo Magazine from January 2013 of the Orchestra of the Swan’s “Trumpet Shall Sound” concert. A short excerpt follows Although John McCabe’s Rainforest II, of 1987, is in effect a chamber concerto for trumpet and 11...
by Kenneth Woods | May 3, 2013 | A view from the podium
KENNETH WOODS RELEASES HANS GÁL’S SYMPHONY NO. 2 AND SCHUMANN’S SYMPHONY NO. 4 WITH ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN ON AVIE THIRD OF FOUR-DISC SERIES Kenneth Woods, Principal Guest Conductor of Stratford-upon-Avon based Orchestra of the Swan, has made...
by Kenneth Woods | May 1, 2013 | A view from the podium, Headlines, News and Reviews
A new review from American Record Guide for “Spring Sounds, Spring Seas.” AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE – MAY/JUNE 2013 Spring Sounds, Spring Seas James Nyoraku Schlefer (1956-). Haru No Umi Redux, for shakuhachi, koto & ensemble (2011) [10:26] ...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 28, 2013 | A view from the podium
This is a slightly expanded version of an essay on Brahms’s last symphony commissioned by The Bridgewater Hall for last week’s Budapest Festival Orchestra concert. “But in dark, dramatic outbursts such as those in the first and last movements of his Fourth...
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