by Kenneth Woods | Jun 21, 2011 | Nuts and bolts
Conductor Christopher Zimmerman is Music Director of the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra. In 1993, he and I were both newly arrived on the campus of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music: Chris as the conductor of the Concert Orchestra, me as a new...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 20, 2011 | A view from the podium
Part II of my look at the ins and outs of conducting Brahms 1. Part I is here. You can follow along on a pdf of the score here. There are whole books written about tempo relationships in Brahms. Many conductors drive themselves to drink trying to make the 8th...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 20, 2011 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Critic, blogger and Mahlerian Gavin Plumley has offered up a thoughtful review of the my new Orchestra of the Swan recording of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (as arranged by Schoenberg) at his excellent blog, Entartete...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 19, 2011 | Nuts and bolts
Vftp readers will know that Brahms’ First Symphony has been much on my mind the last few weeks. With our final performance behind us, now, I thought it might be fun to just go through the piece on a very simple, nuts and bolts level and explain some of my current...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 18, 2011 | A view from the podium
Conductor Foster Beyers is the newly appointed Director of Orchestras at Concodia College in Minnesota. He is currently completing his Doctorate degree at the University of Minnesota, where his dissertation is on the recorded history of Sibelius’ Symphony no. 7....
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