by Kenneth Woods | Jan 2, 2018 | A future for music
If nothing else, 2017 tested one’s ability to live by rule that one doesn’t speak about politics or religion in polite company. I’ve struggled to come up with some New Year’s thoughts this year because, frankly, it feels a little absurd to be talking about...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 22, 2016 | A future for music, A view from the podium
From the January 2017 issue of Musical Opinion Magazine. My manifesto explaining the thinking behind the 21st C. Symphony Project. Subscribe to the magazine here. On 28 February, 2017, the English Symphony Orchestra will premiere the Third Symphony by...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 2, 2016 | A future for music
Longstanding Vftp readers will have noticed a couple of relatively major shifts of emphasis here at the blog in recent years. As my administrative responsibilities have increased (much to my dismay), my time and mental space for blogging have been in much scarcer...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 8, 2015 | A future for music, A view from the podium, Music and Media
It’s not often that something from the New York Times Op-ed pages gets you thinking about music for children, but a blog post by Paul Krugman this week reawakened a line of thought that had been simmering away in my subconscious since the premiere last week of the new...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 11, 2015 | A future for music, A view from the podium
“Social media.” It’s a phrase we use so often that it’s easy to forget how uneasily the words “social” and “media” sit together. When I see the word “social,” I think of friends and family, of person-to-person contact. I think of the people with whom I share...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 2, 2015 | A future for music, A view from the podium
2014 was the year in which the real world finally caught up with Classical Music. As the New Year dawns, we find ourselves all deep in the belly of a whale that looks a lot like society-at-large In earlier blog posts this year, we looked at how the classical music...
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