by Kenneth Woods | Jul 8, 2024 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
What follows is an essay about my new Performing Version of Mahler’s arrangement of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden String Quartet, premiered at Colorado MahlerFest in 2024. Schubert, Franz arr. Mahler/Woods – String Quartet in D minor (Der Tod und...
by Kenneth Woods | May 3, 2022 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
It’s that time of year again, when we can feel the rapid approach of Colorado MahlerFest. Here are some of my thoughts about this year’s festival. The committed Mahlerians in our audience this week will already know that Mahler toyed with the idea of a...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 28, 2020 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
This article (from 2016, but circulating this week online) is simply not on. The Neurotic Genius – Inside Mahler’s Mind by Alicia Watson Not at all. The author (a therapist) says “”neurotic” has been clinically retired,” and I wish she...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 13, 2020 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
As a young musician for whom the music of Mahler was the most remarkable and unexpected discovery, I never thought that performances of his music would become so frequent and routine that music industry colleagues would begin to speak of “Mahler fatigue.” Although the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 17, 2019 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Here’s a bit of music history I didn’t know I had. Gerhard Samuel, who gave the first performance of Hans Rott’s Symphony Symphony in E, repeated the work for his final concerts before retiring from the podium as conductor of the Cincinnati...
by Kenneth Woods | May 30, 2019 | Headlines, Mahler, Music and Media, News and Reviews
Thanks to John Quinn from Seen and Heard International for this lovely and comprehensive review of last night’s epic Orchestra of the Swan concert with April Fredrick, soprano. Read the whole thing here. “The concert opened with one of Mozart’s...
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