by Kenneth Woods | Sep 16, 2006 | A view from the podium, Mahler
For those of you who read and followed the original Mahler Journey thread on this blog, which chronicled the Oregon East Symphony’s 20th Anniversary performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2- The 21st Season of the Oregon East Symphony and Chorale will conclude on May...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 10, 2006 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
I was please to see that Patrick Smith at the Penitent Wagnerite picked up on my thread about Mahler scores as conducting lessons with this pseudo-rebuttal. I’m not sure, however, that he and I are really talking about the same thing, as I’m not at all concerned with...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 10, 2006 | A view from the podium, Mahler
I’m afraid I was otherwise occupied with KCYO when Tim Magnan wrote this piece on the art of conducting. Highly recommended. He’s quite right about the importance of the DVD revolution in helping us to better understand the working habits of many historically...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 8, 2006 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
You’ll want to have a score of the piece handy while working through this essay. Here is a copy. It is well known that Sibelius’ approach to symphonic composition was intensely organic- in his mature music everything in a given piece grows from the same little...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 7, 2006 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
Being a one himself, Mahler knew better than to trust conductors to know his intentions. Sibelius, on the other hand, famously said that if a performer needed to ask too many questions, they probably shouldn’t play his music. Think for a moment of Mahler’s “versions”...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 10, 2006 | A view from the podium, Mahler
Movement V of the recent Oregon East Symphony performance of Mahler 2 can be heard...
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