by Kenneth Woods | Jan 27, 2009 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
I seem to have acquired a reputation somewhere along the line as a conductor who often chooses very challenging programs. (Some regular readers who I work with in various orchestras will already be laughing out loud wondering how I might begin to defend myself against...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 7, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
Ken- We’re nearing the end of our very, very lengthy discussion with conductor Kenneth Woods about his performance last week of Elgar’s epic First Symphony with the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra. Ken, you seemed very happy with the orchestra. Ken- I was...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 7, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
Ken- I’m speaking today with the verbose and loquacious conductor Kenneth Woods about his perforamce of Elgar’s Symphony no. 1 with the Gulf Coast Symphony. Ken, having done Elgar 1 twice now, do you feel your thinking on the piece has evolved? Ken- Well,...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 7, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
I’ve been feeling a bit uninspired here of late- probably a combination of being a bit too busy to really think about writing, and of not doing enough reading to feel I have anything non-autobiographical to discuss. What I really need is a bit of topical guidance-...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 20, 2008 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score, Favorite posts, Nuts and bolts
It’s a bit of a cliché to say that an artist bared his or her soul in a work of art. One of the few pieces I can think of for which that expression is truly apt is the Schumann Violin Concerto, which we are doing next week with the English Symphony Orchestra and...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 5, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
As we got to terms quickly with the difficulties on the Sibelius, we also had a lot of work to do on the first half on the concert. The opening of the Tristan Prelude is one of the hardest passages for wind intonation ever written. Many of the recordings I’ve heard...
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