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, Nuts and bolts
Thoughts on Shostakovich and interpretation from his collaborator and compatriot, Kyrill Kondrashin- The Interior Shostakovich Statement by Kyrill Kondrashin read at a symposium held at Bucknell University, New York 9th September 1980 Translated by Antonina W....
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 | Sep 5, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
Studying a Mahler score is great conducting lesson. Studying a Sibelius score is a great composition...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 23, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
For all you conducting dorks out there- The New Yorker has a piece this week by Justin Davidson on the art of conducting. As an added bonus, they’ve posted a very good video piece to accompany it. Those of you who know the “Art of Conducting” films well will...
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