by Kenneth Woods | May 28, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media, Performing Life
Well nothing gets your inbox hopping like having your picture on the font page of the Sunday edition of the state-wide paper. The Oregonian ran a huge feature article by their senior music critic, David Stabler, on the Oregon East Symphony’s performance of Mahler 1...
by Kenneth Woods | May 8, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
I recently ran into an old friend and colleague, Edwin Outwater, who was in Cardiff for a few days to work with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. We’ve known each other since the early days of our conducting lives as students and later staff conductors at the Round...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 10, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
I’m happy, but not surprised, that Peter Maxwell Davies is speaking out again on the state of arts and art funding in Britain in the Telegraph. He has long since reached that place in his professional life many of us are looking for- the place where you are famous...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 7, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to explore YouTube. Today, however, I made a discovery that I’m awfully happy about. Some kind soul has posted a documentary on Frank Zappa called Peefeeyatko. http://youtu.be/H8-N08xDz6E I’ve only ever really wanted three...
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 7, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Of course, I was not alone in my reaction to yesterday’s Guardian piece on the alleged death of the recording industry. A must read is at The Rest is Noise, where Alex Ross thoroughly and meticulously debunks that whole notion of dying industry through, wait for it…....
by Kenneth Woods | Apr 6, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Hmm… more of this…. Is it just me, or has prognosticating doom for working musicians become a nice little earner for some? I think there might be more honorable trades to ply. Thirty years ago, if you wanted to make and sell high-quality wine, beer or coffee in the...
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