by Kenneth Woods | Jul 31, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Just as a follow-up to yesterday’s piece on state funding of the arts…. There are lots of conversations going on in the blogosphere, in newspapers and around the water-cooler about the so-called crisis in classical music. One central idea I have been trying to...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Have a look at this piece in today’s Guardian, and be sure to read the numerous comments that follow. I find it interesting that the discussion so quickly deteriorates into an argument about market economics versus socialism. One reader extols the virtues of artistic...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 28, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Just came across this post in the Guardian on the future, or lack of it, of MTV. Discovering MTV was a major turning point in my life. I found the channel just a few months after it went on the air, and soon became completely addicted. In that first summer, I was...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 18, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
With a headline like this, I don’t know how this article from Greg Stepanich could possibly not have caught my eye. He writes about a new group, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, who he describes as playing music that sounds “kind of like mild gamelan house music, or...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 17, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
For some time now, I have wanted to write a post in praise of the great, great saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman. Coleman is the founder of a jazz movement called M-Base (Coleman dislikes the labeling of music, and would probably not approve of his music being...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 15, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
I was very touched and impressed that Tim Managan, who wrote the original piece on Shostakovich and Bowles that inspired my recent essay got in touch to let me know more about the circumstances of Bowles’ original remarks. You can read his comments here. He has two...
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