by Kenneth Woods | Dec 14, 2010 | Music and Media
Thanks to Tom Service at the Guardian for pointing out Vice Magazine’s classical reviews. Many are spot on and most are hilarious, including the best review of a Schumann disc I’ve ever seen: ROBERT SCHUMANN PERFORMED BY VARIOUS ARTISTS Chamber Music EMI...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 24, 2010 | Music and Media, News and Reviews
The Well-Tempered Ear has quickly become the official source for classical music news and reviews serving Madison, Wisconsin’s very diverse and vibrant scene. Jacob Stockinger was the arts and culture desk editor and the former features editor and former news and...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 22, 2010 | Music and Media, News and Reviews
My colleagues at Orchestra of the Swan kicked off their 3rd season as resident artists at Town Hall Birmingham with a bang this week. Coming up next for OOTS is the Finzi Clarinet Concerto with Sarah Williamson, conducted by David Curtis on the 16th and 17th of...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 27, 2010 | Music and Media
I don’t know if I can say this definitively, but as far as I know, Vftp is the oldest conductor’s blog still going, and when I first started I couldn’t find any examples of other substantial blogging projects by any other conductors. While it’s nice to be first, we...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 11, 2010 | Music and Media, Nuts and bolts
Some months ago, my trio, Ensemble Epomeo, had just given a rather pleasant and exciting concert the night before, and I was enjoying my morning espresso on the slopes of Mount Epomeo just that little bit more with the first performance of a challenging new program...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 28, 2010 | Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective, Music and Media, Nuts and bolts
First, let me say hello to the many new readers who have found their way here from the BBC after my chat (which you can hear here) with Nicholas Kenyon on yesterday’s Today programme. In that very brief segment, we managed to touch on a few topics very dear to my...
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