by Kenneth Woods | Jul 6, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Two of my colleagues from the Oregon East Symphony, principal trumpet James Smock and co-principal horn Rebekah Schaub have recently started what I think is a very interesting venture, offering private lessons in listening to music, called, appropriately enough,...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 23, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
I’m just flipping through scores before my SMP dress rehearsal this afternoon and realizing what an incredible challenge we have ahead of us tonight. Shostakovich’s Third Quartet is in five movements, and five movement works almost always are built on some concept of...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 19, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Okay, I’ve been tagged. Daniel Wolf at Renewable Music has tagged me as he was tagged by Matthew Guerrieri at Soho the Dog. It’s official- I’ve won the Thinking Blogger Award. Here’s how it works 1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 2, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
I’ve been rather saddened and even a little baffled in the lead up to the 150th anniversary of Edward Elgar’s birth to come across statement after statement to the effect that, even today, the jury is still out on Elgar’s significance as a composer. With all due...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 1, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Here’s a nice follow-up/comment from David Sabler’s blog about his recent article on the Oregon East Symphony. There’s also this and this from Oboinsight. I’ve also been pleasantly surprised how many folks have responded to the Haydn thread. Hopefully this means real...
by Kenneth Woods | May 29, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
Think of the pianist and the piano….. I never thought I could be too sympathetic to instrumentalists who never have to worry about intonation.:) Deep down, most string players think pianists have it pretty easy in life, even if they do play a lot more notes than we...
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