by Kenneth Woods | Jun 9, 2008 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Here is a recent piece from the Western Mail, based mostly on an interview I did with them a few weeks ago. Current Arts Council of Wales guidelines only support funding commissions of new music if it is for dance. Keith Griffin, of music umbrella body Ty Cerdd,...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 6, 2008 | A view from the podium
Rest in peace, Bo Diddley, one of the true inventors of rock ‘n’ roll, an original and ingenious guitarist and about the hardest groovin man ever to walk the earth. I saw Bo Diddley in about 1991 at the Madison Rib Fest- not a venue worthy of a living legend, but...
by Kenneth Woods | May 30, 2008 | A view from the podium
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’m not going to explain…...
by Kenneth Woods | May 28, 2008 | A view from the podium
I find May to be the strangest time of year for me professionally, as it hangs in this netherworld between the concert-season/school-year and the summer-festival season. In fact, one often experiences the cognitive dissonance of doing a summer festival in early May,...
by Kenneth Woods | May 24, 2008 | A view from the podium
We don’t do reviews here at Vftp (part of my “glass houses” policy), but I thought the odd concert report might allowable. Most musicians and music lovers have their own version of “the list.” That is the list of performers you want to catch before they or you die....
by Kenneth Woods | May 23, 2008 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
I’ve recently been following a somewhat heated discussion of the attacca- the musical practice of joining two movements of a multi-movement work without pause. Surprisingly, many musicians cannot seem to agree on the definition of an attacca. In fact, the true...
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