by Kenneth Woods | Mar 15, 2008 | A view from the podium
For those of you who think that I am just picking on living composers when I stress the importance of easily readable materials (pace Kyle Gann), I thought I would pass along to Vftp readers our experience tonight with Schumann’s Genoveva Overture, which we are...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 14, 2008 | A view from the podium
Time limits are mitigating against me writing too much this week about B5 preparations with the Surrey Mozart Players, but I am getting excited about the concert and hoping that I’m able to be there for it (more on that next week). There is good news for the...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 13, 2008 | A view from the podium
I’m sorry not to have written sooner about my weekend with the Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales, something I can only attribute to the combined effects of being very tired from it and very busy since it. In the end, I loved every piece on we did- it was a great...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 11, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
After 100 years with pretty much only one option, conductors now have many choices of what edition of the Beethoven symphonies to use. So what parts have my colleageus been looking at, and what scores have I been? Why? The Edition- In Lancashire they actually used the...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 11, 2008 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
I can’t help but smile at the fact that less than 24 hours after finishing my concert with the Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales, I was rehearsing Beethoven 5 and the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Surrey Mozart Players. Preparing the ultimate “warhorse” piece...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 7, 2008 | A view from the podium
In Part Four, Gordon and I turned to a rather well-worn topic, the thorny question of why visual modernism has generally been so much more popular than musical modernism. I have my own ideas about why this is the case, but I was curious to get Gordon’s. You may find...
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