by Kenneth Woods | Mar 4, 2008 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews, Study with Ken
2008 Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop (www.rosecityworkshop.org). As we prepare for our fourth summer of great music and good company in one of the most beautiful and dynamic cities in America, we’re very excited about this season’s repertoire and our...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 3, 2008 | A view from the podium
Some instrumentalists still look at any and all “extended techniques” as an annoyance that originates in avante garde music of the 20th c., even though many of them have been in use at least since the music of Biber, hundreds of years back. I don’t expect any...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 2, 2008 | A view from the podium
Is this the face of a man who wrote the St Matthew Passion, father 25 kids and could bend hardened steel with only his mental powers? And I just said science hadn’t done so much the last 30 years…. Read about the reconstruction of Bach’s face...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 2, 2008 | A view from the podium
I’m going to attempt to tread carefully in today’s post, so as to minimize the hate mail. A collection of words can have devastating, world changing power when we allow them to be perceived as “truth.” The fundamental level of social discourse in our time is that “it...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 1, 2008 | A view from the podium
For those of you who have already read my Xenakis quote from yesterday, you may be wondering why I chose it. Given that there are plenty of series on this week’s concert, doesn’t the quotation of such a statement seem a bit self-defeating from a marketing standpoint?...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 1, 2008 | A view from the podium
The writer is Iannis Xenakis The year is 1955 “[…] the serial system is thrown into question on its own two bases, which embody the seed of their own destruction and inadequacy : the series; their polyphonic structure. A series (of any sort)...
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