by Kenneth Woods | Jan 10, 2008 | A view from the podium, Haydn
I’m just back from the first rehearsal for our upcoming SMP concert. As regular readers will remember, we concluded our last concert with a performance of Mozart’s last symphony, which is a work I absolutely adore with all my heart. It is a piece whose title alone...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 8, 2008 | A view from the podium
When I first started this blog, my hope was that it would help bring in some new audiences to the orchestras I conduct, and while it does get read by some very devoted members of the general public (the true, hard-core fanatics!), I think it’s probably morphed into...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 8, 2008 | A view from the podium
The Oregon East Symphony has hard a long, hard slog trying to recover from “the fire,” and as I expected, the worst of it came not in the weeks just after the inferno consumed our offices, but after everyone’s focus had shifted come Autumn and the real...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 7, 2008 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Nuts and bolts
I’m a bit concerned that this sudden outpouring of advice is making me look even more like a pompous gasbag than I do simply by virtue of being a conductor (and worse yet, a conductor who writes), but then there was this…. In the comments on More Tips...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 5, 2008 | A view from the podium
Both John and Kac came forward with interesting comments/questions on my post of 11 top tips for soloists. I’ve answered them in the comments section there, but the answers are elaborate enough that they make more of a post, especially combined…. First,...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 31, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
I’ve written here before about the modern excesses of copyright law. Today, I came across this interesting article in the Boston Globe- it appears that legal scholars have found interesting models for the protection of intellectual property that doesn’t involve the...
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