by Kenneth Woods | Dec 13, 2007 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
One of the most asked questions I get from students and audience members is “how many pieces do you play/conduct in a year.” Well, we paid a conducting doctoral student $.50/hour to alphabetize my concert archive for this year now that I’m...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 13, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
It was a blustery Friday night, and I had a lot on my mind already. It’s always a long drive to rehearsals, Fridays doubly so, and rainy, windy Fridays in the holiday season trebly so. As I ground out the long commute, you might well have thought I was using every...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 11, 2007 | A view from the podium
For those of you who were following my concert with Parrry Karp at the Surrey Mozart Players concert in October, there is a new review of his sonata disc “Late Romantic Music for Cello and Piano,” with Howard Karp at MusicWeb International. The critic, Jonathan Woolf,...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 8, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Yes, in this context that means me LA based violinist Lindsay Deutsch has a foundation called Classics Alive dedicated to encouraging young people’s participation in music and they’ve set up a fantastic kids website and newsletter. Their newest feature...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 8, 2007 | A view from the podium
More thoughts to follow. One of the most influential and controversial composers of the 20th Century has passed. You may not have loved his music, but we’re all poorer for living in an age of market-tested platitude-music without his uncompromising intensity...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 5, 2007 | A view from the podium
I’ve recently been following a lively discussion of the fascist beliefs of the conductor Reginald Goodall, which has, predictably, spilled over to discussion of Karajan and Furtwangler. After writing this about Furtwangler, I thought it was interesting enough to...
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