by Kenneth Woods | Apr 10, 2017 | A view from the podium
John Joubert- Jane Eyre: An opera in two acts £22.00 Where does an opera really take place? Why, on the stage, I hear you say. Of course, that’s true, but not quite the truth. Der Rosenkavalier and The Magic Flute might take place on the same stage in the same...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 28, 2017 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
John Joubert’s musical language is original yet familiar, subtle yet direct. Firmly rooted in tonality, his harmonic vocabulary is highly sophisticated and personal, and he seems to have a particular knack for energising traditional harmonies through clashes,...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 22, 2016 | A future for music, A view from the podium
From the January 2017 issue of Musical Opinion Magazine. My manifesto explaining the thinking behind the 21st C. Symphony Project. Subscribe to the magazine here. On 28 February, 2017, the English Symphony Orchestra will premiere the Third Symphony by...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 21, 2016 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
I cannot recall the last concert I attended that included a Symphony by Haydn and one by Mozart, and also embracing an impressive recent English work. Kenneth Woods, the English Symphony Orchestra’s Artistic Director, has already revived what was a fairly moribund...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 4, 2016 | A view from the podium
Poulenc’s frothy, frivolous and rather sexy ballet Les biches does not seem, at first glance, to be the sort of piece to make a hardened muso well up with emotion, but it had just that effect on me about a week ago as I listened to it for the first time in ages....
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 28, 2016 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
Joubert’s Jane Eyre is hauntingly intimate – review April Fredrick sang the title role in John Joubert’s Jane Eyre John Allison 27 OCTOBER 2016 • 1:43PM Christmas is coming, and choirs are getting ready to sing such perennially popular carols...
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