by Kenneth Woods | Sep 10, 2007 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
I don’t watch a lot of TV, and have gone long periods of my life without having one attached to anything other than a VHS or DVD player, but I do watch the odd cooking show when I’m chilling out. In spite of my initial misgivings about the sanity of anyone who would...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 6, 2007 | A view from the podium
Well, summer is officially over, as I am officially back in rehearsals beginning tomorrow. It’s been some weeks since I’ve been on the podium- my last major concert was Bruckner 4 on June 30, and then the OES Camp Honors Orchestra in late July. I’ve not conducted in...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 5, 2007 | A view from the podium
One of the nice things about having done a fair bit of teaching is hearing what your former students are doing, and this morning I had an update on one of my cello students from my days teaching at Eastern Oregon University. Jacie was already a prize-winning fiddler...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 4, 2007 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
From my inbox comes a nice question from Felicity in Colorado, which gives me a rare, and nice, chance to answer a cello related question. “Dear Ken,” she writes, “when you’re playing the Bach Suites, do you use a baroque bow or baroque cello, what sort of A do...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 4, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Thanks to AC Douglas for pointing out this little oddity (more here and here) about and orchestra and a conductor at each other’s throats. I hate to sound glib, but one should really not take these things too seriously. As one of my dear friends in grad school used...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 2, 2007 | A view from the podium
I’m tempted to start a new column here called “things that people state as facts but that aren’t.” Of course, I won’t because I don’t want this blog to be too much of a downer. Nevertheless, every once in a while, I hear or read a comment about music that I think...
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