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...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 13, 2016 | A view from the podium
The relationship between artists and arts funders seems ever more complicated. It seems to me that most funders (trusts, public sector funders, private sponsors) lack the energy, time or knowledge to vet funding applications in the arts on the basis of merit or...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 2, 2016 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
For me, it was musical love at first sight. The first time I heard the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto was on a cassette tape. I loved it so much, I kept rewinding and replaying bits of the first movement (most often the big tutti at the end of the exposition- even then...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 29, 2016 | A view from the podium, Headlines, News and Reviews
MahlerFest Debut In May, Ken made his debut as the new Artistic Director of Colorado MahlerFest , one of only two organisations in the USA (the other being the New York Philharmonic) to be awarded the Gold Medal of the International Gustav Mahler Society....
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