by Kenneth Woods | Aug 15, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
The best art show I went to last year was the exhibit “Underground Surrealism” at the Hayward Gallery on London’s South Bank. Check out the view I had last year here. Assembled and currated with care and insight it was a show that was more than merely a collection of...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 8, 2007 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
It was intermission of a garden concert for a local charity- we’d just finished the Dohnanyi Serenade for String Trio and were milling about the lawn while the punters downed their pinot noir and brie. He was easy to pick out even in a crowd. On a very casual...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 7, 2007 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
At the end of the Rose City Workshop, I was presented with a list of the quotes of the week, most of which were mine, although a few were from Chris (marked as CZ in this list). David, being the wisest and most mature of us managed to stay off this list, which is...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 6, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media, Nuts and bolts
From the “I know I live in a glass house” file… A recently released recording of Mahler’s Second Symphony apparently comes with some rather provacative liner notes from the conductor, which have been widely quoted in the reviews. The quotes alone were enough to...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 2, 2007 | A view from the podium
Study is the reward, not the price— “I can’t claim that I could always look at a score and hear everything that was there. However, now that I’ve rehearsed and performed these pieces many times, this is my reward- that I can sit with the score and hear...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 1, 2007 | A view from the podium
I’ve had some thoughtful comments on my Question of the Week post. My answer is this- I think it’s both cool and good that graduates from the RCICW don’t all look like graduates of the RCICW. Interestingly, some of the more experienced and advanced students did also...
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