by Kenneth Woods | Jul 31, 2007 | A view from the podium
I’m in Seattle Airport on my way home from the 2007 Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop. It was quite a week- exhausting, exciting, entertaining and really inspiring for all of us on the faculty. I just hope the students got even half as much out of it as we...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 28, 2007 | A view from the podium
Another day at the Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop, and sensory overload is the theme at this point. Four days in everyone’s heard so much music and participated in so many discussions that it would be easy to feel as though we should cancel tomorrow and...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 26, 2007 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
Day two at the RCICW, and a magical day at that. If day one was a day of intriguing disappointments, where conductors tip-toed up to doing something great only to not quite make it, day two was a day of wonderful surprises. We began the day with a unison conducting...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 25, 2007 | A view from the podium
Day one of the RCICW is complete. This year Betsy, one of the cellists in the orchestra, kindly and generously organized a welcome party where players, teachers and conducting students could get a chance to meet and socialize. It’s always a challenge to make a...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 24, 2007 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
Tomorrow morning begins the Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop. This is our third year, and I’ve been so busy dealing with the day-to-day administration of the program and putting out various fires that the actual workshop seems to have snuck up on me a bit....
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 23, 2007 | A view from the podium
10:30 PM. Gotterdammerung begins. We’re at the stage where we begin to look backward to the day’s highlights, such as…. Siegfried captures a guy in a bear suit Siegfried slays a wall with tentacles (Fafner) Alberich turns into a six-inch long stuffed toy frog...
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