by Kenneth Woods | Jun 18, 2007 | A view from the podium
Programming is a practice that falls somewhere in the cracks between high art, alchemy and sausage making. There are two kinds of decisions orchestras make that greatly overshadow all other concerns. 1- What are we going to play 2- Who’s going to play it...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 16, 2007 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
UPCOMING CONCERT- June 23, 2007 7:30 PM Surrey Mozart Players Electric Theatre, Guildford Beethoven- Coriolan Overture Schumann- Cello Concerto in A minor –Gemma Rosefield, cello Shostakovich- Chamber Symphony op. 73 From the SMP website- Beethoven’s overture...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 14, 2007 | A view from the podium
So… how does one identify true musical genius in the 21st Century? Is it a composer with a new harmonic vocabulary? A conductor with photographic memory? A violinist with perfect pitch? A pianist with ten brains for ten fingers? I, for one, look to poetry. Magnetic...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 11, 2007 | A view from the podium
Tell them a passage should sound “not together in exactly the right way….” ...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 11, 2007 | A view from the podium
I was rehearsing the first Shostakovich Piano Concerto yesterday, and it occurred to me that we tend to think of composers careers in a rather naïve way. Almost invariably, we tend to hear about composers “developing” or even “improving” throughout their careers, but...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 9, 2007 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Dmitri Shostakovich- Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, op 35 In many ways, Shostakovich was a quintessentially Russian composer. As a symphonist one can certainly hear the influence of Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and even, to an extent,...
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