by Kenneth Woods | Jan 7, 2007 | A view from the podium
Good news, and not surprising to me at all, from Alex Ross. The internet can solve one of the great problems of the classical recording industry- classical buyers tend to graze in larger pasteurs than pop fans. The gap between the best and the worst selling discs is...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 7, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler
On to the second song now, and back into the capable hands of Mitch Friedfeld. From a purely subjective point of view, I find this is in many ways the most anguished of all the songs. This poem contains the most intense imagery and the most stylized and heightened use...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 7, 2007 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
As promised, I would like to try to backtrack to the time this film was shot and just throw in a bit of a performers perspective on the first song of the cycle. It’s quite common for non-musicians to say things along the lines of “you must feel so lucky to get to do...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 4, 2007 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score, Mahler
I’d like to start this voyage into Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder first with an extended excerpt from Mitch Friedfeld’s essay, followed by the video of the first song. Then, in the next post, I’ll share some of my reactions to the piece as a performer. The three main...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 2, 2007 | A view from the podium
I’m hard at work studying Mahler’s masterpiece, Das Lied von der Erde (in Arnold Schoenberg’s reduction) for our concert with the Rose City Chamber Orchestra on February 3rd. With Mahler’s vocal music very much on my mind, and with some new video functionality on my...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 1, 2007 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
My friends in the technological brain trust have been working on the next generation of resources for my website, and, after much worry and frustration (remembering they’re only paid in beer), we now have our first video on kennethwoods.net. This is a performance of...
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