by Kenneth Woods | Dec 18, 2015 | A view from the podium, Not quite the news, Satire
The Commons Cultural Welfare Select Committee has issued a report calling for a new levy being described by both advocates and critics as a “bullshit tax.” “Government has long recognized the need for special taxation on items whose use brings certain inevitable costs...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 11, 2015 | A view from the podium
The current issue (January-March 2016) of Musical Opinion Magazineleads off its concert coverage with Christopher Morley’s rave review of the ESO’s October 10 premiere of Donald Fraser’s orchestration of the Elgar Piano Quintet. The ESO’s recording of this “worthy...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 10, 2015 | A view from the podium
I was saddened this week to learn of the sudden retirement of conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the age of 86. (For more detail see The Strad and the New York Times news items, and this tribute from the Berlin Philharmonic) Harnoncourt has long been a bit of a Marmite...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 8, 2015 | A future for music, A view from the podium, Music and Media
It’s not often that something from the New York Times Op-ed pages gets you thinking about music for children, but a blog post by Paul Krugman this week reawakened a line of thought that had been simmering away in my subconscious since the premiere last week of the new...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 2, 2015 | A view from the podium
It was the sort of revelation that will probably be denied to musicians of the post YouTube generation, because when you grow up in a world where a permanent visual record of just about everyone and everything is available instantaneously online, the shock of seeing...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 20, 2015 | A view from the podium
REVIEW by Spencer Allman The English String Orchestra at Hereford Cathedral THE English String Orchestra is contributing to a pilgrimage in honour of Edward Elgar. The musical journey through the West Midlands started on October 7 in Hereford...
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