by Kenneth Woods | Dec 5, 2006 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
UPCOMING CONCERT Friday, December 8, 2006 Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Lancashire Chamber Orchestra St. Anne’s Choir Benefit Concert for St. Anne’s Hospice “Christmas is Coming” Support the work of a wonderful charity by coming out for an...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 5, 2006 | A view from the podium
From the Surrey Advertiser, December 1, 2006 Surrey Mozart Players/Kenneth Woods The small but acoustically favourable Menuhin Hall in Stoke d’Abernon resounded to the music of Mozart and Haydn, as the Surrey Mozart Players under the direction of Kenneth...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 4, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
In the last installment of this series, I tried to look at some of the questions that leading musicians of the past may have been asking when they were performing in ways that we might now find foreign. We can’t go back to that old, Furtwanglerian, manner of...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 4, 2006 | A view from the podium
From The Herald, Glasgow, 4 December 2006 “…The concert (was) given on Saturday by the Kelvin Ensemble, in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of Glasgow University’s student orchestra… this young, keen, ambitious ensemble. American conductor Kenneth...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 3, 2006 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Nuts and bolts
What then of someone like Furtwangler, who’s Beethoven tempi tend to be quite uninhibited by the metronome? Many leading modern Beethoven interpreters and commentators, including John Elliot Gardiner, Gunther Schuller and Benjamin Zander have all held up Furtwangler’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 1, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
Intermezzo from the score questioning series- Some (late night) thoughts to ponder in Dvorak 8, 1st mvt…. What is the first note of the piece (in the melody)? Middle “D” What is the last note of the cello melody that spans the first 16 bars (yes, the cellos...
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