by Kenneth Woods | Aug 4, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
It seems that something breaks in my house every day that I am in it, and when I travel, things break even more often. Just recently, we’ve replaced a dishwasher, our six month-old coffee machine has gone on the fritz (the old one was only 2 years old), we’ve had an...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 1, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
At the end of this month my 06-7 season begins with a course at the Kent County Youth Orchestra. This is my second visit with KCYO, and the first was an absolutely wonderful experience from beginning to end. The students played well, and with real passion and the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 31, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Just as a follow-up to yesterday’s piece on state funding of the arts…. There are lots of conversations going on in the blogosphere, in newspapers and around the water-cooler about the so-called crisis in classical music. One central idea I have been trying to...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Much as I’m happy to see Shostakovich getting so much attention in his 100th anniversary year, I’ve been a bit sad to see the 150th anniversary of the death of Robert Schumann go almost completely unnoticed, except at On An Overgrown Path. I actually very lovingly...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Have a look at this piece in today’s Guardian, and be sure to read the numerous comments that follow. I find it interesting that the discussion so quickly deteriorates into an argument about market economics versus socialism. One reader extols the virtues of artistic...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 28, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Just came across this post in the Guardian on the future, or lack of it, of MTV. Discovering MTV was a major turning point in my life. I found the channel just a few months after it went on the air, and soon became completely addicted. In that first summer, I was...
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