by Kenneth Woods | Jul 13, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Fantastic post in the Telegraph on music in education. The author, Frank Furedi, brilliantly describes the cowardice that is killing music education in the western world. What he doesn’t talk about, and what I think really needs to be discussed, is that, just as...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 13, 2006 | A view from the podium
Thanks to Scott Spiegelberg for mentioning my blog on his very readable site Musical Perceptions. I’m touched to know I still qualify as a young conductor at 38. The definition of a young conductor has changed radically in the last 10 years. 50 used to be young...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 13, 2006 | A view from the podium
Some years ago a friend (who happens to be both Jewish and one of the most knowledgeable musicologists in the world) told me about a film he had seen of Furtwangler conducting Wagner’s Meistersinger Prelude in a factory during WW II, under the swastika. He described...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 13, 2006 | A view from the podium
I read an interesting and thought-provoking post this morning in the Classical Life blog which caught my eye because it was about Shostakovich, a composer whose music is very dear to me. Tim Managan, the blogger, quotes from the composer and author Paul Bowles, who in...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 11, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
As readers may have guessed from some of my recent posts, one of my summer projects has been to get to know YouTube and to understand what it means to people in all of the creative industries. Copyright has become a more contentious point of conversation than ever...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 11, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media, Nuts and bolts
Interesting discovery today. Ligetisplit, a Chicago based blogger (I think the whole question of annonymous blogging, especially in the music world, might merit a post in the near future). He’s started uploading clips of various conductors to YouTube with his...
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