by Kenneth Woods | Oct 10, 2013 | A view from the podium
It’s not so much a “I told you so” situation as an “I am still telling you now” one. Back in September, controversy erupted when a well-known conductor was quoted as saying some bizarre and outdated things on the subject of women conductors. I wrote a blog post...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 1, 2013 | A view from the podium
A review from critic Jessica Duchen in the November 2013 issue of BBC Music Magazine for Somm’s new recording of music for piano and orchestra by Franck, Falla and Turina with pianist Valerie Tryon “..loving and attentive performances…atmosphere that...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 30, 2013 | A view from the podium
A feature in the current (October 2013) issue of Classical Music Magazine on recent crowdfunding success stories includes discussion of the recent Indiegogo campaign in support of the final volume of the Complete Symphonies of Hans Gal and Robert Schumann on Avie...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 14, 2013 | A view from the podium
If Sibelius is good, this invalidates the standards of musical quality that have persisted from Bach to Schoenberg: the richness of inter-connectedness, articulation, unity in diversity, the ‘multi-faceted’ in ‘the one’. Theodore Adorno, 1938...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 12, 2013 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky seemed to be singularly unlucky in choosing the dedicatees of his great concertante works. He wrote his evergreen Variations on a Rococo Theme for the cellist William Fitzenhagen. As always, Tchaikovsky invited Fitzenhagen to suggest...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 4, 2013 | A view from the podium
The music world has reacted this week with a mixture of genuine moral outrage and cynical Schadenfreude to one conductor’s recent take on the place of women in the conducting world. For all the howls of indignation, what I haven’t seen from most people writing about...
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