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...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 19, 2013 | A view from the podium
Just about 20 hours left in the campaign for Hans Gal and Robert Schumann.Thank you, everyone who has given, tweeted, liked, emailed, blogged and helped.We’re in striking distance, but we need to see more people take action and give. I know there are still a lot...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 19, 2013 | A view from the podium
Last night, BBC Four gave us one of the richest evenings of television I can remember seeing in the 10 years or so I’ve lived here. A digest of the best of this year’s contemporary music offerings at the Proms, it was a diverse and exciting array of great...
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