by Kenneth Woods | Oct 30, 2012 | A view from the podium
Today (October 30th), Performance Today, produced by American Public Media, broadcast two recent live performances from the Orchestra of the Swan and yours truly. The first hour of the program opened with a movement from our live recording of Mahler’s Das Lied...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 24, 2012 | A view from the podium
Last week’s episode of critic, author and journalist Andrew Patner’s show “Critical Thinking” on WFMT-Chicago features discussion of and selections from our new recording of the trios of Hans Gal and Hans Krasa. You can listen to the episode on the WFMT website here,...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 24, 2012 | A view from the podium
Recordings editor Phil Sommerich interviews the members of Ensemble Epomeo on their new recording of the trios of Hans Gal and Hans Krasa in the current issue of Classical Music Magazine (October 20, 2012). On sale now! Buy a copy while you can, or better yet,...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 18, 2012 | A view from the podium
I was trying to explain the international rules of concert duration succinctly today. Here’s what I came up with. 1- American audiences generally come to concerts for the social occasion, and often dread the music that comes with it, so they prefer we keep the...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 14, 2012 | A view from the podium
A new four-star review for Ensemble Epomeo’s debut CD from Michael Dervan of the Irish Times. Dervan says of the Krasa works “the trios by Krása were written in the months before his death. Tanec (Dance) mixes light and dark, the Passacaglia and Fuga shift from...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 7, 2012 | A view from the podium
Hello Vftp readers! I’m writing to you from high above the Atlantic ocean, en route from a tense and nervous Heathrow airport, where the deportation of Abu Hamza has once again convinced those in power that the only thing that can keep us safe from the murdering...
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