by Kenneth Woods | Jul 14, 2012 | A view from the podium, Not quite the news, Satire
One of the longest music director searches in US classical music history is about to come to a surprising and historic conclusion, sources tell View from the Podium reporters, as a major American orchestra prepares to appoint the holographic image of Leonard Bernstein...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 14, 2012 | A view from the podium
A new review of volume 1 of the Orchestra of the Swan recordings of the complete symphonies of Hans Gal and Robert Schumann in the July 12th issue of the Birmingham Post: Read the whole thing here. A sample follows: Get your copy direct from Avie Download from iTunes...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 7, 2012 | A view from the podium
July 7 is Gustav Mahler’s birthday- the great man would have been 152 today, which would be a great age even for Elliott Carter. However, there’s no more pro-Mahler blog in the blogosphere than VFTP, so we’re celebrating his birthday by offering a...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 4, 2012 | A view from the podium
“The first rule of Mahler 9, is that you do not talk about Mahler 9” June 26, 2012 marked the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Gustav Mahler’s 9th Symphony. Bruno Walter conducted the Vienna Philharmonic- Mahler had been dead a little over a year. On...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 3, 2012 | A view from the podium
The response to my post calling for reform to the American orchestral audition system has been pretty exciting to behold. Saturday was, to the best of my knowledge, the busiest day ever for our VFTP servers. Thanks to everyone who commented and tweeted, and a special...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 2, 2012 | A view from the podium
Reflections on Debussy: East and West in meaningful dialogue Peter Davison ponders the recent Reflections on Debussy series at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, discovering what its creative dialogue between East and West might tell us about the state of...
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