by Kenneth Woods | May 8, 2021 | A view from the podium
5th May 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: eso@eso.co.uk What: ESO Digital Concert – Elgar String Quartet When: 7:30pm GMT Friday 14th May 2021 Where: www.eso.co.uk/elgar-reimagined-2 English Symphony Orchestra...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 28, 2021 | A view from the podium
I once conducted a concert which started with Dvorak’s great orchestral triptych- Nature, Life and Love. It reminded me of what is wrong with classical music. Dvorak wrote the 3 parts of this work as a carefully interconnected whole- together, they form a sort...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 18, 2021 | A view from the podium
James Levine was not a great man with a single tragic flaw. He was an almost completely horrible person, with a single, tragic talent. Ever since I heard the news, I’ve had a voice on one shoulder screaming “don’t write about James Levine.” And on the other shoulder,...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 15, 2021 | A view from the podium
If you love Elgar, you’ll want to catch the English Symphony Orchestra’s Virtual Concert with Raphael Wallfisch, Elgar Re-Imagined. Available from the 19th of March here. This essay was commissioned by Erato for the recently released recording of these...
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 16, 2021 | A view from the podium, Piano, pianists and pianism
Gunnar Johansen was a legendary figure in my home town of Madison, Wisconsin. He retired from the University of Wisconsin in 1976, when I would have been seven, so he was practically the stuff of legend throughout most of my youth (we never met). He died in...
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