by Kenneth Woods | Dec 17, 2009 | A view from the podium
Sad news from Madison, courtesy of Jake Stockinger and the Well-Tempered Ear (read more here). Charles S. Lunde, the longtime and beloved record seller at Victor Music and then the Exclusive Company, has died. Charles passed away quietly on Dec. 13 at age 86. Charles...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 15, 2009 | A view from the podium
https://www.conductorsguild.org/main.asp?pageID=158 My colleagues on the board of the Conductors Guild have been working very hard to put together the best Guild conference ever. It just got better- Two new reasons you absolutely cannot miss the Copenhagen...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 4, 2009 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
Interestingly, what we know as the “Ruckert Lieder” by Mahler were conceived as individual songs, rather than as a cycle like the Kindertotenlieder or the Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen. Mahler orchestrated four out of the five songs, which he conducted once on a...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 2, 2009 | A view from the podium
Well…. What an interesting afternoon. Those of you who have read the last installment here on Vftp will know that my master plan for world conquest today involved stretching out our time on two Mahler songs that use few or no strings to maximize time for sectionals. I...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 25, 2009 | A view from the podium
Musicologist and Haydn scholar H.C. Robbins Landon has passed away at the age of 83. He was a man so prolific as author, editor and broadcaster that I long suspected there must be six of him. I probably have more scores edited by him in my library than anyone else,...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 24, 2009 | A view from the podium
In about 2 hours, I’m going to start rehearsals for my concert next week with the UW-Madison Symphony. There are gigs, and then there are gigs- this is really a gig of gigs for me. I’m a Madison native and a faculty brat (my dad is still teaching from the same office...
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