by Kenneth Woods | Aug 15, 2009 | A view from the podium, News and Reviews
From Cigol Reviews- 4th July 2009 – 7:30pm – Helix Ensemble – Kenneth Woods All Saints with Holy Trinity Church, Loughborough, Leicester Roger Swann The highlight of this concert was a chance to hear only the second UK performance of Philip...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 11, 2009 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts
As I look out from my palatial office towards the busy inner corridors of VFTP International Headquarters and our crack team of Harvard-educated interns working as fact checkers and web technicians, I am reminded of the sacred mission of this august institution- to...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 10, 2009 | A view from the podium, Haydn
There’s a nice story in The Oregonian today from senior music critic David Stabler on Haydn and the never-ending Haydn/Mozart rivalry. In spite of the fact that David quotes from me extensively, it is a very good piece. Audiences love Mozart, but Haydn’s...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 7, 2009 | A view from the podium
Conductor and Kansas City Examiner music writer Erik Klackner takes the Haydn ball and runs with it. The most ruthless among us will stab a person in the back. The most cold and calculated among us will stab a person in the front. But it takes the most creative...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 2, 2009 | A view from the podium, Haydn
Solomon Volkov, best known for his role in assembling Shostakovich’s memoirs, Testimony, once described him as the second (Mussorgsky being the first) great “yurodivy” composer. Volkov defines the yurodivy as follows- “The yurodivy is a Russian religious phenomenon,...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 1, 2009 | A view from the podium
I just want to take a moment to reassure readers that this blog is still in business, despite a recent absence of posts. This year it simply proved impossible to find time to blog during the course of the Rose City International Conductor’s Workshop, and since...
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