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...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 19, 2009 | A view from the podium
Madison, Wisconsin based readers will surely agree with me that in its heydey, there was no classical CD shop on earth quite like The Exclusive Co. on State Street. The culmination of the long career of Charles Lunde, who spent 60 years in the classical record...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 19, 2009 | A view from the podium
Over at the invaluable All The Conducting Masterclasses blog, it has proved popular and useful to list, where available, the participants in various conducting masterclasses. Here’s the RCICW class of 2009- we’ve got some very exciting emerging conductors...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 19, 2009 | A view from the podium
I’m sitting in seat 4B (that’s a very nice one, as the result of a much-appreciated upgrade- I’ve decided to publicly praise the airlines any time they treat me well in hopes they’ll see the value in doing it more often. This is a very musical flight- at least one...
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