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by Kenneth Woods | Dec 7, 2019 | A view from the podium, Not quite the news, Performing Life, Satire
NB – I have become aware in recent years of a special category of internet pedants who have made it their job in life to police the completeness and formality of the title of the work being discussed in the following post. Out of concern for their...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 14, 2019 | A view from the podium, Piano, pianists and pianism
Leonard Bernstein was fond of saying of his friend and mentor that Aaron Copland was almost two composers, almost two men: one the smiling, genial, public composer of Appalachian Spring and Billy the Kid, and the other, more severe figure, “a cross between Walt...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2019 | A view from the podium, Lists
They say “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but that just won’t do for music. Surely there must a scientifically sound way of determining once and for all what the most beautiful openings are in the history of symphonic music? Well, here you go....
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2019 | A view from the podium
This made me laugh. I am, generally speaking, not an aficionado of the short. As far as I can tell, shorts are at their most permissible as recreational or sporting clothes for kids or grown ups (biking shorts are allowed as long as you are on a bike, kids should be...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 25, 2019 | A view from the podium
Recorded LIVE at Cadogan Hall, 9 June, 2019 English Symphony Orchestra Kenneth Woods – conductor “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony also received one of the best performances I have heard live. Woods’s fine and sane musicality ensured...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 25, 2019 | A view from the podium, Not quite the news, Satire
Just ten months ago, the City of Manchester Ensemble was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Ticket sales were dropping faster than Boris Johnson’s pants at a Royal Ascot after-party, and the orchestra was haemorrhaging money at an alarming rate. It looked like their...
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