by Kenneth Woods | Jan 13, 2009 | A view from the podium
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I’m spending a lot of time with Mahler 5 these days- I’m doing it on the March1 OES concert, which will be the finale of our Redneck Mahler adventure, and then again in the summer at Harlech. Happily, I’ve managed to keep a fairly...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 13, 2009 | A view from the podium
I’m often struck by how the threads of my life seem to come together in funny and surprising ways. In the midst of getting up to speed on the coming run of concerts, I’ve also had to do a fair bit of planning and preparation for my final three concerts with the Oregon...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 13, 2009 | A view from the podium
There’s some good stuff out there on the ol’ internet to read this week. First, Dick Cavett has a nice piece on the forgotten art of the insult, that is, the forgotten art of the clever insult. I haven’t ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 10, 2009 | A view from the podium
It sounds a bit absurd to express surprise at the death of an 83 year-old man, but I was genuinely surprised to learn of the death of the cellist of the great Borodin Quartet, Valentin Berlinsky, who died a few weeks ago. After 62 years in the quartet, I’d...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 8, 2009 | A view from the podium
I have an alarming number of pieces to learn this week (I have first rehearsals for three big-ish programs in a 4 day period), alongside completion of my UK taxes (argh- I get to do taxes twice a year….), so blog posts may be scarce for a while. Among the works on my...
by Kenneth Woods | Jan 6, 2009 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Hi everyone I’ve just been made aware of this- the last recorded interview with Richard Hickox, available as a podcast on the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra website. Click here to listen, or right click and select “save target as” to download to your computer....
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