by Kenneth Woods | Oct 3, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
This post from Helen Radice is a nice post-script to my piece last week on the rhythms of work. I’m afraid Allan Bennett has it completely wrong. There are always maybe one or two cancers in an orchestra who will exploit every possible loophole to get out of work. I...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 2, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
What makes sense about conducting is that you are really in the best position to evaluate what the musicians are doing as they play. What doesn’t make sense about conducting is that you are in the worst possible position to evaluate what you are doing as the...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 28, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Work loves work. Since I set out on the road to being a full time free-lance conductor some years back, I’ve become exceptionally sensitive to the rhythms of work. This experience and the careful study of my own situation now brings me to my new “special theory...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 24, 2006 | A view from the podium, Nuts and bolts, Performing Life
When we think of rehearsals, we tend to think in terms of two main goals- improving our technical standards, and developing our shared vision of the music. There’s another less obvious process that can take place in rehearsals, which, when it happens, can be more...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 23, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
I have to admit that I’m surprised not even any of my friends who read this blog regularly pointed out how completely crap my recent concert announcement for the September 30 Surrey Mozart Players concert really was. I was appalled at it even as I wrote it, but...
by Kenneth Woods | Sep 22, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media, Performing Life
It’s been a strange week here at VFtP headquarters. I spent way too many hours on Monday (and Tues early hours) at the computer helping a colleague assemble a grant proposal for a recording project. We all know that this is the future for everyone who wants to record,...
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