by Kenneth Woods | Dec 11, 2010 | Performing Life
Recording Bobby and Hans with Orchestra of the Swan- the final concert…. With 1 hour and 34 minutes before the concert the musicians adjourned for dinner and rest, while I prepared for the pre-concert lecture. We had to set up a way of playing audio excerpts...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 10, 2010 | Performing Life
Day two of recording the 3rd Symphonies of Bobby and Hans. Part I here. We’d decided to maximize the overnight break, hence the early finish on Monday and late start on Tuesday. It gave more time for those musicians who commute to get home for a good meal and sleep,...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 10, 2010 | Performing Life
I’ve been enjoying my first couple of relatively quiet days at Vftp International Headquarters in some time. So much has happened in the last several weeks that I’ve been torn between wanting to do a whole bunch of blogging to take stock of all that experience and...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo- day 5 and 6 Wednesday morning I awoke with a sense of gleeful expectation, in spite of another raft of emails. Why? If you think I was looking forward to the concert, you guessed wrong. Longtime Vftp readers may have twigged that for me,...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 4 Tuesday morning- our final, main concert at St Thomas was to be a noon recital, so there was just time for coffee, lots of stressy emails, scales, packing and the drive in to St Thomas before we met Wesley and Nadja at 10:30. As...
by Kenneth Woods | Nov 13, 2010 | Performing Life
On tour with Ensemble Epomeo, Day 2 and 3 We set off early for New Brunswick, with over 300 miles to cover. We’d never done such a big trip as a trio before (the previous record was more like 2 or 3 hours), but it was a pleasant drive in good company. Somewhere along...
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