by Kenneth Woods | Aug 4, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
It seems that something breaks in my house every day that I am in it, and when I travel, things break even more often. Just recently, we’ve replaced a dishwasher, our six month-old coffee machine has gone on the fritz (the old one was only 2 years old), we’ve had an...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 1, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
At the end of this month my 06-7 season begins with a course at the Kent County Youth Orchestra. This is my second visit with KCYO, and the first was an absolutely wonderful experience from beginning to end. The students played well, and with real passion and the...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 31, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Just as a follow-up to yesterday’s piece on state funding of the arts…. There are lots of conversations going on in the blogosphere, in newspapers and around the water-cooler about the so-called crisis in classical music. One central idea I have been trying to...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Much as I’m happy to see Shostakovich getting so much attention in his 100th anniversary year, I’ve been a bit sad to see the 150th anniversary of the death of Robert Schumann go almost completely unnoticed, except at On An Overgrown Path. I actually very lovingly...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 30, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Have a look at this piece in today’s Guardian, and be sure to read the numerous comments that follow. I find it interesting that the discussion so quickly deteriorates into an argument about market economics versus socialism. One reader extols the virtues of artistic...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 28, 2006 | A view from the podium, Music and Media
Just came across this post in the Guardian on the future, or lack of it, of MTV. Discovering MTV was a major turning point in my life. I found the channel just a few months after it went on the air, and soon became completely addicted. In that first summer, I was...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2006 | A view from the podium, Performing Life
Much as I prefer to avoid autobiography on this blog, I have to share a very surprising and exciting piece of news. This afternoon at 2:20 PM United Airlines finally delivered my suitcase into my hands here in Cardiff. I’m not sure I have the verbal tools to...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2006 | A view from the podium
Here is a very moving post from someone named reidmt (see annonymous blogging). I actually know who he is, as will many of my readers, but nevermind, I thought is was a good post. Interestingly, I could have easily been in Pendleton this week for our youth camp at...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2006 | A view from the podium
Here’s a very nice “what I did with my summer non-vacation” from Leonard Slatkin posted at Classical Source. It reads an awful lot like a well-written blog entry. Leonard, are you going to steal my niche????...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 27, 2006 | A view from the podium
I’ve been trying to steer friends towards these interviews with Rostropovich for a long time, so I thought I would take Pliable’s idea and post the links here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/shostakovich/ram/rostropovich1.ram...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 26, 2006 | A view from the podium
There are two reasons I don’t do reviews on this blog, much as I might be tempted. The first, and most compelling, reason is that I am aware of what a big, beautiful glass house I live in, and secondly, I don’t particularly want to piss people off in my field....
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 26, 2006 | A view from the podium
I want to call reader’s attention to a lovely comment from Harriet Gedge, daughter of conductor David Gedge. I’m so happy to hear that David is coming along in his march to recovery, but it sounds like a truly arduous process. Other news today- over at oboeinsight, we...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 26, 2006 | A view from the podium
It is unbearably hot in London this week, and it has really sapped my ability to concentrate enough to come up with new stuff. Fortunately, I have a few old things I’ve been meaning to add that were written for discussion groups, editorials and so on. This was...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 25, 2006 | A view from the podium
While in London this week I had the opportunity to see “Underground Surrealism” at the Hayward Gallery, a fascinating look into one very exciting moment in art history as witnessed through the prism of one magazine, Georges Bataille’s “Documents.” The magazine only...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 21, 2006 | A view from the podium, Favorite posts, Performing Life
Last August, Suzanne and I spent our holiday time traipsing around Normandy and Brittany. One afternoon, we found ourselves in a beautiful and unspoiled little medieval town in western Brittany looking rather aimlessly about. Having quickly found the market and the...
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