by Kenneth Woods | Jun 1, 2009 | A view from the podium, Haydn, Music and Media
Few are more aware of the difficulties of selling Haydn than Franz Patay, an organizer of festivities marking the bicentenary. View post “If you show someone a (Haydn) bust they’ll think it’s Mozart,” says Patay, who was also involved in the...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 30, 2009 | A view from the podium
The big topic of conversation this week has been the 5th and final Prokofiev Piano Concerto, which I conducted on Saturday night with Daniel de Borah and the Surrey Mozart Players. Many of you will have already seen the review, which came out yesterday. The reviewer...
by Kenneth Woods | Dec 15, 2008 | A view from the podium, Repertoire Reports
You can view the 2008 KW Repertoire report here, which lists every piece of music I’ve performed in the 2008 calendar year. I thought I would take advantage of the painstaking efforts of my research assistant, former Lehman Brothers Executive VP Flurp Van Doogle and...
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 20, 2008 | A view from the podium, Explore the Score, Nuts and bolts
On my desk today is Schumann’s 2nd Symphony. If you had assembled a panel of experts, including every major composer from 1825 to 1899, at the end of the 19th century to pick the most important symphony after Beethoven, Schumann 2 would probably have been the one,...
by Kenneth Woods | Aug 20, 2007 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Nuts and bolts
Sometimes the best lessons come to us when we haven’t had enough coffee. I’d been working late on the score of Mahler 4, which I’m conducting in October for the first time in three or four years. I’d been doing what conductors are trained to do- analyzing everything...
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