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
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 | Oct 20, 2010 | A view from the podium, Mahler, Mahler- Performer's Perspective
Gustav Mahler is a composer whose music again and again finds connectivity in contrast and contradiction. His music is full of starkly contrasting opposites, and yet he always seems to find connection and unity between light and dark, fast and slow, happy and sad, and...
by Kenneth Woods | Jul 25, 2010 | News and Reviews
From the Surrey Advertiser July 9, 2010 Ambitious programme draws Surrey Mozart Players’ season to a close. The Surrey Mozart Players concluded their 2009/10 season and their run of Schumann’s orchestrals works with a most ambitious programme in the Electric Theatre....
by Kenneth Woods | Jun 10, 2010 | cello, Nuts and bolts
It’s Bobby Schumann week on planet Earth, and all the nations of this blue planet are gathering their energies and chanting “Bobby, Bobby, Bobby” in honor of his 200th birthday. I’m celebrating the week by book-ending the week with performances of the Cello and Violin...
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