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...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 14, 2010 | A view from the podium
(The ghosts of Leningrad, now St Petersberg, as captured by the great Alexey Titarenko I think it is fair to say that a great composer never wastes an idea- be it a musical motive or a technical concept. Everything is explored and developed. We all know that the...
by Kenneth Woods | Mar 13, 2010 | A view from the podium
(The ghosts of Leningrad, now St Petersberg, as captured by the great Alexey Titarenko) By this point in my life, the vast majority of works I’m conducting are ones I’ve already been thinking about for a long time, and already have very strong convictions about....
by Kenneth Woods | Feb 17, 2010 | A view from the podium
(The ghosts of Leningrad, now St Petersberg, as captured by the great Alexey Titarenko) For all that readers are seeing a lot about Gustav Mahler on these pages, the work on my desk right now is Dmitri Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony, which I am conducting next week. I...
by Kenneth Woods | Oct 12, 2009 | A view from the podium
“The New Bärenreiter Urtext Edition is audibly different and leads to a new way of hearing and understanding the Symphonies.” From the Barenreiter website For some time now, I’ve been meaning to write a little something on the myths and misunderstandings surrounding...
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