{"id":104,"date":"2006-08-04T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/08\/04\/listen\/"},"modified":"2006-08-05T08:38:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T08:38:33","slug":"listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/08\/04\/listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was making my daily visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blognoggle.com\/classical.html\">blognoggle<\/a> to see who\u2019s saying what in the classical blogosphere today, and, in amidst all the obituaries for Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, I saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/listen101.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/kenneth-woods.html\">headline <\/a>which was made up entirely of my name. Quite a surprise.<br \/>\n<span \/>So- big thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blognoggle.com\/classical.html\">Steve Hicken at Listen<\/a> for posting this. I\u2019m really delighted that people are taking an interest in things I\u2019m talking about here.<br \/>\n<span \/>Perhaps it is a symptom of hard times, but I feel like classical artists have slightly lost our voices in today\u2019s world. I would say that this applies particularly to conductors and composers. Maybe it is because our field has become so competitive that no one wants to risk losing a gig because they\u2019ve said something in print that others might disagree with? Perhaps we\u2019re so careful not to alienate audience members, donors, board members and supporters that we\u2019ve become too scared to talk to them? Maybe we\u2019re just to busy to get involved?<br \/>\n<span \/>In any case, could it be that our absence from the important conversations of our day is one reason\u00a0 that so many people no longer think that our art form is truly relevant. Schumann and Berlioz were not just composers, they were commentators, critics and participants. They wrote, and their writings were read by other musicians, by audience members and\u00a0the general public.\u00a0<br \/>\n<span \/>Even more urgently, perhaps if we become less afraid to speak to each other, we can make our little corner of the culture more relevant, more interesting and more vibrant. I\u2019m ready to take a little risk and put my point of view (or at least part of it!) out there.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>c. 2006 Kenneth Woods<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2006\/08\/04\/listen\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was making my daily visit to blognoggle to see who\u2019s saying what in the classical blogosphere today, and, in amidst all the obituaries for Elizabeth Schwartzkopf, I saw a headline which was made up entirely of my name. Quite a surprise. So- big thanks to Steve Hicken at Listen for posting this. I\u2019m really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","category-music-and-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}