{"id":401,"date":"2007-07-28T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T08:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/07\/28\/more-news-from-the-conductors-workshop\/"},"modified":"2007-07-28T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T08:19:37","slug":"more-news-from-the-conductors-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/07\/28\/more-news-from-the-conductors-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"More news from the conductor&#8217;s workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Another day at the Rose City International Conductor\u2019s Workshop, and sensory overload is the theme at this point. Four days in everyone\u2019s heard so much music and participated in so many discussions that it would be easy to feel as though we should cancel tomorrow and take a personal day, but it\u2019s been so fun and rewarding and inspiring that I can\u2019t imagine not doing it tomorrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">We had some great moments in the conducting sessions- mostly those were one of the conductor\u2019s would finally grok the idea of really tracking the soloist rather than following them. When you\u2019re no longer reacting to the soloist, but anticipating and responding in the moment, great things start to happen. It was all soloists today- a morning session on the Shostakovich 1<sup>st<\/sup> Pno Concerto with Rick Rowley and trumpet soloist Fil Ovando and scenes from Il Trovatore with Brennen Guillory. Brennen at one point cheerfully sang his Act III tenor aria about 7 times in a row- I hope the students know how lucky they are to learn opera conducting working with someone who can and will do that for them\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">We had such and extensive group rap session this afternoon that I totally lost my voice by the end of the day. Topics included career development in terms of karma, player relations, methods of score study, talking to audiences and so on. The highlight for me was actually an aside, when David Hoose talked for about 15 minutes about the orchestration of the first chord of Beethoven 7. Absolutely amazing and inspiring.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">I suppose we\u2019re now on the dreaded home stretch, but I\u2019ve got high hopes that we\u2019ll see quite a few more AHA moments from the students.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Lots more to say, but later\u2026<\/span><\/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\/2007\/07\/28\/more-news-from-the-conductors-workshop\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day at the Rose City International Conductor\u2019s Workshop, and sensory overload is the theme at this point. 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