{"id":6622,"date":"2014-12-30T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?p=6622"},"modified":"2015-01-01T13:47:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:47:24","slug":"repertoire-report-kw-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2014\/12\/30\/repertoire-report-kw-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Repertoire Report- KW, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s nearly time to say &#8220;so long&#8221; to another year, and as we work our way through Christmas leftovers and brace for the struggles and adventures that lay ahead, it&#8217;s navel-gazing season at Vftp, when we look back at the musical year just past.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/?cat=58\">Repertoire Report<\/a> project has been an interesting one (at least to me) over the years- it&#8217;s a way to see what people are up to from year to year and to compare various conductors&#8217; workloads and approaches to programming.<\/p>\n<p>A number of things stand out to me in this year&#8217;s Report. Looking at the &#8220;most popular&#8221; KW-composers in 2014, it&#8217;s no surprise that Mozart is the winner- he often has been. On the other hand, a few years back one would never have guessed that Vaughan Williams would be in second place on a KW repertoire list. Getting to do more of RVW&#8217;s music over the last few years has been a real revelation for me, and I hope to continue to add more of his music to my repertoire this year. I&#8217;d done the Fifth Symphony and and the Tallis Fantasia before, but the Fourth Symphony was an incredible project, and my young colleagues from the Kent County Youth Orchestra played it with ferocious commitment in April. I&#8217;ve wanted to do RVW&#8217;s &#8220;On Wenlock Edge&#8221; for many years, but as is so often the case, my admiration for the piece deepened greatly as I learned it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vaughan Williams- Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, Kenneth Woods, Orchestra of the Swan\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bCKnpBJdghE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the midst of my mini-immersion in the \u00a0music of RVW, I was repeatedly inspired by my conversations about his music with ESO composer-in-association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmccabe.com\/\">John McCabe<\/a>, who knows and reveres Vaughan Williams&#8217;s music like few others. It was a real honor to have him present in Kent for our performance of the RVW Fourth and to play the Tallis Fantasia alongside John&#8217;s &#8220;Pilgrim&#8221; twice. \u00a0Fortunately, the year has afforded me a number of opportunities to perform John&#8217;s music, and Signum have just released our recording of his trumpet concerto &#8220;La Primavera&#8221; which is a very important addition to the trumpet literature. For me, the high point of working with John&#8217;s music this year was getting to conduct &#8220;Pilgrim&#8221; for Double String Orchestra twice. It&#8217;s a masterpiece- a hugely, hugely important addition to the elite list of the very greatest works for string orchestra. It&#8217;s a deeply moving work with a potent mixture of intensity and grandeur, wedded to an astounding depth of craftsmanship. We hope to play it again often.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John McCabe on Elgar, Tippett and Vaughan Williams\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NoS22TCM-7Q?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce \"><ul class=\"products columns-4\">\n<li class=\"product type-product post-6601 status-publish first instock product_cat-cds has-post-thumbnail sale shipping-taxable purchasable product-type-simple\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/product\/psalm-contemporary-british-trumpet-concertos\/\" class=\"woocommerce-LoopProduct-link woocommerce-loop-product__link\">\n\t<span class=\"onsale\">Sale!<\/span>\n\t<span class=\"et_shop_image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Psalm-Cover.jpg\" class=\"attachment-woocommerce_thumbnail size-woocommerce_thumbnail\" alt=\"PSALM- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH TRUMPET CONCERTOS\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Psalm-Cover.jpg 500w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Psalm-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Psalm-Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Psalm-Cover-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Psalm-Cover-380x380.jpg 380w, https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Psalm-Cover-285x285.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span class=\"et_overlay\"><\/span><\/span><h2 class=\"woocommerce-loop-product__title\">PSALM- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH TRUMPET CONCERTOS<\/h2>\n\t<span class=\"price\"><del aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-amount amount\"><bdi><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol\">&pound;<\/span>12.00<\/bdi><\/span><\/del> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Original price was: &pound;12.00.<\/span><ins aria-hidden=\"true\"><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-amount amount\"><bdi><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol\">&pound;<\/span>9.00<\/bdi><\/span><\/ins><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Current price is: &pound;9.00.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dvorak was a big winner this year- I LOVED doing the Fifth Symphony, a work I&#8217;d occasionally found problematic as a listener but grew to admire enormously as I studied it. The fall off in popularity of Dvorak&#8217;s music after the five or six big hits is a complete mystery to me. The Fifth should be just as engaging for any audience as the New World- while Dvorak&#8217;s later work wins points on craft and economy of means, the earlier astounds for the wealth of ideas and thrilling energy of the Finale. It was a pretty good year for Mahler- three symphonies, including my first full public performance of the Seventh, which was a hoot.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there were some painful omissions from the repertoire list. Many of my favorite 20th c. composers were absent, including Janacek, Debussy, Stravinsky, Messiaen and Bart\u00f3k. What a waste of a year of one&#8217;s life to miss out on doing anything by these giants for an entire year. The biggest omission, however, must be that of Robert Schumann, whose music was agonizingly absent from my calendar for the first time in well over a decade if not more. This is all the more bizarre given that we just completed our Schumann cycle with the Orchestra of the Swan in December of 2013. Fingers crossed that 2015 brings more Bobby!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Schumann Symphony no. 1- Finale, Kenneth Woods, Orchestra of the Swan\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zqnmuyUU8R0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>(This was literally the last Schumann I conducted- the recording incorporates the last several minutes of our concert performance, the ending of our four-year Bobby and Hans mega-adventure)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it was a good year for the music of living composers- lots of performances, a healthy number of premieres and some very exciting recordings. I hope that&#8217;s a trend that will continue next year- there are many exciting things in the pipeline!<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s balance of cello to conducting seemed to show a slight shift toward more cello, but no concerti for the first time in a few years. That&#8217;s fine with me- the best music for cello is the chamber repertoire, and I got to play many of the greatest things in the literature this year.<\/p>\n<p>So then, without further ado, here are the stats!<\/p>\n<p><strong>[If you would like to contribute to the Repertoire Report project, please send your listing of works performed in the last calendar year in alphabetical order to info@kennethwoods.net]<\/strong><br \/>\n* Performances in multiple venues\/series= 12<\/p>\n<p># New to KW repertoire= 28<\/p>\n<p>World-premieres= 7<\/p>\n<p>Number of composers= 49<\/p>\n<p>National premieres= 3<\/p>\n<p>Living composers performed= 15<\/p>\n<p>Works by living composers= 19<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most popular composers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Five works-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mozart<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Four Works-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dvorak<\/li>\n<li>Vaughan Williams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Three works-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beethoven<\/li>\n<li>Mahler<\/li>\n<li>John McCabe<\/li>\n<li>Schubert<\/li>\n<li>Strauss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Two works-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grieg<\/li>\n<li>Haydn<\/li>\n<li>Jay Reise<\/li>\n<li>Tchaikovsky<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Whitman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kenneth Woods- 2o14 Repertoire Report<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Bach arr. Sitkovetsky- \u201cGoldberg Variations\u201d # *<\/li>\n<li>Barber\u00a0Cello Concerto<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven- String Trio in C minor Opus 9 no. 3<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven- Symphony no. 2 in D major<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven- Symphony no. 4<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Bond- Quartet for Shakuhachi and String Trio (World Premiere) #<\/li>\n<li>Brahms\u00a0Serenade No. 1<\/li>\n<li>Britten- Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings #<\/li>\n<li>Butterworth- The Banks of Green Willow #<\/li>\n<li>Cohen- Two Cello Duos (UK Premiere) #<\/li>\n<li>Copland-\u00a0Appalachian Spring<\/li>\n<li>Emily Doolittle- \u201cfalling still\u201d for Violin and strings (UK Premiere)<\/li>\n<li>Dvorak \u2013 Serenade for Wind Instruments<\/li>\n<li>Dvorak- Serenade for Strings<\/li>\n<li>Dvorak- Symphony no. 5 #<\/li>\n<li>Dvorak- Symphony no. 8 in G Major<\/li>\n<li>Elgar- Introduction and Allegro for Strings<\/li>\n<li>Hans G\u00e1l \u2013 Divertimento for Winds #<\/li>\n<li>Grieg- Selections from Peer Gynt<\/li>\n<li>Grieg-Piano Concerto in A minor<\/li>\n<li>Haydn- Cello Concerto in C Major<\/li>\n<li>Haydn- Symphony no. 44 \u201cTrauer\u201d #<\/li>\n<li>Kurt\u00e1g- Signs, Games and Messages<\/li>\n<li>LePage\/Schubert- Sleep Softly in My Arms #<\/li>\n<li>Levinson- Three Fables<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Keeling- Piano Trio \u201cUnquiet Earth\u201d #<\/li>\n<li>Mahler- Symphony no. 4<\/li>\n<li>Mahler Symphony no. 5<\/li>\n<li>Mahler Symphony no. 7 #<\/li>\n<li>John McCabe- Red Leaves #<\/li>\n<li>John McCabe- \u201cPilgrim\u201d for Double String Orchestra * #<\/li>\n<li>McCabe\u00a0Trumpet Concerto \u201cLa Primavera\u201d<\/li>\n<li>McIver- Fantasia on Theme of Glennys Pierce # (world premiere)<\/li>\n<li>Mendelssohn- Cello Sonata<\/li>\n<li>Mozart- Oboe Quartet<\/li>\n<li>Mozart- Clarinet Quintet<\/li>\n<li>Mozart- Overture \u201cThe Impressario\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mozart arr. Triebensee \u00a0\u2013Harmonium selections from<em>Don Giovanni\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mozart- Symphony no 29\u00a0in A Major<\/li>\n<li>Thea Musgrave- Green for String Orchestra #<\/li>\n<li>Paganini\u00a0Violin Concerto No. 1<\/li>\n<li>Penderecki-\u00a0String Trio *<\/li>\n<li>Deborah Pritchard- Violin Concerto \u201cWall of Water\u201d (World Premiere) #<\/li>\n<li>Prokofiev\u00a0A Summer Day \u2013 a suite for children #<\/li>\n<li>Ravel- Le Tombeau de Couperin<\/li>\n<li>Jay Reise- String Trio (world-premiere) *<\/li>\n<li>Jay Reise- \u201cThe Warrior Violinist\u201d for Violin, Cello and Narrator<\/li>\n<li>Rossini-\u00a0Overture to William Tell<\/li>\n<li>Kaija Saariaho- \u201cTerra memoria\u201d for String Orchestra (UK Premiere) #<\/li>\n<li>Saint-Saens- Cello Concerto no. 2 in D minor<\/li>\n<li>James Schlefer- \u201cSidewalk Dances\u201dfor Shakuhachi and Cello (world premiere) #<\/li>\n<li>Schnittke- String\u00a0Trio *<\/li>\n<li>Schubert- Cello Quintet *<\/li>\n<li>Schubert- String Trio in B flat<\/li>\n<li>Schubert- Symphony no. 3<\/li>\n<li>Shostakovich- Chamber Symphony op 110a<\/li>\n<li>Sibelius- En Saga #<\/li>\n<li>Sibelius- Violin Concerto<\/li>\n<li>Strauss- Duet Concertino #<\/li>\n<li>Strauss- Oboe Concerto<\/li>\n<li>Strauss- Serenade for Winds<\/li>\n<li>Tchaikovsky- Serenade for Strings #<\/li>\n<li>Tchaikovsky- Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture<\/li>\n<li>Telemann\u00a0Trumpet Concerto<\/li>\n<li>Tippett- Concerto for Double String Orchestra # *<\/li>\n<li>Ullmann\/Woods- Chamber Symphony op 46a<\/li>\n<li>Vaughan Williams- On Wenlock Edge #<\/li>\n<li>Vaughan Williams- Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis *<\/li>\n<li>Vaughan Williams- Symphony no. 4 #<\/li>\n<li>Vaughan Williams\u00a0Symphony No.\u00a05<\/li>\n<li>Weber\u00a0Euryanthe Overture #<\/li>\n<li>Weinberg- String Trio * #<\/li>\n<li>Tom Whitman- \u201cFire Down Below\u201d for mezzo soprano and string trio(world premiere) * #<\/li>\n<li>Tom Whitman- Two scenes from \u201cFire Down Below\u201d for String Trio (world premiere) *<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Past KW Repertoire Reports:<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to Repertoire Report- KW 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2013\/12\/27\/repertoire-report-kw-2013\/\">REPERTOIRE REPORT- KW 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Repertoire Report- KW 2012\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2013\/12\/29\/repertoire-report-kw-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">REPERTOIRE REPORT- KW 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to Repertoire Report- 2011 KW\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2012\/01\/04\/repertoire-report-2011-kw\/\">REPERTOIRE REPORT- 2011 KW<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to 2010 Repertoire Report- KW\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2011\/01\/03\/2010-repertoire-report-kw\/\">2010 REPERTOIRE REPORT- KW<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"2009 Repertoire Report- KW\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/12\/20\/repertoire-report-2009-kw\/\" target=\"_blank\">2009 REPERTOIRE REPORT- KW<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to KW Repertoire Report 2007-9\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/12\/21\/kw-repertoire-report-2007-9\/\">KW REPERTOIRE REPORT 2007-9<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to Repertoire Report- Oregon East Symphony and KW\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/10\/20\/repertoire-report-oregon-east-symphony-and-kw\/\">REPERTOIRE REPORT- OREGON EAST SYMPHONY AND KW<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to 2008 KW Repertoire Report\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/12\/15\/2008-kw-repertoire-report\/\">2008 KW REPERTOIRE REPORT<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to 2007-10 KW Repertoire Report Statistical Analysis and Listing\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2011\/01\/05\/2007-10-kw-repertoire-report-statistical-analysis-and-listing\/\">2007-10 KW REPERTOIRE REPORT STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND LISTING<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to KW Repertoire Report 2007-9\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/12\/21\/kw-repertoire-report-2007-9\/\">KW REPERTOIRE REPORT 2007-9<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog-title\"><a title=\"Permalink to 2007 repertoire report\" href=\"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2007\/12\/13\/2007-repertoire-report\/\">2007 REPERTOIRE REPORT<\/a><\/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\/2014\/12\/30\/repertoire-report-kw-2014\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s nearly time to say &#8220;so long&#8221; to another year, and as we work our way through Christmas leftovers and brace for the struggles and adventures that lay ahead, it&#8217;s navel-gazing season at Vftp, when we look back at the musical year just past. The Repertoire Report project has been an interesting one (at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6158,"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":[58],"tags":[365,856,1064],"class_list":["post-6622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-repertoire-reports","tag-hans-gal","tag-john-mccabe","tag-mahler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622","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=6622"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6631,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions\/6631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}