{"id":865,"date":"2009-08-10T22:31:10","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/08\/10\/haydn-in-the-oregonian\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T23:09:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T22:09:55","slug":"haydn-in-the-oregonian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2009\/08\/10\/haydn-in-the-oregonian\/","title":{"rendered":"Haydn in The Oregonian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/O\/index.ssf\/2009\/08\/haydn_vs_mozart_the_battle_of.html\" target=\"_blank\">nice story in The Oregonian today\u00a0from senior music critic David Stabler on Haydn<\/a> and the never-ending Haydn\/Mozart rivalry. In spite of the fact that David quotes from me extensively, it is a very good piece.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Audiences love Mozart, but Haydn&#8217;s music holds a special place for those who know it. With perfect technique, clear layout, rich harmonies and generous emotions, he leaves listeners optimistic, buoyant, engaged.<\/p>\n<p>One of those people is Kenneth Woods, a conductor living in Wales who programs Haydn symphonies whenever he can. Until this season, Woods led the Oregon East Symphony in Pendleton.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Haydn doesn&#8217;t have to be a minority interest,&#8221; he says. &#8220;When people hear his music done well, they adore it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his music blog, a smart, opinionated forum about composers and conducting, Woods leads the charge in support of Haydn: &#8220;I&#8217;ve said it here before, but I&#8217;m not sure everyone heard me,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Haydn was a more creative, more talented and more skilled composer than Mozart.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\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\/2009\/08\/10\/haydn-in-the-oregonian\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a nice story in The Oregonian today\u00a0from senior music critic David Stabler on Haydn and the never-ending Haydn\/Mozart rivalry. In spite of the fact that David quotes from me extensively, it is a very good piece. \u00a0 Audiences love Mozart, but Haydn&#8217;s music holds a special place for those who know it. With perfect [&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":[1,12],"tags":[1068,32,39,40,41],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician","category-haydn","tag-haydn","tag-mozart","tag-oregonian","tag-stabler","tag-view-from-the-podium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}