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Kenneth Woods- A View From the Podium
2021-01-03 15:47:52
KENNETH WOODS NAMED 2020 MEAD WITTER SCHOOL OF MUSIC DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI
American conductor Kenneth Woods has been selected as recipient of the 2020 UW-Madison Mead Witter School of Music Distinguished Alumni Award. Woods was nominated for the award by James Smith, with additional letters of support from John DeMain, Parry Karp, and Cyrena Pondrom. The School of Music established a Distinguished Alumni Award to recognize alumni […]
2020-01-25 17:52:29
* Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Maestro Nicholas McGegan (pictured, photograph by Suzanne Karp) opened a run of Händel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo last night at the ODC Theater in San Francisco. The fully-staged co-production with the Brooklyn-based National...
Kenneth Woods- A View From the Podium
2019-12-16 18:54:59
Howard Karp plays late Beethoven
Notes I wrote for the 6 CD Albany Records collection of live performances by the great American pianist, Howard Karp. These are proper live recordings – taken mostly from archival reel-to-reel 2 track tapes of Howard’s concerts in Madison and Urbana. Give his Beethoven a listen! Many pianophiles will have read that Beethoven’s Hammerklavier […]
Kenneth Woods- A View From the Podium
2019-11-14 21:23:59
Karp, Copland and Kirchner (and Bach)
Leonard Bernstein was fond of saying of his friend and mentor that Aaron Copland was almost two composers, almost two men: one the smiling, genial, public composer of Appalachian Spring and Billy the Kid, and the other, more severe figure, “a cross between Walt Whitman and an Old Testament prophet, bearded and patriarchal.” Written […]
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