Ken Woods asked Wanda Sobieska to write a blog post about her wonderful illustrations for The Ugly Duckling in advance of the work’s premiere. She chose to do so in the form of this beautiful letter, which he shares here.
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Conductor Kenneth Woods shares his thoughts about our concert :Visions of Childhood.”
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Like orchestras all over the world, the English Symphony Orchestra has been dealt a devastating artistic and financial blow by the COVID-19 crisis.
Concerts and recordings that were years in the planning were all cancelled, and the orchestra has lost over 60% of its annual turnover in earned income and cancelled concert fees. It has been our musicians who have been most hard-hit by this. Like most orchestral musicians in the London orchestras and chamber orchestras around the UK, they are paid on a freelance basis, so this has been a time of real hardship for all of them.
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Join us on Saturday, 16 May as we partner with our colleagues at Colorado MahlerFest for a webcast...
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Edward Elgar never said truer words than “…the living centre of music in England is not London, but somewhere further north…” True to this day I think, too!
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