{"id":1038,"date":"2013-08-13T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eso.co.uk\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2013-08-13T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:44:05","slug":"musical-america-news-piece-on-eso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/musical-america-news-piece-on-eso\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical America news piece on ESO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reblogged from <a href=\"http:\/\/musicalamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Musical America (subscriber access only)<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3894\"><a id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3909\" title=\"Click for more People in the News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/news\/?categoryid=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3908\" style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">PEOPLE IN THE NEWS<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h1 id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3900\"><span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3907\" style=\"font-size: medium;\">English Symphony Names Principal Conductor<\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3901\">August 6, 2013<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3904\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/musicalamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MusicalAmerica.com<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3899\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3898\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3923\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kenneth-Woods.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" \/>American-born conductor\u00a0<b id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3896\">KENNETH WOODS<\/b>\u00a0is to be the new principal conductor of the English Symphony\/English String Orchestra, a Worcestershire-based ensemble founded as a string orchestra in 1978 by William Boughton. He succeeds Vernon \u201cTod\u201d Handley, in the post until his death in 2008.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3922\">The orchestra has about a 15-concert season in its home base of Malvern, but tours regularly and is active in community outreach and education, providing music classes and playing in hospitals. Its motto is \u201cMusic for Everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3903\">&#8220;My colleagues in the ESO do the work they do in schools, care homes, hospices, and on youth orchestra courses because they believe in it,\u201d said Woods. &#8220;What could be more exciting for a conductor than to work with colleagues who want to be there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3920\">Woods arrived in 2012 as artistic director. His new post represents a promotion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3911\">His background includes the National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residency Program, in which he was as cellist in the Taliesin Trio in Mississippi County, Arkansas, one of the nation\u2019s poorest. He was also music director of the\u00a0Oregon East Symphony\u00a0in Pendleton, Oregon. He has described the group as &#8220;the most remotely situated full symphony orchestra on the planet.&#8221; The orchestra was particularly notable for its \u201cRedneck\u201d Mahler cycle.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1376393229141_3912\">Woods has also guest conducted frequently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reblogged from Musical America (subscriber access only) PEOPLE IN THE NEWS English Symphony Names Principal Conductor August 6, 2013 MusicalAmerica.com American-born conductor\u00a0KENNETH WOODS\u00a0is to be the new principal conductor of the English Symphony\/English String Orchestra, a Worcestershire-based ensemble founded as a string orchestra in 1978 by William Boughton. He succeeds Vernon \u201cTod\u201d Handley, in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/musical-america-news-piece-on-eso\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Musical America news piece on ESO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivalmontpeyroux.com\/eso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}