Talk:Nigel Kennedy

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Nigel Kennedy has also worked with Sarah Brightman, in the song "The War is Over" Here's my source http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb1208.html

Kennedy was a student of Miss Amina Lucchesi (sp?) in Brighton. I, too, was a student of hers, back then in the 60's, and we and others played in a small orchestra she led.

tonybrower@hotmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.14.58.78 (talk) 21:38, 25 November 2008 (UTC) Would a better picture of Nigel be something worth doing? Sorry I can't be the one to suggest one but you can hardly see him in the present photo? Maybe someone can note this comment and then remove it as it is no doubt in the wrong place! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.113.244.1 (talk) 08:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Family relationships
We need to understand the story. People keep on assuming Lauri Kennedy was Nigel's mother - HE was not, HE was a man and HE was Nigel's grandfather:. Nigel's mother was a piano teacher named Scylla Stoner:,. And it was Nigel's grandfather Lauri Kennedy, not his father John Kennedy, who played with Fritz Kreisler:,. That was in 1935, when John Kennedy was way too young. This is from the Myspace page of Nigel's half-sister Debbie Kennedy, with various details, and she should have a fair idea. -- JackofOz (talk) 06:17, 13 December 2008 (UTC)


 * OK, I've now created articles for Lauri Kennedy and John Kennedy (cellist). --  JackofOz (talk) 00:50, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

allmusic link
I've added a link to allmusic.com using the allmusicguide template, notwithstanding the nomorelinks warning. The number of external links in this article is manageable, and the allmusic.com links is a useful one and standard for articles of this nature. TJRC (talk) 18:56, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Kennedy
Wasn't there a period when he was billed and generally referred to as just "Kennedy"? --  Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   19:09, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Indeed there was: see the discography section of the article, recordings from 1997 to 2000. Regards. Francesco Malipiero (talk) 19:33, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. That's not very visible to general readers.  Maybe we should say something about when and why he changed to Kennedy, and when and why he changed back to his full name.  --   Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   19:37, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Controversy
Shouldn't there be a section about how he's essentially the Liberace of the violin? NeverWorker (Drop me a line) 19:56, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the sentence in the Image section of the article mentioning this ridiculous Drummond comparison is quite enough. I have never been a fan of Nigel Kennedy's cross-over experiments (and his excentric clothing- and hair-style), but I don't think Liberace ever recorded with a world-renowned orchestra like the Berlin Philharmonic, or succesfully recorded a Beethoven, Brahms or Tchaikovsky concerto to the quality standards Nigel Kennedy achieved. Francesco Malipiero (talk) 20:42, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey isn't it just a personal opinion that he shouldn't change his accent from 'posh' to 'cockney'. Maybe I can identify every famous person who has gone from working class accent to received pronunciation and add a controversy section to their page. Gomez2002 (talk) 16:09, 22 September 2014 (UTC)


 * In any case, Liberace didn't speak cockney or mockney or the American analogue (whatever that might be) of anything like it. And not only did Liberace not play classical at the concert level (as pointed out above), he also didn't play rock or jazz. Musically, Liberace pretty much stuck to one thing, a particular, distinctive kind of non-rock pop with a kitsch-classical gloss. That makes Liberace in this respect the opposite of Kennedy: Kennedy's visible musical interest is wide; Liberace's was narrow. Moreover, it's hard not to view Liberace's extravagance (of dress, speech, and comportment) as an extension (although clearly an exaggerated one) of his sexuality. In pointed contradistinction, Kennedy's "mockney", his embracing of many musical genres, his hand gestures, his humor, and the warmth he displays on stage toward his fellow musicians and his audiences, seems to me to extend, almost ineluctably, from his egalitarian political beliefs. Liberace was not publicly a political animal. You can easily ascribe Kennedy's manner of dress and haircut as a bid for special attention (although I suspect you would be wrong), but you must note then as well his self-deprecatory remarks and his promptness to credit other performers. Liberace was all about Liberace; Kennedy is all about us. No, I don't think the Liberace crack even rises to the level of a "personal opinion"; it's glib gratuitous malice, and it has no grounding in reality. TheScotch (talk) 08:27, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Image
Trying to look like Peter Sellars 185.188.233.56 (talk) 15:52, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Opportunity knocks
why no mwntion of appearance on this show.?109.144.149.25 (talk) 19:28, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Early Life
I find this a little confusing. It is said he showed himself a prodigy by picking out Fats Waller tunes at the age of ten (which does not seem particularly noteworthy) but that would have been three years after he started at the Yehudi Menuhin School, at the age of seven, when he must presumably already shown signs of exceptional talent. Can someone clarify?

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Child prodigy
" A boy prodigy, as a 10-year-old he picked out Fats Waller tunes on the piano..."

I could do that when I was 10, and I'm certainly not a prodigy. Is this some kind of typo? If not, perhaps better to remove it; the next sentence, about starting at the Menuhin School aged seven, sounds much more prodigy-like. (I clicked the link to the cited reference, but it didn't work). Paulwilliam2 (talk) 14:57, 4 January 2022 (UTC)