Topic: Nigel Kennedy

Prizes pour in for Party in the Sky

An exciting array of auction prizes have been pouring in to the organisers of a charity gala dinner being held this Friday.. . New lots range from...

Nigel Kennedy adds a hoedown jig to Four Seasons

Both on stage and off, Nigel Kennedy wants us to know that he is not your average classical musician. He was returning to the composer who brought him his greatest success, Vivaldi; but where his 1989 recording of The Four Seasons (one ...
Many pieces of classical music are divided into sections that are usually (but not always) marked by a pause in the performance, and these sections are often designated as movements. There are indeed some movements that are so famous in their own ...
Everybody has some sort of musical taste,and we all know some music can be good and some can be bad.We also know a lot of people like to give their opinion on music.The Irish gave the bagpipes to the ...

Gamu proves that we are a nation of softies

The most important issue dividing Britain this week was not about child benefits but adult benefits and whether Cheryl Cole was right to axe Gamu Nhengu from The X Factor. In an online poll this week a "massive" 88.7 per cent ...

I smoked pot at drugs raid party

Nigel Kennedy, the self-styled "bad boy of classical music," has admitted he smoked cannabis at a post-concert party raided by police. The musician said he "smoked a little grass" during celebrations with members of the Czech orchestra at the party thrown for ...
Star violinist Nigel Kennedy was questioned by German police after a drugs raid during a party at his five-star hotel following a classical music concert. Alexander Resch, a local police spokesman, said "suspicious objects" believed to be used for taking cannabis and ...

Grayling has to lose three senior staff

The article reports on the move of public relations (PR) agencies Grayling and Premier PR to make job cuts in response to the economic downturn. Grayling Global group chief executive Nigel Kennedy says the company has cut three senior staff in response ...

Violin's "bad boy" brings Poland to London

LONDON (Reuters) - Nigel Kennedy can't be classical music's bad boy anymore at age 53 even if he does still sport a mohawk, kick soccer balls into the audience and sprinkle the "f" word into every other sentence.So how about ...

Nigel Kennedy to open Tower Festival

Violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy is to perform at the gala opening of the Continental Airlines Tower Festival. Following a hugely successful 2008 world tour and the most talked-about BBC Prom concert of the year, Kennedy opens the Festival with the Philharmonia Orchestra ...