Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedy
Nigel Kennedyis a British violinist and violist. He made his early career in the classical field, and has more recently performed in jazz, klezmer and other music genres...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionViolinist
Date of Birth28 December 1956
crumble might pushing technique
If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
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The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.
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No, I'm not leaving the electric violin to Vanessa Mae. I'm still playing quite a lot of electric stuff. But only when there is a need for it. I like rocking out. And the electric violin is useful for many other things. It's useful for really good effects and it's also great for rocking out, with the drums and the bass, get into really heavy stuff. At the moment I'm not really doing any projects involving that thing.
pathos profundity
You can't learn pathos or profundity.
playing waving
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?
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Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.