katefans@world.std.COM (Chris'n'Vickie of Kansas City) (02/25/90)
Andreas (hi! tried to e-mail you, it bounced) writes: > Nigel Kennedy is in Stockholm, at least tonight, and he will play in the > Berwald Hall tonight together with John Lenehan on piano. The concert > will be aired on Swedish radio, P2, 1930-2125 EST. > Yeah! that's all from Sweden at the moment! Oh gee, you are wonderful! Thanks for that transcript Andreas. I met Nigel Kennedy a few months ago. It was before we had access to post to the net (though we were reading it) which is why you didn't hear about it then. He had performed Friday and Saturday night with the Kansas City Symphony and I didn't know anything about it until late Saturday night. After doing my show we went to get something to eat. While there I started reading Saturday's paper and read that he would be performing at 8:00 pm Saturday evening. Since it was then 1:00 am I was really bummed. I couldn't believe that Nigel Kennedy had been in town and I had missed it. Woe. The article continued inside the paper and when I turned the page I was overjoyed to find that it went on to say that his last performance with the Symphony would be Sunday at 2:00pm. ------------------- YAY! -------------------- I took off work to go see the concert. The Lyric Theater, the KCS's "home", couldn't be used because part of the roof had fallen in so the concert was moved to the Music Hall. Because of the move, they were not actually selling ticket. They were asking patrons to give whatever they wanted. I asked what the minimum was and was told that there was no minimum. So I could have gotten in for free or for $1.00 but I was so happy about the whole thing that I gave them $20.00! It was great too because the move made seating general admission! I was able to sit in 3rd row center! Nigel was only scheduled for one piece--the Walden piece. He performed right before the intermission. He was excellent! He was fascinating to watch because he does not stand still and play. He hops and jumps and twists and bends over and every single note is reflected in his body language and his facial expressions. I'd never seen anyone play the way he played! When the piece was over he received a rousing standing ovation and was called back to the stage many times. I was pleased because when he first came out on stage I don't think the audience really knew what to make of him. He was wearing this baggy suit with "things" pinned all over it. I don't know what they were. His hair was spiky and he really looked as if he'd be more at home in grungy clothes, playing in some grungy punk rock band. As soon as he started playing though, everyone in the hall was absolutely mesmerized! Once intermission started I got up the courage to go backstage. No one stopped me and I went right to his dressing room. He was standing at the door, signing autographs for other people. I hung back and when everyone else was gone I stepped forward. He smiled and asked me how I liked the show. I told him it was wonderful at the same time I was pulling the extended 12" mix of "Experiment IV" out of a sack. As soon as he saw it his eyes lit up, he broke into a wide grin and he exclaimed "Honey, come look! It's a Bush Baby!!" A woman sitting on the couch in the room got up and came over to look and admire. She was beautiful and very interesting looking but I turned my back attention to Nigel when he started talking about Kate. He has a *VERY* thick cockney accent and it was extremely hard to understand him. I honestly can't tell you much of what he said. I caught "beautiful", "lovely", " wonderful to work with", "fun", and when I pulled out some demo cassette copies of the album he said that he didn't have it yet! I couldn't beleve it, he hadn't heard The Sensual World? Oh, he'd heard it, at "Kate's place" he just didn't have a copy of the album. He asked me what I thought of the album. Of course, I told him I loved it and that I especially loved his work on "The Fog". I said that I have a radio show and he broke in quickly to ask if I played Kate. Well, absolutely!! "Good!" he said. "It's so nice to meet a Bush Baby!" That was cool, he must have called me a Bush Baby 4 or 5 times! People were lining up behind me to talk to him and get his autograph so I couldn't stay any longer. I said bye to him and the woman with him and walked off, a big smile on my face! I stopped in the stairwell to sit down and put things in order. After putting the EIV 12" back in the plastic sleeve I tried to read what he wrote on the back. Impossible! He either writes in a foreign language or else he's taken writing lessons from a doctor, because it is absolutely illegible! I almost went back to ask him but thought that would be a bit rude. So I have a personal message from Nigel Kennedy but I have no idea what it is! That would be the end of it, except that a few days later I was talking to Andy (IED) on the phone and he was reading me bits from the Australian fanzine Dreamtime. I had told him all about meeting Nigel and he thought I'd be interested in this bit: "Nigel Kennedy and Brix, formerly of The Fall and currently heading Adult Net are an item" (That's terrible paraphrasing, sorry) -------------------------- ! -------------------------------------- AAARRRRGGGGGG!!!!!!! OH NO!!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! That beautiful woman was BRIX????!!!!! Ah Jesus! Here I was, TWO FEET away from Brix and I didn't know it! She did look familiar, but I really only had eyes for Nigel. I felt sick for days, really. If only I'd known, it would have been so great to be able to say "Hi Brix, I play your music on my radio show" and get her autograph and talk to her while everyone else was talking to Nigel after he'd signed my stuff. I've never heard anything by The Fall, but I really like quite a bit (not all) of Adult Net's music. She's probably relegated to the "girlfriend-in-the-background" role whenever she travels with Nigel. I think it would have been fairly cool for her to have someone recognize her for herself. Maybe not, but I have a feeling that we could have had a nice talk. Also, I heard Nigel say that they had gone to a "Symphony-type" party the night before. He said it in a way that made me think that it was just a *bit* boring. I fantasize about inviting them (or at least Brix) to the studio to be a guest during my show Saturday night. That would have been so great! Oh well, it'll probably be years before either one of them come back to Kansas City. I just HATE missed opportunities! I can't complain, I did get to see Nigel perform. I did get to meet him. I did get to hear about Kate and I did get to hear him call me a "Bush Baby!" and I got to meet Brix, even if I didn't know it was her! All in all, it was a wonderful Sunday afternoon! Vickie (one of Vickie'n'Chris) katefans@world.std.com
woiccare@CLUTX.CLARKSON.EDU (woj) (02/26/90)
Does anyone have a list of works that he has appeared on other than Kate's? I'll admit that I too am a Chris'n'Vickie post-reader like Julian (sorry guys!) and found her story aboutNigel quite interesting (even more so was the thing about Brix - with Nigel! Hah!). Anyways, if you do know of other stuff he's done either solo or supporting, please let me know. woj
Julian.West@MAC.DARTMOUTH.EDU (03/01/90)
> Nigel was only scheduled for one piece--the Walden piece.
Um, which piece would that be exactly? Is this a signature
piece Kennedy plays titled _Walden_? Or is it by a composer
called Walden, or Walton?
--------------------------------- Julian ----------------nbc@INF.RL.AC.UK (03/02/90)
>From: woj <woiccare@clutx.clarkson.edu> >Subject: Nigel Kennedy > >Does anyone have a list of works that he has appeared on >other than Kate's? In 1984 Nigel Kennedy released an album of acoustic jazz called Strad Jazz. He also put out an album of part-Bartok, part-Duke Ellington (don't know title). There was a sort of jazz-rock album called Let Loose after that. As for his classical output I have no idea but there must be a lot of it. Incidently, the classical music critic in the Sunday Times recently did a put down of Kennedy and other musical wunderkinds. The writer claimed that Kennedy's playing on his mega-hit album of The Four Seasons was technically appalling (no flames to me please). >From: katefans@world.std.com (Chris'n'Vickie of Kansas City) >I'll save that one for my Academy Awards movie show. Anyone know >when the Academy Awards are so I can plan? I think they are on March 29th. The next Mary Coghlan album (out later this month) will be called Uncertain Pleasures. Mary has had a relative surge of TV appearances recently - appearing twice on Channel 4 last week. What is this magazine called Option - is it a pop mag? Is it available outside the US, anyone? -- Neil Calton UUCP: ..!mcvax!ukc!rlinf!nbc Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, NSFNET: nbc%inf.rl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX JANET: nbc@uk.ac.rl.inf England Tel: (0235) 821900 ext 5740
graham@UG.CS.DAL.CA (Michael Graham) (04/03/91)
There was a little segment on Nigel Kennedy tonight on Much Music. He is playing with the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra for a few nights I guess. I couldn't believe what a great violinist he is. I knew he was good, but I didn't know that he was THAT good! He was on stage wearing a tatered black shirt, jeans, and a bandana (sp?). They showed a segment of Exp. IV, and then he commented on working with Kate. He said (I'm forgetting already) something to the effect that she was one of best composers around right now and that working with her was like having a jam session with Mozart or Bach! He sang her praises a bit more and then there was more orchestra footage. Luckily the show is repeated so I will tape it when it rolls around again. mike -- Michael Graham | "The only thing I know about backmasking is that graham@ug.cs.dal.ca | when you play your records backwards it f*cks mgraham@ac.dal.ca | your stylus" - Bruce Dickenson