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Kennedy's grandfather was Lauri Kennedy, principal cellist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, [1] and his grandmother was Dorothy Kennedy, a pianist. Lauri and Dorothy Kennedy were Australian, while their son, the cellist John Kennedy, was born in England.
Michael Kaminski (born 2 September 1951) is an English musician. He played violin in the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) between 1973 and 1980 and toured with the band from 1981 to 1986. He was a member of Electric Light Orchestra Part II from 1991 until its end in 2000, and then The Orchestra from 2000.
The first movement is characterized by a series of light, pulsing chords that reappear periodically throughout the movement, with slight variations with each recurrence. The solo violin enters early in the movement playing fairly rapid arpeggios that gradually extend to encompass the full range of the instrument.
She also played alongside her father and his colleagues, and at their encouragement she made the decision at age 15 to become a professional jazz violinist. [1] After graduating high school in 1981, she went to Norfolk State College where she majored in music education and mass media studies. [3] She was the first member of her family to attend ...
Born in Giessen, and raised in Butzbach, both near Frankfurt, Stimming is a classically-trained musician; he played the violin, piano and drums at age ten. [2] At sixteen, Stimming began producing electronic music, moving to Hamburg at nineteen to attend SAE Institute (School of Audio Engineering) where he did an Electronic Music Producer course.
The Double Concerto consists of three movements played without a break. The first movement, a Scherzo, opens with an ostinato rhythm played by cello and double bass, to which a first theme is added by clarinets, bassoons and violas. A fugue is then begun as the first violin soloist, the second soloist, viola and cello enter one by one.
The Concerto Grosso No. 1 was the first of six concerti grossi by Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke.It was written in 1976–1977 at the request of Gidon Kremer and Tatiana Grindenko who were also the violin soloists at its premiere on 21 March 1977 in Leningrad together with Yuri Smirnov on keyboard instruments and the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra under Eri Klas. [1]
The Concerto Grosso liberally quotes the theme from the first movement of George Frideric Handel's Violin sonata in D major (HWV 371).In the score program note, Zwilich wrote, "I performed the work many years ago and I especially love the opening theme of the first movement—the striking head motive and the beauty of the generative tension between the theme and the elegant bass line."