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    What People are Saying About The Anne Gamble Kennedy 100th Birthday Celebration/Virtual Exhibit
    INFEMNITY
    • Sep 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    What People are Saying About The Anne Gamble Kennedy 100th Birthday Celebration/Virtual Exhibit

    "Congratulations to you for the excellent exhibit you produced in honor and memory of ANNE GAMBLE KENNEDY in celebration of her 100th B
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    Anne Gamble Kennedy Virtual Exhibit To Launch September 25th
    INFEMNITY
    • Sep 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    Anne Gamble Kennedy Virtual Exhibit To Launch September 25th

    Anne Gamble Kennedy was born in Charleston, West Virginia on September 25th, 1920. Her parents were Dr. Henry Floyd Gamble of North Garden,
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    Book Review of "Practicing for Love: A Memoir" by Nina Kennedy
    Bill Egan
    • Aug 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    Book Review of "Practicing for Love: A Memoir" by Nina Kennedy

    The title of this autobiographical story succinctly captures the central dilemma of the author’s life. A child prodigy classical pianist, Ni
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    Love, Like Music: A Review of Nina Kennedy's "Practicing for Love: A Memoir"
    Dean and Petra Aldrich
    • Jul 30, 2020
    • 6 min

    Love, Like Music: A Review of Nina Kennedy's "Practicing for Love: A Memoir"

    “For those in the world of classical music, Kennedy’s book is a winner. Her musical talent and technical achievements are obvious to anyone
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    "Practicing for Love" Versus Mary Trump, John Bolton, Michael Cohen, et al
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jul 14, 2020
    • 3 min

    "Practicing for Love" Versus Mary Trump, John Bolton, Michael Cohen, et al

    In my book ("Practicing for Love: A Memoir"), which has not sold hundreds of thousands of copies, I wrote about pianist and matria
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    What People Are Saying About "Practicing for Love: A Memoir" by Nina Kennedy
    INFEMNITY
    • Jul 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    What People Are Saying About "Practicing for Love: A Memoir" by Nina Kennedy

    "Nina Kennedy, an African American concert pianist who has lived and performed abroad, shares her unique challenges to success and surv
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    Will Alicia Keys Portray Philippa Schuyler?
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jun 16, 2020
    • 3 min

    Will Alicia Keys Portray Philippa Schuyler?

    Hailed in the New York Times as "the Shirley Temple of American Negroes," Schuyler was performing public recitals and radio broadc
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    This is Why I Wrote the Book
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jun 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    This is Why I Wrote the Book

    Just last year I found a biography on the life of Clara Schumann (née Wieck). I wish I could have read this biography while I was a student.
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    "Practicing for Love: A Memoir" by Nina Kennedy
    INFEMNITY
    • May 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    "Practicing for Love: A Memoir" by Nina Kennedy

    "Practicing for Love: A Memoir" is a 2019 nonfiction autobiography written by Nina Kennedy and published by RoseDog Books. It is a
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    The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Great Britain: 1900-1903
    Nina Kennedy
    • Feb 24, 2020
    • 9 min

    The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Great Britain: 1900-1903

    In a letter written in Dublin in 1901, my grandmother mentions that she and the group were filmed with a "cinematograph." Of cours
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    An Excerpt from "Practicing for Love: A Memoir" by Nina Kennedy
    Nina Kennedy
    • Nov 17, 2019
    • 12 min

    An Excerpt from "Practicing for Love: A Memoir" by Nina Kennedy

    In the wake of the widely publicized sexual-abuse claims brought by violinist Lara St. John against the late Jascha Brodsky, her violin teac
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    "PRACTICING FOR LOVE: A MEMOIR" by Nina Kennedy
    INFEMNITY
    • Jul 29, 2019
    • 2 min

    "PRACTICING FOR LOVE: A MEMOIR" by Nina Kennedy

    "Practicing for Love" is also the story of a daughter of demanding, distant parents, aching for connection, and of a woman searchi
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    Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing: A Call for Justice
    Nina Kennedy
    • Mar 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing: A Call for Justice

    As some of you already know, I have recently signed a contract with a publisher for the release of my first book of memoirs. Also, as I wrot
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    Ebony and Ivory: A Dissonant Truth
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jan 8, 2019
    • 4 min

    Ebony and Ivory: A Dissonant Truth

    As some of you know, I am preparing for a Carnegie Hall concert in the near future; so recently my attentions have turned to other pianists
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    Part 4 of the Writings of Leota Henson Turner
    Nina Kennedy
    • Aug 25, 2018
    • 0 min

    Part 4 of the Writings of Leota Henson Turner

    Leota Henson describes travels in Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand with Frederick Loudin's Jubilee Singers
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    More Writings from Leota Henson Turner
    Nina Kennedy
    • Aug 18, 2018
    • 0 min

    More Writings from Leota Henson Turner

    Leota Henson writes of her travels in Egypt, visiting the Pyramids, passage through the Suez Canal, crossing the Equator, and her arrival in
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    Letters from my Grandmother - Part 3
    Nina Kennedy
    • May 29, 2018
    • 0 min

    Letters from my Grandmother - Part 3

    More letters from my grandmother Nina Hortense Clinton while she was in London on tour with Frederick Loudin’s Jubilee Singers in 1902
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    Ella Sheppard
    Nina Kennedy
    • May 12, 2018
    • 0 min

    Ella Sheppard

    Ella Sheppard (4 February 1851 - 9 June 1914) was a soprano, pianist, composer, and arranger of Negro Spirituals. She was the matriarch of t
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    Women's Herstory Month Series: Anaïs Nin
    Nina Kennedy
    • Apr 24, 2018
    • 0 min

    Women's Herstory Month Series: Anaïs Nin

    Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977), known professionally as Anaïs Nin, was an Am
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    Henry Floyd Gamble
    Nina Kennedy
    • Apr 10, 2018
    • 0 min

    Henry Floyd Gamble

    Henry Floyd Gamble (16 January 1862 – 7 September 1932) was a surgeon, obstetrician, gynecologist, and president of the National Medical Ass
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