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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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    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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    Looking Back on 2019
    INFEMNITY
    • Jan 1, 2020
    • 3 min

    Looking Back on 2019

    The year began with the broadcast of our recap of “The People’s State of the Union” in January. For Black History Month we broadcast the fir
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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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    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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    Writings of Leota Henson Turner
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jul 15, 2018
    • 0 min

    Writings of Leota Henson Turner

    Here is part 2 of the writings of Leota Henson Turner, describing the world concert tour of Loudin's Jubilee Singers from 1888 to 1900.
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    Leota Henson Turner
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jul 4, 2018
    • 0 min

    Leota Henson Turner

    While going through a box of my grandmother’s papers and photo albums, I happened upon seven stapled, typed pages written by her friend Leot
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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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    Letters from my Grandmother
    Nina Kennedy
    • May 7, 2018
    • 0 min

    Letters from my Grandmother

    Recently I came across a notebook of letters written by my maternal grandmother, Nina Hortense Clinton of Zanesville, Ohio.
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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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    “Matthew Kennedy: One Man’s Journey”
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jun 5, 2017
    • 0 min

    “Matthew Kennedy: One Man’s Journey”

    June 5th marks the third anniversary of my father’s death, so I thought it appropriate to write a little something about the documentary fil
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    My Journey to the Podium – part 8: Epilogue
    Admin
    • Mar 14, 2017
    • 0 min

    My Journey to the Podium – part 8: Epilogue

    I hope you’ve enjoyed reading this condensed, G-rated version of portions of my autobiography. For the juicy details of my romantic life, yo
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    My Journey to the Podium – part 7: Prague, Al Gore, Maestra, & Hillary Rodham Clinton
    Nina Kennedy
    • Mar 6, 2017
    • 0 min

    My Journey to the Podium – part 7: Prague, Al Gore, Maestra, & Hillary Rodham Clinton

    I had an opportunity to spend some time in Prague, the city of Antonin Dvořák, the Czech composer who utilized melodies of Negro Spirituals
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    My Journey to the Podium - part 6: Wagner, Abolishing Slavery, & Kurt Masur
    Nina Kennedy
    • Feb 23, 2017
    • 0 min

    My Journey to the Podium - part 6: Wagner, Abolishing Slavery, & Kurt Masur

    The winter following my Vienna debut with the Chicago Sinfonietta, the same concert agent who booked the gig for me at Vienna’s Musikverein
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    My Journey to the Podium – part 5: New York Debut at Lincoln Center, European Tours, and Coretta Sco
    Nina Kennedy
    • Feb 15, 2017
    • 0 min

    My Journey to the Podium – part 5: New York Debut at Lincoln Center, European Tours, and Coretta Sco

    While I was still enrolled at Juilliard I had applied to compete in several international piano competitions, but my applications were not b
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    My Journey to the Podium – part 4: Europe-Bound
    Nina Kennedy
    • Feb 8, 2017
    • 0 min

    My Journey to the Podium – part 4: Europe-Bound

    Armed with a master’s degree from Juilliard, I assumed the next step for me was to establish myself in Europe. When the United States Ambass
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    My Journey to the Podium – part 3: Practice! Practice! Practice!
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jan 27, 2017
    • 0 min

    My Journey to the Podium – part 3: Practice! Practice! Practice!

    After I graduated from Juilliard, I was on my own when it came to finding places to practice. I had a small upright piano in my little apart
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    My Journey to the Podium – part 2: Graduating from college, Juilliard, and New York City
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jan 15, 2017
    • 0 min

    My Journey to the Podium – part 2: Graduating from college, Juilliard, and New York City

    Upon my graduation, it felt like studying at Juilliard and living in New York were inevitable. So I left my live-in babysitting job in Phill
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    My Journey to the Podium - part 1: Growing up in Nashville, Gershwin, and Curtis Institute of Music
    Nina Kennedy
    • Jan 8, 2017
    • 0 min

    My Journey to the Podium - part 1: Growing up in Nashville, Gershwin, and Curtis Institute of Music

    In this article I am following April's advice and writing/documenting my conducting career, thus manifesting my future success. This ser
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