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DAISY FOWLER KENNEDY (BURRA-BURRA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 16 JANUARY, 1893 – HAMMERSMITH, LONDON, ENGLAND, 30 JULY, 1981)

 

 

 

 

She was born in Burra-Burra, 160 km north of Adelaide, to parents of Scottish and Irish descent. Her father, Joseph A. Kennedy, was headmaster of Glenelg Primary School and president of the South Australian Public School Teachers’ Union. For three years she was Elder scholar at the Adelaide Conservatory under Mrs. Alderman and Hermann Heinicke. She was a private pupil of Otakar Ševčík in Vienna for a year, and then studied for two years in the Meister-Schule there. She appeared in London in 1911 and toured widely in Europe and in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. On 15 April 1914 she married the Ukrainian pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch; their daughter, the theatre designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch was born in December the same year. After divorcing Moiseiwitsch, she married the English playwright and poet John Drinkwater. She was a cousin of cellist Lauri Kennedy, and thus also related to Lauri’s son John Kennedy, another cellist, and grandson, the violinist Nigel Kennedy.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Canzonetta (d’Ambrosio) Columbia D1371
2. Hungarian Dance no. 2 in D minor (arr. Joachim) with Benno Moiseiwitch (piano) Duophone GS-7004
3. Idylle Finnoise (Kosloff) Columbia 2698
4. Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso (Saint-Saëns) Columbia L1335 76558, 76559
5. Liebesfreud (Kreisler) Columbia D1373
6. Melodie tartare (Kosloff) Columbia D1371
7. Romance No.1 in G major Op.40 (Beethoven) Columbia L1340 76560, 76561
8. Russian Dance (Zimbalist) Columbia D1373
9. Slavonic Dance (Zimbalist) Columbia 2698 65490
10. Sonata Op.8 – Allegro con brio (Grieg) with Hamilton Harty Columbia 75111
11. Sonata Op.8 – Allegro molto vivace (Grieg) with Hamilton Harty Columbia 75112
12. Spanish Serenade (Chaminade)
13. Swing Song (L’Escarpolette) (Ethel Barnes) Columbia Columbia 2697
14. Lament (Sydney Rosenbloom) Columbia 2747 65489
15. Cradle Song (Schubert, arr. Elman) Columbia 2747 65833
16. Daisy Kennedy early life in music – BBC interview live 1969