Daisy Kennedy
Daisy Fowler Kennedy (16 January 1893 – 30 July 1981) was an Australian-born concert violinist. 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 Russian pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch; their daughter, the theatre designer Tanya Moiseiwitsch, was born in December the same year. They had a second daughter, Sandra. After divorcing Moiseiwitsch, she married the English playwright and poet John Drinkwater in December 1924. They had a daughter, Penny Drinkwater, who went on to become a wine writer and member of the circle of wine writers. On 24 August 1927 a Proms performance of Brahms' Violin Concerto ground to a halt in the first movement. Kennedy apparently blamed a lack of rehearsal time, but the Times said that she suffered "a lapse of memory...which had the effect of making her play all the better when she recovered her nerve". 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. |
Birth and Death Data: Born January 16, 1893 (Burra), Died July 30, 1981 (Hammersmith)
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1916 - 1922
Roles Represented in DAHR: violin
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= Recordings were issued from this master. No recordings issued from other masters.
Recordings (Results 1-25 of 30 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Columbia | 35882 | 10-in. | approximately 1916 | Danse, opus 96 | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 35885 | 10-in. | approximately 1916 | Swing song (L'Escarpolette) | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 65489 | 10-in. | approximately 1916 | Lament | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 65490 | 10-in. | approximately 1916 | Slavonic dance no. 2 (Hebrew song and dance) | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 65491 | 10-in. | approximately 1916 | Liebesfreud | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 65492 | 10-in. | approximately 1916 | Idylle finnoise | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 65831 | 10-in. | approximately 1917 | Canzonetta | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 65832 | 10-in. | approximately 1917 | Cradle song | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 65833 | 10-in. | approximately 1917 | Melodie tartare | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 65834 | 10-in. | approximately 1917 | Russian dance | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 69390 | 10-in. | approximately 1919 | Air on the G string | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 69479 | 10-in. | approximately 1919 | Minuetto | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 69480 | 10-in. | approximately 1919 | Preghiera | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 69481 | 10-in. | approximately 1919 | Hornpipe | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 69483 | 10-in. | approximately 1919 | Waltz : Scherzo | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 69842 | 10-in. | approximately 1919 | Dragonflies | Daisy Kennedy | instrumentalist, violin | ||
Columbia | 75111 | 12-in. | 6/23/1922 | Sonata in F major, part 1 | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, violin | |
Columbia | 75112 | 12-in. | 6/23/1922 | Sonata in F major, part 2 | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, violin | |
Columbia | 76508 | 12-in. | approximately 1919 | Sonata in A minor, op. 105, part 1 | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, violin | |
Columbia | 76509 | 12-in. | approximately 1919 | Sonata in A minor, op. 105, part 2 | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, violin | |
Columbia | 76510 | 12-in. | approximately 1919 | Sonata in A minor, op. 105, part 3 | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, violin | |
Columbia | 76511 | 12-in. | approximately 1919 | Sonata no. 3, in D minor : Adagio | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, violin | |
Columbia | 76512 | 12-in. | approximately 1919 | Scherzo in D minor | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, violin | |
Columbia | 76513 | 12-in. | approximately 1919 | Sonata in G major : Allegro tranquillo | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, violin | |
Columbia | 76514 | 12-in. | approximately 1919 | Sonata in G major : Allegro animato | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with piano | instrumentalist, violin |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Kennedy, Daisy," accessed September 4, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/353543.
Kennedy, Daisy. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved September 4, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/353543.
"Kennedy, Daisy." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 4 September 2024.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Kennedy, Daisy, 1893-1981 - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009014262
Wikidata: Daisy Kennedy - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5209732
VIAF: http://viaf.org/viaf/78905042
MusicBrainz: Daisy Kennedy - https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6d71e449-e21f-4d6b-a1c1-da425fad3a73
ISNI: 0000 0000 6406 6675 - http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000064066675
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