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ellyssianI suppose that, with a part 1 in the title, you can kind of guess where tomorrow's video is going... however, the one thing you won't be able to guess - without cheating and checking for related YouTube videos today! - is who the guest star will be in part 2...
Anywho, Nigel Kennedy.
Nigel's a violinist who threw the classical world into a spin when he had the nerve to play the music of the masters while sporting a punk haircut and attire. I think what upset most of the people who get upset at the lack of neat grooming and tuxedos whilst playing technically complex romantic violin concertos was that he played them so well, better than most of the clean-cut folks who should have been able to play a violin better on account of dressing like a penguin.
It sounds silly when you put it like that, but I remember hearing some of the classical radio announcers and media reports when Nigel started to get some international recognition, and that's basically the kind of things they said.
You can learn a bit more about Nigel by watching an excerpt from This Is Your Life (YouTube), where they talk about his work with Kate Bush amongst other things.
This piece is classified as jazz, although it mixes other elements in with it, and, if you stick around to the end, you'll be let in on the guest star for the second part.Here's the first part of Hills of Saturn, filmed live at Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms 2008:
You can hear Nigel and his Quintet on his first recording of his original works, the nicely titled Very Nice Album
(Amazon.com).
Anywho, Nigel Kennedy.
Nigel's a violinist who threw the classical world into a spin when he had the nerve to play the music of the masters while sporting a punk haircut and attire. I think what upset most of the people who get upset at the lack of neat grooming and tuxedos whilst playing technically complex romantic violin concertos was that he played them so well, better than most of the clean-cut folks who should have been able to play a violin better on account of dressing like a penguin.
It sounds silly when you put it like that, but I remember hearing some of the classical radio announcers and media reports when Nigel started to get some international recognition, and that's basically the kind of things they said.
You can learn a bit more about Nigel by watching an excerpt from This Is Your Life (YouTube), where they talk about his work with Kate Bush amongst other things.
This piece is classified as jazz, although it mixes other elements in with it, and, if you stick around to the end, you'll be let in on the guest star for the second part.Here's the first part of Hills of Saturn, filmed live at Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms 2008:
You can hear Nigel and his Quintet on his first recording of his original works, the nicely titled Very Nice Album
(Amazon.com).