MUSIClassical ALLEGRO
Topic: NEW MOVIES
Pianist MATTHEW KENNEDY found his calling sharing music with world... Film honors Jubilee Singers director.
In the aftermath of a documentary film his daughter created, Kennedy's accomplishments are finding their place in history on film. Matthew Kennedy: One Man's Journey tells the story of a man who in the 1940s was known worldwide as a classical concert pianist — garnering rave reviews in France, Canada and Italy — but remained largely unknown back home.
When his teacher in Americus taught him all she knew, she referred him to a teacher in Macon, who persuaded his mother to move him to New York and try to get him into Juilliard. After graduating with a Juilliard piano diploma in 1940, he entered Fisk that same year and began touring with the Fisk Jubilee Singers... Beverly Keel story
"Heaven & Hell" Life of 16th century Italian Composer. The film is about the life of 16th century Italian musician and
murderer Gesualdo Da Venosa, one of the most important composers of the
period in Naples. He devoted his life to music, believing that while
buildings and sculptures ...