Biographers in Conversation

Kate Kennedy's "Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound"

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In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Kate Kennedy, a distinguished cellist, musicologist, and Director of Oxford University’s Centre for Life Writing chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about her choices while crafting Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound.

 

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

  • Kate Kennedy’s inspiration for crafting Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
  • Why Kate chose Pál Hermann, Lise Cristiani, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and Amedeo Baldovino as her biographical subjects
  • Why Kate criss-crossed Europe by train with her cello strapped to her back to retrace the footsteps of the four extraordinary cellists
  • Why Kate wrote Cello as an experimental mix of memoir and object, collective and quest biography
  • Why Kate included fascinating interludes, sharing her personal experiences, musings, historical research and a cello’s physical and metaphysical characteristics
  • Why Kate introduced various voices into the interludes, including cello makers and dealers, a physicist whose garden houses a cello-turned-bee hive, and cellists such as Steven Isserlis and Christian Poltera
  • The literary devices Kate employed to craft poetic, evocative and at times, electrifying narrative
  • How Kate rediscovered her voice and identity as a cellist by crafting Cello.
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