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Nigel Kennedy: Experts are killing my concerts

Nigel Kennedy: Experts are killing my concerts

Just another headline-grabbing blast from the Vivaldi peddler:

Nigel Kennedy, the virtuoso violinist, has said “boring” concert programme notes are ruining classical music.

He told The Telegraph that a “plague of experts” were distracting audiences from focusing on the music.

One such programme was so dull he thought it would be better to give audiences a blank page and decided he would write the programme notes for his future concerts himself.

For his concert at the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre in London in June, he wrote: “In the last few decades the enjoyment of music has been ruined by a plague of experts who replace emotional intelligence with boring facts….’

Oh, dum-de-dum. And diddle-de-doo.

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