The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Matthew Kennedy

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Matthew Kennedy

3/13/2007

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2007.086

Music professor, choral director, and pianist Matthew Kennedy (1921 - 2014 ) was the former director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers at Fisk University. Kennedy was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 3/13/2007, in Nashville, Tennessee. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 19m 56s

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Kennedy, Matthew, 1921-

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Retired director of the historic Fisk Jubilee Singers, Matthew Washington Kennedy was born on March 10, 1921 in Americus, Georgia. His parents were educator, Mary Dowdell Kennedy and mail carrier, Royal C. Kennedy, who died when Kennedy was fifteen months old. Kennedy attended McCoy Hill Elementary School between 1926 and 1934. A prodigy of piano and choral music, Kennedy was inspired by a Rachmaninoff concert in Macon, Georgia when he was eleven years old. Moving with his mother to New York Cit...