Social life in old New Orleans: being recollections of my girlhood
By Eliza Ripley,
pg 35
At the mint when Joe Kennedy was superintendent, and his family were fashionable people, their parlor curtains......
pg 117
Fancy Dress Ball at the Mint in 1850
I have never heard of a society ball in a United States mint building, before nor since, but the Kennedys, who gave this one, were a power in the social world at the time--and ambitious beyond their means. Rose and Josephine, the two oldest of quite a flock of daughters, were debutantes that winter. Both were handsome and accomplished. Rose was also a famous pianist, even in those days when every woman strove to excel in music, and it was customary to entertain even a casual caller with a sonata. Gottschalk declared Rose Kennedy rendered his famous "Bamboula" better than he did himself, and to hear her was to rise and dance.
pg 119
Shortly after the grandest and most unique entertainment Mr. Joe Kennedy's term expired and he retired into private life. Beautiful Rose fell into a decline and died early. What fortunes befell that family i know not. They seem to have faded away. The Kennedys were a large family in those days, closely allied to the Pierce and Cenas families, all of which were socially prominent. And now their names are "writ in water."
Music and the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer
By Candace Bailey
Gottschalk based "La Bamboula" on the Creole melody "Quan patate la suite."
....two piano solos dedicated to Rose Kennedy of New Orleans by two different composers. Kennedy's pieces include William Vincent Wallace's "Grande Polka de Concert"
....Ripley also notes that Rose did indeed play the "Sea Serpent Polka" for her friends, adding that "it was not an inspiring bit of music, but her wonderfully deft touch would make melody out of anything that had crotchers and quavers in it."
By Eliza Ripley,
pg 35
At the mint when Joe Kennedy was superintendent, and his family were fashionable people, their parlor curtains......
pg 117
Fancy Dress Ball at the Mint in 1850
I have never heard of a society ball in a United States mint building, before nor since, but the Kennedys, who gave this one, were a power in the social world at the time--and ambitious beyond their means. Rose and Josephine, the two oldest of quite a flock of daughters, were debutantes that winter. Both were handsome and accomplished. Rose was also a famous pianist, even in those days when every woman strove to excel in music, and it was customary to entertain even a casual caller with a sonata. Gottschalk declared Rose Kennedy rendered his famous "Bamboula" better than he did himself, and to hear her was to rise and dance.
pg 119
Shortly after the grandest and most unique entertainment Mr. Joe Kennedy's term expired and he retired into private life. Beautiful Rose fell into a decline and died early. What fortunes befell that family i know not. They seem to have faded away. The Kennedys were a large family in those days, closely allied to the Pierce and Cenas families, all of which were socially prominent. And now their names are "writ in water."
Music and the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer
By Candace Bailey
Gottschalk based "La Bamboula" on the Creole melody "Quan patate la suite."
....two piano solos dedicated to Rose Kennedy of New Orleans by two different composers. Kennedy's pieces include William Vincent Wallace's "Grande Polka de Concert"
....Ripley also notes that Rose did indeed play the "Sea Serpent Polka" for her friends, adding that "it was not an inspiring bit of music, but her wonderfully deft touch would make melody out of anything that had crotchers and quavers in it."
Social life in old New Orleans: being recollections of my girlhood
By Eliza Ripley,
pg 35
At the mint when Joe Kennedy was superintendent, and his family were fashionable people, their parlor curtains......
pg 117
Fancy Dress Ball at the Mint in 1850
I have never heard of a society ball in a United States mint building, before nor since, but the Kennedys, who gave this one, were a power in the social world at the time--and ambitious beyond their means. Rose and Josephine, the two oldest of quite a flock of daughters, were debutantes that winter. Both were handsome and accomplished. Rose was also a famous pianist, even in those days when every woman strove to excel in music, and it was customary to entertain even a casual caller with a sonata. Gottschalk declared Rose Kennedy rendered his famous "Bamboula" better than he did himself, and to hear her was to rise and dance.
pg 119
Shortly after the grandest and most unique entertainment Mr. Joe Kennedy's term expired and he retired into private life. Beautiful Rose fell into a decline and died early. What fortunes befell that family i know not. They seem to have faded away. The Kennedys were a large family in those days, closely allied to the Pierce and Cenas families, all of which were socially prominent. And now their names are "writ in water."
Music and the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer
By Candace Bailey
Gottschalk based "La Bamboula" on the Creole melody "Quan patate la suite."
....two piano solos dedicated to Rose Kennedy of New Orleans by two different composers. Kennedy's pieces include William Vincent Wallace's "Grande Polka de Concert"
....Ripley also notes that Rose did indeed play the "Sea Serpent Polka" for her friends, adding that "it was not an inspiring bit of music, but her wonderfully deft touch would make melody out of anything that had crotchers and quavers in it."
By Eliza Ripley,
pg 35
At the mint when Joe Kennedy was superintendent, and his family were fashionable people, their parlor curtains......
pg 117
Fancy Dress Ball at the Mint in 1850
I have never heard of a society ball in a United States mint building, before nor since, but the Kennedys, who gave this one, were a power in the social world at the time--and ambitious beyond their means. Rose and Josephine, the two oldest of quite a flock of daughters, were debutantes that winter. Both were handsome and accomplished. Rose was also a famous pianist, even in those days when every woman strove to excel in music, and it was customary to entertain even a casual caller with a sonata. Gottschalk declared Rose Kennedy rendered his famous "Bamboula" better than he did himself, and to hear her was to rise and dance.
pg 119
Shortly after the grandest and most unique entertainment Mr. Joe Kennedy's term expired and he retired into private life. Beautiful Rose fell into a decline and died early. What fortunes befell that family i know not. They seem to have faded away. The Kennedys were a large family in those days, closely allied to the Pierce and Cenas families, all of which were socially prominent. And now their names are "writ in water."
Music and the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer
By Candace Bailey
Gottschalk based "La Bamboula" on the Creole melody "Quan patate la suite."
....two piano solos dedicated to Rose Kennedy of New Orleans by two different composers. Kennedy's pieces include William Vincent Wallace's "Grande Polka de Concert"
....Ripley also notes that Rose did indeed play the "Sea Serpent Polka" for her friends, adding that "it was not an inspiring bit of music, but her wonderfully deft touch would make melody out of anything that had crotchers and quavers in it."
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