Jenkins may refer to:

People with the surname Jenkins:

• Jenkins (surname)
• The Jenkins, country music group

In places in the US:

• Jenkins, Kentucky
• Jenkins, Minnesota
• Jenkins County, Georgia
• Jenkins Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
• Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Other:

• Jenkins (crater), on the Moon
• Jenkins activity survey, psychological assessment tool
• Jenkins Commission (UK), English voting reform commission
• Jenkins Commission (EU), European monetary commission
• Jenkins (drinking game), an American drinking game
• Jenkins (How I Met Your Mother), an episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother
• Leeroy Jenkins, a famous World of Warcraft character
• War of Jenkins' Ear, colonial war between Britain and Spain
• Jenkins (software), a continuous integration tool

See also[link]

• Jenkin
• Jenkyns

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Karl Jenkins
Background information
Birth name	Karl William Pamp Jenkins
Born	(1944-02-17) February 17, 1944 (age 68) Penclawdd, Gower
Origin	Swansea, South Wales
Genres	jazz, rock, classical
Years active	1970–present
Associated acts	Adiemus, Soft Machine
Website	karljenkins.com

Karl William Pamp Jenkins, CBE (born 17 February 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer.

Early life and education[link]

Jenkins was born and raised in the Gower village of Penclawdd, in the county of Swansea, South Wales. His father, who was a local schoolteacher, chapel organist and choirmaster, gave him his initial musical instruction. Karl Jenkins attended Gowerton Grammar School.

Jenkins began his musical career as an oboist in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales. He went on to study music at Cardiff University, and then commenced postgraduate studies in London at the Royal Academy of Music, where he also met his wife and musical collaborator, Carol Barratt. He studied with Alun Hoddinott.^[1][2][3]

Career overview[link]

For the bulk of his early career Jenkins was known as a jazz and jazz-rock musician, playing baritone and soprano saxophones, keyboards and oboe, an unusual instrument in a jazz context. He joined jazz composer Graham Collier's group and later co-founded the jazz-rock group Nucleus, which won first prize at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1970.

In 1972 he joined the Canterbury progressive rock band Soft Machine in 1972 and co-led their very last performances in 1984. The group defied categorisation and played venues as diverse as The Proms, Carnegie Hall, and the Newport Jazz Festival. The album on which Jenkins first played with Soft Machine, Six, won the Melody Maker British Jazz Album of the Year award in 1973. Jenkins also won the miscellaneous musical instrument section (as he did the following year). Soft Machine was voted best small group in the Melody Maker jazz poll of 1974. After Mike Ratledge left the band in 1976 Soft Machine did not include any of its founding members, but kept recording on a project basis with line-ups revolving around Jenkins and drummer John Marshall. Balanced against Melody Maker's positive view of the Soft Machine of 1973 and 1974, Hugh Hopper, involved with the group since replacing bassist Kevin Ayers in 1968, cites Jenkins's "third rate" musical involvement in his own decision to leave the band,^[4] and the band of the late 1970s has been described by band member John Etheridge as wasting its potential.^[5]

In November 1973 Jenkins and Ratledge participated in a live-in-the-studio performance of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells for the BBC.^[6] It is available on Oldfield's Elements DVD.

Jenkins has created a good deal of advertising music, twice winning the industry prize in that field. Perhaps his most-heard piece of music is the classical theme used by De Beers diamond merchants for their television advertising campaign focusing on jewellery worn by people otherwise seen only in silhouette. Jenkins later included this as the title track in a compilation called Diamond Music, and eventually created Palladio, using it as the theme of the first movement. Other notable arrangements have included the "Papa? Nicole?" advertisements for the Renault Clio.^[1]

	Karl Jenkins - "Theme from Palladio" noicon an excerpt from the piece.
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As a composer, his breakthrough came with the crossover project Adiemus. Jenkins has conducted the Adiemus project in Japan, Germany, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands, and Belgium, as well as London's Royal Albert Hall and Battersea Power Station. The Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary (1995) album topped the classical album charts. It spawned a series of successors, each revolving around a central theme.

Jenkins was the first international composer and conductor to conduct the University of Johannesburg Kingsway Choir led by Renette Bouwer, during his visit to South Africa as the choir performed his The Armed Man: A mass for peace together with a 70 piece orchestra.

Jenkins' latest choral work The Peacemakers, features texts from Gandhi, Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Anne Frank and Mother Teresa, as well as words from the Bible and the Qur’an with some new text specially written by Terry Waite. On the 2012 record the London Symphony Orchestra is joined by different vocal forces including Rundfunkchor Berlin, the City of Birmingham Youth Chorus, and the 1000-strong "The Really Big Chorus" made up of members of UK choirs from across the country brought together in one day, in one studio, to contribute to two movements on the album. Guest artists include violinist Chloë Hanslip, soprano [ucy Crowe, Davy Spillane on Uilleann pipes, Indian bansuri player Ashwin Srinivasan and jazz musicians Nigel Hitchcock and Laurence Cottle. The album will be released on 26 March 2012 and concerts in the UK and USA are planned for later in the year.^[7]

Awards and achievements[link]

Jenkins holds a Doctorate in Music from the University of Wales. He has been made both a fellow and an associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and a room has been named in his honour. He also has fellowships at Cardiff University, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Trinity College Carmarthen and Swansea Metropolitan University, and was presented by Classic FM with the Red f award for outstanding service to classical music.

In 2008 Jenkins was listed as No. 1 in Classic FM's "Top 10 by living composers" for his "The Armed Man".^[8]

He was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Leicester, the Chancellor's Medal from the University of Glamorgan and honorary visiting professorships at Thames Valley University, London College of Music and the ATriUM, Cardiff.

Jenkins was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2005 New Year Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.^[9][10]

Jenkins is joint president of the British Double Reed Society^[11] and was recently appointed Patron of the International Schools Choral Music Society (ISCMS).

Partial list of works[link]

Albums[link]

• Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary
• Adiemus II: Cantata Mundi
• Adiemus III: Dances of Time
• Adiemus IV: The Eternal Knot
• Adiemus V: Vocalise

	Karl Jenkins - "Adiemus" noicon an excerpt from the piece.
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Greatest Hits collection[link]

• The Best of Adiemus

Other works[link]

• Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music
• Palladio (1996)
• Eloise (opera)
• Imagined Oceans (1998)
• The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace (composed 1999, premièred 2000)
• Dewi Sant, a work for SATB chorus and orchestra (1999, 30 minutes)
• Diamond Music (1996)
• Merry Christmas to the World (1995) — a collection of traditional Christmas music orchestrated by Jenkins
• Over the Stone (2002) — a double harp concerto
• Crossing the Stone (2003) — an album featuring Welsh harpist Catrin Finch and material from the double harp concerto
• Ave Verum (2004) — for baritone (composed for Bryn Terfel)
• In These Stones Horizons Sing (2004)
• Requiem (2005)
• Quirk (2005) concertante
• River Queen (2005) — score for the film River Queen directed by New Zealand director Vincent Ward
• Tlep (2006)
• Kiri Sings Karl (2006) — with Kiri Te Kanawa
• This Land of Ours (2007) — with Cory Band and Cantorion (aka Only Men Aloud!)
• Stabat Mater (2008) — Jenkins' adaptation of a 13th Century Roman Catholic Poem
• The Concertos (2008) — Over the Stone (a double harp concerto), La Folia (for marimba), Quirk (a concertante for flutes, keyboards, percussion), Sarikiz (a violin concerto), re-recording of the first movement of the Palladio concerto grosso
• Stella Natalis (2009)
• Gloria / Te Deum (2010) — with Hayley Westenra
• The Very Best of Karl Jenkins (2011)
• Songs Of The Earth (2012)
• The Peacemakers (2012)

References[link]

International Schools Choral Music Society www.ISCMS.net

External links[link]

• Karl Jenkins official website
• Biography at Calyx (Canterbury music website)
• Karl Jenkins on MySpace
• Karl Jenkis's music in TV Commercials at ADmusicDB.com
• Karl Jenkins biography from BBC Wales
• Karl Jenkins interview

Florence Foster Jenkins
Background information
Born	(1868-07-19)July 19, 1868 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Died	November 26, 1944(1944-11-26) (aged 76) Manhattan, New York City
Genres	Outsider
Occupations	Singer, teacher, pianist
Years active	1912–1944

Florence Foster Jenkins (born Narcissa Florence Foster, July 19, 1868 – November 26, 1944) was an American amateur operatic soprano who was known, and ridiculed, for her lack of rhythm, pitch, tone, and overall singing ability.

Early years[link]

Born Narcissa Florence Foster in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to Charles Dorrance Foster and Mary Jane Hoagland,^[1] Jenkins received music lessons as a child, and expressed a desire to go abroad to study opera. Her wealthy father refused to pay the bill, so she eloped to Philadelphia with Frank Thornton Jenkins, a physician. The two were married from 1885 until 1902.^[1] After her divorce Jenkins earned a living in Philadelphia as a teacher and pianist. In 1908 she began living with the stage actor St. Clair Bayfield (later her manager), a relationship that would last the rest of her life.^[2]

When her father died in 1909^[1] Jenkins inherited sufficient funds to begin her long-delayed singing career.^[3] She took voice lessons and became involved in the musical social circles of Philadelphia and, later, New York City, where she founded and funded the Verdi Club. She began giving recitals in 1912.^[3] Her mother's death in 1928 gave her additional resources to pursue her singing career.

Career[link]

From her recordings it is apparent that Jenkins had little sense of pitch and rhythm, and was barely capable of sustaining a note. Her accompanist can be heard making adjustments to compensate for her tempo variations and rhythmic mistakes. Her dubious diction, especially in foreign language songs, is also noteworthy. Nonetheless, she became popular for the amusement she provided. Critics often described her work in a backhanded way that may have served to pique public curiosity.^{[citation needed]}

Despite her patent lack of ability, Jenkins apparently was firmly convinced of her greatness. She compared herself favorably to the renowned sopranos Frieda Hempel and Luisa Tetrazzini, and dismissed the abundant audience laughter during her performances as "professional jealousy." She was aware of her critics, but never let them stand in her way: "People may say I can't sing," she said, "but no one can ever say I didn't sing."^{[citation needed]}

	"Der Hölle Rache" (Queen of the Night aria) noicon Jenkins singing "Der Hölle Rache" from Mozart's The Magic Flute
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Her recitals featured a mixture of the standard operatic repertoire by Mozart, Verdi, and Johann Strauss (all well beyond her technical ability); lieder by Brahms; Valverde's "Clavelitos" ("Little Carnations"), a favorite encore; and songs composed by herself or accompanist Cosmé McMoon, who reportedly made faces at Jenkins behind her back to get laughs.^{[citation needed]}

Jenkins often wore elaborate costumes that she designed herself, sometimes appearing in wings and tinsel, and, for "Clavelitos", throwing flowers into the audience from a basket (apparently on one occasion, she hurled the basket as well) while fluttering a fan and sporting more flowers in her hair. After each performance McMoon would collect the flowers from the auditorium in readiness for redistribution during the next show.^{[citation needed]}

After a taxicab crash in 1943 she discovered that she could sing "a higher F than ever before", and sent the cab driver a box of expensive cigars.^[4]

In spite of public demand, Jenkins restricted her rare performances to a few favorite venues and one annual recital at the Ritz-Carlton ballroom in New York City. Attendance was limited to her loyal clubwomen and a select few others; she handled distribution of the coveted tickets herself. At the age of 76 she finally yielded to public demand and performed at Carnegie Hall on October 25, 1944. Tickets for the event sold out weeks in advance. Jenkins died a month later at her residence, the Hotel Seymour in Manhattan.^[1]

Recordings[link]

Only one professional audio recording of Jenkins exists: nine arias composed by her accompanist, Cosmé McMoon, on five 78-rpm records. The material has been reissued in various combinations on three CDs:

• The Muse Surmounted: Florence Foster Jenkins and Eleven of Her Rivals (Homophone Records) contains only one of the arias, Valse Caressante, but includes an interview with McMoon.
• The Glory (????) of the Human Voice (RCA Victor) includes eight of the arias and features Jenkins on the cover in one of her many recital costumes, "Angel of Inspiration".
• Murder on the High C's (Naxos Records) contains all nine arias, but lacks the McMoon interview.

In popular culture[link]

In 1999 a one-woman play about Jenkins, Goddess of Song by South African playwright Charles J. Fourie, was staged at the Coffee Lounge in Cape Town. In 2001 Viva La Diva by Chris Ballance had a run at the Edinburgh Fringe.^[5] Another play based on Jenkins's life, Souvenir by Stephen Temperley, opened on Broadway in November 2005 starring Judy Kaye.^[6] Kaye commented that "It's hard work to sing badly well. You could sing badly badly for a while, but you'll hurt yourself if you do it for long."^[7] A fourth play about Jenkins, Glorious! by Peter Quilter, opened the same year in England starring Maureen Lipman.^[8] It has since been translated and performed in more than 20 countries.^[9]

The self-titled 2009 album of Boston-based indie folk band The Everyday Visuals contains a cut entitled "Florence Foster Jenkins" which references her Carnegie Hall performance and other aspects of her life.^[10] A hidden track called "Encore for Florence" concludes folk singer Mary Hampton's debut album My Mother's Children.

Jenkins was the subject of the "Not My Job" segment of NPR's radio program Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on October 25, 2009. Anchorman Brian Williams, the show's special guest, was asked a series of trivia questions about Jenkins, whom he nicknamed "Flo Fo". The broadcast appropriately took place in Carnegie Hall.^[11]

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Florence Foster Jenkins at Find a Grave
• Florence Foster Jenkins ephemera, a scrapbook kept for Jenkins and her husband, Bayfield, in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
• Liner-notes from the RCA CD, photos, and an article on Jenkins by Daniel Dixon
• "Playing the diva of din", The Guardian
• Interview with Mr. Cosmé McMoon about Jenkins, May 26, 1991
• "Tra-la-laughable, but loving it" about the play Glorious!, The Sydney Morning Herald (October 4, 2007)
• 5 People Who Failed Their Way to Fame And Fortune – #2. Florence Foster Jenkins

The Jenkins was an American country music group comprising Nancy Jenkins and her daughters, Kacie and Brodie. The trio had two singles in the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts: "Blame It on Mama" at #34 and "Getaway Car" at #38. The latter was later a single for Hall & Oates. An album was recorded for Capitol Records but never released.

Biography[link]

Nancy Jenkins and her daughters began to perform together when she started to produce the annual talent show at Kacie and Brodie's school.^[1] When Kacie was in sixth grade, the three performed The Judds' song "Guardian Angels" in a school production. Dennis Hysom, a local songwriter, who attended the show persuaded Nancy and her daughters to pursue a career as a country music trio.^[1] The three then recorded a demo tape, with Nancy writing some of the songs.^[2]

In 2003, the trio was signed to Capitol Records, working with singer-songwriter and record producer Rodney Crowell on the first album, to be called The Jenkins.^[2][3] "Blame It on Mama" was released as an advance single in early 2004; the song was a minor top 40 hit in the Billboard U.S. Hot Country Songs chart.^[2] A second single, "Getaway Car", was released but the album itself was never released. "Getaway Car" was originally recorded by 4 Runner on their album Getaway Car, and was later a hit in the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts when Hall & Oates recorded it.

The Jenkins left Capitol in 2008.^[4]

Discography[link]

Singles[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]

Kristopher Rudy-Charles Jenkins (born August 3, 1979 in Ypsilanti, Michigan) is a former American football nose tackle who played for the Carolina Panthers and New York Jets of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Panthers in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Maryland.

A three-time All-Pro and four-time Pro Bowl selection, Jenkins played seven seasons for the Panthers before being traded to the New York Jets in 2008. He is the older brother of Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Cullen Jenkins.

College career[link]

Jenkins played college football at the University of Maryland, where he started 27 of 41 games. He made the second team All-ACC during his senior season. He finished with 9.5 sacks and 154 tackles.

Professional career[link]

2001 NFL Draft[link]

Jenkins was selected in the second round of the 2001 NFL Draft by Carolina.

Carolina Panthers[link]

Jenkins finished the 2002 season with 60 tackles and 7 sacks, en route to an alternate appearance on the NFC's Pro Bowl team, where he replaced an injured Warren Sapp. The following season, he helped the Panthers on their way to Super Bowl XXXVIII. In one game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jenkins blocked two kicks: a field goal attempt by Martin Gramatica, and an extra point attempt that would have won the game. Jenkins' second block marked the first time that an extra point was blocked to send a game into overtime (Carolina later won the game). Jenkins was rewarded with his first Pro Bowl start, and joined teammate Mike Rucker as half of the NFC's defensive front line.

However, the 2004 NFL season saw Jenkins suffer a shoulder injury in the second game against Kansas City, and he spent the latter half of the season on injured reserve. His injuries continued during the first game of the 2005 NFL season when he tore his anterior cruciate ligament and was once again placed on injured reserve.

New York Jets[link]

On February 29, 2008, the Carolina Panthers traded Jenkins to the New York Jets for third- and fifth-round draft picks in the 2008 NFL Draft.^[2] For much of his first season with the Jets, Jenkins was dominant and garnered heavy consideration for the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year award. On Sunday October 18, 2009, Jenkins left the game against the Buffalo Bills with a left knee injury. The next day, it was reported that he had a torn ACL and would be out for the rest of the season.^[3] On September 13, 2010, during the home opener vs the Baltimore Ravens, Kris Jenkins again tore his ACL, which ended his season for the second time in a row.^[4]

The Jets released Jenkins on February 28, 2011.^[5]

Retirement[link]

Jenkins announced his retirement from football on July 20, 2011.^[6]

Broadcasting career[link]

Prior to the 2011 NFL Season, Jenkins joined SNY as an analyst for New York Jets games, even though he is likely best remembered as a Panther. His job includes appearing on Jets programs such as pre- and post-game shows and weekly game previews and reviews.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• New York Jets bio
• Carolina Panthers bio
• Maryland Terrapins bio