[3] In the United Kingdom he played in a noted piano quartet called the Chamber Music Players with Albert Sammons, Lionel Tertis and William Murdoch.
[2][7] It has been stated that his cello can be heard in the slow movement of Boult's 1935 recording of the Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto with Artur Schnabel.
[13] After Felix Salmond and Guilhermina Suggia turned it down, Lauri Kennedy was engaged to premiere Frank Bridge's Oration (1929-30) for cello and orchestra, but withdrew during rehearsals: Florence Hooton was the eventual soloist.
[1] His wife, Dorothy Kennedy (née McBride), was a pianist who also accompanied John McCormack and taught the children of Enrico Caruso.
[17] Lauri later taught cello at the Canberra School of Music in 1966, resigning after only one year due to poor health.
Lauri Kennedy died on 26 April 1985, in Sacramento, California, where he was living with their eldest son, David.