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America's first great piano virtuoso was a darkly handsome, intense young New Yorker named William Kapell. He had it all: a staggering technique, passion and an artistic instinct that pierced to the heart of every piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained...
Taylor’s long list of accolades includes the 1990 Gilmore Young Artists Award, a scholarship for exceptionally promising American pianists aged 22 or younger. The pianist—known as “Kit” to his friends—also received a bronze medal in 1993...
He was on his way to becoming the greatest American pianist of the century when time ran out on William Kapell. Before he died in a 1953 plane crash at 31, he had everything: looks, charisma, unrivaled musicality, technique to burn. Now his complete recordings--concertos by Beethoven, Prokofiev and...
JASCHA HEIFETZ grandly and brilliantly plays the third and biggest of Brahms's three romantic sonatas for violin and piano (reissued by RCA Victor). Such virtuosity would overshadow an ordinary pianist but not the late William Kapell, who with equal ease is first sensitive accompanist, then forceful protagonist. It...
That trial took place last week in Manhattan.Ill and preoccupied with the Jack Ruby defense, Lawyer Belli remained home in San Francisco. New York lawyers conducted a chorus of musical witnesses again, and this time the jury was abundantly impressed. After a three-day trial, it awarded Kapell's...