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"Dry Bach!" he exclaimed to a reporter for Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. "Listen to this." And the room, wrote the reporter, "was filled with liquid sound, mellow, golden," as Kapell turned to his keyboard. But Kapell had his fill of Sydney critics; it was goodbye forever. "I shall never...
Manhattan-born William Kapell was a hammer-handed but unmistakably talented pianist of 19 when he first crashed on to the U.S. music scene in a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1941. In rapid order, he won three important awards, gathered a devoted following and dazzled the critics with...
As time passed, the critics developed a more exacting tone. Kapell's real forte, they ruled, was the moderns, e.g.. his favorite Prokofiev and Khachaturian, and such technically demanding romantics as Rachmaninoff. With other music, they sometimes complained, he lacked "tonal sensuousness." But without hesitation, they placed him...
Charles Eliot Norton lecturer Aaron Copland gave the third in his series of talks last night, on "The Creative Mind and the Interpretative Mind" before an overflow audience at Sanders Theatre. William Kapell, who was to be assisting pianist, cancelled his appearance because of illness, and Miss Reah Sadowsky and...
Brahms: Sonata No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 108 (Jascha Heifetz, violin; William Kapell, piano; Victor, 2 sides LP). Two fine talents give a touching and exciting performance of a late (1888) work. Recording : good.