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Last week, tall, ruddy Clarinetist Reginald Kell, recognized as one of the world's best, let Manhattan judge his respectability in person for the first time. Snowbound in the suburbs, he stomped in the stage door just ten minutes before he was scheduled to start Brahms's B Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate...
Both kinds will get plenty of chance to hear him. At 40, Yorkshireman Kell has come to the U.S. to stay. Says he: "All I could see ahead over there was the same old sort of thing. I thought I'd get out a bit and see what America might offer...
...seemed to Reginald Kell that "there must be some easier way out than engineering." So he took up the clarinet. After one day, because he had once studied violin, he could play a couple of tunes. In ten years, he was a professor of clarinet in the Royal Academy of Music, which later made him a Fellow, "a fate I thought reserved only for respectable musicians, like an organist at St. Paul...
Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, K. 581 (Reginald Kell, clarinetist, with the Philharmonia String Quartet; Columbia, 8 sides). Kell, playing one of Mozart's most winning chamber masterpieces, does better with it than Benny Goodman. Recording: good...
...candidates for the two House Committee vacancies are Richard D. Everett '47, Christopher Holabird '48, Walter E. Robb 3rd '48, Peter B. Kell '48, and Richard A. Snelling...