Word: rapp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standouts for the freshmen were Walter Saxe at goal, Langley Keyes, left fullback, and Bill Rapp, center half. The agile Exeter goalie and the school's tight line prevented the freshmen from making much headway, although the ball was in Exeter territory about half the time...
Starting for the freshmen were Saxe, Wilson, Keyes, Charles Steele, Rapp, Pete Erskine, Al Butzel, John Hedreen, Jon Himmlehoch, George Herrick, and Harvey Mazer...
...halfback, Getchell has Pete Erskine, Bill Rapp, Charlie Steele, Pete Niebyl, Tom Gleason, and John Freeman contending for three starting posts. Full-back Dale Fruman and linemen Jay Draper, Dick Emrich, Joe Pelligrino, Mike Falk, and "Doc" Bennett also figure in Getchell's plans, but he's not sure where...
Having lost his right arm to shrapnel on the Russian front in World War II, Rapp heard of Wittgenstein's example,* decided to go on playing too. "With me the yearning was so great I felt I never wanted to give up." He began to study the limited repertory, began to get ahead using the Ravel concerto as a staple...
Always on the alert for some way to widen his scope, Rapp spotted Prokofiev's left-hand concerto on a list, wrote to his widow in Moscow to ask her for the score. As the music was heard in Berlin last week (with the Metropolitan Opera's Martin Rich conducting), it no longer seemed aggressively modern, as it had to Wittgenstein, but more like an old friend. The whole piece is sprayed with crotchety harmonies, but it always makes the kind of leeway towards a safe harmonic port that is part of Prokofiev's charm. The solo...