Volume 51, Number 17 · November 4, 2004
William Kapell Died
By Michael Kimmelman
In response to Lone Star
(October 7, 2004)
To the Editors:
I want to thank Allen Evans, the record producer and piano historian, for pointing out that William Kapell could not have been at Glenn Gould's debut in New York in 1955, as Kevin Bazzana writes in his biography of Gould, Wondrous Strange (p. 148), and as I negligently repeated in my review of that book [NYR, October 7]. Kapell died, in a plane crash, in 1953.
Michael Kimmelman
New York City