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A Lasting Record (Paperback, New)
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A Lasting Record (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
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The strange tale of America's best pianist and the Australian
lipstick salesman who immortalised his genius. A compelling and
surprising tale of musical passion, tragedy and revival. In his
prime, William Kapell was acknowledged to be 'the greatest
pianistic talent since Horowitz'. Yet his return flight from
Australia - where he toured in 1953 - ploughed into a mountain
south of San Francisco and all on board were killed. Kapell's
promising career was brutally cut short at the premature age of
thirty-one. Roy Preston was a humble cosmetics salesman at Myer
with a passion for home recording. Using a Royce recorder to cut
microgroove discs off radio, he recorded William Kapell's last
concert in Geelong, Chopin's Funeral March sonata, which Kapell
performed a week before he died. In A Lasting Record, Stephen
Downes pieces together the unlikely story of how Roy's recordings
were reunited with the Kapell family by way of chance, coincidence
and plain good fortune. A music enthusiast himself, Stephen writes
with a journalist's keen eye for detail and a nose for a good
story.
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