Talk:William Kapell

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It would be fascinating to discover who was the wiki-genius who invented the term peacock terms, and who is the super-wiki-genius who determines what constitutes a peacock term...or is it perhaps the same over-endowed individual? 65.206.122.30 (talk) 22:48, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Some of the "peacock" termonology is questionable, but as a whole this article is rife with subjective language, and needs to be toned down. Make no mistake, I'm a Kapell fan (I wouldn't bother with the article if I wasn't).  But as a whole the article is lacking proper citations and objectivity.  I'll be working on it in the coming weeks.THD3 (talk) 18:05, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I heartily agree and would be happy to assist you, THD3 (although I know that you have already written a your doctorate on Kapell so you probably know a lot more than I do on the subject!). I've a reasonable collection of primary and secondary sources (and, sadly, I have had some input to the circumstances of his death on Wikipedia as you will see from the link to BCPA Flight 304). BTW, the information you added about Kapell's parents I think originates from publicity in the 1940s/50s (for example see page 105 of Tim Page's book relating to the South American tour in 1948 just after his marriage to Anna Lou) and the omission of his Jewish background is probably a reflection of prevailing attitudes at that time which is no longer appropriate. Ruths9396 (talk) 16:38, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Reorg and rewrite
It's time, past time, really, to rewrite and reorganize this page. I will be taking out the POV and putting the page into a more chronological order. For sourcing, I'll be using liner notes and newspaper articles, and I am unaware of a full scale biography. If any one can locate a good fair use photograph, I'd appreciate it.THD3 (talk) 13:33, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I have deleted the POV that was permeating the page, and have deleted the tag (the user who added has not been active for several months).THD3 (talk) 13:43, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

A useful reference I did not see listed is the book by Tim Page, William Kapell: A Documentary Life History of the American Pianist (College Park: International Piano Archives at the University of Maryland, 1992) Singing Coyote (talk) 16:50, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Wife
In 1947, he wed the former Rebecca Anna Lou Melson, with whom he had two children.
 * Was she "Rebecca Anna Lou Melson" at the time of her marriage, or had she reverted to a maiden name after, perhaps, a divorce or the death an earlier husband? If not, she became "the former" Rebecca Anna Lou Melson only after her marriage to Kapell.  --  JackofOz (talk) 20:42, 5 October 2009 (UTC)


 * That's just bad writing. I've deleted "the former."THD3 (talk) 15:29, 6 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. --  JackofOz (talk) 11:44, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm editing Rebecca Anna Lou's autobiography, "Left-Over Life to Live." Marriage with Kapell was her first and Melson was her maiden name at the time of marriage to Kapell on May 18, 1948. He was 26 years old, she was 21. Following Kapell's death Anna Lou remarried, and later divorced, the perfumer and ethnographic art collector Gaston Dehavenon. She has kept his last name ever since. An interesting detail about Kapell's death is that his last concert in Geelong was Chopin’s Funeral March Sonata. The family is very active in projects related to Kapell, and several of Kapell's grandchildren are becoming very good musicians in their own right. -- Singing Coyote (talk) 16:05, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

Photograph
A major thing this article is missing is a photograph. Any ideas for what we can use that would be within Wikipedia's guidelines?THD3 (talk) 15:11, 17 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Regarding a photograph, one should be available from the family. I'll contact his son about getting one. -- Singing Coyote (talk) 16:05, 16 October 2011 (UTC)