This is the only known film of William Kapell, who died in an air crash in 1953, at the age of 31.

He had made quite a few recordings for RCA, but this was his only preserved record on film.

You will be gripped.

Is that Alistair Cook presenting?

It’s a theory, no more ridiculous than some of the HIP hypotheses.

The arranger is Sverre Indris Joner.

A reminiscence from cellist Evangeline Benedetti, one of the first two women to gain tenure in the New York Philharmonic:

When Philharmonic Hall (now David Geffen Hall) at Lincoln Center was built, they were certain that there would be no women in the orchestra.  Fortunately, they were wrong, but they built no dressing rooms for women. Therefore when Orin O’Brien, the first tenured woman, and I, the second, won our respective auditions and were admitted to the orchestra, they originally solved the problem by having us change into our orchestral black costumes in a public women’s bathroom.  They just put lockers in there. Finally after a few years and more women came aboard, they built a dressing room for us. I suppose they realised women were here to stay.

Read more here. Evangeline has a new book out at OUP.