“Few artists have ever battled so manfully with management or so unheitatingly sassed the press. He was afraid of nobody because his heart was pure.”

Virgil Thompson, " On William Kapell http://www.williamkapell.com/articles/virgilthompson.html", New York Herald-Tribune (October, 1953).
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