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Richard Kapp

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Composer 1936–2006

Richard Kapp (October 9, 1936 – June 4, 2006) was an American conductor. Richard Kapp was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a child piano prodigy. He studied German political history at Johns Hopkins University and received his BA in 1957. He then went abroad on a Fulbright fellowship and studied conducting, composition, and piano at the Stuttgart Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Germany. Kapp started his musical career as a vocal coach at the Basel Stadttheater, Switzerland. He then moved back in the United States and served as music director of the Opera Theater of the Manhattan School of Music in New York from 1963 to 1965. While in New York City he earned a law degree from the New York…

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Teddy & Alice

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  • For the score, Richard Kapp adapted the work of John Philip Sousa, who wrote operettas in addition to his famous marches. Kapp also wrote some new tunes: the final count was Kapp 4, Sousa 4, Sousa mixed with Kapp 6. While Beth Fowler, as Teddy’s second wife, Edith, and Ron Raines, as Alice’s suitor Nick Longworth, had one very nice number…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • 95 Richard Kapp (1936–2006) was an American conductor who founded the ensemble Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York.ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt

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