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4 unusual facts about Robert Kapilow


Performance Today

Performance Today also periodically presents a segment called What Makes It Great? with composer and conductor Robert Kapilow.

Robert Kapilow

It has since achieved great popularity in the children's theater world, prompting Boston Globe music critic Richard Dyer to name it "the most popular children's piece since Peter and the Wolf".

As a conductor, Kapilow has led such orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Hagen Symphony among others.

A prolific composer of symphonic works, Kapilow has written pieces for the Kansas City Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Helena Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra among others.



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