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Leon Fleisher"Sheep May Safely Graze"Playing on Friday at Alice Tully Hall (1941 Broadway, U.W.S.)Get: Tickets (Start at $27) | Directions The career of renowned pianist Leon Fleisher is a testament to strength of the will. A prodigy who began...
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Leon Fleisher talks about his many musical careers. The promising pianist made his Carnegie Hall debut at 16, but was struck down in his prime. He describes how his love of music rescued him after he lost the use of his right hand.
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Sterling Beeaff introduces the world premiere recording of Paul Hindemith's long-lost concerto for piano left-hand, featuring Leon Fleisher.
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Leon Fleisher talks about his many musical careers. The promising pianist made his Carnegie Hall debut at 16, but was struck down in his prime. He describes how his love of music rescued him after he lost the use of his right hand.
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Classical pianist performs in Sac; First Lady visits UC Merced; Sac literary press has new anthology; Sac band nominated for Sammie
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Leon Fleisher – Mozart Piano Concertos (Sony 86974)
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Par Paul-Andr Demierre: Leon Fleisher
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In the 1960s, piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand due to a condition called focal dystonia, but he focused on teaching and continued to play pieces designed for one-handed pianists. Jeffrey Brown and Fleisher discuss how...
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In the 1960s, piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand due to a condition called focal dystonia, but he focused on teaching and continued to play pieces designed for one-handed pianists. Jeffrey Brown and Fleisher discuss how...
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In the 1960s, piano virtuoso Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand due to a condition called focal dystonia, but he focused on teaching and continued to play pieces designed for one-handed pianists. Jeffrey Brown and Fleisher discuss how...
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Pianist Leon Fleisher made a series of landmark recordings for CBS Records between 1954 and 1963, before a neurological affliction known as focal dystonia rendered two fingers of his right hand immobile in 1965. Now, in the year of his 80th...
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Pianist Leon Fleisher is perhaps the most well-known case of a musician being sidelined by a debilitating injury. After being unable to play with his right hand, he re-invented himself as a left-handed player and conductor. Leah Fleisher, his...
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Brendan Kehoe was in a car accident and ended up having three brain surgeries. He talks about what it took to recover. Also - pianist Leon Fleisher on temporarily losing the ability to use his fingers.
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An update on Port of Baltimore from with MD Ports Admin. exec. dir. James White; author Bradley Birzer on Charles Carroll, the Founding Father that history forgot; theatre critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews "Sycamore Trees" at Signature Theatre in...
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Pianist and composer Leon Fleisher on his revealing new memoir, My Nine Lives: A Memoir of Many Careers in Music. What are the big issues of note to folks in Garrett County? Two brothers with one foot in Maryland, one foot in Haiti, document the...
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Susan pulls some pieces she's most proud of from the NPR audio archives: She knits her way though history, takes us on a personal tour of DC, and tries to interest her colleagues in resurrecting her infamous relish recipe. She talks with...
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