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Transcript: Daniel Zwerdling Interviews Pianist Leon Fleisher
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- April 27, 1996
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Concert pianist Leon Fleisher has been teaching for the past 30 years
and playing left-hand pieces only after a repetitive motion injury
to his right hand in 1965. He is now playing again with both hands.
DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: Back in the early 1960s, pianist Leon Fleisher
[sp] was already becoming a legend. He was in his early 30s, playing
with all the great orchestras. Critics were saying he was destined
to be one of the greatest pianists of the century. Here's Fleisher
with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1961.
[excerpt from concert]
Then in 1965 Fleisher's right arm stopped working. It virtually
went dead and his glorious career as a concert ...