The beloved pianist was a young lion of his generation until a hand injury forced him to rethink his relationship to music. Leon Fleisher, The Pianist Who Reinvented Himself, Dies At 92 One of America ...

Pianist Leon Fleisherturns 80 years old today. He's considered one of the great pianists of the past century, although for a significant portion of his career he was forced to play with only one hand.

In a recent conversation with the Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko, the subject turned to Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, a work recorded by virtually every pianist of renown, dead or alive ...

Pianist Leon Fleisher celebrated what he called "a special Thanksgiving season" Wednesday afternoon with a program of Chopin and Bach for an overflow audience in Masur Auditorium at the National ...

Remember the days when you bought a new recording and it quickly became the soundtrack for your life, something you played over and over again, in all sorts of moods, at all hours of the day or night?

Nathaniel Kahn's film Two Hands, a film about pianist Leon Fleisher's 30-year struggle to return to the concert stage, is nominated for an Academy... 'Two Hands,' an Oscar Nominee with Heart 'Two ...

Pianist Leon Fleischer, a former child prodigy, has overcome a debilitating ailment of the right hand to become on expert of the left-hand literature of the piano. In addition, Fleischer is a teacher ...

On every Tuesday in the month of November, NPR's Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg examines how people cope with significant loss, and how they find a way to recover. In her first report, she talks ...

Pianist and conductor Leon Fleisher, actor and writer Steve Martin, singer and actress Diana Ross, film director Martin Scorsese, and songwriter and singer Brian Wilson will receive honors for the ...

Pianist Inna Faliks, Peab '99, '01 (MM), '03 (GPD), has been livestreaming weekly concerts from her Los Angeles home throughout the coronavirus pandemic, but one recital in August was particularly ...

Fleisher increased his teaching, began a conducting career, and focused on performing music written specifically for the left hand only. Much of the repertoire had been composed for pianist Paul ...