“The unusual and tragic career of Leon Fleisher has always been one of the great classical-music mysteries of the age. Widely regarded in the 1950s and 1960s as this country’s finest native-born classical pianist, Fleisher stopped appearing in concerts in 1965 when a then-inexplicable nervous-system disorder left him unable to play with his right hand…”
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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