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Daniel Zwerdling Interviews Pianist Leon Fleisher
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NPR All Things Considered
04-27-1996
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...
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