Klarinet Archive - Posting 000037.txt from 2005/11

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: A very unusual performance of Mozart's K. 297b
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:20:18 -0500

On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 09:39:10 -0800, "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
wrote:

>... The oboe player Alex Klein was, at 30, one of the most brilliant
>oboeists of his generation. Then he got the first chair position
>with the Chicago symphony. Within two years he bagan developing a
>neurological problem in his hand, and by the end of the 2003
>season, he was forced to leave the orchestra.
>
>Today, in Carnegie Hall with the Chicagoans, he will rejoin them
>for the performance of the concertante.
>

It's interesting you would mention that. Just today, our local
classical music station was playing tracks from a CD by Leon Fleisher
entitled "Two Hands". Leon Fleisher was a concert pianist who had
exactly the same situation as Mr. Klein. Focal dystonia caused him to
lose the use of his right hand and give up the piano in 1965. Treatment
with botox was so effective that he has now been able to resume his
performance and recording career, some 40 years later. "Two Hands"
represents his first CD since regaining the use of his right hand.

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Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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