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Klarinet Archive - Posting 000038.txt from 2005/11

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: A very unusual performance of Mozart's K. 297b
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:38:39 -0500

Yes. I played with Fleisher when he was only doing left hand
stuff. I'm so glad he is back to both hands.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Roberts [mailto:timr@-----.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 4:19 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] Re: A very unusual performance of Mozart's K. 297b

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.

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

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