If pianist Leon Fleisher had walked away from music when, at the age of 37, focal dystonia immobilized two fingers on his right hand and put a screeching halt to his soaring career, it would've been understandable, even expected. However, in an effort that can rightly be called heroic, Fleisher persevered and remained involved in music for the better part of the past four decades, teaching, conducting, and performing the surprisingly decent amount of piano repertoire written for left hand (much of which was written for concert pianist Paul Wittgenstein, brother of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, who lost his right arm in World War I). more ›