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Boston Symphony Orchestra-with conducter Seiji Ozawa and pianist Leon Fleisher performs Berlioz's "Roman Carnival" Overture, Ravel's Piano Concerto for the left hand and Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony. In Boston Symphony Hall. Tickets are priced from $20 to $52.50. Call 266-1200. Friday...
Boston Symphony Orchestra--with pianist Leon Fleisher performs Prokofiev and Beethoven at Symphony Hall. Call 266-1492. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Tuesday...
...problem first appeared in 1964 when Fleisher noticed a peculiar sensation hi his forearm. By 1965 he found himself incapable of playing at all; he had lost control of his right fingers. During the years that followed he tried almost every known treatment, consulting doctors, hypnotists and psychotherapists. A child prodigy, Fleisher had been pushed hard by his parents. Some part of his psyche, went one theory, was rebelling against the emotional pressure...
There were periods of extreme depression, but Fleisher slowly built a new life without the right hand. He still made occasional appearances onstage, playing the few pieces written for the left hand. He learned the joys of conducting, and he greatly increased his teaching schedule. He is a professor at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music. Still, he says, "I never totally counted myself out. The feeling that I would some day be able to use both hands again kept me going...
...patience was rewarded. His friend and fellow pianist Gary Graffman was suffering from a similar problem and had found sympathetic and helpful doctors at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital. The doctors, Fred Hochberg, a neurologist, and Robert Leffert, an orthopedic surgeon, examined Fleisher and determined that he was suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition that occurs when swollen tissue presses against a major nerve that transmits feeling to the hand. Fleisher was operated on in January 1981 to relieve the nerve. A few months later he began follow-up treatment, a powerful and sometimes painful application of pressure...