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Crippled for 17 years, Leon Fleisher makes a stirring comeback...
...friend suggested that he shave off his beard and call himself Noel Rehsielf, which is his name spelled backward. But Leon Fleisher said he would go on, which is no spelled backward. To demonstrate to the world that, after 17 years, he could once again range up and down a piano keyboard with both hands, he chose the most visible occasion he could find: the inauguration last week of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's $23 million Joseph Meyerhoff Hall...
Still, the unspoken question was palpable in the opening-night audience: Could he do it? The answer resounded through the new hall like a message from Olympus. After nearly two decades, Fleisher, once acclaimed the most talented pianist of his generation, had returned to the ranks. If at times he seemed a bit too rushed, eager to get through what must have been an ordeal as well as a triumph, the clarity and intelligence of his pianism were unmistakable...
Lindberg is a good con man. Contemporary literary critics can be lifeless and dutifully impenetrable. As Saul Bellow's Von Humboldt Fleisher put it in Humboldt's Gift, "Their business is to reduce masterpieces to discourse." Lindberg takes care of more business than most readers may care to handle. But his new readings of old books demonstrate how ingeniously some of our best writers juggled the subject of high ideals and low practices. It is an act that requires more than grace under pressure. In Lindberg's felicitous and confident phrase, it takes "poise in ambivalence...
JAZZ: Eric Fleisher, guitarist, Stephan Siebert, planist, and their ensemble; Berklee Recital hall; Friday...