Film #2 - Ballade for Edvard Grieg and Two Hands - Leon Fleisher

Date: Tue. 5/6

Time: 12:00pm

Venue: Mary Jane Stryker Theater, Kalamazoo Valley Museum - Kalamazoo
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Free of charge

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Featuring Leif Ove Andsnes

Edvard Grieg never was able to play his Ballade in G-Minor in front of an audience. Leif Ove Andsnes performs the Ballade, Grieg's major work for solo piano, but he first searches to understand Grieg the person. In this film, we join the 1998 Gilmore Artist on an exciting tour of Europe hunting for background on the composer's life and his most personal work.

Running time: 53 minutes

Two Hands - Leon Fleisher is a short film on the great American pianist, now playing again with both hands after being afflicted for many years by the medical condition known as focal distonia. Fleisher himself tells the story of how he was able to regain the use of his right hand and illustrates same by several eloquent performances.

Running time: 17 minutes

Total running time for both films: 70 mintues