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Leon Fleisher was among the best American pianists of his era, but was stricken having a debilitating condition in his ideal hands, which forced him to withdraw from community functionality in 1965. He shortly reappeared in repertory for the still left hand alone and in addition turned to performing, but …

Vince Guaraldi was a well-respected jazz pianist whose biggest success originated from avenues usually closed to modern jazz performers: he enjoyed popular single at the same time when jazz had largely been exiled through the pop graphs, and he scored some extremely successful animated tv specials, a moderate where cookie-cutter …