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Identifier: PIMS-0142
Abstract
In the 1990s Bruce Klein's company Klein Entertainment secured an agreement to the life rights for pianist Leon Fleisher to produce a dramatic film on Fleisher's life, but the film was never made the rights expired and funding could not be secured. The Bruce Klein collection on Leon Fleisher contains two film treatment proposals by Klein and clippings about Fleisher assembled by Klein for background research.
Dates:
1996 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1999 - 2000
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0138
Abstract
Katherine Jacobson Fleisher is a pianist and piano instructor. She taught at the Peabody Institute from 1977 to 2021 and performed as a soloist and as one half of the Fleisher-Jacobson Piano Duo with her husband, Leon Fleisher. Materials in the Katherine Jacobson Fleisher papers include concert programs for solo performances and for the Fleisher-Jacobson Duo; clippings and press releases from national and international publications; professional files related to her travels and participation...
Dates:
1972 - 2021
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0081
Abstract
Pianist, conductor, and teacher Leon Fleisher (1928-2020) had a career in music stretching more than 70 years, including 61 years as a faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory. After making his debut at age 16 with Pierre Monteux conducting, Fleisher toured internationally as a soloist until a neurological condition caused him to lose the full use of his right hand. After three decades of focusing on performing the piano repertoire for the left hand, conducting various ensembles, and...
Dates:
1875 - 2021
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0070
Abstract
The Theater Chamber Players, founded by Peabody Institute faculty members Dina Koston and Leon Fleisher, were a chamber music ensemble that featured 20th-century music and was based primarily in Washington, D.C., from 1968 to 2003. The TCP records include administrative and business documents, correspondence, working files, concert programs, publicity material, photographs, recordings, scores, and reference material.
Dates:
1960-2007
