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Fleisher in Print

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

One of our greatest pianists, and our honored guest at last summer’s Portland International Piano Festival, Leon Fleisher has always chosen his words carefully. He has been in the news recently because of an op-ed piece he wrote for the Washington Post.

The link below is to “My White House Dilemma”.

Fleisher wrote the piece after being awarded a Kennedy Center Honor for lifetime contributions to American culture.

Read his entire article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/08/AR2008 020802979.html

The Boston Globe offers more comment on Fleisher’s opinions:

http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/02/29/a_passionate_pianis t___in_print_and_at_the_keyboard/

I first saw this story reported at Charles Nobel’s Daily Observations.

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