Dallas Public Library

The Byron Janis story, produced, directed and photographed by Peter Rosen ; written by Holly Brubach ; produced for the Pro Musicis Foundation by Peter Rosen Productions, Inc

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The Byron Janis story

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produced, directed and photographed by Peter Rosen ; written by Holly Brubach ; produced for the Pro Musicis Foundation by Peter Rosen Productions, Inc

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Byron Janis relates how he accepted the fact that he had a childhood injury and a painful chronic disease that could potentially keep him from playing the piano, and how he learned what the mind could do to overcome disability if one had the passion to do so. His story is told through a combination of actual archival performances, interviews with contemporaries, including his wife Maria Cooper Janis, Emanuel Ax, Lorin Maazel, and others

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