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For the Left Hand [Played Feb. 25 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Amazon Prime Video and various VOD platforms.] Leslie Simmer and Gordon Quinn's award-winning, compelling, entertaining, moving, inspirational, 74-minute, 2021 documentary that showcases retired, talented, tenacious, resilient, passionate, widowed Chicago high school choir teacher Norman Malone who taught for 34 years and dreamed of playing the piano even though at age 10 he was left completely paralyzed on the right-side when his mentally disturbed father Quintis viciously and tragically attacked him, his mother Fannie Hines, and his two brothers Arthur and Irving in the head with a hammer and at age 78 was invited to perform a one-handed Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra and consists of commentary by author/music critic Howard Reich, neighbor Judith Stein, financial advisor Jeffrey Wilson, high school choir director Gracie Jeong, music teachers Arthur Griffin and Patricia Ortega, pianist Paul Wittgenstein's daughter Joan Ripley, piano virtuoso Reginald Robinson, pianist Bryan Shilander, and symphony music director Richard Chiarappa.
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