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Byron Janis American Legend
Lessons With Horowitz In 1944, Vladimir Horowitz was invited by the manager of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to hear the 16-year-old pianist perform a concerto with conductor Lorin Maazel, then only 14. Janis has also earned Juvenile Arthritis Awards of Excellence for his work with young piano students. According to the Arthritis Foundation, more than 300,000 children in the United States are stricken with this chronic disease.
Journal Article
CHRONICLE
BYRON JANIS has more than the usual pianist's affinity for Chopin. Recently, Mr. Janis, whose career has been severely impeded by psoriatic arthritis, was making his first record in 33 years -- \"all Chopin nocturnes, mazurkas and waltzes,\" he said -- and he invited some friends to the recording session.
Newspaper Article
After Years of Pain, Janis Rebuilds Career
In a creative aside, he has written the score for a musical that may be bound for Broadway, and, at age 70, he is at work on his autobiography. ''I have had an extraordinary life,'' Mr. Janis said recently. ''I have suffered a lot and have also had marvelous joy.'' A student of Vladimir Horowitz, Mr. Janis was a sensation in his 30's, an American who wooed and won Russian audiences and dazzled with recordings of the Rachmaninoff First and Third Concertos, among others. In 1973 came a diagnosis of arthritis in both his hands. He continued performing for many years, often in excruciating pain. ''When I took the bandages off, I thought, 'Oh, my God,' '' Mr. Janis recalled. ''I went into a gigantic depression. I had overcome many things, but I thought I would never play again, not even for myself. I didn't want to see or talk to anybody. I tried to think positively, but I couldn't. Everything looked black. Music had been my whole life since I was 4, and I couldn't see any alternative.'' The gloom lasted about 18 months. What finally propelled Mr. Janis into the light was his ability, he said, to ''get at music another way.'' With the encouragement of his wife, Maria Cooper Janis, the daughter of Gary Cooper, he exhumed yet another talent that lay dormant for decades: songwriting.
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