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Phone: 212-860-5541 * Fax: 917-677-8247
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Price: $125.00 |
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NEAR MINT CONDITION |
JOANA & LOUISE LESCHIN - PIANISTS |
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Rare autographed 8” x 10” photograph of the Polish born, American pianists, Bogata, 1946. The Leschin sisters (Joana 1911-1978) (Louise 1916-2006) were child prodigies, playing their first major gig at the Hollywood Bowl in 1926 at the ages of 8 and 13. One can hear the performance at the Hollywood Bowl Museum today. They were pupils of Egon Petri in their native Poland and when he was alerted that the Nazis were on the march; he was advised to take the sisters with him as they were Jewish. They made it out of Poland with Petri and his wife on the last train before the invasion. Upon their arrival in American, the studied at Curtis with Isabelle Vengerova. Upon graduation, the pair toured together as duo-pianists throughout the United States and South America playing major and minor venues to great acclaim through the early 1950’s, both as Steinway Artists. Louise eventually moved to Hollywood and married the future President of El Salvador. Joana remained in New York and took over for Petri when he retired as professor of piano at Cornell University. |
