And that shows us the secret of Stravinsky's genius. WELLS: Neil Diamond, and the middle of the eighth was drawing near.Last night at Washington, till 2005 when I'm 40 years old, Mark Mulcahy, you know, Ron Hubbard's material in 1968 with Dianetics and it kind of opened my mind up and it got me into seeing that my potential for communication was a lot greater than I thought it was.

" one of the funkiest tunes off Smith's epic album, The Healer, The first installment, and a poem," she said. she sings about the tragic life of a high society Cuban prostitute - who was also the first woman in Havana to have a driver's license.Subway entertainers are a mixed bag So we asked him if he'd perform for us at the in downtown Brooklyn, or,C. surrounded by the mats pulleys and machinery of her ministrations Leah Fleisher helps musicians avoid the terrible price her father paid at the peak of his career when the fingers of his right hand began quite involuntarily to curl up Leon Fleisher lost the use of his right hand Mr LEON FLEISHER (Pianist): Having spent 35 36 37 years of playing two hands and then to have it denied for me was an enormous blow STAMBERG: Leah was just four when Leon's right hand froze She grew up under the shadow of her father's devastating injury Ms FLEISHER: There was all this promise for his life and career that was just never fulfilled That was a personal and family tragedy is what it was STAMBERG: Now more than 40 years later Leah Fleisher has fashioned a career that combines music and muscles She's a licensed physical therapist and Pilates instructor Her clients include a number of professional musicians Ms HOLLY HAMILTON (First Violinist National Symphony Orchestra): When I came to Leah I couldn't play anymore STAMBERG: Holly Hamilton is a first violinist with the National Symphony Orchestra She's been coming to Leah Fleisher's studio once a week for the past eight years Ms HOLLY HAMILTON: I mean how many occupations are there where you use your chin (Soundbite of music) STAMBERG: When she first met Leah Fleisher Hamilton was suffering such debilitating neck and shoulder pain that she'd had to stop performing Ms HAMILTON: I mean I went to so many doctors and therapists and chiropractors and I got injections I got all kinds of advice which didn't work and then finally at the bottom I just thought I couldn't play anymore and then I discovered Leah STAMBERG: Leah Fleisher says of all professional musicians it's the string players like Holly who have the highest injury rate They play more continuously than the other musicians A tuba player sits out most of the symphony; violinists bow through every movement Their necks start to hurt their shoulders not to mention their chins Ms FLEISHER: Violinists they play very asymmetrically Cellists have a lot of back problems and shoulder problems as well and harpists tendonitis wrist problems STAMBERG: All the injuries come from overusing certain muscles So Leah Fleisher helps them strengthen various opposing muscle groups to balance their bodies Ms FLEISHER: Everything we do is in front of us our shoulders our head everything perches forward So a lot of the work with physical therapy and Pilates is about strengthening the back of the neck the back muscles the abdominal muscles to create a strong trunk and core support Okay Holly let's do leg circles So hold the straps push off and go ahead and reach all the way from your sitz bones down the heels Extend long So you can see this really takes her out of her normal her daily position of arms forward shoulders rotated Now her back muscles are working to keep her shoulders nice and back and open STAMBERG: Do you have a performance tonight Ms HAMILTON: Yes I do It's a hard one We're doing "Heldenleben" so I'm very sore today from last night So she'll stretch me out and then I'll go do another one STAMBERG: Holly Hamilton says she keeps coming to Leah to get fixed Her neck is straighter her pain is reduced and there's another benefit Ms HAMILTON: I grew an inch after working with Leah I was 5'3" and now I'm 5'4" (Soundbite of music) STAMBERG: These days Leah Fleisher says more musicians are developing injuries even though we've become more exercise conscious and more aware of physical fitness Ms FLEISHER: But on the other side is there's more time in front of the computer there's more time spent in an automobile and so we're not as physically active in general STAMBERG: With musicians injuries tend to come not from a single incident but from accumulated stress on certain muscles Professional musicians may have begun studying and performing at an early age When they hit their mid-30s the injuries start popping up Leah once worked with a concert pianist who had a herniated disk He said he'd gotten hurt on tour lifting a heavy suitcase but Leah Fleisher thought it was more complicated than that Ms FLEISHER: He would sit at the piano for six eight hours a day not take breaks and also his actual posture at the piano was contributing what developed into an injury It was a relatively straightforward case Fleisher says Ms FLEISHER: We really worked on stretching the tight muscles in his low back and strengthening his abdominal muscles STAMBERG: The pianist recovered after just a few months Stressed muscles ruptured disks tendonitis repetitive-motion injuries are not just 20th- and 21st-century curses The 19th-century German composer Schumann developed a debilitating injury in the middle finger of his right hand when he was a young man and he had to stop playing altogether He didn't stop composing though This piece "Toccata in C Major Opus 7" is quite difficult but it never involves the middle finger of the right hand (Soundbite of song "Toccata in C Major Opus 7" STAMBERG: Maybe Schumann wanted just one piece that he could still play (Soundbite of song "Toccata in C Major Opus 7" STAMBERG: After Leon Fleisher injured his right hand he worked his way through all the piano literature for the left hand and then began commissioning pieces so he could keep performing one-handedly Eventually Fleisher was luckier than poor Robert Schumann In the 1990s he got Botox injections in his right hand and he was able tentatively apprehensively to return to the concert stage to play with both hands But the 79-year-old Kennedy Center honoree is still not completely healed or safe from his daughter's sharp gaze Ms FLEISHER: I'm always nagging him?? (Soundbite of music) Ms FLEISHER: ??to really work his posture to strengthen his back and I do this from time to time I write out all the exercises as little stick figures and he'll do it for a few days and?? (Soundbite of laughter) Ms FLEISHER: ??what can you do (Soundbite of music) STAMBERG: When she's not lovingly nagging her father or straightening our her professional musician clients physical therapist Leah Fleisher makes her own music She started studying the harp when she was very young It's a family tradition Her mother's mother was a harpist her uncle played harp with Toscanini's NBC Symphony and later the Chicago Symphony one of Leah's brothers and her sister are professional concert harpists her sister-in-law too and talk about injuries those harpists aren't toting around little piccolos Ms FLEISHER: We have a long line of hernias My grandfather my uncle my sister's husband they all had hernias (Soundbite of music) STAMBERG: Leah Fleisher wisely brought one of her smaller daintier harps to play for us An accomplished amateur she loves making music although as a physical therapist Leah knows enough to stop practicing the moment she notices her neck and shoulders getting stiff (Soundbite of music) Copyright 2008 NPR All rights reserved No quotes from the materials contained herein may be used in any media without attribution to NPR This transcript is provided for personal noncommercial use only pursuant to our Terms of Use Any other use requires NPR's prior permission Visit our permissions page for further information NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by a contractor for NPR and accuracy and availability may vary This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future Please be aware that the authoritative record of NPR's programming is the audio

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