ReelAbilities Film Festival: NY 2024

Left Alone Rhapsody - The Musical Memoir of Pianist John Bayless

Expired April 11, 2024 3:45 AM
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At 25, Leonard Bernstein's protégé, John Bayless, debuted at Carnegie Hall, launching a 30-year-long recording career as a solo pianist, composer, and improviser. At 54, after a left-brain stroke immobilized his right side, John is determined to reinvent himself as a one-handed musician and storyteller.


Main image description: A man in shadow is backlit by a window; he holds his hand in the air over a piano.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    100 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Stewart M. Schulman