The documentary about Norman Malone snagged both a jury prize and an audience award at the 2021 Woods Hole Film Festival. The latest film from the award-winning team at Kartemquin resonated with both the judges and viewers at the festival. “For the Left Hand” received the “Special Humanitarian Award” jury Read more…
We had a magical — and quite unusual — evening at the New Haven Documentary Film Festival. The event took place in the historic St. Paul & St. James Episcopal Church, built in 1832. At twilight, rays of light streamed through the stained glass windows above the organ loft — Read more…
For the Left Hand opens at Woods Hole Film Festival and Norman plays the best he has yet.
On October 27, 2019, Norman returned to Connecticut to perform with the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra. This marks Norman’s triumphant return to the West Hartford stage after an astounding performance with the orchestra 3 years ago. Norman performed “Diversions” Benjamin Britten’s concerto for the left hand. Despite the ever-present nervousness Read more…
On November 10, we had a work-in-progress screening of “Left-Handed Pianist,” at the beautiful, new John and Nancy Hughes Theater in the Gorton Center in Lake Forest, Illinois. Before a sold out crowd off over 300, the audience members got a special preview of the film in making! The audience Read more…
Last month the “Left-Handed Pianist” team had the opportunity to travel to Virginia to meet Joan Ripley, the daughter of Paul Wittgenstein. Paul was the talented, one-armed pianist who commissioned the Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand (and many other pieces for the left hand!). At the shoot, Joan and Read more…
On March 19th, the “Left-Handed Pianist” team launched the film with a memorable evening at the Chicago jazz venue, Room 43, a favorite of Norm Malone’s. After showing a video of the Chicago Tribune story that introduced the world to Norman’s story, (Norman saw it in full for the first Read more…
This past October, the Kartemquin film crew joined Norman in Connecticut to follow his journey as he prepared for his first piano concert playing with a full orchestra. We kicked off the week by celebrating Norman’s 79th birthday with his son and his family (coincidentally the concert was being held Read more…