Short break and we'll be right back. REHMUnlike an earlier teacher who had you at the keyboard with water... REHM...a glass of water on your hands. Life can change so much that you don't know quite what to do. Because they don't think it's impossible. You can't. Mr. Janis gave a lecture/music/video presentation, “A Voyage with Frederic Chopin in Words and Music”, at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center at 3 p.m. Byron Janis and Maria Cooper Janis join me throughout the hour. And, you know, I had five hand surgeries, by the way, five on my hands, one which shortened my thumb. Then later, when I began to compose, to write music, I realized that I had another way to go, just in case I could never play again. It's titled, "Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal." 3. REHMByron Janis playing the Rachmaninoff Prelude No. There are no words to it and people can dream what they want, but it had the effect of really changing their minds. REHMHow was that relationship? But you can play through pain. Maria Cooper Janis. You know, for us the paranormal is a part of our everyday life. JANISHe was 14, I was 16. His wife Maria Cooper Janis, the daughter of actor Gary Cooper, is a talented painter, a researcher in parapsychology and has collaborated on three television specials. I was brought to New York to play for him and he said, we would like to teach this boy. Together they have collaborated on a new book. Among its 300 new program titles per year are prominent documentaries, news and current affairs programs, dramatic series, how-to programs, children’s series and classic movies, including For Love of Liberty: The Story of America’s Black Patriots, A Ripple of Hope, Rick Steves' Europe, Newsline, Globe Trekker, Simply Ming, America's Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated, Lidia's Italy, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, Murdoch Mysteries, Doc Martin, Rosemary and Thyme, Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, The Great American Songbook and John Denver: The Wildlife Concert. I was rushed to the hospital. In Paris in his Chateau the first time and they were in a trunk marked old clothes and we were looking through it and I just saw these manuscripts somewhere. The legendary Byron Janis, internationally renowned as “one of the world’s greatest pianists,” returns to the spotlight. It's one of his favorite -- most famous pieces he wrote, I think. I'm frightened of the known. Excerpted by kind permission of Wiley:(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); MS. DIANE REHMThanks for joining us. It's a question of concrete knowledge. JANISHe hasn't -- well, not at all. Byron: “Each one of us has something that we are passionate about. It was in London that they found a specialist who correctly diagnosed his psoriatic arthritis (PA). So I went to New York but he -- I hoped he wasn't from the same conservatory. JANISSo I said -- I didn't accept that. JANISI was -- my first concert with orchestra was with the NBC symphony, Toscanini's orchestra when I was 15. And even though, you know, I'm not performing but it's part of the whole thing. His discovery of four long-lost Chopin manuscripts made headlines around the world, and he has been honored countless times for his breathtaking performances of some of the most exciting and challenging works in the standard classical piano repertoire. You go home and think about it and bring it back to me next time. Nobody else heard those bells except Maria, our host and I. He studied with Vladimir Horowitz and made his Carnegie Hall debut as a concert pianist at twenty. JANISI opened the folder. And when you're confidence has been destroyed and trying to rebuild it, it's very difficult. You know, this is exciting. And after 12 years, I decided to talk about it. But then I decided, yes, I wanted -- the time felt right for me to write about this. In conjunction with this program, Byron has released a CD that includes remastered pieces, never before released recordings and two recordings from the 1960 cultural exchange he never knew existed. Byron continues, “I wrote 22 songs in six weeks.”  The composing helped to bring Byron out of his deep despair and Maria tells me that there is work under way to get The Hunchback of Notre Dame on Broadway. In my case, I think if I’m very involved with the music, the thing that would send a message to the brain [to feel pain] can’t do it because I’m involved in something else. And, believe me, it was extremely difficult, but that's the way I chose. Wow, and there was no applause. And, lately, I have been drawn to children and juvenile arthritis, which there are 300,000 children in this country who have juvenile arthritis. I've know this -- I just knew it. And I think that's a pity because there's so much beauty there and there's so much richness in our own growth. And I mean, when I listen to him play, I totally forget he doesn't have ten totally powerful fingers because it's a... JANISYes, he uses it, but as there's no feeling, I guess you develop a whole new way of locating yourself on the keyboard because the sense of touch is what tells you where you are because, you know, the fingers are going too fast for your eye to see every note so it becomes a whole instinctive process, I believe. JANISThat is -- that startled me the second time, I must say. JANISSo she lifted me up onto the piano bench and I picked out exactly the same tune that she was playing by ear, obviously. Tuesday, Oct 13 2020Diane talks with election law professor Edward Foley about what we're seeing and what to watch for as we approach the November 3rd general election. JANISOh, absolutely no fear. I'm fortunate they didn't use rulers in Moscow. But now I just wish, oh, I could've talked so much more and I could've asked him so much more than I did. Maria Cooper Janis was born in Los Angeles, California and lived there with her parents, the actor Gary Cooper and his wife Veronica Cooper. That's when I learned mind over matter, which is a very important thing for all of us in whatever we have because you know with the arthritis -- and now I'm interested in juvenile arthritis with the children. I think – look, my life and what I've been through with arthritis in my little finger and all these things showed me that almost nothing is impossible. Maria says, “People don’t seem to be aware, the average person, that there even is an Arthritis Foundation to which they can go to get guidance on good doctors. Maria Cooper Janis Zodiac Sign is Virgo, Ethnicity White & religion Not Available.. Maria Cooper Janis Net Worth 2018. And the doctor said, yes, so there he was at the piano, still with the cast on, but he was exercising with the three fingers that worked. For a continuation of our discussion, please visit my blog, Brass and Ivory. You know, Byron is leaving something there. We need to have a free mind and have a belief that it’s possible.”, There is a wonderful quote from the book in which Byron describes a very difficult time (before he was public with his arthritis), a time when he was turning down playing engagements. Okay. The Arthritis Foundation wanted to do it at the White House so it would get maximum publicity, I suppose. What do you think happens? JANISIt was quite amazing to see Byron in the process of the recovery from the surgeries. Byron Janis: Passion, Perseverance and Virtuosity featured in a New Book and Documentary. REHMAnd Byron, I can see your fingers moving even as you're listening to this music. JANISBecause it was something -- as I was writing my memoirs, I had to include -- I had to include this. And I said, I don't know. Currently, Maria Cooper Janis is 83 years, 0 months and 1 days old. As one of the world’s greatest concert pianists, he reveals how the “other world” transformed his life and career. He is under the care of an excellent rheumatologist whom the Arthritis Foundation helped him  find after his previous rheumatologist retired. Byron continues to compose. It was sort of hanging down and looking awful. to discuss their new book, Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life Through Music and the Paranormal (J.Wiley, 2010), which contains Byron Janis’ memoirs. REHMAnd you are hearing the prelude in C sharp minor and not the concerto No. Now, if you have got to feel that music is the most wonderful, beautiful thing in the world, which, I imagine, you must feel that. REHMMaria, what was your reaction to all this? JANISWell, you know, I think when something is so big, one is astounded and you don't know what to do except say, oh gosh, you know, here it is. JANISWell, I was all for it. I sort of learned when I was playing which finger was less inflamed than the other one and I would change fingering on stage to compensate for the difficulty. And Byron, I think one of his ways of overcoming the impediment that it caused was simply, to the best of his ability, to ignore it because he had worked out over the years from 11. The Harriman-Jewell Series in conjunction with the National World War I Museum will host Byron Janis, who will conduct a talk and demonstration on, “The life and works of Frederic Chopin”.The event will be held at the J.C. Nichols Auditorium in Kansas City, MO at 7:30 p.m. KUSC’s Jim Svejda’s one and a half hour in-depth interview with Byron Janis was aired. JANISSpy plane -- it was an American spy plane, which Eisenhower said, what's a U2. And that is the whole thing. JEFFAnd I wanted to know if there was any sort of advice that was given to people who are, maybe, post-op for arthritis surgeries on the mental approach towards their music after such, you know, career -- possibly career ending surgeries that they regain their music. I don't know, but I think people do practice too much. Yeah, and, you know, you can't be totally still when you play a scale. We were told to bring our favorite things to school that we were given. He did literally grow up on the back of a horse.” I said to myself, ‘No, No, No. The answer was no, so his case falls in the minority 30% of patients who do not develop psoriasis prior to developing arthritis. JANISI was given a xylophone by my uncle for Christmas. And in a way, I feel that I did triumph over the problems.”. Born in Pennsylvania in 1928, Janis, a musical child prodigy, portrays himself as an attentive diamond in the rough refined by remarkable family sacrifices and influential patrons, including his mentor Vladimir Horowitz. JANISBut what happened was I became friendly with a great friend of Maria's, Dolores Hart, who was an actress. And the doctor said to me at the time, well, you'll never play the piano again, but there will be something for you to do, I'm sure. They live in New York City. You can't practice feeling. Maria Cooper Janis will celebrate 84rd birthday on a Wednesday 15th of September 2021. Can you imagine what those 98 percent are going to show us? I kept playing despite arthritis. Was it, Maria? Now, how can children do it, if it's not real? In 2009, APT distributed 56 of the top 100 highest-rated public television titles. It is a very controversial field, unfortunately. Bryon Janis with Maria Cooper Janis, Wiley, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978‐0‐470‐60444‐1 Classical pianist Janis discusses more than just music in this intriguing autobiography. Before I arrived -- about three or four months -- the U2 -- I don't know how many remember that. New York, New York - October 20, 2010 - As part of Hofstra University’s 75th anniversary, Byron Janis has been invited by the Hofstra Cultural Center as a Joseph G. Astman Scholar to give a special performance on October 24th at 2PM on the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin’s birth. As well as an artist and a parapsychology researcher, he played through the severe pain of arthritis for decades before becoming a spokesman for the Arthritis Foundation.