No Pianist Left Behind: A History of Piano Pieces for the Left Hand
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- Tuesday, 31 March 2020
The left hand knows no justice. “Sinistra,” the Latin word for “left-handed,” meaning “wrong” or “unlucky” — an ancestor of the word “sinister” — is in part to blame for lingering perceptions that the hand, and those for whom it is dominant, deserves our disdain.