Left Alone Rhapsody featuring a Live Performance by John Bayless
Presented by: St. Luke’s University Health Network & The Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley
Sunday, March 16 · view days & times
Price: We will start accepting reservations for this event on March 3!
Venue: Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas
Ages: 13+ (13-17 w/parent or guardian only)
FREE
We will start accepting reservations for this event on March 3!
2025 | NR | Event will last 2–2.5 hrs
This film will feature a live in-theater performance by John Bayless, in addition to a hosted Q&A session featuring John and director/writer/producer Stewart M. Schulman.
At 25, Leonard Bernstein protégé, John Bayless, debuted at Carnegie Hall, performing “Rhapsody in Blue” with full orchestra. His jaw-dropping technical prowess at the piano initiated a 30-year-long concert and recording career as a solo pianist, composer, and improvisor, with John performing his chart-topping hits at major venues around the world. Then, at 54, his career as an artist ended abruptly when a left-brain stroke immobilized his dominant right side. Soon after, his husband Bruce, died of cancer. And the music stopped. John’s magical ‘first act’ disappeared.
Left Alone Rhapsody chronicles John’s amazing life journey from four-year-old Texas musical prodigy, playing the organ in his small-town Southern Baptist church, to his courageous journey ‘back’ from post-stroke paralysis. What might be called his life’s ‘second act.’ The question is: Can he have a ‘third?’
As neurologists discuss his brain, rabbis his Jewish conversion, and Yamaha’s representatives their amazing life-changing, state-of-the-art Disklavier piano technology, which might just allow John to play again with ‘two hands,’ John Bayless learns to become not just a one-handed pianist sounding like he’s using two, but also a storyteller. His determination for more life and more art begins a journey to share his music and his story through a brand-new one-man show about his life—all in the hope that John can manifest a creative and successful ‘third act’ in his life. But will he?
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- Sunday, March 16, 2025 @ 12:00 PM 03/16/2025 12:00 PM 03/16/2025 03:00 PM 15 Left Alone Rhapsody featuring a Live Performance by John Bayless https://www.steelstacks.org/event/16973/left-alone-rhapsody-featuring-a-live-performance-by-john-bayless/ Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas false MM/DD/YYYY
Venue Information
Frank Banko Alehouse CinemasArtsQuest Center
101 Founders Way
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-332-1300
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