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18 | November 14, 2019 | The lake forest leader puzzles LakeForestLeaderDaily.com north shore puzzler CROSSWORD & Sudoku Glencoe, Glenview, Highland Park, Highwood, Northbrook, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Northfield, Lake Forest and Lake Bluff Crossword by Myles Mellor and Cindy LaFleur Across 1. Comedian 4. Certain red wine, informally 7. Having great wisdom 14. From LA to New York 15. Wire service (abbr.) 16. Conspirator 17. Pines 19. Previously 20. Sense of beauty 22. Highland Park middle school 25. Some trick-ortreaters 30. Botch 31. Animal rights protesters 33. Branch headquarters 34. Bacchic band 36. Cashew, e.g. 37. Omar of “The Mod Squad,” 1999 38. Cotillion attendee (abbr.) 40. Feathery wrap 42. Latin, in the same book 46. Encouragement sound 48. Daredevil 53. Patrolman 54. “Goodness gracious!” 56. African charger 57. Name 59. Your grandma’s gig 61. Drops from above 63. New Mexican restaurant in Glenview 67. Investment firm employee 71. Left over 72. News source 73. Apodal fish 74. Lower 75. Look at 76. Gumshoe Down 1. Dwelling 2. Rowan 3. Spring time in Paris 4. It might be bleeped out 5. Is ___ (probably will) 6. Chess piece 7. Small fight 8. Everglades beast 9. Veranda 10. Resident’s suffix 11. Airline abbreviation 12. “Waking __ Devine” Irish comedy film 13. Tackle 18. Slender 21. Home for Adam and Eve 22. Emergency medical group, abbr. 23. Domingo, e.g. 24. Prime meridian std. 26. Wee hour 27. Back-to-school mo. 28. Fl. oz. fraction 29. City map abbrs. 32. Butter holder 35. Musical performances to show love 39. Carrier 41. Wright invention 42. Actress Balin 43. Some degs. 44. Collection agcy. 45. 601, in old Rome 47. Chemistry Nobelist Otto 49. Will, old way 50. White wine aperitif 51. Suffix with absorb 52. Rob or Orbison 55. Scratch up 58. Shred cheese 60. Child watcher 62. Group of atoms 63. Dirt and water 64. Vane direction 65. Street cred 66. Indy 500 entry 68. At this point 69. Sight___ 70. Special handling LAKE FOREST Little Tails Bar and Grill (840 S. Waukegan Road) ■Live ■ music every Friday night The Gorton Center (400 E. Illinois Road) ■7: ■ 30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16: The Best of Second City HIGHWOOD The Humble Pub (336 Green Bay Road, (847) 433-6360) ■9 ■ p.m. every Wednesday night: Open Jam ■9 ■ p.m. every Friday: Kara-Moe-ke ■8:30 ■ p.m. Friday, Nov. 15: Interstellar Overdrive ■8 ■ p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16: Where’s Maggie ■8 ■ p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23: Me and Phil ■6 ■ p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27: Top Water Daddies; 7 p.m.: Hellhounds ■8:30 ■ p.m. Nov. 30: Ciao Mang Buffo’s (431 Sheridan Road, (847) 432-0301) ■7 ■ p.m. every Monday: Trivia NORTHBROOK Pinstripes (1150 Willow Road, (847) 480-2323) ■From ■ open until close all week: bowling and bocce GLENVIEW Johnny’s Kitchen (1740 Milwaukee Ave. (847) 699-9999) ■7:30 ■ p.m. every Friday and Saturday: Live Music Ten Ninety Brewing Co. (1025 N. Waukegan Road, (224) 432-5472) ■7-9 ■ p.m. every Thursday: Trivia Night WINNETKA Fred’s Garage (574 Green Bay Road) ■Every ■ Friday: Fred’s Garage Fish Fry Fridays To place an event in The Scene, email martin@ northbrooktower.com answers How to play Sudoku Each Sudoku puzzle consists of a 9x9 grid that has been subdivided into nine smaller grids of 3x3 squares. To solve the puzzle each row, column and box must contain each of the numbers 1 to 9. LEVEL: Medium Crossword by Myles Mellor and Susan Flanagan
LakeForestLeaderDaily.com LIFE & ARTS the lake forest leader | November 14, 2019 | 19 Posted to LakeForestLeaderDaily.com 1 day ago Unlikely musician finds an audience at Gorton Katie Copenhaver Freelance Reporter To say that the human spirit is resilient and that you can pursue your dreams at any age sound like common clichés. However, when you meet someone who wholly embodies these life lessons, they suddenly take on a profound meaning. The documentary-inprogress, “Left-Handed Pianist,” introduces us to Norman Malone, who at 82 years old is finally fulfilling his childhood dream, having overcome daunting challenges. The Gorton Community Center held a screening and panel discussion about the film on Sunday, Nov. 10, to a sold-out audience in the John and Nancy Hughes Theater. “Left-Handed Pianist” is a production of Kartemquin Films, the awardwinning Chicago-based nonprofit film organization, and this presentation was the final 2019 installment of the “Kartemquin Presents” series at Gorton. “Their documentaries are so thought-provoking,” said Jamie Hall, director of film for Gorton. “It’s amazing to be involved with Kartemquin.” This event included the screening of a demo trailer and excerpts from the film, a live piano performance by Malone and the panel discussion featuring Malone, Producer/Writer/ Arts Critic Howard Reich, Producer and Lake Forest resident Diane Quon, Director/Executive Producer Gordon Quinn and Director Leslie Simmer. It was moderated by Jason Stephens, the film’s associate producer as well as a lecturer in the Arts, Entertainment and Media Management Department at Columbia College Chicago. Malone’s story, as told in “Left-Handed Pianist,” is that his musical talent had emerged by the time he was 5 years old. His family had a piano in their home from early on where he practiced his playing. Unfortunately, his father suffered from mental illness brought on by the end stages of syphilis and one evening flew into a rage, attacking 10-year-old Norman and his two younger brothers. Their father committed suicide following the attack on his sons. “The three of us weren’t supposed to survive,” Malone said in the film. “But, we did.” Norman’s father hit him on the head with a hammer, which left Norman paralyzed on his right side. After a long recovery in the hospital through the spring and summer of that year, Malone resumed piano playing using only his left hand and foot. He searched all over the south side of Chicago for a piano teacher who would accommodate his disability, and finally found one man, Lester Mather, who was willing “to take a chance on him,” said Malone. That early training and desire led Malone to college at DePaul University, where he studied voice and piano. He explained in the panel discussion following the film screening that it took him nine years to complete his degree because he worked full-time at the American Medical Association and took classes part-time. He did not have a scholarship to pay for his education, so he had to fund it himself. Classes in education were required for his music degree at DePaul, and as a result, Malone felt inspired to become a teacher. However, one of his teachers told him that he could not be a teacher because he was handicapped. She told him he would not be able to walk up and down stairs to stages and stand up in front of classes. That came as a real blow to his plans and self-esteem as he approached his graduation. Nonetheless, he did not let it keep him down for long. It just made him more determined, and he did become a music teacher in the Chicago Public Schools for 34 years. Lincoln Park High School was among the schools where he taught and led an award-winning student choir. Several years after Malone’s retirement, Chicago Tribune Arts Critic Howard Reich learned about his piano playing from a chance encounter. Reich was joined at a restaurant before a concert by two of Malone’s apartment building neighbors who told Reich about Malone’s skillful piano playing. That led to an introduction between Reich and Malone. Reich then discovered that Malone had been practicing piano concertos written specifically for the left hand for years by Brahms, Prokofiev, Bartok, Britten, and his favorite piece, Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.” He had never told his students or colleagues in the schools about this or about how he had become paralyzed. Reich wrote a series of Norman Malone, of Chicago, performs for the audience Sunday, Nov. 10, at the Gorton Community Center. Malone was paralyzed in an attack when he was a child and plays with only his left hand. Photos by Alex Newman/22nd Century Media articles on Malone for the Chicago Tribune in 2015, which led to invitations for Malone to perform. The most significant of those came from West Hartford, Connecticut Symphony Orchestra Music Director Richard Chiarappa asking Malone to play the Ravel piano concerto with them in 2016. It would be the first time Malone, who was 79 at the time, ever publicly played with an orchestra. Kartemquin began filming this story with that 2016 performance when Reich suggested to Quon that this could be made into a documentary, which they expect complete in early 2020. The plan is to submit it to a few film festivals and hopefully also to PBS for broadcast. “It’s a deeper dive about how music inspires us,” said Simmer. “By the time we’re done, we’ll have all these parallel stories,” said Quinn, referring to a part about Chicagoan Norman Malone, who was paralyzed in an attack when he was a child, gives a piano concert with only his left hand. Malone’s piano teacher Mather and the importance of arts programming in public schools. For his performance at Gorton, Malone played parts of the Ravel concerto, a ragtime piece for left hand that he commissioned from a contemporary composer and a piece written by another composer for his daughter. The audience included one of Malone’s brothers and three of his former students, who were all mentioned during the Q&A portion of the panel discussion. “Music programs [in public schools] have been cut back. It’s a tragedy,” said Malone. More information about the documentary and how to financially contribute to its production is available at normanmalonefilm.com.
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