BOSTON (AP) – World-renowned pianist Menahem Pressler is returning to Boston to play his heart out in the city that kept it beating.
Pressler is performing next week with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, returning to the city where he underwent a rare, life-saving procedure to repair an aneurysm in his aorta.
He’s slated to play Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 27” during concerts on November 22, 25 and 26 at Symphony Hall.
Pressler, who turns 93 on Dec. 16, says he’s forever indebted to the doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital who operated on him nearly two years ago.
“I’ll always be grateful and be thankful I’m alive. It’s really a miracle in many, many ways,” he said by phone from Bloomington, Indiana, where he’s been on the music department faculty at Indiana University since 1955.