Menahem pressler aged 91 playing mozarts piano concerto in a major and a chopin nocturne on live television at the berlin philharmonics new years eve concert inimitable indomitable doctors diagnosed an inoperable heart condition and told him he could never fly again menahem refused to accept that the next day the soloist felt unwell and flew home to the us where doctors diagnosed an inoperable heart condition and told him he could never fly again menahem refused to accept that he fo