Alexei Sultanov might have given up on life, let alone music. After his strokes left him a broken man, he couldn’t even bear the sound of the music which had once been his whole world. But a determined physical therapist refused to accept her patient’s defeat, and demanded that he relearn not only the basic skills of human movement, but the intricate art that had made him famous. Sultanov resisted at first, fighting against the humiliation of struggling to bang out a single melody line on a keyboard he could no longer recognize. But then, that Christmas…