When Dudley Moore died in March 2002, Rena Fruchter was at his side. In the last ten years of Dudley's life, they had become not only concert partners but the very closest of friends and confidantes. This is her portrait of a brilliant but troubled man.
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An insightful, evocative portrait by Moore's closest friend
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Rena Fruchter is a classical concert pianist and one time music journalist. She toured with Dudley Moore and also recorded several classical albums with him. In the last decade of his life she became his closest friend and confidante, and it was in Rena and her family's care that Dudley spent his last months.