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"An artist who can create such an atmosphere of intimacy, of lifting and carrying her hearers with her in the understanding and feeling of great artistic thoughts and emotions, has a rare and priceless gift which is denied to many spectacular and amazing performers." - De Telegraf, Amsterdam Pianist Eunice Norton (1908-2005) was a child prodigy from Minneapolis who was discovered by Dame Myra Hess in the 1920s and offered sponsorship to study with the celebrated Tobias Matthay in England. She won the London Bach Prize in 1927, and later became a devoted student and proponent of Artur Schnabel's. A regular on the stages of Europe, Norton became the most frequent woman to appear as soloist with American orchestras in one...