About
Remembered for her masterful recordings of such legends as Rachmaninoff, Mendelssohn, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and Carl Maria von Weber.
Before Fame
She was the winner of the 1943 Naumburg Piano Competition.
Trivia
She was a member of the Manhattan School of Music piano faculty as well as its Board of Trustees.
Family Life
She was married twice: first to Abram Chasins, with whom she had once studied, then to Milton Kean.
Associated With
She once replaced Vladimir Horowitz when he couldn't make a concert. According to her account, she was the only female pianist to have ever done this.
