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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Eileen Joyce, Roger Woodward, Percy Grainger, Geoffrey Tozer, Malcolm Williamson, Leslie Howard, Ian Munro, Isador Goodman, Nancy Weir, Geoffrey Parsons, Stephen Hough, Simon Tedeschi, George Vern Barnett, David Helfgott, Alan Kogosowski, Anna Goldsworthy, Piers Lane, Roger Smalley, Lance Dossor, Stephen Whittington, Michael Kieran Harvey, Gerard Willems, Max Olding and Pamela Page, Alexander Sverjensky, Warren Thomson, Vera Bradford, Geoffrey Lancaster, Stephanie McCallum, Lindley Evans, Noel Mewton-Wood, David Fung, Romola Costantino, Aaron McMillan, Dennis Hennig, William Murdoch, Michael Brimer, John Carmichael, Tessa Birnie, Kathryn Selby, Rebecca Chambers, Vivienne Olive, John Bishop, Ernest Hutcheson, Winifred Burston, Amir Farid, Nelson and Neal, Valda Aveling, W. Arundel Orchard, Duncan Gifford, David McSkimming, Bruce Hungerford, Tahu Matheson, Ambre Hammond, Mark Knoop, Geoffrey Douglas Madge, Evgeny Ukhanov, Anthony Pateras, Tamara Anna Cislowska, Ruth Nye. Excerpt: Eileen Alannah Joyce CMG (1 January 1908 - 25 March 1991) was an Australian pianist whose career spanned more than 30 years. She lived in England in her adult years. Her recordings made her popular internationally (less so in the USA) in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly during World War II; at her zenith she was compared in popular esteem with Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn. When she played in Berlin in 1947 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, an eminent German critic classed her with Clara Schumann, Sophie Menter and Teresa Carreno. When she performed in the United States in 1950, Irving Kolodin called her "the world's greatest unknown pianist." She became even better known during the 1950s, when she played 50 recitals a year in London alone, which were always sold out. She also performed a series of "Marathon Concerts," playing as many as...
