stage developing her playing through more secluded work. In 1934, Mrs. Norton married chemist Bernard Lewis and settled in Pittsburgh in 1942 to raise a family when he was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Mines. She continued to perform, soloing with the PSO under music director William Steinberg in 1954 and giving numerous local recitals. With her husband she founded Pittsburgh’s chapter of the New Friends of Music, which still exists today as the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, the city’s premiere chamber music series. She was an honorary member of the Tuesday Music Club. She later founded the Peacham Music Festival in Vermont, where many live recordings of her maturing performances were produced. Mrs. Norton performed with the American Chamber Orchestra, the Juilliard, Budapest, Griller, and Curtis String Quartets, at the White House for President Hoover, a Schnabel memorial concert at Lincoln Center, an all Beethoven recital at Rockefeller University, and the first radio broadcast of Bach's Goldberg Variations in the USA. She is well known for her master classes at her studios in Pennsylvania, Vermont, and at numerous universities throughout the United States, and has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the Catholic University of America, the University of Minnesota, and was Visiting Professor of Piano at Carnegie-Mellon University. Her series of four lectures on the teaching of Artur Schnabel was documented at the University of Pittsburgh in 1987, and her lecture on Matthay’s teaching was filmed in November 1995 at Carnegie-Mellon University. She died in Vienna, Austria at 97. References External links - an online archive of nearly 500 recordings American women classical pianists American classical pianists Pupils of Tobias Matthay Pupils of Artur Schnabel 1908 births University of Minnesota alumni 2005 deaths 20th-century classical pianists 20th-century American women pianists 20th-century American pianists 21st-century American women