PIANIST GINA BACHAUER OVERCAME REVERSE TO RISE
The article chronicles pianist Gina Bachauer’s endurance through family financial ruin and world war to reestablish her concert career in London Greece and Egypt. It details her early studies under Rachmaninoff and Mitropoulos debut in Athens Paris tours her wartime performances for Allied troops in Egypt and her perseverance after 1945 including lessons to royalty and a breakthrough in London after initial rejections.