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Show Pianist Grant Johannesen To Give Return Utah Concert Appearance recalls Mr. Abravanel, "I found there were some who wondered why I kept re-engaging Grant year after year. Too often people are hesitant to accept the greatness great-ness of the boy down the street, but I knew Grant had great talent tal-ent and could become a first-rate first-rate concert pianist if given a chance." The rest Is history, Johannesen Johanne-sen has played with practically every major U.S orchestra including in-cluding repeated performances with the New York Philharmonic, Philharmon-ic, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Symphony Symph-ony Orchestra and others. He has made many radio and television tele-vision appearances In Europe and America and his many recordings record-ings are well-known. lasting nearly 45 minutes before the houselights were ordered off and workmen rolled the piano pia-no from the stage. Even then the audience demanded more. Only gradually did they disperse." Only last week Grant John-nesen John-nesen stepped in at the last minute to perform with the Boston Symphony, taking the place of Rudolph Serkin who cancelled his appearance due to illness. 1 Mr. Johannesen played the Beethoven Piano Concerto in C Minor which he will perform May 16 with the Utah Symphony. Sym-phony. GRANT JOHANNESEN is one of the first to acknowledge the helping hand of Maurice Abravanel Abrava-nel and the Utah Symphony during dur-ing his early years as a struggling struggl-ing young concert pianist Maurice Abravanel perceived that Johannesen had a great talent tal-ent soon after coming to Utah as conductor of the Utah Symphony and over the past 17 years Johannesen Jo-hannesen has appeared 16 times as soloist with the orchestra. "AS WITH any local artist," Utah's internationally acclaimed acclaim-ed pianist, Grant Johannesen, will join Maurice Abravanel and thf Utah Symphony on Saturday May 16, at 8:30 p.m. in the Sail Lake Tabernacle in a post-sea son concert for the benefit of the orchestra. Tickets for this specila concert con-cert at prices ranging from $2.50 to $10 may be ordered now at the Utah Symphony Office, 55 West First South, Salt Lake (phone 363-7651). All seats are reserved. This will be Mr. Johannesen's first appearance as soloist with the Utah Symphony since his eminently successful tour of the Soviet Union last spring. At the conclusion of his tour he gave a benefit recital for the orchestra May 18 in the Tabernacle; however how-ever this will be his first appearance appear-ance with the orchestra as solo-. solo-. ist OF HIS exciting Moscow ap- pearance the New York Herald-Tribune Herald-Tribune reported "a wildly , cheering audience refused to let ; American pianist Grant Johan-1 Johan-1 nesen leave the stage of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Wednesday Wed-nesday night in one of the great-t great-t est triumphs ever scored by a i visiting artist. 1 "Johannesen, a 40-year-old na-; na-; tive of Salt Lake City,' the account ac-count continues, "played encores |
