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Show Utah Piano Soloist To Appear In Symphony Concert Grant Johannesen, Utah's own brilliant young pianist who has gained international acclaim for his ability at the piano, will be guest soloist for the fourth Utah Symphony concert at the Salt Lake Tabernacle, Saturday, Nov. 24. Utah always pays tribute to its athletes and athletic teams that win national honors and the state will take advantage of this opportunity to pay honor to the magnificent young pianist who is now recognized as an artist of the first rank by critics in New York City, Paris and Berlin. Johannesen appeared with the Utah Symphony last season and was brought back this year by popular request. He has a large and enthusiastic following in his home state. In Frankfort, Germany last year he was compared with the great "Gieseking himself" by the Frankfurter Neue Presse. In Paris he was praised as: "A pianist of the first rank. He possesses such power of seduction and such profound pro-found understanding of the works that upon hearing , him one Is delivered from the restraints of technique and freed from the obsession of an instrument that interposes itself between the I music and us. A very great artist" |