Show Native Salt Lake Musician Slates Concert Since World War Grant who plays tonight in Kingsbury has become one of the world's best known The Salt Lake born pianist has appeared at most of the principal music center in South America and the United Honored By A. King he played at the Bergen Festival in the new King Olaf presented him with the traditional laurel a great honor for who comes of Norse Johannesen's who were not musicians but were artistically recognized the boy's talents They Mabel Borg a well-known Salt Lake to undertake his At eight years of he was composing musical scores and putting on theatrical entertainment Johannesen completed his schooling in in France under Casadesus and but until he was 22 all his training was in Debut in New After a spectacular debut in he made a highly successful appearance with the New York He has appeared in New York every season since then either in solo recital or with the symphony He made his first European tour in 1949 and at that time entered the Ostend International Prize He became the first American to take the He won over a field of 52 entrants from 39 Johannesen Said Johannesen once after World War I had the opportunity of living in New York and Since those my tours have taken me across the length and breadth of and I have visited and revisited the Low and South The eyes of the world are upon and America has responded by creating a climate of artistic the creative force of our country is developing and producing food for the spirit which is as varied and as plentiful as its material Tells of Other Interests When asked about his every-day he usually asked about Music is and so I find that my non-musical sooner rather than relate to my life in I have always had an abiding interest in the theatre and in Hearing a play in its native tongue and becoming aware of the verbal subtleties of expression has brought me to a closer understanding of some of the idiomatic expression of certain Certainly in the breathing of a part of the art of certain words of Bach complement Biblical just as there is a between the music of Debussy and certain French Schumann and the German romantic Gershwin American fr Johannesen also expressed ancient and est in architecture has its own and by making it available to the general your series is increasing the appreciation or of this most communicative |