| Show Johannesen Plays Beethoven Pianist Stirs Concert Crowd By GEORGE Chronicle Music Critic Grant Johannesen acquitted himself well Saturday night in the second of the two Beethoven piano concerto concerts with the Utah Sym phony Orches- gram consisted Wf W i of Beethoven's 1 overture to his to 1 in C and the Butsikares Concerto 5 in E Flat also known as the IT WAS EXPECTED that the high point of the evening would come during Beethoven's Piano the Expectations were soloist and orchestra achieved greatest rapport with the audience during the final The concert opened with Maestro Maurice Abravanel catching the the somber the vitality and royal fanfare of Beethoven's Overture to the artistic influence of Mozart and Hay-den on the early Beethoven reft fleeted itself in the AS IN THE previous Pianist Grant Johannesen seemed to be warming to his subject at reaching his peak in skill during the latter part of his By the time he reached the the occasional lack of clarity and distinctness disappeared and it no longer mattered when he hit a wrong During the Concerto 1 the soloist demonstrated interpretive shading ability with soft which contrasted the solid orchestral Again the soloist used a cadenza composed by Robert ONE READER has asked what a cadenza In a concerto it is a solo passage played by the performing it is intended to display the technical skill of the soloist as well as brilliance of In Beethoven's when performing artists were often excellent composers in their own the soloist often improvised a cadenza of his DURING the soloist does not usually play the the orchestra hears it for the first time the night of There is a moment of anticipation before the In baseball when a home-run hitter steps up to his fans wonder he'll deliver or strike he may fall in the area of an extra base hit and often during a cadenza the audience looks for a peak in 1 THE FIRST movement in the provided the best moments of the The concerto rang of flourishing confidence and beauty as in maturity of demanded all of the pianist's skill to achieve the power and grandeur of The final movement ended the concerto In waltz-like The second standing ovation in a week provided a pleasant final salute to Grant Johannesen's |
