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Show At Roosevelt . . . . Inter-nationally Known Artist In Piano Concert Saturday , Saturday night at 8 'clock in the Roosevelt LDS Stake House, Carl Fuerstner, one of the nation's most promising and : outstanding young musicians on the contemporary horizon, will appear in a piano concert. A concert artist of the first magnitude, he has appeared widely throughout Europe and the United States, including Town Hall in New York, the National Gallery in Washington and the library of Congress. The noted young pianist-composer-conductor is now a member mem-ber of the Brigham Young University Uni-versity music faculty, where he appeared as artist-in-residence for eight consecutive summers prior to his joining the faculty. Two Roosevelt piano students, David and Larry Wilson, have both studied under him at the "Y" and it was through their instigation that the 162nd Quorum Quor-um of Seventy of the Roosevelt Stake decided to sponsor his appearance in the Basin. He was former director of the Cologne Opera Company before be-fore coming to America. Prior to joining the music faculty at Brigham Young University, he was director of opera at the Eastman University in Rochester. Roches-ter. N. Y. In addition to his concertiz-ing concertiz-ing and coaching activities, he is currently associate director of the Utah -Opera Theatre in Salt Lake City. His most recently recent-ly heralded performance there was his conducting' of Madame Butterfly during the 1951-52 season with the Utah Symphony. Sym-phony. He has done extensive symphonic and choral conducting conduct-ing in the east, giving many first performances, and has appeared ap-peared as guest 'conductor at music camps and orchestra clinics clin-ics throughout the United States. |