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Show INDEPENDENT Sugar House Thursday, December 19, 1957 page H globe-trottin- g father, this is just about ideal; especially in Europe, stamp shops sometimes seem to be almost as numerous as bars or restaurants. Grant Johanessen Soloist With Utah Symphony i UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAj The Utah Symphony Orchestra will present a musical program Thursday January 9, 195S in the Granite High School auditorium at 8:15 p.m., under the sponsor-ship of the Granite Arts Assoc- - in his boyhood home, Salt Lake City, at six. Johannessen's parents, who' were not musicians, but who werej artistically inclined, recognized almost at once the talent that much of the world would acclaim 20 years later. And they soon eng-aged Mabel Borg Jenkins, a well-know- n Salt Lake City teacher, to take over the training of their boy. At eight he was composing! musical scores and putting on theatrical entertainments the start of an interest and devotion to the theatre which has grown stronger with the years, and which, constitutes a principal diversion! for him on either side of the Atl-antic. Years later Johannessen, would complete his schooling at Fontainbleu in France under Cas-- j adesus and Boulanger, but until he was 22 all of his training was in America. After his spectacular New York debut in 1944, Johannessen's app-eared with equal success with the New York Philharmonic Sym-phony. New York has heard htm every season since in solo rec-ital or with symphony orchestra. He made his first European tour in 1949 and it was at this time that he entered the Ostend Inter-national Prize Festival. He went in by chance and emerged as winner ' by unanimous consent of the judges. There were 52 en-trants from 39 countries, and Joh-annessen became the first Amer-ican to win the coveted award, j The tall, athletic American, so unlike the poetic-lookin- g pianists (of legend, was an almost instant-aneous success with European audiences and has remained a favorite in the decade that has passed. He has been hailed in all :of the most fastidious festivals from to Amster-dam. One tf his fondest triumphs was in the little Norwegian city Kongsberg, his mother's birth-place. In his audience that night were many of his family he was meeting for the first time. The Mayor. -- of Kongsberg was ., also there arid - presented- - "the: Amer-ican " cousin" with all the city's honorso'At " .a lateh'ippfarance'" in Norway, at the timeh-onore- d Ber-gen Festival, the new King Olaf presented him. with, the traditional laurel wreath, a signal honor for the goodlooking American of Norse descent. . . .'Johannessen's first South Amer-ican . tour, opened at the famed Teatro Colon , in Buenos Aires in the summer , of '1952 and took him to' the leading cities of the Argentine,. Uruguay and . Brazil. Audience enthusiasm ran so high that the final concert he received 15 curtain calls. A favorite star on the Telephone Hour, Johannessen' name has become almost a household word thanks to this program. His rec-ordings for Concert HA11, Vox, and, most, recently; HMV include albums of Schumann, Beethoven, Schubert, Grieg, Milhaud and the complete "Polonaises". Johann-essen has appeared as soloist with virtually every major orch-estra in America, with many of the foremost orchestras of Europe like the famous Philharmonica jiation. The Orchestra will be dir-- j by Maurice Abravanel and' the celebrated young American' pianist Grant Johannessen, will be1 j the soloist. I The Utah Symphony of eighty; (80) outstanding musicians pro-- ! mises another great musical even-- ! ing for Granite Arts Association1 patrons. The Utah symphony! Orchestra, in its 18th season, has! become recognized as one of the top orchestras in America. Additional recognition of the orchestra was the selection of the I Utah Symphony to record "Israel in Egypt" by Hadyn and the Saint-Saen- s "Symphony in C Minor" by the Westminster Recording Co. which is generally regarded as the top hi-- fi recording company in America. This 1957-5-8 season has every indication of being the greatest in the history of the orchestra. 'About 50 concerts will have been presented before the year is over and well over 100,000 people will have heard the orchestra "live" in addition to many thousand more on the regular series of radio broadcasts. Dr. David Shand is assistant conductor of the orchestra and Harold Wolf is concertmaster. These are just two of the out-standing artists who make up the personnel of the 81-pie- orch-estra. Kenneth Kuchler is assistant concertmaster and another out-standing violinist. LaVar Krantz is principal In the second violin section and Sally Peck is ranked with the finest viola players in the country. David Freed has been the prin-cipal cello player for three seas-ons and- - Audrey Bush . has . been principal bass player for .many years and a standout in the orc-hestra. "' " Other ""principals' who play hi-ghly important roles and are often featured as .soloists are: Eugene Foster on the flutes; Lou-is Booth oboe; Blaine Edlefeson, English Horn; Martin Swick, clarinet; Douglas Craig, bassoon; Douglas Gottfredson, contra-ba- s soon; Don Peterson, French Horn; William Sullivan, trumpet; Lorn Steinberger, trombone; Marlin Baker, tuba; Robert Lentz, tim-panis- t; ' Adine Bradley, harp; Reid Nibley, piano; and Dr. Alex-ander Schreiner, organ. THE SOLOIST Grant Johannessen, the celeb-rated American pianist of Nor-wegian descent, who has firmly consolidated his position on the music scenes of three continents, is, at 36, one of the finest exam-ples of American musicianship. For he had all of his early train-ing here much in the manner of thousands of American youths before and since. He could play the scales at five and was enrol-led with the neighborhood teacher Orchestra of London, the Conser-vatoire Orchestra of Paris and the Bowl, Chicago's Grant Park, and the time honored .Chautqua Con-- ! certs. ;During. his few free weeks for vacation of each year, when it is 'possible to relax from "concert-- ! pitch," Johannessen repairs to his j beloved Rocky Mountains where his son David, he likes to explore- - the gorgeous heights of that magnificent section of Western America. After the Thea-tre, Johannessen's own principal hobby is art, eastern and western, modern and antique. Perhaps his his most treasured possession is a complete collection of Rodan watercolors and drawings in book form; many of these have never been publicly exhibited. And like any good father Grant tries to share his son David's interest. David, who divides his time bet-ween winters in a New England prep school and summers, when he can't be with his busy father, with his grandparents in Utah, is at the moment much preoccupied with collecting stamps. For his JCHURCH SCHOOL TO BE HELD Sunday, Dec. 22, the regular church school will be held at 9:45 a m. and the Worship Service will- - jbe at 11 a.m. at Centenary Metho-- jdist Church. At 7:30 p.m. in the evening, a special program will be lheld entitled, "Christmas in Song." There will be Scripture reading, and songs, telling the sto--; ly oi cnnstmas. Carols win ue sung, and there will be a few spe-cial numbers. On Monday, Dec. 23rd, the Church School Christmas program jlwill be held. The children have" !'some little plays and have plan-ned a special night, with the help of their teachers and Sunday School directors. Tuesday evening ,Christmas Eve, candlelight serv-ices will be held with a sermon . and carol singing undeij the dir-ection of Glen Hamlynj minister of the Church. 1 CHOIR TO TOUR The Westminster College Con-cert Choir of nearly 40 members, which will go on a tour of Calif, and Nevada late in January and early in February, has purchased colorful sweaters as a part of their travel uniforms. The sweaters are white with an emblem identifying thm as the Westminster College Concert Choir. They also will be used as uniforms for informal con-certs during the year. The choir, madrigal singers and soloists presented a Christmas program for the College assembly cn December 16. The program was taken from numbers present-ed by the groups in several Christ-mas programs earlier this season. The latter part of the program featured the entire assembly sing-ing Christmas carols. 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