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Show globe-trotting 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 sponsorship 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 engaged eng-aged Mabel Borg Jenkins, a well-known well-known 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 Atlantic. 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 appeared app-eared with equal success with the New York Philharmonic Symphony. Sym-phony. New York has heard htm every season since in solo recital 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 International Inter-national Prize Festival. He went in by chance and emerged as winner ' by unanimous consent of the judges. There were 52 entrants en-trants from 39 countries, and Johannessen Joh-annessen became the first American Amer-ican to win the coveted award, j The tall, athletic American, so J unlike the poetic-looking pianists (of legend, was an almost instantaneous 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 Aix-en-Provence to Amsterdam. Amster-dam. One tf his fondest triumphs was in the little Norwegian city Kongsberg, his mother's birthplace. 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: American Amer-ican " cousin" with all the city's honorso'At " .a lateh'ippfarance'" in Norway, at the timeh-onored Bergen 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 American 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 recordings rec-ordings for Concert HA11, Vox, and, most, recently; HMV include albums of Schumann, Beethoven, Schubert, Grieg, Milhaud and the complete "Polonaises". Johannessen Johann-essen has appeared as soloist with virtually every major orchestra orch-estra in America, with many of the foremost orchestras of Europe like the famous Philharmonica jiation. The Orchestra will be dir-j Ucted by Maurice Abravanel and' the celebrated young American' I 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 I in Egypt" by Hadyn and the Saint-Saens Saint-Saens "Symphony in C Minor" by the Westminster Recording Co. which is generally regarded as the top hi-fi recording company in America. This 1957-58 season has every indication of being the greatest I 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 outstanding out-standing artists who make up the personnel of the 81-piece orchestra. orch-estra. Kenneth Kuchler is assistant concertmaster and another outstanding out-standing violinist. LaVar Krantz j 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 principal prin-cipal cello player for three seasons seas-ons and- -Audrey Bush . has . been principal bass player for .many years and a standout in the orchestra. orc-hestra. "' " Other ""principals' who play highly hi-ghly important roles and are often featured as .soloists are: Eugene Foster on the flutes; Louis Lou-is Booth oboe; Blaine Edlefeson, English Horn; Martin Swick, clarinet; Douglas Craig, bassoon; Douglas Gottfredson, contra-bas soon; Don Peterson, French Horn; William Sullivan, trumpet; Lorn Steinberger, trombone; Marlin Baker, tuba; Robert Lentz, tim-panist; tim-panist; ' Adine Bradley, harp; Reid Nibley, piano; and Dr. Alexander Alex-ander Schreiner, organ. THE SOLOIST Grant Johannessen, the celebrated celeb-rated American pianist of Norwegian Nor-wegian descent, who has firmly consolidated his position on the music scenes of three continents, is, at 36, one of the finest examples exam-ples of American musicianship. For he had all of his early training train-ing here much in the manner of thousands of American youths before and since. He could play the scales at five and was enrolled enrol-led with the neighborhood teacher ! Orchestra of London, the Conservatoire Conser-vatoire Orchestra of Paris and the Bowl, Chicago's Grant Park, and I the time honored .Chautqua Con-! Con-! certs. I ;During. his few free weeks for ! vacation of each year, when it is 'possible to relax from "concert-! "concert-! pitch," Johannessen repairs to his j beloved Rocky Mountains where ; his 10-year-old son David, he likes to explore- the gorgeous heights i of that magnificent section of Western America. After the Theatre, 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 between 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 |