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Article: John Schreiner, finance professor and pianist; The celebrated keyboardist also had an engineering degree, an MBA from Harvard and a doctorate from UCLA.(NEWS)(Obituary)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 22, 2009
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Byline: TIM HARLOW; STAFF WRITER
John Christian Schreiner was blessed with big hands and long slender fingers that reached all 88 keys on the piano with ease, allowing him to tackle some of the most difficult compositions. He also had a good teacher. His father, Alexander, was the Mormon Tabernacle organist for more than 50 years, and became one of the most celebrated and popular organists of the 20th century.
John Schreiner worked as a business finance professor at the University of Minnesota, but he was a musician at heart. In 1982, he teamed up with his famous father to give two public performances of Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor Piano ...