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TWIN CITIES' BEATRICE OHANESSIAN: A FAMOUS PIANIST AND PIONEER OF MUSIC Minnesota
by Lisa Boghosian Papas
She can't claim that before her there was no music in Iraq. But concert pianist Beatrice Ohanessian can boast that she was the first professional musician on a performance level in her country. "In Western classical music, I was the first Iraqi to face Europeans professionally," she says modestly.