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A trumpeting success
There’s an air of expectation in the Johannesburg City Hall as the audience settles down prior to the arrival of the evening’s star attraction, Sergei Nakariakov. An attractive dark-haired young man in trendy clothes, Nakariakov looks as if he could be a contestant in Idols. But he is no short-term pop sensation. The young Russian trumpeter has been hailed as a musical genius in the class of Paganini and Caruso.