Our heartfelt thanks to The Baltimore Sun Arts Critic Tim Smith for the wonderful review of the Series 2012-13 Season Announcement!

From The Baltimore Sun’s Tim Smith:

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Many thanks to Baltimore Sun critic Tim Smith for this review of the performance of Winterreise by baritone Wolfgang Holzmair and pianist Russell Ryan. Now it’s your turn – tell us what you thought of the performance!

In the Friday, February 17th Baltimore Sun op-ed column Shriver Hall Concert Series gets a terrific 'shout-out' by New York-based commentator Eileen Pollock. You can read the whole article here and the excerpt is below. Tell us what you think!

Something other than politics in Washington, D.C.

This ensemble of 15 from Quebec City delivered a sterling demonstration of period instrument panache, and had the extra advantage of a Pied Piper-like soloist who worked his magic on three concertos.

On this day 41 years ago the legendary Beaux Arts trio graced the stage of Shriver Hall Concert Series in the second of 14 visits spanning from 1968 to 1995. The trio's name has recently been prevalent in the news again because of the sale of one of the greatest cellos in the world - an instrument owned by the late Bernard Greenhouse, founding member of the Beaux Arts trio. The instrument, a magnificent Stradivarius from 1707 that sold for over $6 million last week, was played by Mr. Greenhouse for over a half a century and the touching story of the bond between instrument and artist has been wonderfully told in a serious of New York Times articles:

Printed from the newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University at http://gazette.jhu.edu/?p=10477