San Diego Union Tribune
By John Lydon
October 19, 2009

Every once in a great while you might have the good fortune to hear a concert that you know will play in your mind for years to come. It was with one of those that the La Jolla Music Society opened its 41st season Saturday at Sherwood Auditorium with the Shanghai Quartet and the cellist Lynn Harrell.

The Shanghai Quartet and Harrell are familiar to San Diego audiences, having appeared in the Music Society's Summerfest 2007. And both are firmly established in general: the quartet for its polished readings of traditional repertoire — such as Ravel's quartet — and forays into contemporary and cross-cultural music; and Harrell, a two-time Grammy Award winner, as a prominent cello soloist and chamber musician.