The Tudors are coming to Cape May. Attendees of Access to Art’s Renaissance Redux will have a fun discussion on the English court and its 16^th century music given by Dr. Bert Greenspan, Emeritus professor of Music from Rowan University.  Dr. Greenspan, violinist, a Juilliard undergraduate, with a performance degree from Indiana University, will explain the English Renaissance in music, and give us a backgrounder on it, at the Southern Mansion, 720 Washington St., Cape May at 7 p.m. on December 13th.

His topic?  “The English Renaissance:  Political Intrigue, Sexual Misadventures, and a Musical Miscreant.”  He will speak for 35 minutes, have a question and answer period, play a little music, and then we will break for wine.

Following that, we will have  selections of a new play reading by four actors, of  “Bound by Truth,” by Sheila Lynch Rinear, commissioned by Access to Art, Inc.  exploring a narrow period in the life of Sir Thomas More, former chancellor of England, renowned humanist, with his daughter, Margaret More Roper during the reign of Henry VIII.  It covers the period of Henry VIll’s attempt to annul the marriage of himself and his wife of 20 years, Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.  Cardinal Wolsey was unable to obtain an annulment from the Papacy.  Catherine of Aragon was dangerously related to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, who was her nephew.  Thomas More was thrust into the position of Chancellor, against his better judgment, after Wolsey had been condemned to death. Wolsey, after 20 years of service to the king, died a week before his trip to the tower of London, which spared him the terrors of decapitation. The period discussed is limited to Thomas’s interment in the Tower of London, when everyone, the Lords and Elders and Bishops of the realm, had gone with the king, except for Bishop John Fisher, a few Carthusians and a Birgittine Confessor General and Thomas More stayed with the church.  His wife, sons in law, friends had all disappeared.  Margaret, his beloved eldest, and brightest daughter, went to work to support her father who was not good at being alone and away from his family.  She took Henry’s oath, to get access to her father, on the subterfuge that she would convert him to Henry’s cause, and his new self-appointed role as head of the church in England.

Margaret, saved his works, caused him to write, and through her daughter, Mary, twenty years after More’s execution, we actually have his words  written from the prison which Margaret spirited out.

Henry VIII was the most musical of Renaissance kings: he sang, read music, composed music, and played lute, virginals and organ. He hired more court musicians than any other Renaissance monarch, and his courtiers, and queens, all had to play the lute, sing, dance and entertain.    Henry’s court was known for its revels, music, and its Royal Chapell.  Dr. Bert Greenspan, who taught violin, and music history, at Rowan for five decades, will give us an entertaining talk on the greatest period of English music.  He will perform something that  everyone is familiar with, a tune from the Renaissance, and ask people to identify it.  Currently Dr. Greenspan is performing in a baroque orchestra in Fort Myers, and with the Naples Opera Company.

He will describe Henry VIII as brilliant, handsome, an author, a musician, a humanist…who also turned out to be not as playful and erudite as he was in his youth, when Cardinal Wolsey was his chancellor, but in his pursuit of his legacy and a male heir turned into someone who brooked no differences.

Dr. Greenspan, who taught over 2000 students at Rowan, and spent 30 years as a concert master at the Reading Pa. Symphony Orchestra, performed for the Pennsylvania Ballet & Opera Companies .  Joe Mayes, from Rowan, head of the Early Music Department there, will come and play his lute within the context of the reading performing a composition of Henry VIII in the play.

The talk will transpire, with questions from the audience, and a little wine break, to be followed by the reading selections of a new play by Sheila Lynch Rinear, playwright from San Antonio, Tx.  who has written over 50 plays.  Her play, Bound by Truth, will be read by four Equity actors who perform for East Lynne on occasion, as well as other venues.  The reading will be directed by Mark E. Lang.  It will look extensively on the relationship between Thomas More, former Chancellor of England, consigned to the Tower of London,  for refusing to sign Henry’s oath making him the head of the church in England.  If he did not renege, More would be decapitated and perhaps, disemboweled in a public display reserved for traitors.  His head would decorate the Tower.  He had monks, Bishop John Fisher the confessor of Henry VIII’s mother, who founded several schools at Oxford,  Richard Reynolds, a  confessor general of the Brigittines, a learned order brought to England by an earlier king to pray for the soul of his father, who had murdered family members in pursuit of the throne.  Accompanying them was  John Houghton, the head of the Carthusians, and 54 of his monks, who marched to their deaths before More’s window in prison as an object lesson to Thomas More from Henry VIII.

Margaret More Roper, whom More had educated as well as anyone who attended Oxford, in his home at Chelsea, enjoyed the study of Greek, Latin, English, science, math, astronomy, music and even medicine. She was particularly fluent at translation from Greek to Latin to English.   At Chelsea, More’s home, he set up a school where Margaret, along with his other two daughters, his step-daughter,  adopted daughter, and his son, and various relations and neighbors, where students were treated to their father’s ideas of a humanist education.  They were taught by dons from Oxford and scholars from the continent, friends of More and Erasmus.  More was fascinated with education, and thought that women should be educated, unlike most other men of his era.   Margaret More Roper, and her humanist skills, will also play a prominent part in the new play. In the 16^th century, education was foreign to women.  Only queens and princesses received an education, and a king’s educations may have been inclined more toward jousting and hunting than Greek and Latin. The More girls were asked, because of the fame of their learning, to give a debate before the king, to decide how he would educate his male illegitimate offspring.  They were famed in Europe for their scholarship.  Henry had heard of their skills, and wanted to see a demonstration.

Margaret translated Erasmus from the Greek to English. She was a brilliant writer and translator, but, because of her sex, she was not allowed to write. Her father wanted her virtuous, humble, and not seeking after vain glory.   But he also wanted her educated.  More was a famed English humanist who had written “ Utopia.”  He was a best friend with Erasmus, the most famous humanist in Europe, who wrote “In Praise of Folly”, which he dedicated to More.  More, like a group of young humanists at Oxford, was infatuated with the idea of the new learning:  returning to Greek and Latin, translating from Greek to Latin to English.  He studied the Greek moralists, poets, scientists.  Erasmus translated the bible from the original Greek. He mocked the excesses of the scholastics, and called people to a simpler lifestyle modeled on the bible and on Christ.  Both were church reformers, who, in their youth, desired to reform the church from within.  The church had too many politicians and businessmen who created problems by their venality and lust for power. Earlier, in his Catholic days, Henry VIII wrote a diatribe against Luther and was named “Defender of the Faith” by the Pope.

In the age of Henry VIII, the  world of the middle-ages was rapidly coming to an end, and the age of the Renaissance was ascending.  The world departed from the thought of Augustine which had held the Middle Ages together: “ The common good is to be preferred to our own selfish interests, and not our own selfish interests to the common good.” It was a period when theology was the Queen of the Sciences, and God was at the center of the universe.   The dawning age was now in all out pursuit of individualism.  The age of God as the center of the universe, the Middle Ages, was replaced by the age of man.  The community was about to be severed, and the Catholic faith, which had held for l000 years, was to be splintered.  More was one of the last medieval minds in England, who harkened back to the church of l000 years, the church of the apostles, and the church fathers, that began hospitals, universities, monasteries,  and kept the bible through the ages, writing it by hand in monasteries.  It was the age of the printing press, and the common man reading the bible in the vernacular. It was the age of exploration by sea to foreign lands.  Join Access to Art, Inc. as we seek insight into the origins of the modern age which began in the Renaissance and now seems sated with individualism, individual rights, and the cult of the self.

Tickets are $25. Adults; Seniors, and students,  are $20.  Call Access to Art, Inc. at (609) 465-3963 to reserve tickets. Send checks to Access to Art, Inc., 4l7 E. Pacific Ave., Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210.

Beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Play Reading of a new play by playwrite Sheila Rinear
“Bound for Truth” Dec. 13^th
A discussion of Renaissance English Music by Dr. Burton Greenspan
Wine and Sociability at the Southern Mansion, Cape May

Cape May. Strike up your lute. It is Renaissance redux at the Southern Mansion for Access to Art, Inc. on Dec. 13^th, at 7:30 p.m. when the elegantly festooned l860’s era mansion, the Southern Mansion will entertain Access’s guests for a reading of a Renaissance play and a talk about Renaissance music in Henry VIII’s England. The event is open to the public. Decked with Christmas splendor, the Southern Mansion, who hosted Access’s Salute to the Italian Renaissance in 2010, at 720 Washington St., Cape May will play host to a return of Dr. Bert Greenspan to discuss Renaissance music in Henry VIII’s England. The event, which includes wine, will occur on Thursday, Dec. 13^th at 7:30 p.m. Access to Art will continue their explorations of 16th century Renaissance England at a play reading of “Bound for Truth,” featuring Sir Thomas More, former chancellor for Henry VIII , featuring his eldest and favorite daughter , Margaret, trained as a humanist at More’s home in Chelsea. Women were not educated in the 16^th century, but More educated his three daughters, his stepdaughters, and his son the same bringing in the finest dons from Cambridge and Oxford, and famed scholars from the continent. Margaret translated a religious work from Erasmus, the famed Netherlands humanist.

The reading of the new play by Sheila Lynch Rinear, “Bound for Truth,” with be done with area and NYC equity actors from East Lynne Theatre Company. The play, funded by the NJ State Council on the Arts, Dept. of State, and supported by the Cape May County Cultural and Heritage Commission, and by Samuel S. DeVico, concerns the period of former Chancellor Thomas More’s sojourn in the Tower of London. He had retired from the chancellorship as Henry conspired to rid himself of Catherine of Aragon, and was consigned to the Tower when he refused to sign Henry’s oath which made Henry both the head of the church spiritual and the head of state in England. This situation transpired when Cardinal Wolsey, then Chancellor of England, was unable to get Henry VIII a divorce from Pope Clement VII, a Medici. Henry had been married to Catherine of Aragon, for 22 years, with no male heir. Catherine, who was the aunt of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, spelled trouble for the Pope, since, eventually Charles V sacked Rome and ended the Renaissance. That created a problem for the Pope, who vacillated. The papacy had already given one annulment to allow Henry to marry his brother Arthur’s widow, when Arthur died at 15 years of age.

Margaret Roper More managed to visit her father, in the tower, by signing the oath, and assuring Cromwell that she would get her father to take the oath . Margaret was the eldest, and the brightest of his children, and the most gifted in languages. She was a translator for Erasmus, the great Renaissance Greek scholar. The event is scheduled for a Thursday evening, Dec. 13^th at 7:30 p.m. and will be followed by a wine reception. An introduction to the music of the court of Henry VIII will be given by Dr. Burton Greenspan, formerly of Rowan University, and currently concertmaster of the Naples Opera Company in Naples, Florida. “Dr. Bert taught music history at Rowan, and also violin. He has an undergraduate degree from Julliard, and a graduate degree in performance from Indiana University. He is an informative and entertaining speaker, and he gives one an educated chance at seeing the period musically.”said Barbara Beitel. Also joining Access will be Joseph Mayes, head of the Early Music Dept. at Rowan, who will play a little lute, to introduce the play’s masque. The lute was the instrument of choice of Henry VIII who played the lute as did his wives, and associates. Henry had 58 paid musicians at his court, from Italy and the Netherlands, and a children’s Chapell, and he took music seriously enough to also compose it. He liked to sight read with his courtiers and to sing. He was the most musical of the Renaissance Kings. He played the lute, the organ and the virginals.

“We are having a reading of the beginning of the play, and we will have the play fully developed by the Cape May Renaissance Festival.” said Barbara Beitel, Access to Art, Director. “Meanwhile, we invite everyone to an evening similar to the one we had several years ago on the Italian Renaissance, with the addition of a play reading.” Beitel said. “England had its religious wars, as did Europe, and it was a bloody business. We can be thankful that all we have to put up with is character assassination, and not murder in our present political climate. It makes one acutely aware of the reason our forefathers were so adamant about separation of church and state.” she said.

Tickets are $25., adults, $20 seniors and include wine and the entertainment. Call Barbara Beitel at (609) 465-3963, Send checks to Access to Art, Inc., 417 E. Pacific Ave., Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210.

Cape May. Access to Art, Inc. plays host to several concerts in September, celebrating its 20^th year in high style. On Thursday, Sept. 13^th, Michael Ludwig, former Associate Concert master of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and currently Concert master of Buffalo Philharmonic, will give a concert/benefit for Access to Art, Inc. at a three course dinner at the gourmet Union Park Restaurant 727 Beach Ave., Cape May. It begins at 5 p.m., costs just $50 per person, and features three courses, and a 40+ minute concert and conversation with Michael Ludwig. Ludwig, who solos and records with the London Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish Symphony, the Korean KBS Symphony, the Lithuanian and Baltic Symphonies, and records with Columbia Records, performs regularly on three continents. An advisory board member for Access to Art, Inc., Michael has performed here with the Mondrian Ensemble, since l996, when a group of Philly Orchestra strings with concert pianist, Aurelia Mika Chang formed the Mondrian Ensemble for Access to Art, Inc. Chang, who earned an MM from Juilliard, also performs on three continents. “If you go online to Michael Ludwig, violin, you can hear his music on his website. He goes from Beijing to Shanghai to Korea to Krakow, Poland, London, Scotland, Germany, Bulgaria and everywhere in between. He is a greatly sought after soloist. Michael’s father died this year. His father, a Philadelphia Orchestra violinist, was hired by Eugene Ormandy and was the principal teacher of Michael in his youth. Michael graduated from Curtis in Philadelphia, and was soon thereafter Associate Concertmaster for the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also handled all their recording and live performances on NPR. “ “We are delighted to have Michael perform at the dinner at the elegant Union Park Restaurant commemorating our 20^th year as an arts presenting agency. Michael performed for us from the very first year of the series in 1996, and his group, the Mondrian, were the ones around whom we built our music festival.” Beitel said. “He brought us Steven Copes, concert master of St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra, who performed with him at St. Simeon’s in Wildwood, and with the Mondrian.” Beitel said. Michael Ludwig and Aurelia Mika Chang performed live for Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company here when she created an original work of choreography honoring Sam Maitin. Twelve area students joined in the choreography. The idea for a Chamber Music Festival was Sam Maitin’s, an internationally known Philadelphia artist, and you see his colorful, summer logo on our rack cards. He designed our art. After Sam died, we named the festival after him to honor his encouragement of the arts.” Beitel said. The Daedalus Quartet, features Min-Young Kim and Matilda Kaul, violins; Jessica Thompson, viola, and Thomas Kraines, cello. Both Matilda Kaul and Thomas Kraines are new to the quartet this year.

Hailed by music critics across the world and across the country for its security, technical finish, interpretive unity and sheer gusto of its performance, Daedalus gets high praise. The New York Times has praised the Daedalus Quartet’s “insightful and vibrant” Haydn, the “impressive intensity” of their Beethoven, and the “riveting focus” of their Dutilleux. The Washington Post has acclaimed their Mendelssohn for its “rockets of blistering virtuosity,” the Boston Globe the “finesse and fury” of their Shostakovich, and the Cincinnati Enquirer “the tremendous emotional power” of their Brahms. They were founded, as a group, at Marlboro, and came to Cape May to perform for Access after winning the Bannf International String competition. One of their members, Jessica Thompson, viola, had performed here with the Chester String Quartet earlier.

From their earliest beginnings, they began to tour. They won the Bannf International String Competition and toured Canada. They won the ECHO award from Carnegie Hall and toured Europe’s major music venues. They were chosen to be young chamber musicians in Lincoln Center where they were in residence for four years. The Daedalus Quartet has performed in many of the world’s leading musical venues: Carnegie Hall (Distinctive Debuts and Making Music Series), Lincoln Center (Great Performers series and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), the Library of Congress, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Cite de la Musique in Paris, as well as on major series in Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, Cincinnati, Seattle, Los Angeles, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and Tokyo. Tickets are $20. Adults, $l5. Seniors, and $l0. Students. Call (609) 465-3963. You may purchase them online at www.accesstoart.org

The ensemble has recorded music of Haydn, Ravel, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Dillon and Lerdahl for Bridge Records, and has commissioned and premiered works by Richard Wernick, Joan Tower, Fred Lerdahl, and Lawrence Dillon, among many others. The Daedalus Quartet has been Columbia University’s Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006. In 2007, the Quartet won Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award and Chamber Music America’s Guarneri String Quartet Award. For additional information, or to send checks to reserve your seats, call (609) 465-3963. You may send your checks for either or both events to Access to Art, Inc., 417 E. Pacific Ave., Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210.

Thursday Evening Sept. 13th, at 5 p.m.

Like to be serenaded by a brilliant violinist, have an exquisite dinner, and benefit the arts?

On all three counts, you can be satisified. Access to Art, Inc., a 20 year old not for profit, announces a benefit concert/dinner offered by internationally known violinist, Michael Ludwig, formerly Associate Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and currently concertmaster of the Buffalo Philharmonic.

The event will be held on Thursday, Sept. 13th at 5:00 p.m in the Union Park Restaurant, 727 Beach Drive, Cape May. “We love Union Park; we have had many benefits with ballets there. Their food is exquisite, and the ambience very European.” said Barbara Beitel, Access to Art, Inc. Director. The concert benefits Access to Art’s Summer Chamber Music Festival. “We will have a little concertising, an opportunity to share dinner, and socialize with internationally known violinist, Michael Ludwig. He has performed for major orchestras on four continents. At home, he performed at the Boston Pops, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Peter Nero’s Pops, and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Michael soloed and recorded in 2011 with the London Symphony Orchestra where he recorded Kenneth Fuch’s American Rhapsody. He has performed and recorded with the Scottish National Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and Virginia Symphony. He performed in Cape May most recently on May 6th with Peter Nero’s Pops. BBC Magazine praises his “persuasive playing, silky tone, sensitivity to colour and flair for “golden age” style.”

Michael, one of the founding members of the Mondrian Ensemble , formed for Access to Art, Inc., was the Associate Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra , a job he held from his 20’s, where his father had also been a violinist under Eugene Ormandy. Since that time, Michael brought many of his friends in music to Access to Art’s concert series, including Steven Copes, concertmaster of St. Paul’s Chamber Orchestra, Sunday at St. Paul’s. He is on the advisory board of Access to Art, Inc. Currently he is the concertmaster of Buffalo Philharmonic. He recently performed in Saratoga.

Michael Ludwig has been featured numerous times on Performance Today, a program that reaches 1.2 million listeners on 230 radio stations nationwide. Ludwig’s media credits include live broadcasts on WRTI (Philadelphia) and WAMC (Albany, NY) as well as an appearance on the program “From the Top.”

He has been featured on Bulgarian National Radio, Balkan Bulgarian Television and the Korean Broadcasting System.

Hailed by Strad Magazine for his “effortless, envy provoking techniques, sweet tone, brilliant expression, and grand style,” Michael Ludwig enjoys a multi-faceted career as a soloist, recording artist, and chamber musician. A highly sought after soloist, he has performed on four continents, including appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, KBS Symphony in Seoul, Korea, Beijing Symphony, and the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborating with such conductors as Jo Ann Falletta, Sir Georg Solti, and John Williams, among others. Highlights of Michael’s career include recent performances in Germany, Spain, Poland, China, Korea and Israel, as well as numerous appearances throughout the U.S. Composer Daron Hagan has written a new violin concerto, American Songbook, for Michael Ludwig, which he premiered with the Buffalo Philharmonic in 2011.

He will perform works by Bach, Ernst, Paganini at the dinner/concert benefit. Tickets are $50 including the performance. Dinner, a three course event, will feature short ribs, chicken, or salmon, a Caesar salad, and a fruit tart for dessert. The event benefits Access to Art, Inc., a 20 year not for profit, which presents the visual and performing arts in Cape May County. Of Ludwig, Van Cliburn said: “A musician of profound artistry and consummate integrity, Michael Ludwig possesses a gorgeous sound which he projects with heartfelt passion and intensity.” You can hear his music online if you google Michael Ludwig, violinist.

Information about our concert series and special events surrounding it can be found on www.accesstoart.org Send checks to Access to Art, Inc., 4l7 E. Pacific Ave., Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210. Call 465-3963 for ticket reservations. Dinner, with music by Michael Ludwig, is $50. Per person. Wine is available on site…or byob. Reservations must be made, because dinners have to be pre-ordered.

Access to Art, Inc. which has presented its chamber music festival for 14 years was awarded a grant to support the Daedalus Quartet from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Access, founded in 1996 by internationally known Philadelphia artist Sam Maitin, who exhibited on four continents, with Aurelia Mika Chang, Juilliard MM, pianist, and Barbara Beitel, director and founder of Access to Art, Inc., founded it to present world class music in Cape May. They have been bringing major musicians from across the U.S. to the area since 1992. Access is the recipient of a grant from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts of $2200.

Beginning as the Access to Art Music festival and now, following his death in 2004, named the Sam Maitin Summer Chamber Music Festival, it was based on Sam Maitin’s idea of an Aspen of the East, which he conceived in 1987 while assisting Barbara at the Cape May County Art League’s 60th birthday celebration. He thought that Cape May was centrally located, and a perfect relaxed place for great art and artists and their audiences to assemble. Access was awarded a $2200 grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation American Masterpieces Program. The grant is towards the performance of the Daedalus String Quartet scheduled for the 2012-13 season. Support for the American Masterpieces program is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program. The Daedalus will perform October l5th, site to be announced. They have been performing for Access to Art since they returned from their Canadian successes with the grand prize of the Bannf International String Competition.

“We are working very hard to continue bringing this excellent music here. My husband was very ill this year, which kept me very busy, but I am returning to doing this. I do need help from the community and support for this program. We have currently raised $7,000 but it costs about $l2,000 to do it. There are no overhead costs, no salary for anyone, it is just the cost of the musicians, piano rentals and tuning, advertising, and donations to the site. If you appreciate what we do, please donate to Access to Art, Inc. so that we can continue our good work.” Barbara Beitel, Director said.

“The press for Daedalus has been phenomenal, and their awards legendary. We first heard of them, in the very beginning, because Jesse, their violist, played with us when she was with the Chester String Quartet at Indiana University. One of their members did not get tenure, and the group broke up. She went to the Marlboro Festival and there the group formed.” said Barbara Beitel. They have been coming ever since. The New Yorker praised them as “a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets.” One year after forming, the quartet captured the Grand Prize at the Banff International String Competition in Alberta, Canada, and toured Canada as a result. They have since established themselves as one of America’s outstanding string quartets. They have performed in leading venues which include Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, Boston’s Gardner Museum, as well as on major music series in Montreal, Toronto , Calgary ,Winnipeg and Vancouver. Abroad the quartet has performed in such venues as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozartium in Saltzburg, the Concertgebow in Amsterdam, the Cite de la Musique in Paris, and in leading venues in Japan. They are also quartet in residence at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.

“String quartets as philosophically like-minded as the Daedalus don’t come along very often…in Haydn’s String Quartet in F Major, Opus 77, No. 2, Hob. III:82, each member bent the tempos of short, interloping figures so subtly you could only marvel at the finesse. “ Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan. l9th, 2009.) The tour engagement of Daedalus Quartet is funded, in part, through the American Masterpieces program of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. “ We are seeking other sponsors.” Beitel said.

The International Record Review in Jan. 2008 said: “The first thing one notices about the Daedalus Quartet is how resplendent is their sound; on a surface level, this is absolutely gorgeous playing, and not even the Guarneri Quartet can produce such attractive sounds…..Fortunately, if you peel back that outer layer, you will find that the musical argument is given its due, and that there are brains to go with the beauty.”

If you would like to support the festival as a sponsor or donor, call Barbara at (609) 465-3963 or send your check to Access to Art, Inc., 417 E. Pacific Ave., Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210.