The Takács Quartet play their eighteenth concert at Middlebury on April 8 , a week short of eleven years since they played here for the first time in 1994. Of their recent Tully Hall Beethoven cycle, Kathryn Shattuck of the New York Times wrote: "The Takács Quartet performed the concerts before packed halls and standing ovations and were inundated by fans at CD signings afterward." According to Shattuck someone on the street outside Lincoln Center wondered at the line of people trying to get tickets, "What is this, a rock concert?" Shattuck reported the words of a Middlebury graduate, who heard their Beethoven cycle here in 1998–1999: "I'm in awe when I get in the midst of greatness. I will keep attending for as long as I can."
Not surprisingly, the concert by the Takács Quartet is already sold out. Should any tickets be returned or released, they will be made available for sale at Noon on the day of the show at the Box Office window, on a first-come, first-served basis.