The Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, whose Third String Quartet is being introduced this
season by the Shanghai Quartet – among other places, at the University of Richmond on Feb. 22 – anticipates his 75th birthday (Nov. 23), marked by more than 50 concerts worldwide, in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer's David Patrick Stearns:http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/20081012_This_birthday_is_serious_business_for_Penderecki.html