Bob Sherman to Introduce ChamberMusicNY's SHUFFLE at Merkin Concert Hall, 10/3

ChamberMusicNY and SHUFFLE Concert are pleased to announce that Robert Sherman, award-winning broadcaster and writer, will introduce ChamberMusicNY's October 3 concert of SHUFFLE at Merkin Concert Hall.

Mr. Sherman recently celebrated his 59th anniversary with WQXR. Formerly Program Director and later Senior Consultant, he continues to produce and host The McGraw Hill Financial's Young Artists Showcase -- now in its 38th year on the station -- and since their inception, has hosted the Lincoln Center presentations of the annual the Avery Fisher Career Grants. His popular and award-winning folk series Woody's Children, which began on WQXR is 1969, is now heard on WFUV.

For more than forty years, Bob was a music critic and columnist for The New York Times and for nearly twenty served on the faculty of The Juilliard School. A concert narrator with such esteemed ensembles as Canadian Brass, the United States Military Academy (West Point) Band and the Greenwich Symphony, he sits on the Advisory boards of many cultural organizations, also serving them variously as competition judge, pre-concert lecturer, panel moderator and fundraising emcee.

Co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Music and two best-selling books with Victor Borge, he also joined with his brother, Alexander Sherman, to compile a pictorial history of their celebrated mother, pianist Nadia Reisenberg.

Additional information about the concert can be found at http://chambermusicny.org/concerts/