LA Times – All Together Now July 26 2010
“Schmieder is an authoritative conductor. A tall and serious Russian of the old school, he goes in for intense expression and dug-in string sonorities that reverberated through Disney with so much power that I wondered for a moment whether the loudspeakers on stage were plugged in. They weren’t; they were left over from a Lyle Lovett concert in Disney the night before.”
– Mark Swed