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Pianist Maria Joao Pires

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Published July 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM EDT

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This week, the acclaimed Portuguese pianist Maria Joao Pires announced that she would retire in 2014. Earlier this year, after an absence of more than a dozen years from the United States, the demure but exquisite Pires returned to perform with The Philadelphia Orchestra. David Patrick Stearns has this appreciation.