
He arrived in 1960 and has worked as its its Co-Administrator with Anthony Checchia ever since. One person who has stood at the center of Marlboro’s work for most of its history is Frank Salomon. Marlboro Music 60th Anniversary Season: an update…) I have written extensively on the School and Festival’s history in The Berkshire Review for the Arts and will not repeat it here.

Without Marlboro chamber music would not occupy the place it does in our culture, and orchestral musicians would not enjoy the artistic enrichment of having at least one Marlboro summer. Marlboro has been and continues to be the most powerful formative force in chamber music, not only in America, but internationally. Their goal and their loyal public’s benefit have been the famous weekend concerts which fill the hall every July and August.

For sixty-four years now, first under the direction of Rudolf Serkin, then under Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida, now under Mitsuko Uchida alone, Marlboro has provided a unique environment for young musicians of the highest caliber to grow as artists and as people under the mentorship of some of the greatest mature musicians. This was yet another splendid summer at Marlboro.

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