Continuity and tradition run deep at Marlboro.

Above and beyond the love of chamber music, a shared sense of relaxed camaraderie lure musicians and audiences back to this idyllic summer festival year after year.

Take clarinetist Charles Neidich and pianist Cynthia Raim. Both have been active at the Marlboro Music Festival for decades. Last weekend, Neidich performed music of Elliot Carter and one of his own compositions in the Marlboro College Dining Hall. Raim will perform Claude Debussy’s “En blanc et noir” for two pianos, with Xiaohui Yang, at the college’s Persons Auditorium this Saturday at 8 p.m.

Both musicians will be featured on our next “Music from Marlboro,” on The Classical Network, in selections drawn from extensive Malboro Music archive. Raim will perform Johannes Brahms’ “Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn,” with pianist Stephanie Brown, from a concert given in 1976. Neidich will appear in George Rochberg’s Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Piano, with hornist José Vicente Castelló and pianist Igor Levit, from 2007. The program will also include Franz Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 33, No. 4.

This year’s Marlboro Music Festival will run through August 13. For more information, look online at marlboromusic.org.

I hope you’ll join me for more inspired music-making from Marlboro Music, on “Music from Marlboro,” this Wednesday evening at 6 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

PHOTOS: Charles Neidich and Cynthia Raim