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Marlboro Music Festival: Tradition and Camaraderie

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

August 2, 2017
Marlboro Music Festival with Mitsuko Uchida

Each summer, the Marlboro Music School and Festival brings together the world’s most acclaimed artists and exceptional young talent in the foothills of rural, southern Vermont, for seven weeks of relaxed, inspired and joyful music-making.

This year’s festival, already underway, will continue through August 13, on the campus of Marlboro College (a separate institution). More information about Marlboro Music may be found at marlboromusic.org.

The Classical Network has been granted privileged access to the Marlboro archives, which contain many performances never before heard beyond the confines of the festival, all of them featuring chamber music luminaries and stars of tomorrow.

On the next installment of “Music from Marlboro,” it will be an all-Czech program, including works by Erwin Schulhoff – his Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon – and Antonín Dvořák, his beloved Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81. Marlboro artistic director Mitsuko Uchida will be the pianist.

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

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

PHOTO: Marlboro artistic director Mitsuko Uchida (left)

July 19, 2017
Marlboro Music Festival Broadcasts

Since 1951, Marlboro Music has been a mecca for musicians and chamber music-lovers. The Classical Network is pleased to announce the debut of its newest broadcast concert series, “Music from Marlboro,” featuring performances from the Marlboro archive, beginning Wednesday evening at 6:00.

The Marlboro Music School and Festival brings together the world’s most acclaimed artists and exceptional young talent in the foothills of rural, southern Vermont, for seven weeks of relaxed, inspired and joyful music-making. Concerts of the Marlboro Festival can be enjoyed over five weekends, between mid-July and mid-August. This year’s festival will be held from July 15 to August 13, on the campus of Marlboro College (a separate institution). More information about Marlboro Music may be found at marlboromusic.org.

The Classical Network has been granted privileged access to the Marlboro archives, which contain many, many performances never before heard beyond the confines of the festival, all of them featuring chamber music luminaries and stars of tomorrow.

The series will commence with “Three Marches for Piano Four Hands,” by Beethoven, with an 87 year-old Mieczyslaw Horszowski and an 18 year-old Cecile Licad; the “Divertimento for 13 Solo Instruments,” by Marlboro co-founder Adolf Busch; and Carl Reinecke’s Octet for Winds in B-flat major, Op. 216. Future weeks will bring performances by Marlboro legends Rudolf Serkin, Marcel Moyse, Alexander Schneider and Pablo Casals, along with fascinating glimpses of rising stars and top musicians of tomorrow.

I hope you’ll join me Wednesdays at 6 p.m. EDT for “Music from Marlboro,” on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

Marlboro School of Music and Festival: Official Page

PHOTO: Horszowski and Licad, teacher and pupil, share the stage at Marlboro

July 12, 2017
Marlboro Music Chamber Series on WWFM

During the final hour of my shift this evening on WWFM, I’ll be previewing a special series that will commence next Wednesday, featuring chamber music performances from Marlboro Music.

Marlboro Music is the noted Vermont retreat, where the world’s most acclaimed and most promising artists come together for inspired music-making. The festival can be enjoyed over five weekends, from mid-July to mid-August. This year’s festival will be held from July 15 to August 13, on the campus of Marlboro College. You can find out more about Marlboro Music at marlboromusic.org.

This week, we’ll hear commercially issued recordings of performances from Marlboro, including Samuel Barber’s “Summer Music,” with Marlboro wind players, captured in 1981, and Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 100, D. 929, featuring Marlboro co-founders Adolf Busch, Herman Busch and Rudolf Serkin, recorded in 1951.

Future weeks will bring privileged access to the Marlboro archives, which include many, many performances never before heard beyond the confines of the festival, all of them featuring chamber music luminaries and stars of tomorrow.

Join me for “Music from Marlboro” beginning next Wednesday, July 12, at 6 p.m. EDT. The preview will air this evening at 6, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

PHOTO: Marlboro founders Marcel Moyse, Louis Moyse, Rudolf Serkin, Blanche Moyse, Adolf Busch, Herman Busch (with cellist Nathan Chaikin second from left)

July 5, 2017
Vivaldi Meets Weill Salut Salon Birthday Music

While searching for something interesting to share for Antonio Vivaldi’s birthday, I happened across this YouTube video. The four musicians of Salut Salon create a musical narrative that carries them from Vivaldi to Weill.

More about Salut Salon here:

http://www.salut-salon.com/en/salut-salon/

March 4, 2017

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