Brian Potter, communications director

For me and so many others, the Marlboro experience is fundamentally rooted in the Vermont landscape. The founding ideals seem to permeate these hills, the dirt roads, the old farm buildings and stone walls. Nature mirrors the music, in terms of sights and sounds and the way that each stirs our spirits, awakening us to a beauty and sense of interconnection outside of ourselves. Standing outside the dining hall on a summer evening, one feels the decades dissolve, melding like the twilight colors as children play, elders share stories, and a melody rides the breeze. What a privilege to inhabit—and strive to articulate the essence of—this singular place that exists at the otherwise abstract intersection of art, nature, and community.