My grandfather’s music-making is alive at Marlboro because I hear it in the pianists every summer. There are certain pieces at Marlboro that evoke a kind of harmonic resonance across the years…
Marlboro can sometimes seem like an anachronism. Its insularity, its anti-commercialism, and its deliberately slow pace seem out of place in today’s world, let alone in today’s jet-setting, streaming, always-on musical landscape. But it offers a deep lesson for all of us about the value of continuity and connections between the past and the future. Time doesn’t pass in discrete increments at Marlboro. Instead, it passes in generations… We see the passage of time as the people who were once young musicians return as seniors, conveying the lessons that they learned years earlier.
