Eileen Cline, trustee

The most vital challenges facing musicians in the coming decades also apply to other fields and to society and life in general. Marlboro has, built-in, the basic musical and community potential for helping to transcend barriers of self-interest and self-promotion—for working collaboratively, for finding how to make significant musical-humanitarian connections with mankind specifically as well as in general. It is the great gift of music that it inspires far above the “usual” personal and political concerns that keep some aspects of the culture a bit myopic in terms of possibility for richer development of a more universal vision.