Marina Weber, communications & development assistant

We say that Marlboro is not a conventional school of music. That is true: there are no lectures and no masterclasses. But there is something radical, in the sense of rootedness, about our unhurried approach to the study of music. The root of our word for “school” comes from the Greek σχολή, which denotes the leisure necessary to pursue scholarly activities. We don’t do these activities because we have to; we do these activities because we get to. In the case of music (and pranks), Marlboro allows for the time, space, and connection that are the prerequisites of true creative leisure—all around the campus and around the clock.