[The founders] attracted the best and brightest young talents and combined them with experienced veteran artists. These veteran artists were asked not to coach but to actually rehearse and play with their groups, leading them with the beauty and inspiration of their playing and their vast experience with the music… These ideals have not changed at all in 70 years. They are still the impulse that calls all of us, senior artists and young blossoming talents alike, to have the honor of being part of one of the few places on earth where realizable ideals are venerated and alive at every moment.
The idealism of what Marlboro offers continues to influence the most talented young musicians today. They see the generosity of spirit and example that our present music directors, Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss, provide. They work with the different points of view that our senior artists give them. They begin to understand that putting a performance together quickly is not really the point but spending unlimited time working on the smallest points and discussing every angle of a work is worth everything. They see how respecting a colleague’s different point of view and trying all ideas out until they arrive at a solution that is greater than the sum of all the parts is an important goal.
