Musicians from Marlboro Celebrate 40th Season
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
This evening features chat and music from members of Musicians from Marlboro; we’ll hear about forty years of music making at Marlboro in Vermont.
Every summer young and developing professional players gather at Marlboro College to receive encouragement, artistic advice, and a chance to play alongside some of the preeminent stars in the musical firmament. After some excerpts from a 40th-anniversary CD, we hear Beethoven’s "Choral Fantasy" in C minor, featuring Rudolf Serkin on piano and conducting the Marlboro Festival Orchestra and Chorus, plus a bevy of soloists.
Another outstanding offering this evening is the Emerson Quartet's performance of Bedrich Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, subtitled "From My Life." Midway through the fourth and last movement, we hear the fatal whistling sound that assailed him as deafness attacked first one ear, then the other. Pessimism vies with repose in this most remarkable of autobiographic musical portraits.
Every summer young and developing professional players gather at Marlboro College to receive encouragement, artistic advice, and a chance to play alongside some of the preeminent stars in the musical firmament. After some excerpts from a 40th-anniversary CD, we hear Beethoven’s "Choral Fantasy" in C minor, featuring Rudolf Serkin on piano and conducting the Marlboro Festival Orchestra and Chorus, plus a bevy of soloists.
Another outstanding offering this evening is the Emerson Quartet's performance of Bedrich Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, subtitled "From My Life." Midway through the fourth and last movement, we hear the fatal whistling sound that assailed him as deafness attacked first one ear, then the other. Pessimism vies with repose in this most remarkable of autobiographic musical portraits.
