Marlboro Music School and Festival

Marlboro Music School and Festival
Persons Auditorium before a concert.
Dates1951–present
Location(s)Marlboro, Vermont, United States
Coordinates42°50′20.57″N 72°43′56.04″W / 42.8390472°N 72.7322333°W / 42.8390472; -72.7322333
Years active1951–present
Founders
Websitewww.marlboromusic.org

The Marlboro Music School and Festival is a retreat for advanced classical training and musicianship held for seven weeks each summer in Marlboro, Vermont, in the United States. Public performances are held each weekend while the school is in session, with the programs chosen only a week or so in advance from the sixty to eighty works being currently rehearsed. Marlboro Music was conceived as a retreat where young musicians could collaborate and learn alongside master artists in an environment removed from the pressures of performance deadlines or recording. It combines several functions; Alex Ross describes it as functioning "variously as a chamber-music festival, a sort of finishing school for gifted young performers, and a summit for the musical intelligentsia".[2]

  1. ^ "Marlboro Music Festival History". Marlboro Music Festival. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  2. ^ Ross, Alex (2010). Listen to This. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 247.