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While the audiences are relatively small, they come from far and wide. Last week a capacity audience filled the 630-seat auditorium (recently replacing a former cow shed) and flowed into the fields to hear Pablo Casals conduct the Marlboro Orchestra in two programs. The highlight was Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite No. 4 in D Major...
...conducted sitting down, but sprang upright at moments of crescendo or crisis. His right arm sustained the tempos with wide, sweeping gestures; his left hand energetically swayed from the wrist with a vibrato movement, coaxing sweetness from the orchestra as he does from a cello. The result was a Bach that no one had heard ever before. At concert's end, the Vermont mountains echoed with bravos for the world's greatest cellist, who had proved that he could have become an equally exceptional conductor. Says Casals: "Bach must be conducted with the same passion that a pianist...
...basic idea was to encourage all the participants to argue with each other, no holds barred, through the interminable weekend. The intensive intimacy forces them to recognize their real feelings and, as Dr. Bach describes it, helps them "bridge the split between their private and public lives." Most people, he says, do not know how to handle "hostility within the context of love." A fight, he insists, is a healthy and constructive thing, especially between husband and wife-provided the battlers understand each other...
Occasionally Dr. Bach had to step in and trigger the conversation. "John," he said to the gas-station manager, "you're not retreating into that phony shell of yours again, are you?" "I've said it all," John complained. "I told you I've had no real education. The doctors here have more important things to say." The industrial designer demurred: "What do they really know? You've given us more of your real feelings already than this psychiatrist. Take away his fancy vocabulary, and what have you left?" The actress chimed in: "Doctor, I feel...
...Bach has found that the patient-participants who find it hardest to drop their masks and profit from revealing their true natures are the professional people, especially the analysts. But a woman analyst wrote that "it was the best experience as a patient I ever had." Like Bach, she had become a devotee of the long weekend of talk. "Later marathons with my own patients," she added, "have been the most rewarding experiences of my career...