Word: marlboro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This version of heaven was the Marlboro Festival, an event that for 15 years has been attracting an international group of artists to an 18th century ghost town in the shadow of Vermont's Mount Hogback. The festival began when the trustees of tiny (128 students) Marlboro College offered its campus to some of its musical neighbors, most celebrated among them Pianist Rudolf Serkin. In the years since, Serkin has made the festival a center where outstanding soloists, chamber players and orchestral musicians come together for eight summer weeks to work and study in an atmosphere far removed from...
...hall, the talk is still music. And even when participants joke about the master ("There is a man called Roody,/Who never seems too moody"), the remarkable gentleness and modesty of Rudolf Serkin inspires utmost respect and admiration. Said Israeli Cellist Raphael Sommer, who came from Paris just for Marlboro: "It is a great lesson in humility for me to study under such great men as Serkin and Casals. It is an incredible spiritual uplift-like a ray of sunshine from those above us. And to actually play with them-with a man like Serkin! We are free and equal...
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...
...concert tour of Europe and the Middle East this summer under State Department sponsorship gives Marlboro the privilege of being the first complete festival exported from the U.S. It is an orchestra no commercial organization could afford to keep together for long, in which the first violins, for instance, include Alexander Schneider of the Budapest Quartet, and one of four violists is Soloist Jorge Mester. They are all playing for no wages at all. "They are ready," said Casals proudly. "It is time that America brought culture to the Europeans...
Calling themselves the "J's with Jamie," they are the original and only singers of the Marlboro song, "You get a lot to like with a Marlboro-filter, flavor, flip-top box." They sing the Campbell's Red Kettle Soup song and "The Campbells are coming with pork and beans." The J's and Jamie are so subtly harmonious that they can sound like six different brews for six different beers...