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Audience outside Dining Hall, 1950s.
Violinist Adolf Busch, who had a thriving
career in Europe as a soloist and chamber music
artist, was one of the few non-Jewish musicians
who spoke out against Hitler. He had left his native
Germany for Switzerland in 1927, and later, with the
outbreak of World War II, moved to the United States.
He eventually settled in Vermont where, together with
his son-in-law Rudolf Serkin, his brother Herman
Busch, and the great French flutist Marcel Moyse—
and Moyse’s son Louis, and daughter-in-law Blanche—
Busch founded the Marlboro Music School & Festival
in 1951.
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On a VermOnt HilltOp,
a Dream is BOrn
It was his dream to create a summer musical community
where artists—the established and the aspiring—
could come together, away from the pressures of their
normal professional lives, to exchange ideas, explore
music together, and share meals and life experiences as
a large musical family. Busch died the following year,
but Serkin, who served as Artistic Director and guiding
spirit until his death in 1991, realized that dream and
created the standards, structure, and environment that
remain his legacy.
Marlboro continues to thrive under the leadership
of Mitsuko Uchida and Richard Goode, Co-Artistic
Directors for the last 12 years, remaining true to
its core ideals while incorporating their fresh ideas
and inspiration.