AWOL From Tanglewood
We had an amazing summer at Marlboro with new recordings, radio series, photo exhibits at Lincoln Center and in Vermont for our 60th Anniversary and our first-ever reunion in Vermont for past participants - people coming from Europe and all over the U.S. to re-connect with Marlboro and each other, some even there from the first year in 1951. Among others, Josh Bell didn't want to miss such a special gathering and snuck away from Tanglewood between rehearsal and performance. We published a special 56-page 60th Anniversay booklet, of which I am very proud, which gives a fresh, entertaining and compelling view of why Marlboro is regarded as such a unique institution. www.marlboromusic.org.

From Levine & Cliburn in 1956 to Goode & Uchida Today
Reflections on Marlboro Music - has some wonderfully evocative photos from James Levine and Van Cliburn playing four-hands in 1956 to Richard Goode and Mitsuko Uchida playing with some of the current group of exceptional young professionals. There are also some touching and insightful stories from Arnold Steinhardt of the Guarneri Quartet (formed at Marlboro in 1964); from an audience member who first came as a student in the 1950s and recently endowed an annual Marlboro concert in Toronto; to Jonathan Biss talking about "time" at Marlboro and the lack of it in our professional life; and a fresh look at Marlboro from a British journalist who experienced Marlboro for the first time last summer. I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as we did putting it together. http://www.marlboromusic.org/pages/60th-anniversary-reflections

"Bon Voyage Hair" in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
We were really ready for a holiday after that summer and had a lovely time in Wyoming although at 6,000 feet the altitude took its toll as did the inexhaustible energy of our 6-year-old grandson Griffen McCoy Salomon Anderson. Over the summer, Griffin decided to let his hair grow down to his shoulders but as the first day of kindergarten in a new school approached, he decided he didn't want to take a chance of being mistaken for a girl. Sooooooo, off to the barber shop we went and as the barber started to cut his long locks, Griffen (normally quite shy when it comes to public utterances) was heard by the assembled barbers and customers to say "bon voyage hair, and don't forget to write." He made our trip.

Griffen (Before)

Griffen (After)

"A Jazz-inflected Romp" and more with Frank Salomon Associates Artists
Back to New York and Vermont (happily our house was not affected by Irene but many others were not so lucky) to start the new season with all sorts of good news and world premieres (see right).

Greetings from all of us at FSA,