From Frank Salomon of Marlboro Music:
We hope that everyone is enjoying a festive Passover and Easter, two holidays we have always enjoyed celebrating. I used to have an Easter egg hunt in my office but gave up the practice when we found a few of those little chocolate eggs in colored foil, a few years later, in some file folders in a rather squashed state. I never had a similar problem hiding the affikomen at the Passover seder.To celebrate the arrival of Spring and the holidays in a more musical way, we are sending you a performance of the delightful Strauss Serenade in E-flat Major for woodwinds and four horns, Op. 7.
It conjures up summer, our Vermont hills, and the Marlboro spirit of music-making. It was one of the highlights of last summer and makes one want to get up and dance.
If you don't want to wait until the middle of July to hear Marlboro LIVE, there is another piece that has the same effect as the Stauss — the Dvořák Quintet in A Major for Piano and Strings, Op. 81 which closes our final Musicians from Marlboro program of the season.
The program also offers performances from recent summers of the powerful Berg Lyric Suite and the Haydn String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 50, No. 1 that everyone felt were so special that they had to be shared with others on tour.
For more personnel, repertoire, and ticket information, see the April-May schedule.