2000–2001 Concert Season Concludes with Musicians from Marlboro

The Ithaca College Concerts "Best of Class" 2000–2001 series will end on Tuesday, March 20, with a concert by Musicians from Marlboro, the touring extension of the renowned Marlboro Music School and Festival. The performance will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall and will feature Borodin’s Three Songs, Ravel’s Chansons madécasses, Kirchner’s Trio no. 1 for Piano, Violin, and Cello, and Brahms’s Quartet in A Major. The ensemble is composed of violinist Catherine Cho, violist Brian Chen, cellist Marcy Rosen, pianist Jonathan Biss, flutist Demarre McGill, and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Houtzeel. There will be no pre-concert lecture.

Tickets can be purchased at the Clinton House ticket center, the Willard Straight Hall box office, and Then and Now Records in Collegetown. Tickets will also be sold at the door if seats are available. Call 274-3171 for more information.

Prices are as follows:

• children, senior citizens, Ithaca College students — $9
• Ithaca College alumni, faculty, staff, and administrators; Friends of Ithaca College; other students — $15
• general public — $18

The Marlboro Music School and Festival, located in Marlboro, Vermont, began 50 years ago as the brainchild of violinist Adolph Busch, who felt orchestral rehearsals were too driven by the pressures of performance deadlines. He therefore wanted to establish an atmosphere of unlimited rehearsal time. Busch, along with pianist Rudolf Serkin and the members of the Moyse Trio, one of the preeminent chamber ensembles of the era, founded the Marlboro Music School and Festival so that promising young students could study with masters in an intense but mutually beneficial environment.

More a musical cooperative than a traditional music school, the Marlboro Music School and Festival gives exceptional young musicians and distinguished veterans the chance to gather for two months each summer and play side-by-side, passing and receiving vital insights on chamber music. Each year Musicians from Marlboro, the touring extension, travels to various venues around the country to play what a Washington Post reviewer called a "virtual guarantee of musical excellence." According to the New York Times, "Marlboro and superior chamber music are virtually synonymous." The touring program, in fact, has introduced many of today’s leading solo and chamber music artists to American audiences, including Yefim Bronfman, Pamela Frank, Jaime Laredo, Murray Perahia, and Peter Serkin.

Musicians from Marlboro tours, now in their 36th season, are noted not only for joyous chamber music performances but also for offering valuable touring experience to artists at the beginning of their careers.

For more information call Alex Dippold in the School of Music at 274-3717 or visit the website at www.marlboromusic.org.