Return to Marlboro

Over the weekend I made a brief visit to Marlboro Music, which I wrote about last year (the essay will reappear in my new book, Listen to This). The place is happily unchanged in almost every particular, although the absence of the late David Soyer is strongly felt. Mitsuko Uchida, who serves as co-director with Richard Goode, has been in residence the entire summer; on Saturday night, she performed, for the first time in her career, Schumann's Dichterliebe, in the company of the tenor