Tony Checchia, bassoonist & emeritus administrator & Benita Valente, soprano & vocal coach

You go away from Marlboro when you’re a young participant having met these great people, who themselves were in touch with a lot of great people that you’ve only heard about. It’s carried along down the line. There are people who are gone now that we wish that everybody could have known. The depth, the coming from Europe, the going through hell to get here during the war, all of the stuff that put us together.