Marlboro Music Festival closed its 68th season Saturday with Beethoven´s `Choral Fantasy,` Op. 80, conducted by Leon Fleisher with Mitsuko Uchida as piano soloist. (Photo by Allen Cohen) `Plus ça change, plus c´est la même chose,` usually translated as `the more things change, the more they stay the same,` commonly attributed to Voltaire, was actually penned by French critic, journalist and novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808-1890). The famous maxim applies perfectly to Marlboro Music Festival, which closed its 68th season last weekend. Despite just announcing its fifth change in artistic direction in all those years the final season´s concerts, last Saturday and Sunday, reflected the...
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