2016 Spring Chautauquan - Chautauqua Institution

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The
Season: June 25–August 28, 2016
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S prin g 2 0 1 6 E dition
Board begins search for Becker’s successor
Winner announcement
The 2016 Chautauqua Prize
winner was named too late for
this edition of The Chautauquan.
Please visit ciweb.org/prize to
read the announcement.
A nationwide search has begun
to find Chautauqua Institution’s next
president. James A. Pardo Jr., chair of
the Institution’s board of trustees, in
March announced the appointment of
a six-person committee that will lead
the process to identify and select the
Institution’s 18th president. The Institution’s goal is to name a successor to
retiring President Tom Becker this fall.
“This is an extraordinary time for
Chautauqua Institution, and an extraordinary opportunity for a creative, high-energy leader to take the
Chautauqua experience to a new
level,” Pardo said. “With a new Amphitheater coming on line in 2017, we
are truly excited by the new programmatic opportunities before us, and we
are eager to see how our new president’s vision for the future advances
the Institution.”
Becker announced in January his
intention to retire effective December
31, 2016, following 13 years as president and nearly 32 years of service in
total to Chautauqua.
“The board and the search commit-
tee recognize the tall order ahead of
us in choosing Tom Becker’s successor,” Pardo said. “Because of Tom’s extraordinary efforts and successes over
the years, our next president will find
Chautauqua Institution in its best financial and operational position ever.”
Executive search firm Russell
Reynolds Associates has also been
retained to guide the committee and
the board through the search and hiring process.
Please see Search, Page 4
Six finalists
named for
2016 Prize
Chautauqua Institution is pleased to
announce six exceptional books as the
2016 finalists for The Chautauqua Prize,
now in its fifth year:
It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s
Life of Love and War
Lynsey Addario
Penguin Press
Off the Radar: A Father’s Secret,
a Mother’s Heroism, and a Son’s Quest
Cyrus Copeland
Blue Rider Press
King of the Gypsies: Stories
Lenore Myka
BkMk Press
Granada: A Pomegranate in the
Hand of God
Steven Nightingale
Counterpoint Press
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
Susan Southard
Viking Books
No. 4 Imperial Lane
Jonathan Weisman
Twelve Books
Awarded annually since 2012, The
Chautauqua Prize draws upon Chautauqua Institution’s considerable literary legacy to celebrate a book that
provides a richly rewarding reading
experience and to honor the author for
a significant contribution to the literary
arts. The author of the winning book
will receive $7,500 and all travel and
expenses for a one-week summer residency at Chautauqua.
Read more about each book,
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Inside this issue
Provided photos
Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Celebrating America’s music
With Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center,
the performing arts take center stage during
Week Nine of the 2016 Chautauqua season
W
hen the calendar reaches
late August, as our resident
performing arts companies
wind down their seasons, Wynton
Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center
will be there to keep the beat. The renowned trumpeter and music ambassador and the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra will appear throughout
Week Nine (Aug. 20–28) and on multiple platforms to bring the “America’s
Music” theme to life.
Marsalis will speak from the Amphitheater stage on two separate
mornings (Aug. 22 and 26), and JLCO
will perform in the evening with the
CSO (Aug. 23) and their celebrated
leader (Aug. 25).
The CSO performance will feature
a preview of a new work by Marsalis
for symphony orchestra and JLCO, a
piece commissioned by the New York
Philharmonic for its 2017 season. This
will be the second consecutive summer that Chautauqua audiences will
have the opportunity to hear a special
preview performance of a major new
Marsalis work.
Also appearing as Amphitheater
Pre-season construction keeps Amp
on track for 2017 opening · Page 2
lecturers are Geoffrey C. Ward, cowriter of the seminal PBS documentary “Jazz” (Aug. 23 and 26), and
Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Cécile
McLorin Salvant (Aug. 25).
The week will be capped on Friday,
Aug. 26, by what may be the final live
performance of Marsalis’ Abyssinian
Mass, a piece he wrote to celebrate the
bicentennial of Harlem’s Abyssinian
Baptist Church in 2008. All the original
players — Marsalis and JLCO, Chorale
Le Chateau, conductor Damien Sneed
and narrator the Rev. Calvin O. Butts
— return for this one-of-a-kind gospel
celebration at Chautauqua.
Week Nine also features eight master classes led by Jazz at Lincoln Center staff and JLCO musicians. Register
for these and all other Special Studies
class offerings at chqtickets.com.
Other evening during the week include “Boogie Stomp! The Get Up and
Dance Musical Celebration” (Aug. 22)
and Garth Fagan Dance (Aug. 24), and
celebrated singer-songwriter Mary
Chapin Carpenter returns to the
Amp stage on Saturday, Aug. 27, to
close out Chautauqua’s 2016 popular
Board takes actions in response to
Corporation motion · Page 4
Marsalis
entertainment lineup.
On the 2 p.m. Interfaith Lecture Series platform, guest speakers will offer takes on “America’s Spiritual Songbook.” The week’s guest chaplain, the
Rev. Dwight D. Andrews, who is also
an accomplished saxophonist and
music educator, will lead off the week
(Aug. 22) in conversation with Chautauqua organist Jared Jacobsen. Also
presenting are Steven Darsey, author
of The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob:
Music and Worship (Aug. 23); the Rev.
James Evans, author of The Ambivalent Gospel of Motown (Aug. 24); Cantor Michael Weis of New York City’s
Brotherhood Synagogue (Aug. 25);
and Rabbi Kenneth Kanter, author
of books, journals and articles on the
Jewish contribution to American popular music (Aug. 26).
Leadership endowments ensure
program sustainability · Page 7
The Chautauquan
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Spring 2016
news
The Renewal of Our A mp
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Pre-season construction
puts rebuilt Amp on track
for 2017 grand opening
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Spring 2016 construction
Following an initial delay, construction on the Chautauqua Amphitheater
began in mid-February and continues
through the beginning of June.
Some of the tasks within this preparatory construction phase included:
Two views of the Amphitheater site as it appeared on May 13, 2016. The top photo
shows the approach from Bestor Plaza, looking down the western end of the
building, where the 1981 bleachers used to stand. The above photo shows the south
side of the Amp, viewed from the corner of Palestine and Clark, looking toward the
Athenaeum Hotel. (Another view, above the back-of-house area, is always available
at ciweb.org/amp-cam.) As of May 13, caisson installation for the perimeter of the
rebuilt front-of-house was complete and crews were beginning to prepare the site
for the 2016 season. The dirt areas seen above will be temporarily paved with asphalt
to maintain accessibility during the season. More details on the spring construction
and what to expect this summer are available at right.
B R I E FLY
Turner Pool to reopen in early June
The pool at Turner Community Center, closed for much of the spring to
allow for resurfacing and overhead lighting upgrades, is scheduled to reopen in early June. We appreciate our patrons’ patience and look forward to
providing a much-improved experience to swimmers this summer. Please
feel welcome to contact Chautauqua Health & Fitness staff at 716-357-6430
with any questions or for more information.
Volunteer ushers sought for Bratton and Norton
Chautauqua is seeking volunteers to usher for theater performances at
Bratton Theater and opera performances at Norton Hall. Volunteers must
be able to stand for long periods of time, negotiate stairs and help with
clean-up after the performance. Volunteers receive an available seat for the
performance. If you are interested in volunteering and have not yet done
so, please contact Jennifer Jansen in the Program Office at [email protected]
by June 1.
Babysitting list available through Youth Services
The Department of Education and Youth Services maintains a babysitting list with names, contact information and availability of potential care
givers. To place names on this list or to receive a copy of the list, contact
Karen Schiavone at [email protected]. This list is intended as a public
service and will not rate or recommend any individual.
Thomas M. Becker
president
George E. Murphy
chief marketing officer
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• Establishment of a staging area and
materials procurement, staging and
storage
• Asbestos and lead abatement in the
back-of-house
• Partial removal of 1981 back-ofhouse facility
• Stabilization of exposed sides of
the Massey Memorial Organ
chamber, which will remain in place
throughout all construction
• Removal of Peters Bridge for possible
reuse
• Removal of permanent perimeter
fencing and gate canopies
• Removal of 1981 bleacher seats
• Final surveys and monumentation
• Complete installation of groundwater
management system around the site
• Utility relocation downhill from the
back-of-house
• Removal of trees on the site
• Installation of more than 140 caissons
for front-of-house perimeter and new
back-of-house
• Road work to allow construction
traffic safe and unimpeded access,
including: easing corners at Palestine
and Center and at South Lake and
Bowman; installing a temporary
construction pathway at the sharp
turns at South and South Lake
(adjacent to the YAC); and widening
South Lake Drive between Bryant and
Hawthorne
• Placement of vibration monitors
along construction route
• Removal of the bracing system
installed last fall to protect the facility
against winter wind and snow loads
• Installation of temporary Artist
Village in back-of-house area
All of this work, from the minor
items to the major milestones, helps
to mitigate any risk presented by the
major construction timeline, from September 2016 to June 2017. All construction-related activities at the Amp site
will be halted before the 2016 season
and the site will be prepped to allow
for normal use this summer.
Summer 2016 operations
The Amphitheater will be fully operational, with some modifications,
to welcome audiences and programs
this summer. The site will be visibly
different, but patrons should encounter little, if any, disruption to their experience. Importantly, the facility will
maintain its existing accessibility via
the same gates around the upper-level
perimeter and on the floor level to the
right and left of the stage.
Attendees of Amp programs this
summer should expect:
• Temporary fencing around the
perimeter of the facility. Gate-pass
scanning will continue for most events
through the same six entrance gates
• A temporary asphalt surface on
most pedestrian pathways around
the facility and temporary metal
bleachers at the western end of
the front-of-house. Institution
staff members are cognizant of the
potential issues concerning heat
these surface materials present and
are considering a number of heatmitigation ideas
• The existing restroom facilities on
the upper and lower levels will
remain fully operational
• The Amphitheater Gazebo will
continue normal operations
• A portion of the Clark brick walk
outside the western end of the facility
will be a temporary asphalt pathway
• A new pedestrian route from
Bowman Avenue to the back-ofhouse area and Athenaeum Hotel
loop drive, in lieu of Peters Bridge.
Institution staffers are working with
a wayfinding consultant to determine
the best path
• A temporary “back porch” for
community meet-and-greets and at
the base of the Massey Memorial
Organ chamber
• Artist Village, a series of temporary
facilities designed to reclaim space
lost with the removal of most of the
back-of-house. These spaces include
offices, storage, dressing rooms, green
rooms and a large rehearsal space
• The engraved bricks in the bleacher
walls have been carefully removed
and will be incorporated (or identical
new ones, if the existing brick was
damaged) into a new wall which will
again mark the outer perimeter of the
facility when the project is complete
Building an Amphitheater endowment
By helping build an endowment
for the Amphitheater, the Chautauqua
community solidifies a commitment to
ensuring the facility will be a safe, functional and welcoming home for future
speakers and performers, audiences and
generations of Chautauquans to come.
You, or your family, can be a part
of this important moment in Chautauqua’s history. Anyone contributing
$1,000 or more to the Amphitheater endowment or capital costs for the proj-
ect will be recognized in the rebuilt
Amphitheater. In addition, if you make
a gift of $15,000+ to the Amphitheater
endowment, your generosity will be
recognized with a custom, engraved
plaque to be installed on a bench in the
new Amp. This gift may be paid over
the course of up to three years.
For more information, or to make
a gift to the Amp endowment, please
call 716-357-6404 or email foundation@
ciweb.org.
The Chautauquan
Spring 2016
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news
From t h e president
Chautauqua, an exercise in shared affection
I
t’s spring in Chautauqua.
This is a season for vigorous
activities. The grounds, both
public and private spaces, are
abuzz with activities that speak to the
improvements to property, development of gardens and annual plantings, construction and renovation
work, road repairs, preparation of
program facilities. CUD is engaged
in a major project in its multi-year
program for the improvement and expansion of the water treatment plant
at the south end of the grounds. The
enabling phase of the Amphitheater
project is now covering much of the
caisson drilling and installation work
and preparing for the 2016 season. The
Athenaeum Hotel is incorporating a
new sprinkler system and renovating
more rooms. In short, the preparation
for your arrival is apace.
This issue of The Chautauquan is
bursting with details of the many offerings of the 2016 season. One is tempted
to see these elements as program pieces
and to tally up the offerings produced
during the time each of you will be at
Chautauqua. But I ask that you think
of these presentations as the latest in a
long line of work
at Chautauqua.
This lineage has
always been
about exercising
our capacities to
understand who
we are as human
beings in general
and as individuTHOMAS M.
als. We talk about
Chautauqua as
BECKER
an experience but
it is also an exercise. In the course of
a nine-week season we explore, seek,
evaluate and critically engage. We also
meditate, pray, imagine and abide. We
enter into an unspoken contract with
others who share the same space that
while we will differ in our likes and
dislikes, our beliefs and convictions,
our tastes and preferences, we will do
so in an atmosphere of shared affection. At Chautauqua we are not simply
tolerant of those who hold these
differences, we share affection for the
earnestness of purpose that draws
us to this remarkable and singular
Institution. You can and should assume that state of shared affection to
be part of your experience of Chautauqua. It is what is behind the belief
that all who enter these grounds are
Chautauquans. Here we can exercise
these values and mode of conduct not
because it is required of us but rather
because it is offered.
I think, in part, children are so immediately at home here precisely because of that characteristic of shared
affection. They know they are safe.
Their explorations on these grounds
often lead to some of the best friendships of their lives. They are safe to
be true to who they are and to reveal
themselves to others also engaged in
this expressive process.
It is often harder for adults to recognize this opportunity and to fully
engage these possibilities. That said,
it does happen. And the gift of this
atmosphere of affection is to demonstrate the possibilities for broadening
the sphere of its influence to our family lives, our civic commitments, our
workplaces …
I recognize that language like “affection” is perceived as soft and gushy
(maybe feminine?) and impractical in
a time of such brutish conflict. I recog-
nize that many see the toughening of
our discourse and conduct as a proper
response to the perception that we are
losing stature, security, dominance,
cultural clarity, etc.
This year, before you arrive for the
season, millions, many millions, will
have been spent on media messages
demonizing the differences between
contestants for political leadership. We
will be preoccupied by the labels in
these messages such as red/blue, gay/
straight, and on and on.
Yet the issues before us as a nation
demand a critical engagement with
their complexities and nuances. Our
understanding is informed by that
engagement and our faith, our experiences, our sense of family, our appreciation of our history — who we are
and how we got here. If you take the
nine weeks of the Chautauqua season
as a full body of work you can see it
as the exercise of this kind of exploration invested in creativity, critical
thinking, consideration of faith and
mystery, embrace of hope and transcendence. This is an investment in
imaginative, compassionate living.
And it can be great fun.
A round t h e g rounds
Major projects aim to improve safety, upgrade overall experience
In addition to the major work at the
Amphitheater, Chautauqua Institution
this off-season has undertaken a number of
other initiatives and capital projects.
Tree canopy
Recognizing the importance of Chautauqua’s signature tree canopy, four
years ago the Institution began a process
that will eventually feed into a Community Forest Management Plan (in the
same vein as the existing Sustainable
Shoreline Action Plan and Stormwater
Management Plan). This plan will guide
all efforts to maintain and/or create a
sustainable tree canopy on the grounds,
including diversity in tree species, genus and family, and in age and size.
Following initial work to assess the
South End Ravine tree population in
2013, Chautauqua Institution retained
the locally based forestry management
firm Forecon and its certified arborists
to survey and assess every individual
Institution-owned tree on the grounds
(these include all trees in public spaces
and adjacent to Institution facilities,
plus most trees in the space between
Institution streets and private homes).
This work took place over the off-seasons of 2013, 2014 and 2015, beginning
with Miller Park, followed by the rest
of the center portion of the grounds,
and ending this past year with the
north and south ends.
Forecon’s comprehensive evaluation included 3,954 trees and collected
data on a number of factors, including
tree identification, location, site width,
utilities, diameter, height, crown
width, condition (using U.S. Forest Service guidelines), presence of insect or
disease, structural defects and human
damage. Further inspections using a
Resistograph were conducted on trees
suspected of having internal decay.
Forecon then profiled each tree determined to have potential risk factors.
A copy of Forecon’s report is available at ciweb.org/downloads. Reports on
individual trees included in Forecon’s
risk assessments are available by contacting Chautauqua’s Operations office
at 716-357-6245.
An immediate and highly visible result of the comprehensive tree survey
is the ongoing schedule of necessary
tree removals for the safety of people,
property and other trees. In total, the
arborists recommended removal of
about 17 percent of the trees evaluated
— from a large number of one-inch-diameter saplings growing in clusters or
a poor location (under power lines, obstructing traffic views, etc.), to young
trees suffering from heavy squirrel
damage, to rapidly declining massive
mature trees several feet in diameter.
Another major factor playing a role
in this off-season’s tree maintenance is
the recently discovered presence of the
emerald ash borer on the grounds. EAB
is an invasive species that infests and
kills North American ash trees (Fraxinus
genus), and Chautauqua’s ash population (about 6 percent of the overall tree
population) has been severely affected,
which has substantially increased the
number of overall tree removals. Gardens and Landscapes crews this spring
will inoculate the remaining 80 ash
trees using a systemic product called
Tree-Age, which gives three years’ protection against EAB and can be used on
trees that are up to 40 percent infested.
As a result of these removals, the Institution is undertaking an aggressive
replanting schedule. Trees will be replaced not necessarily in kind, but rather
in a deliberate manner designed toward
creating the optimal level of diversity in
age, mature height and species within
a community forest. In a typical year,
Chautauqua’s crews plant about 50 trees.
This year, 125 replantings are planned,
many in high-profile locations where recent removals took place. Some of these
trees will be taller, more mature trees
than normally planted, in an attempt to
speed up the process of rebuilding or replacing the overall tree canopy.
For much more information on
Forecon’s report and what to expect
in the years ahead, read April’s comprehensive communication regarding
Chautauqua’s tree maintenance work
at this link: bit.ly/chqtrees2016.
Athenaeum Hotel
The Athenaeum Hotel’s main entrance area underwent extensive work
this off-season as part of a long-term
project to shore up the building’s foundation (like the Amp, over time the
hotel has drifted toward Chautauqua
Lake). Patrons this season will find a
repaved loop drive and newly installed
sidewalk and railing leading to a completely reinforced entrance porch. Inside the hotel, crews are working to
completely replace the building’s sprinkler system. These projects represent
nearly $750,000 of capital investment
this off-season alone to ensure the longterm viability of the 1881 structure.
Miller Park
Following last spring’s addition of a
brick pathway and rain gardens to upper Miller Park, Chautauqua’s crews
have focused this pre-season on the
lower area. Work continues to upgrade
and reroute away from Children’s
Beach the access road connecting
South Lake Drive to the Pier Building.
When finished, the 16-foot-wide brick
roadway will be pinned off during the
season to serve primarily as a pedestrian pathway, with only occasional
service- or emergency-vehicle access.
These changes are designed to increase
safety for children and families enjoying the recreational spaces around Fair
Point. A new, small play area is also
planned for the north side of the park.
Wastewater Treatment Plant
Following many months of delays,
the Chautauqua Utility District has
begun work on extensive upgrades to
and an expansion of the facilities at
its wastewater treatment plant on the
southern tip of the grounds. This is not
a Chautauqua Institution project, but
one that received overwhelming approval in a 2014 vote.
Crews contracted by CUD began
major excavation work in early May,
including removal of trees and the restroom facilities at the base of Bryant
hill, in anticipation of this construc-
tion. Access for construction vehicles
is via Bryant Gate and Bryant Avenue.
As with the Amphitheater construction, major work at the wastewater
facility will pause for the 2016 season
and resume in the fall.
Questions on this work should be
directed to CUD at 716-357-8137.
Road work
Chautauqua Institution in April
began a schedule of spring road work
that was scheduled to be finished by
Memorial Day. Streets included in this
plan are:
•North Lake Drive, between Forest
and Wiley;
•Andrews, between Harris and
Forest;
•Hurst, between Andrews and
North Lake;
•Forest, between Pratt and North
Lake;
•Cookman, between Massey and
Clark brick walk; and
•Wythe, between Foster and South
In coordination with the Institution’s street work, National Fuel
worked to replace gas mains and upgrade services on Forest and Cookman.
Perimeter fence
Chautauqua crews this spring replaced two long sections of perimeter
fencing along Route 394. A new fence
is now installed along the School of
Music campus, from the former Hurst
Gate to the south end of Scott in the
Garden District, and along the southwest end of the South Lot, from Royal
Way to the South Gate. Native vines
will be planted along the fence line to
finish off the facelift.
Sharpe Field
Chautauqua’s community softball
leagues will have a new surface to
play on this coming season — in April
a Chautauqua crew stripped the old
grass and dirt infield at Sharpe Field
and replaced it with a new clay mix.
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The Chautauquan
Spring 2016
news
N ews From t h e B oard o f T rustees
Board takes actions in response to Corporation motion on governance
Following eight months of analysis, consultation and
community engagement, Chautauqua Institution’s Board
of Trustees at its May 7 meeting accepted recommendations from its Nominating and Governance Committee designed to improve and expand its practices of good governance and to increase opportunities for input from the
Chautauqua community.
These actions respond to a motion passed at the August
2015 annual meeting of the Chautauqua Corporation. In
that motion, Corporation members asked Chautauqua Institution’s Board of Trustees to consider amending the Corporation’s bylaws to provide for open meetings of the Board
of Trustees and to consider additional ways to provide the
community with greater transparency about the work of the
Board and its proceedings. At its August 2015 meeting, the
Board referred the motion to the Nominating and Governance Committee for review and recommendation.
“As Trustees of Chautauqua Institution, we take our fiduciary responsibilities very seriously. Philosophically, we
are committed to being as inclusive and transparent as
practical within the framework of best practices for not-forprofit governance,” wrote James A. Pardo, Jr., Chair of the
Board, in a February letter to Corporation members. “We
recognize that the Board must represent the interests of
the Institution and everyone the Institution serves — Corporation members and all other stakeholders who benefit
from and participate in its mission-driven program. This is
in keeping with our Chautauqua values.”
Analysis & Action on Open Meetings
Beginning in September 2015, the Nominating and
Governance Committee conducted an internal and external review, including a legal assessment and a detailed
analysis of the transparency and engagement practices in
place at Chautauqua.
As part of its work, the Committee consulted 22 individual experts and organizations — including various notfor-profit corporations, arts organizations, homeowners’
associations, colleges, not-for-profit administrators and
other Chautauquas — to understand better the practice of
open meetings in the not-for-profit sector.
The Committee reported to the full Board at its November 2015 meeting and again in greater detail at its February
2016 meeting. Its findings included that:
• Nearly all of the organizations contacted — not-forprofit 501(c)(3) corporations like Chautauqua Institution
— do not hold open meetings, do not plan to do so,
and do not recommend it;
• The leadership of 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporations
believe (some based on experience) that open meetings would stifle discussion and creative problem-solving among trustees, limit the ability of the corporation
to recruit qualified members to its board, and potentially politicize the governance process; and
• Some who were contacted and interviewed cite as an
example the current era of social media and how posts,
e-newsletters and tweets — instant and sometimes
out of context — can quickly negate the intent of open
meetings.
Experts and consultants to not-for-profit entities provided similar counsel. Combined with the legal opinion that
Chautauqua’s Board is not required by law to hold open
meetings, the results of the Committee’s due diligence
led its members to recommend that the Board continue its
current meeting policy. That conclusion was communicated to the Chautauqua community in a Feb. 23, 2016, letter
from the Board’s Chair.
Search from Page 1
“We anticipate that the process will be a robust one
that will attract a number of highly qualified candidates from many different backgrounds,” said George
T. Snyder, chair of the presidential search committee.
“Over the next few months, we will screen prospective candidates, develop a shortlist of finalists and
bring them to Chautauqua for on-site visits during
the summer season. It’s our hope that our new president will start work on the first day of the New Year.”
March’s announcements follow more than two
months of research by board leadership, in addition to
consultation with outside experts, Institution staff, and
many members of the Chautauqua community. An
important element of the search process is obtaining
timely community input. The search committee is
developing a series of mechanisms that will allow it
to proactively gather community insight. The board
and Institution staff will provide regular updates to
Chautauquans as the search process unfolds.
Presidential Search Committee
Snyder, immediate past chair of the Chautauqua
Institution Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2013, will
chair the presidential search committee. Snyder is a
Expanding Practices of Good Governance
In response to the second part of the Corporation
members’ motion, the Nominating and Governance Committee also recommended, and the Trustees at their February 2016 meeting agreed, to re-evaluate, expand, and
re-imagine current community engagement practices and
to look for additional ways to provide more transparency
regarding the Board’s work at Chautauqua Institution.
The Committee once again, this time joined by the four
Corporation-elected Trustees, conducted dozens of interviews with community stakeholders — including property
owners, one-week visitors, denominational house representatives, leaders of and participants in community volunteer
groups, open meetings advocates and off-grounds Chautauquans — to understand their involvement in Chautauqua
and their ideas and recommendations for enhanced transparency and engagement with the Board and its process.
The group’s findings, presented at the May 7 Board of
Trustees meeting, included:
• A strong reiteration of the Trustees’ commitment to
enhanced engagement with the community and best
practices in not-for-profit governance, particularly
around critical matters that from time to time come to
the Board for consideration;
• Noting that there currently exist a variety of opportunities for the community to engage with the Trustees in
public and private settings, but that some times and
places for events (such as the Trustee Open Forums
and the weekly Hultquist porch chats) are inconveniently scheduled for some community members;
• Recognizing that the community does not, in a broad
sense, know who the Trustees are or how the Trustees
arrive at the Board table; and
• Some community stakeholders would like additional
opportunities to gain insights into the governance
process and have timely and regular opportunities
for input into issues that come before the Board for
discussion, consideration, or decision.
Based on these findings, the Committee proposed to
the Trustees a series of recommendations that ensure the
community has access to current information about Trustees and the Trustee nominating processes and that give
the community additional opportunities to have input into
the work of the Board:
Enhanced Transparency and Information Sharing
• Board meeting agenda: Beginning with the August 2016
meetings, the Board will work with the Institution to post
a preliminary, draft agenda or list of topics that likely will
be covered at the upcoming Board meeting. This will
occur as soon as the agenda is close to finalized and,
ideally, not later than two weeks prior to the meeting.
• Board meeting minutes: Beginning with the May 2016
meeting, the Board will work with the Institution to
post a draft of the Board minutes approximately two
weeks after the meeting, even though at that point in
time the minutes will not yet have been approved by
the Board (which in the ordinary course will not occur
until the next regularly scheduled meeting). Where not
otherwise contained in the actual minutes, a summary
of key decisions also will be posted.
• The Board will work with the Institution to introduce
an enhanced Board of Trustees’ webpage prior to the
2016 season that will include:
· Trustee biographies, photos and terms of service.
lifelong Chautauquan and property owner. He currently serves as a director of the Chautauqua Foundation, chairing its Personnel Committee, and is
co-chair of the Promise Campaign. A native of Pittsburgh, he is a partner with the Stonecipher Law Firm.
The following Chautauquans also have been appointed
to serve as members of the search committee:
• Jim Brady, who is the Central Region managing
partner for Grant Thornton LLP, one of the top six largest professional services firms in the U.S. A member
of the Chautauqua community since 2003 and now a
property owner, Brady serves on both the Institution’s
board of trustees and the Chautauqua Foundation’s
board of directors, chairing the Development Council.
• Laura Currie, who is manager of the clinical
trials program in the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Division at Vanderbilt University Medical
Center. A lifelong Chautauquan and property owner, Currie also serves as an Institution trustee and
a Foundation director, and she chairs the Planned
Giving Committee.
• Bill James, who has worked in the consumer
products industry his entire career with assignments
in Europe and the U.S. James and his family have come
to Chautauqua for 25 years; he is a property owner
and joined the Foundation board as a director in 2014.
• Candace Littell Maxwell, who is a retired
· Relocation of the Trustee email address to a more
visible location on the website to encourage community input directly to the trustees.
· Information about the Class A Trustee nomination
process, including how members of the Community
might propose individuals to the Board’s Nominating and Governance Committee for consideration
as future members of the Board of Trustees.
· Information about the Class B Trustee nomination
process.
Additional Opportunities for Trustee Engagement
• The Board will work with the Institution in an attempt
(subject to the availability of suitable times and venues)
to move the Trustee Open Forums to different dates
and/or times to allow for greater community participation during the 2016 season
· Trustees will host the first two porch chats this
season in a different format — these will be trusteeled and focused on a strategic topic of importance
to the community. Again, subject to the availability
of suitable times and venues, these two initial porch
chats will be moved from the traditional 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday Hultquist Porch time and location to
different dates, times and locations to allow for
greater community participation. These will be
more discussion-oriented sessions with the community and provide opportunities for input directly to
the Trustees. Depending on community response,
these sessions may be continued in future seasons
or be tweaked with a goal of more direct Trustee
and community engagement.
· The remaining porch chats during the 2016 season
will be continue to be held on the Hultquist porch as
in prior years and will follow the traditional staff-driven format, but subject to the availability of suitable
times and dates the porch chats will be shifted on
the calendar to allow for more community member
attendance.
• The Trustees plan to attend more events this season
including CPOA picnics and other similar community
events.
• Our Board Chair will hold weekly open office hours
during the 2016 season (tentatively scheduled from 4
to 6 p.m. in the Film Room at the Welcome Center) that
will be open to any Chautauquan to come and discuss
with the Chair any topic.
• Our Board Chair once again has offered this season
to meet with any interested stakeholder groups and,
subject to scheduling, to continue his informal, ad hoc
“coffee in the morning or ice cream in the afternoon”
meetings with individual Chautauquans.
These recommendations were adopted by the Board
of Trustees at its May meeting with the plan to implement
them as proposed. Look for more information on dates,
times and places in The Chautauquan Daily this season.
“Throughout this comprehensive process, the Trustees
were mindful of the programmatic mission of Chautauqua
Institution, and the role of community in the expression of
that mission,” Pardo said. “The Board believes that Chautauqua’s governance structure works well in supporting
our mission, and, further, has set the stage for our continued success in sustaining and improving the Institution together — financially, operationally and physically. We welcome community engagement as we work together on the
stewardship of this singular place.”
consulting executive and corporate director for the
life sciences industry. Maxwell has been coming to
Chautauqua for 15 years and is currently in her sixth
year of service as a trustee of the Institution.
• Pardo, who is a retired partner at King & Spalding LLP. At Chautauqua, where he is a property owner and has come with his family since 1991, Pardo
serves as chair of the Institution’s board of trustees,
ex officio as a Foundation director, and vice-chair of
the Chautauqua Hotel Corporation’s board.
Executive Search Firm
Russell Reynolds Associates is a global leader in
assessment, recruitment and succession planning for
boards and key leadership roles for organizations of
all kinds. Its consultants have extensive experience
identifying, assessing and recruiting board members, CEOs and senior leaders for nonprofit organizations around the world. The Chautauqua search will
be led by the firm’s Washington and Boston offices.
Process
The goal of the search committee, Snyder said, “is
to work closely with Russell Reynolds to identify and
recommend to the Board of Trustees a candidate to
succeed Tom Becker, thus enabling the new president
to begin his or her work at the beginning of 2017.”
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p o p u l a r e n t e r ta i n m e n t
2016 Amphitheater Entertainment
The Temptations
& The Four Tops**
Saturday, June 25 · 8:15 p.m.
Leann Rimes
July 1
Mary Chapin Carpenter
August 27
For more than five decades, the Detroit Motown sound and these two
iconic groups have inspired, influenced
and entertained countless millions.
Wednesday, August 17 · 8:15 p.m.
Raised in Tupelo, Mississippi, this
roots-rock songwriter and performer
creates feel-good evenings of song and
storytelling with roots from the land
of cotton, catfish and churches.
Sunday, June 26 · 2:30 p.m. · Free!
The Purple Xperience:
A Concert Celebration of the Life
& Inspiration of Prince
Susquehanna Chorale*
A recipient of Chorus America’s
highest national award, the Margaret
Hillis Achievement Award for Choral
Excellence, the Susquehanna Chorale
has emerged as one of the outstanding
choral ensembles in the United States.
Purchase your tickets:
chqtickets.com
716-357-6250
Colvin & Earle
July 15
Friday, August 19 · 8:15 p.m.
The Purple Xperience, a five-piece
tribute band, is led by Grammy Awardwinning Dr. Fink (former member of
Prince and the Revolution) with the
goal of giving audiences the most authentic re-creation in the world.
Tiempo Libre
Tuesday, June 28 · 8:15 p.m.
Having introduced Cuban music to
new audiences through appearances
on shows such as “The Tonight Show”
and “Dancing With the Stars,” this
classically trained group is celebrated
for its performances of timba music,
an irresistible, dance-inducing mix of
Latin jazz and Cuban son.
An Evening with LeAnn Rimes**
Friday, July 1 · 8:15 p.m.
With 44 million albums sold, two
Grammy Awards, three Academy of
Country Music Awards and 12 Billboard Music Awards, singer-songwriter LeAnn Rimes has made her mark in
the world of music.
Buffalo Silver Band
Sunday, July 3 · 2:30 p.m. · Free!
The Capitol Steps: Mock the Vote
Wednesday, July 6 · 8:15 p.m.
With the race for the presidency
heating up, now is the best time to
see the Capitol Steps and their unique
brand of political comedy!
The Avett Brothers**
Sold Out!
Friday, July 8 · 8:15 p.m.
The Avett Brothers combine bluegrass, folk, rock ‘n’ roll, honky-tonk,
country and ragtime to produce a
unique and current sound described
by the San Francisco Chronicle as having the “heavy sadness of Townes Van
Zandt, the light pop concision of Buddy Holly, the tuneful jangle of the Beatles, the raw energy of the Ramones.”
Brass Band of the Western Reserve
Sunday, July 10 · 2:30 p.m. · Free!
Family Entertainment Series:
Acrobats of Cirque-tacular*
Wednesday, July 13 · 7:30 p.m.
These stunning acrobats will elicit
oohs and ahhs from audience members
of all ages through aerial and ground
acrobatic feats.
Sunday, August 14 · 2:30 p.m. · Free!
Paul Thorn
U.S. Army Field Band
& Soldiers’ Chorus
Monday, June 27 · 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua School of Dance
Student Gala
Barbershop Harmony Parade
Sunday, August 21, 2:30 p.m. · Free!
Boogie Stomp! The Get Up and
Dance Musical Celebration
Britt
Nicole
July 29
Monday, August 22 · 8:15 p.m.
Colvin & Earle**
Sultans of String
Grammy Award-winning singersongwriters Shawn Colvin and Steve
Earle will celebrate their new album’s
release with a worldwide tour, uniting
for one-of-a-kind evenings of songswapping, duets and storytelling.
Thrilling audiences with Celtic
reels, flamenco, Gypsy-jazz, Arabic,
Cuban and South Asian rhythms, Sultans of String celebrate musical fusion
and human creativity with warmth
and virtuosity.
Friday, July 15 · 8:15 p.m.
Chautauqua School of Dance
Student Gala
Sunday, July 17 · 2:30 p.m. · Free!
An Evening Piano Recital with
Alexander Gavrylyuk*
Wednesday, July 20 · 8:15 p.m.
Well-loved by Chautauqua, the extraordinary Alexander Gavrylyuk returns for his 11th season.
Huey Lewis and The News**
Friday, July 22 · 8:15 p.m.
As they enter their 37th year together, their contagious brand of music has
outlasted countless trends, and is as
fresh today as ever.
NYSSSA School of Choral Studies
Sunday, July 24 · 2:30 p.m.
Britt Nicole†
Friday, July 29 · 8:15 p.m.
In 2012, Britt received a Grammy
nomination in the category of Best
Contemporary Christian Music Album for her 2012 release, Gold. Having
created an anthem by the same name,
Britt is emerging as a pop phenom of
uncommon substance and soul, with a
focus on music that’s both genuine and
empowering.
American Legion Band of the
Tonawandas
Sunday, July 31 · 2:30 p.m. · Free!
Purchase tickets at chqtickets.com or 716-357-6250
†
Monday, August 1 · 8:15 p.m.
Straight No Chaser**
Friday, August 5 · 8:15 p.m.
Straight No Chaser has built a reputation as an unforgettable live act, and
The New Old Fashioned Tour comes to
town on the heels of the release of their
new album by the same name.
Special Matinée Concert by the
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Sunday, Aug. 7 · 2:30 p.m. · Free!
Family Entertainment Series:
Wild Kingdom featuring Peter Gros*
Tuesday, August 9 · 7:30 p.m.
As Mutual of Omaha’s special
“Wild Kingdom” ambassador, Peter
Gros shares his love of wildlife and
wilderness with audiences of all ages.
Canadian Brass*
Thursday, August 11 · 8:15 p.m.
Canadian Brass has truly earned
the distinction of “the world’s most
famous brass group.” The five virtuoso brass musicians have a uniquely
engaging stage presence and rapport
with audiences.
Chris Botti & Joshua Bell**
Saturday, August 13 · 8:15 p.m.
It’s a double-billing of out-of-thisstratosphere musicianship as two renowned Grammy winners take the
stage. This collaboration with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra will create
lasting memories for all music lovers.
*Community Appreciation Nights
Garth Fagan Dance*
Wednesday, August 24 · 8:15 p.m.
Tony and Olivier Award-winning
choreographer Garth Fagan’s dancers
communicate with unbridled energy
the depth, precision and grace of Fagan’s work.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis:
Birth of the American Orchestra**
Thursday, August 25 · 8:15 p.m.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has
been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988.
The Abyssinian Mass**
Friday, August 26 · 8:15 p.m.
Raise your voices and lift your
hearts during this hand-clappin’, tambourine-slappin’ gospel celebration
commissioned to celebrate the 200th
anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist
Church in Harlem.
Mary Chapin Carpenter**
Saturday, August 27 · 8:15 p.m.
Still creating and singing after
nearly 30 years, this five-time Grammy
Award-winning and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame artist will be
sharing music from her newest album,
The Things That We Are Made Of.
East Winds Symphonic Band
Sunday, August 28 · 2:30 p.m. · Free!
**Preferred seating available
Have a bite at Heirloom before or after the show
See the entire menu at athenaeum-hotel.com
Pianists Bob Baldori and Arthur
Migliazza present a riveting concert
of American music that explores blues,
jazz, boogie-woogie, swing, stride,
ragtime, R&B and rock ‘n’ roll.
†
Emerging Artist Series
Tapas
Dinner
Beemster Fondue
Duck Confit Flatbread
Wild Game Sausage Trio
Taco Trio
Fried Green Tomatoes
Grilled Salmon Salad
Pork Milanese
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Y o u t h / R e c r e at i o n
Special Studies builds variety
into curriculum for all ages
From expanded youth offerings to a
host of master classes led by National
Geographic explorers and the world’s
greatest jazz musicians, Chautauqua’s
2016 Special Studies program provides
lifelong learning opportunities from
dawn to dusk in a variety of disciplines this summer.
Youth Classes
Building upon last year’s curriculum, Chautauqua has added more
courses in 2016 for youth of all ages. In
addition to the Youth Scholar Camp for
ages 10 to 14 and Youth Writing Camp
for high school students, Special Studies offers one-day and weeklong youth
culinary classes and art programs for
youth beginning at age 5. Other highlights include short story discussion
groups for teens in Weeks One and
Four, a pinhole camera workshop in
Week Four, and a course on sneaker
art in Week Six.
Families can learn together in several of multi-generational workshops,
including Week Two’s “Family Touch
Drawing Workshop,” Week Three’s
“Building Family Connections by
Making Classic Wooden Games,” and
Week Six’s “Build a Bird Nest Box.”
Chautauqua has also partnered
with two local nonprofit organizations
to offer specialized youth classes. Infinity Visual and Performing Arts of
Jamestown will offer “Cartoon Art” in
Week Four and “Cultural World Tour”
in Week Six, both for ages 7 to 12. The
Jamestown Audubon Nature Center
will offer four classes for ages 5 to 12,
including “Nature at Your Fingertips”
in Week One and “Scales and ColdBlooded Tales” in Week Six.
Many of the season’s adult classes
are also available to high school students.
On-theme Master Classes
This summer, numerous one-day
and weeklong classes from the week’s
Amphitheater speakers and other renowned experts provide opportunities
for deeper engagement with the week’s
lecture theme. National Geographic
photographers and journalists offer
master classes throughout Week Five,
and Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a
series of classes in Week Nine led by
members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra. Faculty from the Lincoln
Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona
State University return to the grounds
to engage Chautauquans in ethical
examinations of the week’s theme in
Weeks Two, Three, Seven and Eight.
Other 2016 master slass highlights
include “Music to Get Elected By” in
Week Two, “The Lewis and Clark Expedition” in Week Three, and classes
on “The Social Impact of War,” “Veterans at War with Addicition” and
“Writing About War in the Post-9/11
World,” all during Chautauqua’s Week
Eight on “War and Its Warriors: Contemporary Voices.”
To register for a Special Studies
class or view the online catalog, visit
chqtickets.com. Build a personalized
catalog using improved search, subject
filters, minimum age and printing
capabilities. To propose a class for the
2017 season, please visit ciweb.org/classes.
RECREATION
AT CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION
For more information, visit: ciweb.org/recreation
GOLF
BEACHES
Chautauqua Golf Club features two 4-star,
scenic 18-hole courses, a well-equipped
pro shop, locker rooms, equipment
for sale and rent, cart rentals and
professional instruction. Seasonal and
weekly memberships are available, as well
as daily fee options. The Learning Center,
a 25-acre practice and teaching facility,
offers adult clinics and junior golf camps.
716.357.6211
• University Beach, located on North Lake
Drive directly below the President’s
Cottage, Noon–5 p.m.
• Children’s Beach, by Miller Bell Tower,
11 a.m.–6 p.m., 716.357.5898
• Pier Beach, adjacent to Children’s
Beach, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., 716.357.5898
• Heinz Beach, located on South Lake
Drive in front of the Youth Activities
Center, Noon–5 p.m.
TENNIS
SPORTS CLUB
Eight state-of-the-art fast-dry courts (two
illuminated for night play) are available at
the Chautauqua Tennis Center, located
adjacent to the Turner Community
Center. Private lessons are available from
teaching professionals. Clinics, roundrobins and tournaments are scheduled
throughout the season. In addition to
short- and long-term memberships, daily
court fees are available. 716.357.6276
The Sports Club, located on the lakefront
near the Athenaeum Hotel, provides
facilities for shuffleboard, horseshoes,
lawn bowling, bridge and other games
and activities. Paddleboat, kayak and
canoe rentals, softball leagues and the
annual Old First Night Run/Walk/Swim
are all part of the Sports Club program.
716.357.6281
SAILING
The Chautauqua Sailing Department,
located at the John R. Turney Sailing
Center, offers a summer-long curriculum
of one-week sailing courses designed
to advance the sailing skills of all age
groups and experience levels. Private
lessons provided by certified instructors
and sailboat rentals are also available.
716.357.6392
FITNESS CENTERS
Chautauqua Health & Fitness is a
full-service exercise and strength
training facility with two sites: Turner
Community Center, with indoor pool,
and Heinz Beach. Short- and long-term
memberships, daily passes and personal
training are available. All fitness classes
are run through the Special Studies office.
Fitness Center: 716.357.6430
Classes: 716.357.6348
Youth programs welcome new coordinator
This summer, Chautauqua’s Education and Youth Services department
is launching two initiatives aimed at
expanded programming opportunities and deeper community engagement for youth on the grounds.
Chautauqua County teacher Robin
Martin, who led weekly Family Orientation Sessions in Bestor Plaza last
year, has been hired to serve as youth
coordinator during the 2016 season.
The former Club counselor and Children’s School teacher will work with
staff in all youth program areas to
ensure every child, particularly those
new to Chautauqua, has the opportunity to explore and become familiar with the grounds, build lasting
friendships and find the mix of programming that best fits their interests.
Martin will build upon the Sunday
orientation sessions to better inform
families of the numerous youth activities throughout the week, including Children’s School and Club; Special Studies classes; the CLSC Young
Readers program; recreational activities; community organization events;
and more. She will also lead a number
of special activities during the week,
including bicycle tours of the grounds,
game and movie nights, a “lecture
and lunch” program, and other “pickup” activities organized by youth.
Martin will also oversee a volunteer program for high school students
to be launched this summer. With
many students now needing community service hours to graduate,
the Education and Youth Services office is working with Institution staff,
program departments, community
organizations and denominational
houses to identify volunteer opportunities for youth ages 14 to 18. The
pilot program is intended to educate
and engage high school students as
members of the larger Chautauqua
community in such areas as environmental stewardship, support of
Institution and community programming, and civic leadership.
To learn more about the volunteer
program, please email Matt Ewalt,
associate director of education and
youth services, at [email protected].
2 016 Yo u t h pr o g r a m s Register your children at
chqtickets.com
Children’s School Themes
Boys’ and Girls’ Club Event Dates
Week One: America Celebrates
Week Two: Big Art Everywhere
Week Three: Outside the Box
Week Four: Outer Space (w/ programs
by Carnegie Science Center)
Week Five: Bird, Tree & Garden
Week Six: Construction
Week Seven: Farm to Table
Week Eight: Loose Parts
Week Nine: Music in the Air
July 1: Independence Day Parade
(Children’s School and Group One)
July 8: Water Olympics
July 13: Club Carnival
July 18–22: Carnegie Science Center
programming
July 21–22: SAC Canoe/Camping
July 28: Airband
August 2: Old First Night
August 4: Track & Field Day
You are a bad fairway bunker
player — and it doesn’t matter
By David Wedzik
Director of Instruction,
Chautauqua Golf Club Learning Center
I hope the headline of this article got
your attention, because in only the few
minutes it takes to read it I am going to
give you important information which
will have you shooting lower scores this
season.
First, let me assure you that the title
wasn’t meant to be a mean-spirited
shot at your golf game but, rather, it
was meant to make you aware of just
how unimportant fairway bunker shots
(as one example) are to your ability to
shoot lower scores (and later I’ll tell
you about some important skills that
really matter). You see, fairway bunker
shots have an extremely low Separation
Value (SV: a measure of a skill’s potential to affect your score) and spending
time attempting to improve your fairway bunker play is, for the most part, a
waste of your time.
You are likely asking, Why do fairway bunker shots matter so little and how
can this knowledge help me shoot lower
scores? The answer is based in a bit of
golf “math” and the understanding
of which skills really matter to your
score. You see, even if you are so bad
from fairway bunkers that you lose a
full stroke every time you hit from one,
you simply don’t have the opportunity
to hit these shots very often. Consider
how few times you hit fairway bunker
shots in an entire summer at Chautauqua. Twice? Five times? Because you hit
so few fairway bunker shots you might
only be able to save a few shots in an
entire summer by improving your fairway bunker play.
In contrast, things like driving the
ball, hitting approach shots or green
reading (not all skills involve striking
the ball) offer a much higher SV. Knowing which skills are most important
and practicing them at a higher ratio
will offer you a distinct advantage over
other golfers and lead directly to shooting lower scores. Our book, Lowest Score
Wins (my co-author Erik Barzeski is the
Learning Center head instructor) introduced the aforementioned Separation
Value and ranks every skill in golf from
highest SV to lowest SV using a first-ofits-kind, math-based approach. Practice higher SV skills more often, don’t
waste time on the lower SV skills and
shooting lower scores is guaranteed.
I am extremely excited about my upcoming second season at the Learning
Center. Be sure to stop by and take an
individual or group lesson to improve
at one of these important skills, to get
more information about the book, Lowest Score Wins (lowestscorewins.com) or
to register for the brand new Lowest
Score Wins class. We look forward to
seeing you!
David Wedzik is author of the 5 Simple
Keys Learning System and the book/DVD
set Lowest Score Wins. He is the 2013
and 2015 Western New York PGA Teacher
of the Year.
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Spring 2016
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news
Leadership endowments ensure program sustainability
Opportunities remain
for additional investment
From their cottage on the south end
of the grounds, perched above the tennis courts and a stone’s throw from
Club, Jack and Yvonne McCredie can
observe the daily buzz of activity as
children ride their bikes to and from
the waterfront.
Having participated at Club in his
youth, Jack, and his wife, Yvonne, decided to make a significant contribution
within the Promise Campaign to endow
the director position at Boys’ and Girls’
Club, currently held by Greg “Coach”
Prechtl. With their children and, now,
grandchildren all enjoying the Club
experience, the McCredies wanted to
make a gift in support of youth and
have generously given through their
IRA to establish this endowment. The
2016 season will mark Prechtl’s 30th anniversary of service at Club.
The McCredie Family Director of
Boys’ and Girls’ Club is the most recent leadership endowment contributed inside of the Promise Campaign.
These investments fund pivotal leadership positions, including artistic directors and faculty, principal music staff,
and youth and recreation leadership.
Greg “Coach”
Prechtl
Judy
Sherra
Barie
Babcock
Endowing these chairs will ensure the
continuity of excellence and innovation across Chautauqua’s programs
and Schools of Fine & Performing Arts.
In 2015, Jack and Susie Turben demonstrated their love for Chautauqua
and deep commitment to the visual
arts by endowing a leadership position
within the Visual Arts at Chautauqua
Institution (VACI) galleries, a position
currently held by Judy Barie. Their
outright gift, in combination with a bequest intention, created the Susan and
Jack Turben Director of VACI Galleries
Endowment.
“Now that we’ve become a nationally recognized program with top facilities, the Turbens’ gift is so critical,”
said VACI Artistic Director Don Kimes.
“There is no way any of us on the cur-
rent staff can be replaced for the salaries
we started with as young professionals.”
“These resources will help free up
other funds, which might go toward
publicity or our shipping budget,
which is critical to the more eclectic exhibitions we aspire to bring,” Barie said.
“And from there, along with selling
more art, we can also fund more scholarships for visual arts students. This
gift will make a tremendous impact on
the future growth of the galleries.”
The first leadership position to be endowed during the Promise Campaign
was the Richard and Emily Smucker
Chair for Education, currently held by
Sherra Babcock.
“If the promise of Chautauqua is to be
realized,” said Geof Follansbee, CEO of
the Chautauqua Foundation, “we must
assure that leadership is in place to exe-
cute our vision. Our strategic plan’s call
for innovation, engagement, sustainability, civility and inclusivity requires
our director of education to bring extraordinary leadership capabilities with
a keen sense of seizing opportunities
for intergenerational, interdisciplinary
and collaborative undertakings that
further Chautauqua’s position as the
pre-eminent provider of lifelong learning anywhere in the world.
“Emily and Richard Smucker’s generosity enhances both the resources
available to us and the stature of the position of vice president for education.”
Those interested in learning more
about opportunities and ways to endow leadership positions at Chautauqua are encouraged to contact Karen
Blozie, senior major gifts officer, at 716357-6244 or [email protected].
Chautauqua welcomes Cleveland Foundation, The City Club of Cleveland
as collaborators during Week Six, Aug. 1–5, themed ‘The Future of Cities’
Chautauqua Institution is pleased to
welcome the Cleveland Foundation to
our grounds this summer as the presenting sponsor of Week Six, “The Future of Cities” (Aug. 1–5). Connecting
global discussions taking place in the
Amphitheater with innovative work
happening on the ground every day
in Greater Cleveland, the Cleveland
Foundation — in partnership with The
City Club of Cleveland — will present
a week of dialogue on initiatives designed to prepare Cleveland and the
region to survive and thrive well into
the 21st century and beyond.
“We are delighted to welcome the
Cleveland Foundation and the City
Club to Chautauqua this summer and
to strengthen the Institution’s longtime
ties to Cleveland,” said Tom Becker,
president of Chautauqua Institution.
“The proud Northeast Ohioans who
make up a large portion of our summer population will be highly engaged
in the discussions of how to position
great cities like Cleveland for sustainable futures.”
Join the Cleveland Foundation and
special guest speakers at 12:30 p.m.
Monday through Thursday in the Athenaeum Hotel Parlor for thought-provoking conversations on how you can
build your future city. Topics include
“Connected Cities,” “Artistic Cities,”
“Welcoming Cities” and “Green Cities.” These “Fred Talks” are moderated by Dan Moulthrop, CEO of the City
Club. Boxed lunches will be available
for purchase at the Athenaeum Hotel.
“For decades now, community leaders have pursued strategies to revitalize downtown and many other parts of
our city,” said Ronn Richard, president
and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation.
“At this moment, we’re finally seeing
the kind of far-reaching economic opportunity we’ve been working toward
taking root, and we want to share the
Greater Cleveland model with the rest
of the world.”
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The Future of Cities
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Fred Talk: Ronn Richard,
president & CEO, Cleveland
Foundation
Diana Butler Bass, author,
Grounded: Finding God
in the World — A Spiritual
Revolution
Middle East Update:
Geoffrey Kemp and
Dennis Ross
Sultans of Swing
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Antioquia, Colombia;
Carolina Barco, former
Colombian ambassador
to the U.S.
“Artistic Cities”
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Raymond Bobgan, Lillian
Kuri
The Rev. Stephen Rowan,
Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk,
Ronn Richard
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Michele Dunne, director,
Middle East Program, Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace; Kareem Ibrahim,
co-founder, Takween Integrated
Community Development (Cairo)
“Welcoming Cities”
Fred Talk: Joe Cimperman,
Fred Geis, India Pierce Lee
The Rev. William Barber II,
founder, Moral Mondays
North Carolina
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George W. “Mac” McCarthy,
President and CEO, Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy; Neema
Kudva, Associate professor,
Cornell University’s College of
Architecture, Art, and Planning
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Fred Talk: Lorry Wagner,
Brian Zimmerman
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Adrian Matejka,
The Big Smoke
Dance Innovations.
Charlotte Ballet in
Residence. Jean-Pierre
Bonnefoux, director
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Timur Yuskaev, director,
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Community Leadership
Program, Hartford Seminary
CLSC Author Presentation: Chautauqua Symphony
Brian Hart,
Orchestra. JoAnn Falletta,
The Bully of Order
conductor; Marina Piccinini,
flute
Amphitheater
Saskia Sassen, Robert
S. Lynd Professor of
sociology, Columbia
University
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Voices in the City,” Richard will be in
conversation on Tuesday with the Rev.
Stephen Rowan, pastor of Bethany
Baptist Church, and Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk, senior rabbi of Anshe Chesed
Fairmount Temple.
At 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 3, in
the Hall of Philosophy, enjoy a special
presentation by Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke and winner of the
2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for
Fiction, presented in partnership with
the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle. For more than 80 years, the An-
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isfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented
by the Cleveland Foundation, have
recognized books that make important
contributions to our understanding of
racism and cultural diversity — it remains the only American juried book
prize of its kind in the nation.
At 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, in Smith
Wilkes Hall, join the Cleveland Foundation, the Institution and the City
Club for “Building the Future City,”
an interactive reflection and dialogue
session to help audience members take
the learnings from throughout the se-
ries back to their own cities.
“There are so many compelling initiatives transforming cities around the
world, and we are thrilled to collaborate with our friends at the Cleveland
Foundation and in the Chautauqua
community to connect those initiatives
with the equally compelling work in
Greater Cleveland,” Moulthrop said.
For more information on “The Future of Cities” week at Chautauqua,
visit chqfutureofcities.com. For more information about the Cleveland Foundation, visit clevelandfoundation.org.
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Jane
Pauley
Alan
Alda
DeRay
Mckesson
Joyce
Banda
Anna Maria
Chávez
Sara
Seager
Kareem
Ibrahim
Michael J.
Sandel
Newest lecturers add diverse voices to story of
Week One
Roger Rosenblatt & Friends:
On Creative Expression
Monday, June 27
Journalist and anchor Jane Pauley was one of the best-known morning television personalities during the
1970s and 1980s, and is author of Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue. In 1976, she
joined NBC’s “Today” show as a correspondent, and later co-anchored with
Tom Brokaw and his replacement, Bryant Gumbel. Since 2014, Pauley has been
contributing to “CBS Sunday Morning,”
which she has also guest-hosted.
The first comic strip artist to be
awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial
cartooning, Garry Trudeau is the creator of “Doonesbury,” which first appeared in 1970 and now runs in nearly
1,400 daily and Sunday newspapers
around the world. In 2013 he created,
produced and wrote “Alpha House,”
a political sitcom for Amazon Studios.
Note: Pauley and Trudeau replace previously announced presenter Joy Behar.
Friday, July 1
Actor, director and writer Alan
Alda has been nominated for an Oscar, 33 Emmy Awards and three Tony
Awards, but is perhaps best known
for his role as Hawkeye Pierce on the
classic television series “M*A*S*H.” He
is the author of Never Have Your Dog
Stuffed, and Other Things I’ve Learned
and Things I Overheard While Talking to
Myself, both New York Times best-sellers.
An award-winning photographer
and author, Arlene Alda has written
19 books, the most recent of which is
Just Kids From the Bronx Telling It Like
It Is: An Oral History. Her photographs
have appeared in The Saturday Evening
Post, Vogue, Life and Today’s Health, for
which she received a Chicago Graphics
Communications Award for her photo
essay “Allison’s Tonsillectomy.” Alda
creates many of the photographs and
illustrations for her children’s books.
Note: Ann Patchett, previously announced for July 1, will now join Rosenblatt
on Thursday, June 30. She replaces previously announced presenter Pete Hamill.
Week Two
Money and Power
2 016 Season T heme:
What Does It Mean To Be Human?
What does it mean to be human? In 2016, we comprehensively explore facets of the
human experience, of the human project. When we say we’re dedicated to “the best
in human values,” what do we mean? As human beings, we are capable of great
good, and capable of being catalysts for destruction. We are stewards, explorers,
healers, thinkers, feelers. We have a body, a brain, a fully-functioning computer
of the highest caliber. But we are more than our machine. To be human is to love,
to laugh, to hurt. It is to be self-aware if not self-actualized, and that grasping for
something more, something higher, is perhaps the greatest expression of the human
condition. Human beings are flawed, but we hold fierce potential. In this summer
as we explore our history, our future, our hearts, bodies, minds and souls, we look
at the state of being human today — offering an unflinching look at humanity at its
worst, and celebrating what it means to be a people striving for its best.
justice. A leading voice in the Black
Lives Matter movement, he was a candidate for mayor of the City of Baltimore earlier this year. Mckesson has
advocated for issues related to children, youth and families since he was
a teen, including as chairman of Youth
as Resources, a youth-led grant-making organization in Baltimore.
Wednesday, July 13
The first female president of the
Republic of Malawi, Joyce Banda was
voted as Africa’s most powerful woman by Forbes for two years in a row. She
is the founder of the Joyce Banda Foundation International, which guides
projects that range from empowering
women to providing for orphans’ education, and was instrumental in the
formation of the African Federation
of Women Entrepreneurs, the Council for the Economic Empowerment of
Women in Africa, and the American &
African Business Women’s Alliance.
Thursday, July 14
Ellen J. Kullman served as the
chief executive officer at E. I. du Pont
de Nemours and Company from 2009
to 2015 — the 19th executive, and first
woman, to lead the company in its history. Kullman held numerous positions in the company, where she began
working in 1998 as marketing manager
in the medical imaging business. Prior
to her appointment as DuPont president and CEO she served as executive
vice president and a member of the
company’s office of the chief executive.
Friday, July 15
Mehrsa Baradaran is the J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor at the
University of Georgia School of Law,
where she teaches contracts and banking law. She is the author of How The
Other Half Banks, which has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate and American Banker. Baradaran is also the author of a number of
articles on consumers and banking for
some of the country’s most prominent
law journals and reviews.
As a lifetime member of the Girl
Scouts of the USA, Anna Maria
Chávez began her career journey in
the very same movement she now
leads. Before she became CEO, Chávez
held numerous posts in President Bill
Clinton’s administration, including
senior policy adviser to former U.S.
Secretary of Transportation Rodney E.
Slater. She also served as deputy chief
of staff for urban relations and community development under Arizona’s
then-Governor Janet Napolitano. In
2016, Chávez was named as one of the
World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune.
Week Three
Moral Leadership in Action
Week Four
Our Search for Another Earth
DeRay Mckesson is an organizer,
activist, and educator focused primarily on issues of innovation, equity and
Charles C. Mann is a journalist and
author exploring the intersection of
science, technology, history and com-
Tuesday, July 5
Monday, July 11
Tuesday, July 19
merce. He is the author of 1491: New
Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and 1493: Uncovering the New
World Columbus Created. In 1491, Mann
traces the history of exploration with
new findings about the pre-Columbus
Americas. The follow-up, 1493, published in 2011, presents another eyeopening scientific look and deeply
engaging new history of the most
momentous biological event since the
death of the dinosaurs.
Wednesday, July 20
A pioneer in the vast and unknown
world of exoplanets (those that orbit
stars other than the sun), Sara Seager
is a planetary scientist and astrophysicist. Dubbed an “astronomical Indiana Jones,” Seager’s research ranges
from the detection of exoplanet atmospheres to innovative theories about
life on other worlds to development
of novel space mission concepts. The
Class of 1941 Professor of planetary
science and physics at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Seager also
works in space instrumentation and
space missions for exoplanets, including CubeSats, as a co-I on the MIT-led
TESS, a NASA Explorer Mission to be
launched in 2017.
Friday, July 22
As chief technologist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, David W. Miller serves as
the agency’s principal adviser and
advocate on NASA technology policy
and programs. He concurrently serves
as the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor in the Department of Aeronautics
and Astronautics at MIT. Miller has
worked with a broad range of NASA
programs including the space shuttle,
the International Space Station, the
JWST Product Integrity Team, and the
NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative.
As NASA’s chief scientist, a role she
has held since 2013, Ellen Stofan serves
as principal adviser on the agency’s
science programs and science-related
strategic planning and investments.
Prior to her appointment, Stofan was
vice president of Proxemy Research
and honorary professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at University
College London in England. Stofan is
an associate member of the Cassini
Mission to Saturn Radar Team and a
co-investigator on the Mars Express
Mission’s MARSIS sounder. She also
was principal investigator on the Titan
Mare Explorer.
Week Six
The Future of Cities
Tuesday, August 2
A Colombian-American diplomat,
Carolina Barco has served as ambassador of Colombia to the United States
from 2006 to 2010, and as minister of
foreign affairs of Colombia from 2002
to 2007. Currently, Barco is coordinator
of the Emerging and Sustainable Cities
Platform at the Inter-American Development Bank, a role she has held since 2012.
Note: Barco will join Sergio Fajardo,
previously announced for Aug. 2, in conversation.
Wednesday, August 3
Cairo-based architect and urban
planner Kareem Ibrahim is co-founder of Takween Integrated Community
Development, which works on issues
including sustainable architecture, participatory planning, affordable housing,
public infrastructure and urban revitalization throughout Egypt. In 1997, Ibrahim worked on the United Nations Development Programme’s Historic Cairo
Rehabilitation Project. Ibrahim is one
of the project leaders of TADAMUN,
an initiative that supports and creates
grassroots efforts for urban community
engagement and rehabilitation.
Note: Ibrahim will join Michele Dunne,
previously announced for Aug. 3, in conversation.
Thursday, August 4
George W. “Mac” McCarthy has
been the fifth president and CEO of
the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
a foundation and think tank with an
international scope focusing on global
urbanization, urban planning and tax
policy, since 2014. Prior to that, McCarthy was an economist at the Ford Foundation. As director of Metropolitan
Opportunity at the Ford Foundation,
McCarthy supported collaborative regional efforts to overcome the social,
economic and spatial isolation of disadvantaged populations living in and
around metropolitan areas worldwide.
As associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning
at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Neema
Kudva focuses her research on international urbanization, particularly issues related to small cities and their regions, and on institutional structures
for equitable planning and development at the local level. She is currently
working on a monograph that focuses
on a rapidly growing smaller cities and
their region in southwestern India.
Note: McCarthy and Kudva replace previously announced lecturer Shashi Tharoor.
Week Seven
Pushing Our Bodies’ Limits
Wednesday, August 10
Nobel laureate Randy Schekman is
an investigator of the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute and a Professor of
Cell and Developmental Biology in
the Department of Molecular and Cell
Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research is focused
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2 016 Lec t u r e T h e m e s
Week One (June 27–July 1): Roger Rosenblatt & Friends: On Creative Expression
David H.
Petraeus
Cécile McLorin
Salvant
each week
on traffic inside cells, and how different cellular proteins “read” molecular
signposts to find their way inside or
outside of a cell. For his ground-breaking work on cell membrane vesicle
trafficking, Schekman received the
2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or
Medicine, a prize he shares with James
Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof.
Friday, August 12
Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T.
and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where
he has taught political philosophy
since 1980. His courses include “Ethics, Biotechnology, and the Future of
Human Nature,” “Ethics, Economics,
and Law,” and “Globalization and Its
Critics.” Sandel is a frequent Chautauqua lecturer, and the most recent
of his many books, Justice: What’s the
Right Thing to Do? and What Money
Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets,
are Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle selections.
Week Eight
War and Its Warriors:
Contemporary Voices
Thursday, August 18
One of the most prominent combat commanders in American history,
General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus has
led military campaigns in Iraq and
Afghanistan and served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency
from 2011 to 2012. Petraeus is a retired
four-star general with a military career spanning 37 years, which culminated in six straight commands, five
of which were in combat. Petraeus has
received numerous honors and decorations, including four Defense Distinguished Service Medals, three Army
Distinguished Service Medals, the
Secretary of State Distinguished Service Medal, the Bronze Star Medal for
Valor, the NATO Meritorious Service
Medal, and the Combat Action Badge.
He has also been decorated by 13 foreign countries.
Note: Previously announced Week Eight
lecturers Phil Klay, Kayla Williams and Wes
Moore will now lecture on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. Moore
will interview Petraeus on Thursday.
Week Nine
America’s Music with
Wynton Marsalis and
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Wednesday, August
Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant
first began classical piano studies at
the age of 5, and started singing in the
Miami Choral Society at 8. Upon moving to Aix-en-Provence, France, in 2007,
to study at the Darius Milhaud Conservatory, she began learning about
improvisation, instrumental and vocal
repertoire ranging from the 1910s on,
and sang with her first band. In 2009,
after a series of concerts in Paris, she
recorded her first album Cécile, with
Jean-François Bonnel’s Paris Quintet.
A year later, she won the Thelonious
Monk competition in Washington, D.C.
In collaboration with author Roger Rosenblatt, this week features a writer talking to writers about writing and the art of creative
expression as a uniquely human quality. These conversations reveal much about the artistic process, the different demands dictated
by the various genres, the influence of teachers and mentors, and the courage, discipline, imagination and originality necessary to a
creative life. The week offers an abundance of both wit and wisdom and will touch upon fiction, memoir, poetry, editing, songwriting
and more. Rosenblatt will first speak with Garry Trudeau, creator of “Doonesbury,” and Jane Pauley, author and television journalist,
on Monday. A panel on literary publishing will follow Tuesday with Lorin Stein, editor-in-chief of The Paris Review, Pamela Paul, editor
of The New York Times Book Review and David Lynn, editor of The Kenyon Review. Wednesday will feature a discussion on songwriting with Grammy-, Emmy- and Oscar-winning Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Thursday, Rosenblatt will welcome Bel Canto author Ann
Patchett to the Amp stage. The week concludes Friday with a conversation between Rosenblatt, actor and author Alan Alda and
author and photographer Arlene Alda.
Week Two (July 4–8): Money and Power
Money, it has been said, makes the world go ‘round. It plays a role in everything we do, from our groceries to our government. Money
spent by our elected politicians reflects our values as a society. Are politicians held accountable to society’s values? Beyond government, we look at our economy and into the sectors of business, nonprofits and education. How much is something worth? We look
at how we can buy power, and what that means for those who can’t afford it. Former Federal Election Commission Chairman and
founding president of the Campaign Legal Center Trevor Potter opens the week Monday with a discussion of money in politics. On
Tuesday, Merhsa Baradaran, author of How the Other Half Banks, will examine the history of imbedded inequality in the American
banking system. Chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Steve Forbes will talk Wednesday about the economy and Wall Street. For
Thursday, Fordham University’s Zephyr Teachout will share her work in anti-trust and anti-corruption advocacy. Former U.S. ambassador to India and senior strategic adviser for Issue One’s ReFormer’s Caucus Timothy J. Roemer will close the week Friday with a
discussion of the power money can buy in elections.
Week Three (July 11–15): Moral Leadership in Action
Is it time to demand that all of our leaders are moral leaders? We look to the public and private sector, from technology to business,
from government to education to explore what it means to have leaders dedicated to the public good. We hear from five moral leaders — some well known and some flying under the radar — to learn of their own daily practices, their personal disciplines. We focus on
ways to make those precepts come alive in actual context, as this is more than a philosophical examination; this week is a call to moral
action in all ways large and small. Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson will open the week Monday with a look at the modern
civil rights movement. Tuesday, American Enterprise Institute President Arthur C. Brooks will discuss AEI’s work with political, intellectual and business leaders. Former president of Malawi Joyce Banda discusses her political and nonprofit work Wednesday. For
Thursday, former DuPont CEO Ellen J. Kullman will talk about moral leadership in the business community. Finally, Girl Scouts of the
USA CEO Anna Maria Chávez will close the week Friday with a look to the future and the next generation of moral leaders.
Week Four (July 18–22): Our Search for Another Earth
What would it mean to find “another earth,” another habitable or inhabited planet in the far reaches of space? What would it mean
to transfer humanity from its birthplace? Are there other humans — and what would that mean for our own sense of humanness?
Looking into the near and far future, what are the economic and political hurdles to space exploration? Space exploration has long
captivated the human imagination. Is there something out there that we cannot imagine? To open the week Monday, Slate’s Phil Plait,
known as “The Bad Astronomer,” will explore the promise such a search means for our humanity. Author of 1491: Revelations of the
Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann on Tuesday will examine the history of finding new worlds. On Wednesday, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sara Seager takes audiences along on her search for exoplanets. Jill Tarter, the Bernard M. Oliver
Chair at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, will talk Thursday about SETI’s decades-long work to find intelligent life
in the cosmos. NASA’s chief technologist David W. Miller and chief scientist Ellen Stofan will close the week Friday with a look at
how their organization is navigating outer space.
Week Five (July 25–29): People and Environment · In partnership with National Geographic
How do we survive in a natural world we are increasingly out of touch with? How has our sense of our surroundings changed? How
has the role of government in preservation changed? In this week we examine our surroundings and the ways we can preserve and
save our home land and seas. Fifty years into the environmental movement, and 100 years after the National Parks were founded, we
look to learn from our past, explore our environments and prepare for the future. Photographer Joel Sartore will open the week with
a discussion of his project to document endangered biodiversity, The Photo Ark, on Monday. On Tuesday, Nalini Nadkarni, professor of biology at the University of Utah, will take audiences to the rainforest in an exploration of the ecosystem of the trees. Expedition photographer Cory Richards on Wednesday will share photos and stories from mountaintops around the world. On Thursday,
underwater photographer David Doubilet will dive into the issues surrounding ocean conservation. National Geographic’s Special
Investigations Unit chief correspondent Bryan Christy closes the week Friday with a look at curtailing wildlife trafficking.
Week Six (August 1–5): The Future of Cities
The realities of where we live are changing. We are a concentrated society, and by 2050, more than two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. Can urban centers keep up? Will the cities of the future be prosperous and equitable, or will they be impoverished slums? There are the basic needs of a city — housing, infrastructure, transportation — but what of the less tangible “needs”
for a prosperous society? How can our future cities nourish and support the human condition? Journalist and creator of TV shows
“The Wire” and “Treme” David Simon opens the week Monday with an examination of life in American cities. On Tuesday, Sergio
Fajardo, the former governor of Antioquia, Colombia, will share the success story of Medellin’s turnaround in discussion with former
Colombian ambassador to the United States Carolina Barco. On Wednesday, Michele Dunne, director of the Middle East Program
at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, will focus the conversation on the future of Egypt’s cities with Cairo urban planner Kareem Ibrahim. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy CEO George W. “Mac” McCarthy will join Cornell scholar Neema Kudva for a
Thursday discussion on Indian cities. On Friday, Saskia Sassen, the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, will
conclude the week’s programming with a look at global cities.
Week Seven (August 8–12): Pushing Our Bodies’ Limits
In this week, we look at the limits of our humanness — our brain and our body — and how we are able to alter, push, or even defeat
those limits. We have constantly pushed against our natural state, even our natural lifespan. We modify and enhance, overcome and
transcend. Our natural states — our assigned gender, our disabilities, our aging — are up for debate. How do we, and how can we,
push our boundaries and transcend our humanity? Nina Jablonski, Evan Pugh University Professor of anthropology at Penn State
University, will open the week Monday with a look at her research on human evolution. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria will give an overview of
all the ways human beings are using technology to push physical limitations on Tuesday. Wednesday, Nobel laureate Randy Schekman will present on ways genetic modification is changing our definition of human limitations. On Thursday, author of Redefining
Realness Janet Mock will discuss her advocacy work and her experiences as a transgender woman. Harvard bioethicist Michael
Sandel will close the week Friday with a recap of the week through an ethical lens.
Week Eight (August 15–19): War and Its Warriors: Contemporary Voices
Is war a condition of humanity? Throughout this week, we explore the anthropology of aggression, how war changes human beings
and shapes the human story — all through the voices of contemporary warriors. As Americans, what are our justifications for war?
What are our responsibilities to our veterans? Wars may end, but not necessarily for the men and women who fought. This is a week
to honor those who have served, explore ways we can better serve them, and examine our consciences. On Monday, author of the
National Book Award-winning Redeployment Phil Klay will discuss his experiences as a Marine veteran of the Iraq War. For Tuesday,
Kayla Williams, the new director of the Center for Women Veterans at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, will talk about her
experience as a woman in the service and as a military wife. Decorated Army veteran Wes Moore will discuss his work as a veterans’
advocate Wednesday. Moore will again take the stage Thursday for an interview with retired four-star general David H. Petraeus.
Theater of War founder Bryan Doerries will close the week looking at his work with veterans and the arts.
Week Nine (August 22–26): America’s Music with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center
Musical and artistic expression is a key characteristic of being human. When it comes to our cultural identity, few things are distinctly
American as our music, and jazz is America’s singular contribution to the arts. No music tells us more about ourselves as Americans
— or as human beings. Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, opens the week Monday, and Geoffrey C. Ward,
co-author of Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life, will speak Tuesday. Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Cécile
McLorin Salvant will speak and sing Thursday on her experiences as a female jazz artist. Marsalis and Ward will close the week and
the season Friday with a conversation on the week’s programming and the importance of jazz in American life and culture.
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religion
Rabbi Arthur
Waskow
Ralph
Reed
Sr. Joan
Chittister
Fr. José Gabriel
Funes
Karenna
Gore
The Rev. William
Butler II
Sr. Ilia
Delio
Shareda
Hosein
Interfaith Lecturers to offer worldly perspectives
Week Two
Money and Power Through a
Spiritual and Ethical Lens
Tuesday, July 5
Rabbi Arthur Waskow founded
and directs The Shalom Center. In 2014
he received the Lifetime Achievement
Award as a Human Rights Hero from
T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human
Rights, and in 2015 The Forward named
him one of the “most inspiring” rabbis.
The most recent of the 22 books he has
written are Freedom Journeys: The Tale
of Exodus & Wilderness across Millennia,
co-authored with Rabbi Phyllis Berman, and Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food,
Money, Sex & the Rest of Life.
Thursday, July 7
The Rev. John M. Buchanan, pastor
emeritus of the Fourth Presbyterian
Church of Chicago, where he was pastor for 26 years, is the distinguished
former editor and publisher of The
Christian Century magazine. He served
as moderator of the 208th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
(USA) in 1996–97 and has represented
the Presbyterian Church as a member
of the governing board of the National
Council of Churches. Buchanan has
received numerous doctorates and
honors, has held several board memberships, and has written three books.
Week Three
Moral Leadership in Action
Wednesday, July 13
Jim Wallis is president and founder
of Sojourners, a non-profit faith-based
organization, network and movement whose mission statement calls
for “putting faith into action for social justice.” He is also editor-in-chief
of Sojourners magazine and website.
Wallis is a best-selling author, public
theologian, national preacher, social
activist, and international commentator on ethics and public life. His latest
book, America’s Original Sin: Racism,
White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New
America, was released in January.
Thursday, July 14
Ralph Reed is founder and chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition,
a grassroots public policy organization
with 1 million members and supporters with state affiliates in 32 states. He
is also chairman and CEO of Century
Strategies, a public relations and public affairs firm that has advised some of
the world’s leading corporations. Reed
served as a senior adviser to George
W. Bush’s 2000 and 2004 presidential
campaigns and chaired the Southeast
Region for Bush-Cheney in 2004. The
Wall Street Journal called him “perhaps
the finest political operative of his generation.”
Friday, July 15
Joan Chittister, OSB, is one of the
most articulate social analysts and influential religious leaders of our age.
For over 35 years she has been advocating for the critical questions impacting
the global community. A Benedictine
sister of Erie, Pennsylvania, Chittister
is the author of more than 50 books.
Currently she serves as co-chair of the
Global Peace Initiative of Women, a
partner organization of the U.N., facilitating a worldwide network of women
peace builders. She has been a regular speaker at Chautauqua Institution
since 1984.
Daisy Khan is founder and executive director of the Women’s Islamic
Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE), a women-led organization
committed to peacebuilding, equality and justice for Muslims around
the globe. Khan has dedicated her life
to promoting an expression of Islam
based on cultural and religious harmony. She is currently spearheading a
200-page community-led guide, aimed
at mobilizing Muslims to take a stand
against violent extremism and develop
narratives of peace.
Week Four
Searching for an
Interstellar Spirituality?
Tuesday, July 19
Joshua Ambrosius is an urbanist
social scientist, policy and political
analyst, and Red Letter Christian. He
is an assistant professor of political science and core faculty member in the
Master of Public Administration program at the University of Dayton. Ambrosius’ recent study of religious publics’ perspectives on space exploration
has received a great deal of attention.
His paper “Separation of Church and
Space: Religious Influences on Public
Support for U.S. Space Exploration Policy” appeared in the May 2015 issue of
the journal Space Policy.
Note: David Weintraub, previously announced for July 19, will now lecture on
Monday, July 18.
Wednesday, July 20
José Gabriel Funes, SJ, who grew
up and now resides in Cordoba, Argentina, is the former director of the
Vatican Observatory. He joined the
Vatican Observatory Research Group
as staff astronomer in March 2000 and
was appointed director of the Vatican
Observatory in August 2006 by Pope
Benedict XVI. Funes specializes in
extragalactic astronomy. His field of
research includes the kinematics and
dynamics of disk galaxies, the star formation in the local universe and the
relationship between gravitational interaction and galactic activity.
Thursday, July 21
Michael Waltemathe is senior lecturer in the Department of Protestant
Theology at Ruhr-University Bochum
in Germany. He also serves as an officer of the Astrosociology Research
Institute, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the development of astrosociology as a multidisciplinary academic field. Waltemathe is
also a founding member of IASGAR,
the International Academy for the
Study of Gaming and Religion. He is
co-editor of the anthology Touching the
Face of the Cosmos: On the Intersection of
Space Travel and Religion.
Week Five
A Theology of Ecology
Week Six
Religious Voices in the City
Karenna Gore is director of the
Center for Earth Ethics at Union
Theological Seminary. Having previously worked as a lawyer for Simpson
Thacher & Bartlett and for Sanctuary
for Families, she also served as director of Community Affairs for Association to Benefit Children, where she
now serves on the board. Gore has also
worked as a writer, and is the author
of Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who
Changed Modern America.
Ronn Richard is president and CEO
of the Cleveland Foundation, which
he has led since 2003. Within the last
30 years, he has held senior management positions in government, private
enterprise and the nonprofit sector. He
has served in various capacities at the
American consulate general in Osaka/
Kobe, Japan; Matsushita Electric (Panasonic; and In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture
capital fund.
The Rev. Stephen Rowan is pastor
of Bethany Baptist Church, located in
Cleveland’s Glenville Community. A
former assistant director of development and program officer for Faith
Based/Digital Divide Programs at the
Cleveland Foundation, he now serves
as the chair of its board of directors.
In addition, Rowan has served as chief
deputy administrator for Cuyahoga
County, and has served on local, regional, and national boards, committees and task forces that seek to build
and sustain healthy communities.
Rabbi Robert Nosanchuk is senior rabbi of Anshe Chesed Fairmount
Temple in Beachwood, Ohio. Previous
to his arrival at Anshe Chesed in 2009,
Nosanchuk was honored together
with Imam Mohammed Magid as one
of the 2009 Washingtonians of the Year
in the Washingtonian magazine, and he
received a much-coveted Best of Reston award from the relief-organization Reston Interfaith for his work in
creating understanding and dialogue
between the Jewish and Muslim communities.
Monday, July 25
Tuesday, July 26
Rabbi Ellen Bernstein founded
Shomrei Adamah, Keepers of the
Earth, the first national Jewish environmental organization, in 1988 after finding her way back to Judaism
through her interests in wilderness
and ecology. Dubbed the “birthmother of the Jewish environmental movement” and “a pioneering thinker who
helped define modern Jewish environmentalism,” she is author or editor of
three books on Judaism and ecology:
Let the Earth Teach You Torah, Ecology &
the Jewish Spirit and The Splendor of Creation: A Biblical Ecology.
Wednesday, July 27
Imam Abdulaziz Eddebbarh is retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he worked on projects
dealing with nuclear waste disposal,
nuclear contamination cleanup, and
international nuclear diplomacy for
nuclear non-proliferation. Since his arrival to the U.S. in 1979, he has being
working on promoting cultural understanding and interfaith harmony, and
Islamic appreciation and perspectives
regarding the environment and the
natural world.
Thursday, July 28
Susan M. Darlington is professor
of anthropology and Asian studies at
Hampshire College. Her research focuses on socially engaged Buddhism,
with particular attention to environmentalism and Buddhism in Thailand.
Based on over 20 years of research, her
book, The Ordination of a Tree: The Thai
Buddhist Environmental Movement, critically examines the ways in which Buddhist monks use their interpretations
of the Buddha’s teachings to promote
ecological awareness and environmental actions.
Friday, July 29
The Rev. Gerald L. Durley is pastor emeritus of Providence Missionary
Baptist Church and a renowned speaker on civil and human rights issues, as
well as for global warming and climate
change discussions across the country. Durley argues that the ecological
movement is similar to the civil rights
movement, and that everyone must be
involved, knowledgeable, and aware.
He appears in the film “The Great
Warming,” has participated in the Climate Leadership Retreat at the Garrison and has testified before the Environmental Protection Agency.
Tuesday, August 2
Wednesday, August 3
The Rev. William Barber II is the
architect of the Forward Together Moral Fusion movement that gained national acclaim with its Moral Monday
protests at the North Carolina General
Assembly in 2013. These weekly actions drew tens of thousands of North
Carolinians and other moral witnesses to the state legislature. A highly
sought-after speaker, he has been invited to speak to hundreds of national and state conferences. Barber was
elected president of the North Carolina Conference of NAACP Branches
in 2005. His latest book is The Third Reconstruction.
Thursday, August 4
Timur R. Yuskaev is associate professor of contemporary Islam, co-editor of The Muslim World journal, and
co-director of the Islamic Chaplaincy
Program and director of the Imam
and Muslim Community Leadership
program at Hartford Seminary. His
forthcoming book, Speaking Qur’an:
an American Scripture, examines contemporary written and oral interpretations of the Qur’an. This project
highlights his academic interest in religion as lived reality, past and current,
which he approaches through the lens
of Qur’anic hermeneutics, American
religious history, and memory studies.
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2 016 Se a so n
Chaplains-in-residence
Week One
June 26–July 1
Week Two
July 3–8
The chaplains invited for the 2016 Season represent intended theological,
denominational, gender, racial and ethnic diversity, as well as ministerial
context. The philosophy of the Department of Religion, from the beginning,
has embraced and manifested the belief that an expression of these
diversities is key to Chautauqua’s future.
Fr. Greg Boyle
Founder and
executive director,
Homeboy Industries
The Rev.
Barbara Brown
Taylor
Week Three
July 10–15
Week Four
July 17–22
Week Five
July 24–29
Week Six
July 31–August 5
The Rev.
Raphael Warnock
The Rev.
Tony Campolo
The Rev.
Otis Moss III
Senior pastor, The
Historic Ebenezer
Baptist Church,
Atlanta
Fdr. and president,
Evangelical Assoc.
for the Promotion of
Education
Senior pastor,
Trinity UCC, Chicago
The Rev.
John Philip
Newell
Week Seven
August 7–12
Week Eight
August 14–19
Week Nine
August 21–26
Final Sunday
Aug. 28
The Rev.
Thomas Long
The Rev.
Amy K. Butler
The Rev.
Calvin O. Butts
Bandy Professor of
preaching emeritus,
Emory University
Senior minister,
The Riverside Church,
New York City
The Rev.
Dwight D.
Andrews
Week Seven
The Limits and Transcendence of
Our Humanity
Tuesday, August 9
James “J.” Hughes is a bioethicist
and sociologist who serves as the associate provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning
for the University of Massachusetts
Boston, and as the executive director
of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, which he co-founded with Oxford philosopher Nick
Bostrom. Hughes is author of Citizen
Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must
Respond to the Redesigned Human of the
Future, editor of the Journal of Posthuman Studies and associate editor of the
Journal of Evolution and Technology.
Wednesday, August 10
Robert M. Geraci is professor of
religious studies at Manhattan College. His research and teaching engage religion, science and technology,
including transhumanism. Geraci is
the author of Apocalyptic AI: Visions of
Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence,
and Virtual Reality and Virtually Sacred:
Myth and Meaning in World of Warcraft
and Second Life. He is currently writing
his third book, an exploration of religion, science, and technology in contemporary India.
Thursday, August 11
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Irving
and Miriam Lowe Professor of modern Judaism, director of Jewish studies, and professor of history at Arizona
State University. Tirosh-Samuelson’s
research focuses on Jewish intellectual
history, science, religion and technology, and religion and ecology. She is
editor of Judaism and Ecology: Created
World and Revealed World; Women and
Gender in Jewish Philosophy; Judaism and
the Phenomenon of Life: The Legacy of
Hans Jonas; and Building Better Humans?
Refocusing the Debate on Transhumanism.
Friday, August 12
Professor of religion,
Piedmont College
Ilia Delio, OSF, holds the Josephine
C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University. Delio lectures nationally and internationally on
areas of science and religion, including
evolution and artificial intelligence.
Her work includes “Humanity on the
Threshold: Religious Essays on Transhumanism,” and her most recent book,
Personal Transformation and A New Creation: The Spiritual Revolution of Beatrice
Bruteau, will be published this year.
Week Eight
The Ethical Realities of War
Thursday, August 18
A proponent of peace and interfaith
relations, retired lieutenant colonel
Shareda Hosein served in the U.S.
Army Reserves for 35 years. In her former post as the cultural engagement
officer, Hosein provided military colleagues a more insightful understanding of Muslims and the diverse Islamic
cultures that our missions overseas
have affected. Currently serving as the
Muslim chaplain to the Greater Boston
area, in association with the Islamic
Society of Boston Cultural Center,
Hosein is co-founder of the national
Association of Muslim Chaplains.
Friday, August 19
Paul K. Chappell graduated from
West Point in 2002, was deployed to
Iraq, and left active duty in November
2009 as a captain. He is the author of
the Road to Peace series, a seven-book
series about waging peace, ending
war, the art of living and what it means
to be human. Chappell serves as the
Peace Leadership Director for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Speaking
across the country and internationally,
he also teaches courses and workshops
on Peace Leadership.
Week Nine
America’s Spiritual Songbook
Monday, August 22
The Rev. Dwight Andrews, Week
Nine’s guest chaplain, is senior pastor
of First Congregational Church UCC
in Atlanta and an associate professor
of music theory and African American
music at Emory University. He has
appeared on more than 25 jazz and
“new music” recordings.
Jared Jacobsen is Chautauqua’s
organist and coordinator of worship
and sacred music. He serves in the offseason as director of music at First Lutheran Church of San Diego.
Thursday, August 25
Michael Weis joined Brotherhood
Synagogue in Manhattan after having
served as cantor for the Highland Park
Conservative
Temple-Congregation
Anshe Emet in Highland Park, New Jersey, as well as ritual director and Bar/
Bat Mitzvah coordinator at The Jewish
Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Brotherhood Synagogue is a kehillah kedoshah
(holy community) in which inclusiveness and diversity are living ideals that
are woven into its mission.
Senior minister, First
Congregational
Church UCC, Atlanta
Minister and scholar,
Church of Scotland
Pastor, The
Abyssinian Baptist
Church, New York
City
2 016 Sacr e d So n g Se rv i ce s
June 26 “I Sing Because I’m Happy”
July 3 Favorite Hymns of Our
Presidents
July 10 Special guests: The Historic
Ebenezer Baptist Choir,
Atlanta
July 17Transformations
July 24 Special Guests: Voices of
Trinity from Trinity UCC,
Chicago
July 31 We Are the Family of
Abraham!
Aug. 7 In Remembrance: Chautauqua
Sings the Fauré Requiem
Aug. 14 “I hate war!”: An Evening
Inspired by FDR
Aug. 21 An Evening with Alice Parker,
America’s Song Leader
Aug. 28 “Within this Tent”:
Final Chautauqua Thoughts
D E partment o f E ducation
2 016 S peci a l Pr o g r a m s
Monday, June 27 · 3:30 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Special presentation. Roger Rosenblatt, author, Thomas Murphy
Monday, July 4 · 4 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Lincoln Applied Ethics Series. Mary Feeney, associate professor and
Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Public Affairs, Arizona State University
Thursday, July 7 · 12:15 p.m. · Hall of Christ
Former Congressional leaders program. Stan Lundine, former U.S.
congressman, New York; former Lieutenant Governor of New York. Bill
Clinger, former U.S. congressman, Pennsylvania. Timothy J. Roemer,
former U.S. congressman, Indiana. Amory Houghton Jr., former U.S.
congressman, New York
Monday, July 11 · 12:15 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Lincoln Applied Ethics Series. Jason Robert, director of Lincoln Center for
Applied Ethics, Arizona State University
Monday, July 11 · 4 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
The 12th Annual Robert H. Jackson Center Lecture on the Supreme
Court. Tracy L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale
University
Friday, July 22 · 4 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Special lecture. “National Nominating Convention 2016.” David Kozak,
distinguished professor of public policy, Gannon University
Wednesday, July 27 · 3:30 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Middle East Update. Geoffrey Kemp, director of Regional Strategic
Programs, Center for the National Interest
Monday, August 1 · 3:30 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Middle East Update. Geoffrey Kemp and Dennis Ross, William
Davidson Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute
Wednesday, Aug. 3 · 3:30 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Author Presentation. In partnership with the
Cleveland Foundation. Adrian Matejka, author, The Big Smoke
Friday, Aug. 5 · 3:30 p.m. · Smith Wilkes Hall
Interactive conversation. “Building the Future City.” Presented in
partnership with the Cleveland Foundation and The City Club of
Cleveland
Monday, Aug. 8, & Monday, Aug 15 · 4 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Lincoln Applied Ethics Series. Brad Allenby, Lincoln Professor of
Engineering and Ethics, Arizona State University
Friday, Aug. 19 · 12:30 p.m. · Smith Wilkes Hall
Veterans Forum. Featuring Amphitheater speakers and special guests
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literary arts
T h e C h a u t a u q u a P r i z e 2 0 1 6 Finalists · See the winner announcement at ciweb.org/prize
It’s What I Do:
A Photographer’s
Life of Love and
War
Off the Radar:
King of the
A Father’s Secret,
Gypsies: Stories
a Mother’s Heroism, Lenore Myka
and a Son’s Quest BkMk Press
Lynsey Addario
Cyrus Copeland
Penguin Press
Blue Rider Press
War photographer Lynsey
Addario’s memoir It’s What
I Do is the story of how the
relentless pursuit of truth,
in virtually every major
theater of war in the 21st
century, has shaped her
life. Chautauqua readers
called it “inspirational and
horrifying,” “one of the
best books I have read in
a long time,” and “well
written from the first word
to the last. … It is of both a
high-quality literary value
while being a book that is
hard to put down.”
Cyrus Copeland’s father
was an American executive
arrested in Iran for spying
at the time of the 1979
hostage crisis, then put
on trial for his life in a
Revolutionary Court. Off
the Radar is a memoir and
mystery, a spy story and
a tale of the relationship
between father and son.
The book is “an intriguing
story well told,” readers
said, lauding it as being
an “outstanding” work
of “timeless and timely
material.”
In the short story collection
King of the Gypsies,
Lenore Myka takes the
reader through numerous
facets of Romanian life,
namely the struggles of
everyday individuals to
overcome the ghosts
inherited from the
country’s communist past.
The characters “inhabiting
the pages linger in the
mind long after the reader
has closed the book,”
one reviewer said. From
teachers to prostitutes, the
book contains “such multifaceted portrayals that I
was always surprised the
by the uniqueness of each
story.”
C h au tau q ua L i t e r a r y a n d
Sc i e n t i f i c C i r c l e 2 0 1 6 S elections
Granada: A
Pomegranate in
the Hand of God
Nagasaki: Life
After Nuclear War
No. 4 Imperial
Lane
Susan Southard
Jonathan Weisman
Steven Nightingale
Viking Books
Twelve Books
Counterpoint Press
Susan Southard has spent
years interviewing hibakusha (“bomb-affected
people”) in Japan, and
in Nagasaki, she ushers
readers from the morning the atomic bomb was
dropped on the city to
life in Nagasaki today. In
researching the physical,
emotional and social challenges of post-atomic life,
Southard created “a cleareyed, honest, impeccably
researched and beautifully
written book.” It’s a book,
one reader said, “that has
the potential to change
minds and hearts.”
From post-punk Brighton
to revolutionary Angola,
Jonathan Weisman’s No. 4
Imperial Lane travels time
and the globe, exploring
the effects of colonialism through the eyes of
an unexpected American
stranger. At the intersection of the damaged lives
in a waning aristocracy,
Weisman has created a fictional story in a historical
world, filled with “details,
nuances, facts and feelings
that are thoughtful and
spot-on,” one reader said.
Granada resident Steven
Nightingale, in his
nonfiction work bearing
the name of his adopted
home, excavates the rich
past of the Spanish city
and of Al-Andalus, finding
a story of utopian ecstasy,
political and religious
intrigue and exaltation, and
scorching anguish. Readers
lauded Granada as a
“spectacular showcase”
of Nightingale’s talents,
and called Nightingale “a
rare combination of careful
researcher, thorough
reporter, gifted storyteller
and poet.”
These three selections complete the 2016 Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle reading
list. Unless otherwise noted, CLSC author presentations take place at 3:30 p.m. Thursdays
at the Hall of Philosophy. See the full list at ciweb.org/clsc.
Week Two
Thursday, July 7
Week Three
Thursday, July 14
Week Seven
Thursday, August 11
Strangers Drowning
Killing a King
When Breath Becomes Air
Larissa McFarquhar
Dan Ephron
What does it mean to devote
yourself wholly to helping others?
In Strangers Drowning, Larissa
MacFarquhar seeks out people
living lives of extreme ethical
commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories.
A couple adopts two children in distress. But then
they think: If they can change two lives, why not
more? They adopt 20. In another example, a woman
believes that if she spends money on herself, rather
than donate it to buy life-saving medicine, then she’s
responsible for the deaths that result. She lives on a
fraction of her income, but wonders: when is compromise self-indulgence and when is it essential?
We honor such generosity and high ideals; but
when we call people do-gooders there is skepticism
in it, even hostility. Why do moral people make us uneasy? Through its sympathetic and beautifully vivid
storytelling, Strangers Drowning confronts us with
fundamental questions about what it means to be human. Moving and provocative, the book challenges
us to think about what we value most, and why.
A riveting story about the murder that changed a nation, Killing a King: The Assassination of
Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking
of Israel tells the parallel stories of
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his stalker,
Yigal Amir, as one of them planned political deals
he hoped would lead to peace, and the other plotted
murder. Rabin’s assassination remains the single most
consequential event in Israel’s recent history, and one
that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians.
Dan Ephron covered both the rally where Rabin
was killed and the subsequent murder trial. Through
the prism of the assassination, much about Israel today comes into focus, from the paralysis in peacemaking to the fraught relationship between current Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack
Obama. Based on Israeli police reports, interviews,
confessions, and the cooperation of both Rabin’s and
Amir’s families, Killing a King is a tightly coiled narrative that reaches an inevitable, shattering conclusion.
Paul Kalanithi
Presented by Lucy Kalanithi
At the age of 36, on the verge
of completing a decade’s worth of
training as a neurosurgeon, Paul
Kalanithi was diagnosed with
stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating
the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to
live. The New York Times best-seller When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from
a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by
the question of what, given that all organisms die,
makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most
critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, but his book is
a life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing
death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a man who became both. Lucy Kalanithi,
his wife, will present When Breath Becomes Air for the
CLSC audience.
C LS C Y o u n g R e a d e r s 2 0 1 6 selections
Week One: Brown Girl Dreaming by
Jacqueline Woodson
Week Two: Brilliant by Roddy Doyle
Week Three: March: Book One and
March: Book Two by John Lewis
Week Four: The Thing About Jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
Week Five: Navigating Early by Clare
Vanderpool
Week Seven: Tuck Everlasting by
Natalie Babbitt
Week Eight: Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Week Nine: Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Spring 2016
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Literary Arts
Writers’ Center offers inspiration
for writers of all kinds, at all levels
By Clara Silverstein
Program Director,
Chautauqua Writers’ Center
Using pens and notebooks, writers try to capture their impressions of
Chautauqua each summer as painstakingly as artists with easels. The Chautauqua Writers’ Center, now in its 28th
year, helps guide anyone who wants to
use language as an art form.
Throughout the nine-week Chautauqua season, the Writers’ Center
offers workshops in many genres of
creative writing, including poetry,
memoir, fiction, children’s literature
and playwriting. Whether you’re just
starting to write after a long career
in another field or finishing a booklength manuscript, you can find inspiration as well as guidance in our
programs. Published writers, many of
whom have won top national literary
awards, lead all of our workshops.
The Writers’ Center also welcomes
Chautauquans to the porch of the Literary Arts Center each week for our
readings and literary lectures. Every
Sunday at 3:30 p.m., our writers-in-residence read from their work; it’s a good
sample of contemporary literature being published today. The writers share
their insights about literature and writing in our lunchtime lecture series on
Tuesdays and Fridays at 12:15 p.m.
This summer, we introduce poet
Molly Peacock, author of six volumes
of poetry and co-creator of Poetry-in-
Motion on New York’s subways, to
Chautauqua for a master class on the
sonnet during Week Seven. Other writers who this summer teach for the first
time at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center
include poet Charles Coe, memoirist
and essayist Emily Fox Gordon, novelist Leslie Daniels and nonfiction writer
Linda K. Wertheimer. Novelist Rachel
DeWoskin teaches a one-session fiction
workshop during Week Four.
Returning to the Writers’ Center
during Week One this year is Philip
Gerard, co-editor of Chautauqua, who
teaches a series of individual nonfiction
workshops and also performs a special
concert from his newly released CD,
American Anthem. Zayd Dohrn returns
for a second year in collaboration with
the Chautauqua Theater Company to
teach playwriting during Week Four.
Our returning poets include Phil Terman, co-director of the Chautauqua
Writers’ Festival, as well as Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Gregory Donovan, Jim
Daniels, Nicole Cooley, Kent Gramm
and Neil Shepard. Prose writers Kim T.
Griswell, Ann Hood, Tom Noyes, Nancy McCabe and Ron MacLean round out
our roster of returning faculty members.
We welcome your visit to the Literary Arts Center to take a workshop, to
hear our authors read from their work,
and to listen to our literary lectures. For
a full listing of our programs, see the
Special Studies catalog or visit our web
site, writers.ciweb.org.
2 016 W r i te r s’ Ce n te r Wo r k s h o p s
All workshops meet on the second floor of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni
Hall. Register through Special Studies, call the Ticket Office at 716-357-6250 or
visit chqtickets.com. Writer biographies and course descriptions are available
online at writers.ciweb.org.
Week One · 6/27–7/1
Prose: Philip Gerard, “Turning Fact into Story”
Poetry: Philip Terman, “Writing Where We Are at Chautauqua”
Week Two · 7/4–7/8
Prose: Kim T. Griswell, “Finding Your Voice”
Poetry: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “Bringing the Outside In: Poetry and Wonder”
Week Three · 7/11–7/15
Prose: Ann Hood, “Writing the Personal Essay”
Poetry: Charles Coe, “Writing about the People in Your Life”
Week Four · 7/18–7/22
Prose: Emily Fox Gordon, “Retrieving Lost Worlds”
Prose (7/20): Rachel DeWoskin, “Making Your Story Move: Characters in Conflict”
Poetry: Gregory Donovan, “Writing out of Your Mind: Using Science, History,
and Imagination”
Playwriting Workshop: Zayd Dohrn, “The Great American Drama: Writing
Plays that Matter”
Week Five · 7/25–7/29
Prose: Tom Noyes, “Writing in Place”
Poetry: Jim Daniels, “Advanced Poetry Workshop”
Week Six · 8/1–8/5
Prose: Leslie Daniels, “Get Your Characters in Trouble!”
Poetry: Nicole Cooley, “Let’s Get Lost While Writing Poems”
Week Seven · 8/8–8/12
Prose: Linda K. Wertheimer, “Writing Provocative Stories about Religion”
Poetry (8/8): Molly Peacock, “Sonnet Sublime: Fourteen Lines Transcend Their
Limits” (Master Class)
Week Eight · 8/15–8/19
Prose: Nancy McCabe, “Fun with Story Structure”
Poetry: Kent Gramm, “Writing from the Bible”
Week Nine · 8/22–8/26
Prose: Ron MacLean, “Raising the Stakes in Stories”
Poetry: Neil Shepard, “Getting Inside the Music of Poetry and All That Jazz”
CLAF continues support for Chautauqua’s bustling literary arts community
By Fred Zirm
Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends
In the past I’ve written about the
relationship between the Chautauqua
Literary and Scientific Circle and the
Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends,
about how the former helped give birth
to the latter and how they are two sides
to the same coin: one emphasizing the
reading part of the literary process and
the other stressing the writing end.
This time I’d like to give a very brief
history of the Writers’ Center and its
support organization. In the beginning
they were one and the same; Mary
Jean Irion, with the kind support of the
CLSC, established the Writers’ Center
and a group of volunteers helped her
administer its courses and publish the
literary journal Chautauqua.
When the Institution and the Writ-
ers’ Center agreed that the Institution
should take over the program and the
journal, the support organization briefly changed its name to Chautauqua
Readers and Writers. This name, however accurate it may have been in describing its members, proved to be confusing since Chautauqua already had a
group promoting reading in the CLSC.
At that point, the organization chose
Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends as
its new name, but one other strong
candidate was Friends of the Writers’
Center, or some variant of that. This
name made some sense since many of
the Friends’ activities revolve around
the Writers’ Center’s programs. In this
case, though, the Writers’ Center and
the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends
are more a Venn diagram than two
sides of the same coin.
The Friends do directly support or
build on many parts of the Writers’ Center’s program. With the Writers’ Center,
we co-sponsor the Sunday readings by
each week’s writers-in-residence and
provide the refreshments for the reception that follows. We also co-sponsor
the annual Authors Among Us Book
Fair on Bestor Plaza (Sunday, July 10).
In addition, we provide assistants for
the Writers’ Center workshop courses.
These assistants take care of the nuts
and bolts of making announcements,
compiling a contact sheet, and answering questions that teachers and participants may have.
Besides these overlapping activities, however, the Friends also oversee
or co-sponsor many others. Independent of the Writers’ Center, we run the
Authors’ Hour on Thursday evenings
at the Brick Walk Cafe, the Open Mic
session every Sunday evening in the
Prose Room of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, the yearly Dinner
with Friends gathering of those interested in the literary arts (June 26), and
the annual writing contest (deadline
Aug. 15). In conjunction with the Institution’s Department of Education, we
also sponsor the Robert Pinsky Favorite Poem Project at the Hall of Philosophy (Aug. 2).
Since “Friends of the Writers’ Center
and Sponsor of Lots of Other Writing
Activities” was too unwieldy, we stuck
with Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends.
It may be a little general, but it is who we
are. If you want to learn more about us
and our activities, just check out ciweb.
org/literary-arts/literary-arts-friends, email
any questions to [email protected], or
attend the informative Dinner with
Friends on June 26.
CLSC Alumni Association keeps connection to past while looking to future
By Dick Karslake
CLSC Alumni Association
The CLSC Alumni Association is
looking forward to a successful, traditional summer season in 2016. The
various pieces are falling into place to
move ahead measurably with most of
our stated objectives.
First, the historic banner collection
will be moved from its winter locale to
its summer viewing arrangement within the Literary Arts Center at Alumni
Hall. The busy, responsible Banner
Committee, under the chairmanship
of Charlotte Crittenden ’67 will complete this task during the week before
the season starts. Docent Tours of the
Alumni Hall banners (and Pioneer
Hall) will be conducted every Monday
and Wednesday. Each of our docents
is unique and conducts his or her own
tour. All of them are fascinating.
Alumni Hall is in the best shape ever
to maintain this priceless collection in
a constant-temperature, low-humidity
environment.
This summer will be our third year
hosting high school seniors from Chautauqua County for a weeklong Chautauqua experience. This scholarship
program continues to expand and we
expect four to six students this year.
They receive their gate pass and have
tuition paid for some writing and/or
other courses while enjoying the hospitality of a Chautauqua family for the
week. So far, this has been a wonderfully satisfying program for all involved.
Progress is also being made in our
effort to connect more closely with
CLSC chapters around the world; our
effort to jointly support the greater
CLSC continues to expand. The oldest
continuous reading circle, the Abby A.
Hatch CLSC Circle of Griggsville, Illinois, now has a commemorative brick
in the front walk leading to Alumni
Hall as well as graduates currently receiving awards for post-graduate reading levels. It is predicted that others
will follow shortly.
The Great American Picnic on Sunday, July 17, will again be a major community event this year. And, of course,
Recognition Day week remains the
most traditional week in the Chautauqua schedule with the CLSC Baccalaureate and Vigil on Sunday, July 31, Old
First Night on Tuesday, Aug. 2, and the
CLSC graduation services with all its
hoopla and traditional ceremonial excitement on Wednesday, Aug. 3. It’s a
glorious week!
And if you really want to know and
understand the CLSC, watch for the
CLSC history, newly penned by Mary
Lee Talbot ’74, that is currently going
through its final editing process. It will
most likely be available in 2017.
Stop in at Alumni Hall this summer.
If you are an alumnus or an alumnae,
sign the old registration book, update
your information and pay class, association and/or Guild of Seven Seal
dues. Also, do not miss out on the various events — like the GAP, the Vigil,
Recognition Day, or Bryant Day. Or
simply take a close look at the bricks on
the front walk. See who has bricks and
check at the front desk inside Alumni
Hall as to how to get your own. See you
this summer.
The Chautauquan
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Spring 2016
t h e at e r
CTC prepares a Shrew’d program for 2016 theatergoers
Vivienne Benesch, Andrew Borba
and Sarah Clare Corporandy have just
returned from their audition and interview tour, criss-crossing the country in search of the next generation of
theater artists to bring to the arduous
idyll of Chautauqua’s 2016 season. A
new play has been commissioned and
written, the plays for the New Play
Workshops have been chosen, casts
are complete, designers are designing
and the seeds of the 2016 CTC season
are beginning to sprout.
“This is always one of the most energized and exciting times for us, as we
see the conservatory, company members, play selection, and design teams
come into sharper focus,” Benesch, coartistic director. “In the rhythm of our
seasons, we plan during the winter
and those plans begin to bloom in the
spring.”
In the Next Room (or the
vibrator play)
Opening the mainstage season is
Sarah Ruhl’s humorous and insightful
look at the beginning of electricity and
the end of women being kept in the
dark.
“Sarah is one of America’s greatest
living writers,” said director Larissa
Kokernot, a CTC newcomer, “and this
risqué play investigates women’s issues, parenting, race relations, artistic
freedom and electricity in a new and
delightfully ‘hysterical’ way.”
A month of new work
Anchoring the middle of the season, Zayd Dohrn’s The Profane, our
third play commissioned by CTC and
the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, will
receive a full workshop production
in the Bratton Theater before moving
onto an official world premiere in New
York City at Playwright’s Horizons
next winter. The play, about a firstgeneration immigrant whose liberal,
seemingly tolerant worldview is tested
when his daughter falls in love with
the son of a conservative Muslim family, will be directed by Benesch.
“I’m so proud to be directing this
intelligent, topical and challenging
play as part of my last season as artistic director,” she said. “The growth of
new-play development has been one
of the most significant successes of my
tenure here and to have Dohrn’s com-
the Amphitheater on July 28. Underscored by Gorecki’s beautifully haunting Third Symphony, this piece will
explore, through voice, poetry and
the projected image, the relationships
of children and their mothers during
wartime.
“Working with Rossen and the CSO
last year was such a rewarding experience, we jumped at the chance to create
a new inter-arts piece with them and
continue a collaboration that I hope is
only in its infancy,” Borba said.
The Taming of the Shrew
CTC will finish their season with
a new look at Shakespeare’s old story.
“The play is intended to be a comedy,
but the positive changes in the roles of
women in society have made it hard
to produce this play today and find it
anything but misogynist,” says director Borba, “By inverting the genders —
women will play the men’s roles and the
men will play the women’s roles — we
hope to observe and poke fun at gender
roles today, and rediscover the comedy
and romance underlying this funny
play. Besides, after all these years, it’s
just fair that the men have to wear the
corsets and high heels for once.”
Friends of Theater volunteers
ready packed schedule of CTC
support, community events
2016
Season
By Linda Nelson
Friends of Chautauqua Theater
In the Next Room
(or the vibrator play)
At the end-of-season meeting of
Friends of Chautauqua Theater on August 18, 2015, several new officers were
elected for two-year terms. They will
join with previously elected officers who
continue to serve in overlapping terms.
The full board and appointed committee chairs for 2016 will include:
by Sarah Ruhl
July 1–July 10
The Profane
by Zayd Dohrn
July 22–July 31
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
August 12–19
The New Play Workshop
Tiny Houses • July 14–16
by Chelsea Marcatel
The Glow Overhead • August 3–5
by Nick Gandiello
mission already headed to one of the
best off-Broadway companies in the
country solidifies CTC’s commitment
to fostering great new work at Chautauqua that makes its way well beyond
the gates.”
Bookending The Profane in Weeks
Three and Six will be two New Play
Workshop Signature Staged Readings.
The plays chosen for the 2016 Signature
Staged Readings are Chelsea Marcatel’s Tiny Houses, a comedy that follows
a couple’s attempt to build a relationship as they build a small house, and
Nick Gandiello’s The Blameless, a heartfelt drama of tragedy and forgiveness
after a high school shooting.
“Through their vastly different
plays, these two playwrights explore
and reflect many of the diverse challenges facing us today, and we are
privileged to be able to present these
stories in their formative stages to our
Chautauqua audience,” said Corporandy, the company’s managing director.
And then there is “Symphony or
Sorrowful Songs.” After the Ellis Island success of last season, co-Artistic
Director Andrew Borba is re-teaming
with Rossen Milanov and the CSO
for a one-night-only performance in
Photo: Zach Cleland
Watch the Daily for information about more CTC events:
• Brown Bags: Thursdays, 12:15 p.m. • Bratton Theater
• ‘fore-Play: July 3, July 24, Aug. 14, 7 p.m. • Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall
• Behind-the-Scenes Tours: July 5, July 26, Aug. 15, 1 p.m. • Bratton Theater
• Pax Materna: July 28, 8:15 p.m. • Amphitheater
• Chau-talk-One: Aug. 16, 7 p.m. • Bratton Theater
• Bratton Late Night Cabaret: Aug. 19, 10:30 p.m. • Bratton Theater
For tickets or more information:
www.CTCompany.org
C H AU TAU Q UA I N S T I T U T I O N • C I W E B .O R G
• President:
Marsha Butler
• Vice President of Company:
Carole Collins
• Vice President of Community:
Sandy Miller
• Vice President of Communications:
Linda Nelson
• Secretary:
Carole Laubscher
• Treasurer:
Gwen Tigner
• Member at Large and Producers
Circle Coordinator:
Irene Tabish
Along with these officers, Irene Cramer will serve as tech rehearsal dinners chair, Scott Brasted as chair of
pre-season company assistance, Judith
Doebke as “Be A Buddy” coordinator
and “Meet the Company” chair, and
Edris Weis as chair for the company
opening night party. Enid Shames
will continue to serve as membership
chair, Cheryl Gorelick as benefit event
coordinator, Mark Altschuler as play
discussion chair, and Sylvia Weiss
and Joe Sterman as set-change buffet
coordinators. FCT wishes to thank all
of these volunteers who work so hard
to organize a full schedule of summer
events and CTC support.
FCT events will begin even before
opening day. Tech support interns
and staff are welcomed with the annual “Be a Buddy” picnic organized by
Judith Doebke. Another “early bird”
treat is the Young Playwrights event.
Over the winter, this project involved
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua Theater Company, Florida Studio
Theatre, Chautauquan Georgia Court
and three local Chautauqua County
elementary schools with participation from our local FCT Play Readers.
These tiny plays written from the perspective of thoughtful third graders
will delight you. Mark your calendar
for Monday, June 20, of Week Zero to
see 10 selected plays presented in a
CTC conservatory production at Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall. The performances
will be repeated on Tuesday, June 28,
of Week One in Smith Wilkes Hall for
the Family Entertainment Series.
The season-opening “Meet the Company” celebration on Sunday, June 26,
gives FCT members a chance to greet
and meet our CTC conservatory actors
and instructors. After the introductions
and ice cream social, volunteer families
will be matched with conservatory
members for our FCT Adopt program.
Theater Educational Opportunities
are numerous throughout the 2016 season. “Sneak Peeks,” Play Discussion
Forums, Brown Bags and Producers
Circle Events all offer a variety of opportunities to fully participate in the
theater scene at Chautauqua.
FCT theater support activities are
designed to provide help to the company throughout their hectic summer schedule. Join us in supporting
our Chautauqua Theater Company
by helping with tech rehearsal dinners, set-change buffets and Adopt
and Buddy activities for CTC staff and
conservatory members. Volunteers for
Friends events are always welcomed.
Friends of Chautauqua Theater is
open to all Chautauquans who love the
theater. Dues are only $10, and membership information can be obtained
from Marsha Butler, president at PO
Box 1083, Chautauqua, NY 14722, or
[email protected].
The Chautauquan
Spring 2016
Page 15
Visual Arts
VACI rolls full steam ahead with exciting exhibitions, events
By Don Kimes
Artistic Director, VACI
Lois Jubeck, Judy Barie and I have
been working steadily on the 2016 Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution
season since the day after the 2015 season ended. The three of us are thrilled
with how it has all finally come together. Whether you are a professional
artist or someone who just likes to enjoy art, an aspiring art student in residence or a child who loves making art,
we are looking forward to providing
you with a wonderful summer in our
school programs, our galleries, and
our VACI lecture series.
The season opens with a bang
on Sunday, June 26, from 3 to 5 p.m.,
with several public receptions in the
Strohl Art Center. These include the
59th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition
of Contemporary Art, co-selected this
year by prominent New York gallerists and husband-wife team Steven
Harvey and Jennifer Samet (Samet is
also author of the popular “Beer with
a Painter” column in Hyperallergic, the
world’s largest art blogazine).
Opening at the same time as the
Chautauqua Annual is an exhibition
curated by Lois Jubeck and me, titled
“The Next Chapter,” a show that explores the work of five School of Art
alumni who went on to successful careers after their introduction and first
summer at Chautauqua. Additionally,
a third exhibition, curated by Judy Barie and titled “The Shape of Things to
Come,” will open in the Bellowe Family Gallery, along with new works in
the Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden
will open on the same day. If you are
at Chautauqua on that first Sunday of
the season, don’t miss this wonderful
kickoff to a fabulous summer.
The VACI Lecture Series on art will
commence at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 28,
in our Hultquist Center venue. Harvey
and Samet, the co-jurors of the 59th
Chautauqua Annual, are the featured
opening speakers. This series will continue every Tuesday and Friday at the
Hultquist Center through Aug. 9. This
year it includes a number of other new
speakers, including ceramist David
East, New York painter Clintel Steed,
Rhode Island School of Design faculty
member Dawn Clements, School of Art
faculty member Andrea Belag, painter
and frequent Art In America contributor Stephen Westfall, and many others.
Also for those of you who are members of our VACI Partners friends
2 0 1 6 E X HI B ITION s
ciweb.org/vaci
59th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art
June 26–July 18 · Strohl Art Center Main Gallery · Reception 3 p.m. June 26
The Next Chapter:
Work by Five Chautauqua School of Art Alumni
June 26–Aug. 22 · Strohl Art Center Gallo Family Gallery · Reception 3 p.m. June 26
The Shape of Things to Come
June 26–July 24 · Fowler-Kellogg Art Center Bellowe Family Gallery · Reception 3 p.m. June 22
Nature Redefined
June 26–July 21 · Fowler-Kellogg Art Center First Floor · Reception 3 p.m. June 29
The Art of Making Collages
June 26–July 21 · Fowler-Kellogg Art Center Second Floor · Reception 3 p.m. June 29
Gradations:
A Sense of Gradual Successive Stages or Degrees
July 20–Aug. 23 · Strohl Art Center Main Gallery · Reception 3 p.m. July 20
Chautauqua School of Art Annual Student Exhibition
July 24–Aug. 4 · Fowler-Kellogg Art Center · Reception 3 p.m. July 24
The Path to Heaven Passes Through a Teapot
July 26–Aug. 22 · Strohl Art Center Bellowe Family Gallery · Reception 3 p.m. July 26
VACI Open Members Exhibition
Aug. 8–24 · Fowler-Kellogg Art Center · Reception 3 p.m. Aug. 4
Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden
June 28–Aug. 27
group, our annual “Friends of an Art
Student” picnic dinner, takes place
at 4:45 p.m. Thursday, June 30, at the
School of Art. Please contact Anne
Fox at [email protected] for more
information about “friending” an art
student or two for the summer.
Other exhibitions VACI will present
throughout the summer include “Gradations: A Sense of Gradual Successive
Stages or Degrees,” curated by Judy Barie, the Susan and Jack Turben Director of VACI Galleries; the annual VACI
Open Members Exhibition; “Nature
Redefined”; “The Art of Making Collages”; the annual Chautauqua School
of Art Student Exhibition; and “The
Path to Heaven Passes Through a Teapot.” More information about each of
these shows is available on our website.
Additionally, this summer from
noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 3, and
again on Sunday, Aug. 7, the VACI
Partners annual Art in the Park event
will take place once again in Miller
Park, rain or shine.
We’ll also be presenting an art
movie night at the Hall of Christ es-
pecially for members of VACI Partners
on Thursday, July 14 at 7 pm. We’ll be
showing “Pollock,” a film about the
life of groundbreaking 20th-century
American artist Jackson Pollock. Having known Pollock’s wife Lee Krasner,
critic Clement Greenberg and several
others characters in the film, I will present a brief historical overview and also
lead a Q-and-A discussion afterwards.
From 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, July 17,
we’ll be presenting a public “Steamroller Print Event” in front of the Colonnade on Bestor Plaza. We will be
making “Steamroller Prints” for our
VACI Partners friends group to auction
off on Saturday, July 30, at our fabulous
annual Stroll Through the Arts gala
and fundraiser for art scholarships. Selected artists will carve into a 36” × 24”
linoleum block, which will be inked,
set on a piece of plywood, covered with
a high-quality paper and then run over
by the Chautauqua Institution steamroller, which will transfer the image on
the linoleum block to the paper. Master
printer and CSA faculty member Tom
Raneses will lead the public demonstration of this unusual process. This
will be a wonderful family art event
and many of us from VACI will be assisting Tom and answering everyone’s
questions. We hope you and your family and friends can join us!
Our final public event at the School of
Art will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 8, when students welcome everyone to their “Open Studios
Night” in the Arts Quadrangle. Always
a popular event drawing hundreds of
Chautauquans, resident students will
be putting their fever-pitch work schedule on hold, cleaning out their studios,
and displaying the work that they have
accomplished in the two weeks following their public annual Student Exhibition in the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center.
Often much of the strongest work done
during the summer appears at this
event, which is a precursor to their final
critique week at the school.
If you, your friends and/or family
are interested in Special Studies art
classes, outstanding gallery exhibitions, our internationally recognized
School of Art program for full-time
resident students, a wonderful, a twice
weekly lecture series on art, special
events such at “Art in the Park” and
the annual “Strohl Through the Arts”
gala celebration, we hope to see you
this summer at VACI — the Visual
Arts at Chautauqua Institution. It’s going to be a very visual summer.
VACI Partners work to reward School of Art students’ courage
By Betsy Vance
VACI Partners
It might seem improbable, but the
artists enrolled in the Chautauqua
School of Art have something in common with astronauts, mountain climbers and arctic explorers. They’re all
risk takers! While the dangers may not
be as evident on the Arts Quad as they
are on the North Pole or Mars, the process of doing something that may have
a negative outcome in order to achieve
a goal is the same.
Two students from last summer’s
program are great examples.
Sarah, not afraid to speak up about
what she believes in, created paintings
that gave voice to her convictions. She
produced bold, colorful work that was
both complex and accessible while unrelenting in its psychological depth.
Brent spent hours crafting a ceramic
chain to represent the weight he’d lost
in the previous year. He could have left
the finished piece stacked safely on the
floor of his studio but instead chose to
wrap it around himself and walk the
grounds probing the juxtaposition of
art and the human condition.
The unique community surrounding
the Chautauqua School of Art is what
makes the student program so successful. Creative ideas develop and risks are
taken as art is made. The program is
one of the best in the country and support from teachers and fellow Chautauquans gives these students the courage
and confidence to go further with their
creative ideas and push beyond the
boundary where risks, rewards, success
and sometimes failure all reside.
Join us as a member of VACI Part-
ners and support students like Sarah
and Brent. Your membership will
make a difference to future visual arts
students enrolled in the Chautauqua
School of Art. To receive one of our
membership invitations, please email
[email protected].
VACI Partners has many exciting
events planned this summer that will
engage the whole family while supporting our mission to promote education and provide scholarship opportunities for our students.
New and notable is the Steamroller
Print Art Event happening Sunday,
July 17. A select group of student artists will create large-scale relief printing in the street using an industrial
steamroller. The prints created will
be auctioned at the Stroll Through the
Arts Gala on Saturday, July 30. This is
our biggest fundraiser of the summer!
It promises to be a lively evening with
delicious food, great wine, music and
a live auction of the steamroller prints.
All proceeds from this event will directly benefit the visual art student’s
scholarship program at Chautauqua.
Tickets will be available at the Strohl
Art Center.
With the summer season fast approaching and the colors, textures and
vibrancy you see in your garden soon
to be reflected in the galleries and on
the Arts Quad we hope you will consider supporting VACI Partners either
by becoming a member or by attending one or more of our exciting events.
Why not engage in a little risk taking
yourself and explore what the Visual
Arts at Chautauqua Institution has to
offer this summer.
The Chautauquan
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Spring 2016
Opera
Exciting new programs
await opera audiences
in Osgood’s first season
By Steven Osgood
General and Artistic Director,
Chautauqua Opera Company
The arrival of spring tells me that
Chautauqua Opera Company’s 88th
season, my first as general and artistic director, is almost upon us! In this
summer’s three mainstage productions — La Traviata, The Mikado and
Song From the Uproar — you will hear
the thrilling singing of our world-renowned guest artists, see the visionary work of our guest directors, and
be immersed in the work of three of
America’s finest young creators.
Verdi’s La Traviata opens our season
on July 9, and Keturah Stickann makes
her Chautauqua Opera debut directing and choreographing this new production, designed especially for the
Chautauqua Amphitheater. Keturah’s
work has been seen from Los Angeles
to Atlanta this season alone, and I am
delighted to introduce her to Chautauqua Institution.
Our three guest artists for La Traviata are a wonderful mix of familiar and
new faces. The luminous soprano Caitlin Lynch makes her company debut
as Violetta, after a successful and busy
season that has brought her from Seattle Opera to the Metropolitan Opera.
Tenor Dominic Armstrong also makes
his Chautauqua Opera debut singing
Alfredo, having previously appeared
with Marlena Malas’ Voice Program.
Baritone Todd Thomas, a former Young
Artist who has gone on to build a thriving career, was a ferocious Scarpia in
the first production I ever conducted as
a guest at Chautauqua. I am delighted
that he returns to sing Germont, Alfredo’s domineering father, in the first
production of my inaugural season!
Moving from the sublime to the
spectacularly ridiculous, Gilbert and
Sullivan’s The Mikado will light up
Norton Hall on July 29 and Aug. 1. Ned
Canty comes to Chautauqua for the
first time to direct his modern Japanese manga-infused production which
was first seen at Opera Theater of St.
Louis. We steal him away from Opera
Memphis, where he is General Director, and Santa Fe Opera, with whom he
has been enjoying a string of successful new productions.
Kevin Burdette (Ko-Ko) and Daniel
Belcher (Pooh-Bah) both make their
Chautauqua Opera debuts in The Mikado and you are in for a treat watching
these two comedic powerhouses tear
up the stage. This summer will be the
first time Kevin, Daniel and Ned will
be sharing a production, and Chautauqua will be lucky to witness this nexus
of hilarious men!
The Mikado also offers many opportunities for our 2016 Young Artists
to take center stage, featuring Quinn
Bernegger (Nanki-Poo), Chelsea Miller
(Yum-Yum), Deanna Pauletto (Kati-
sha), Hans Tashjian (Mikado), Rachael
Braunstein (Pitti-Sing) and Brian James
Myer (Pish-Tush). Bring the entire family to see this zany opera, and be sure
to take advantage of the $10 youth tickets we are introducing this season.
American opera is enjoying an extraordinary explosion of activity and is
at the beginning of what I believe will
one day be seen as a new Golden Age.
Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek are two of the most
prolific creators on the scene today. It
is very exciting to be closing our 2016
season on August 8 in Norton Hall
with their Song From the Uproar, in collaboration with the Logan Chamber
Music Series.
Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer (another familiar face from Marlena Malas’ program) and the NOW Ensemble
join the Chautauqua Opera for this
concert performance that also features
original film by Stephen Taylor projected over the Norton stage. Scored
for NOW Ensemble’s unusual combination of flute, clarinet, bass, piano and
electric guitar, this 75-minute score is
a poetic exploration of the life of 19th
century Swiss adventuress and writer
Isabelle Eberhardt who died at the age
of 27 in a flash flood. Don’t miss this
truly unique theatrical experience!
There will be another new face at
Chautauqua Opera this summer —
our very first composer-in-residence,
Jeremy Gill. While he will be busy as
a member of our music staff and my
assistant conductor, highlights of Jeremy’s season will be the world premieres of three new pieces he is composing for Chautauqua Opera. Recital
programs on June 30 and Aug. 4 will
each include the first performance of a
new song for voice and piano, and our
July 16 Opera Highlights concert with
the CSO will feature a new work for
soprano and orchestra. I hope that you
will join us as we bring these brand
new works to life for the first time!
Opera Invasion is our newest program, and will bring opera to some
surprising new locations throughout the Institution. Each week of our
season will include a different Opera
Invasion event — always interactive
whether serious or playful. You can
watch the Boys’ and Girls’ Club compete with our Studio Artists in “So You
Think You’re Louder Than An Opera
Singer?” or personally choose what
arias will be sung in “Opera Open
Book.” Keep an eye on the entire Opera Invasion schedule so that you will
not miss any of these uniquely Chautauqua events!
This is only a fraction of the almost
three-dozen performances that make
up Chautauqua Opera’s 2016 season. I
look forward to seeing you at the Institution, and to sharing our unbridled
love of opera. Come and be part of the
adventure!
Keturah
Caitlin
Stickann
Dominic
Lynch
Ned
Kevin
Canty
Missy
Mazzoli
Armstrong
Burdette
Royce
Vavrek
Daniel
Belcher
Abigail
Jeremy
Fischer
Gill
CHAUTAUQUA
2016
OPERA
COMPANY
Steven Osgood, General & Artistic Director
Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata
July 9, 2016
Directed by Keturah Stickann
Featuring Caitlin Lynch, Dominic Armstrong,
and Todd Thomas
Gilbert & Sullivan
The Mikado
July 29 & August 1, 2016
Directed by Ned Canty
Featuring Daniel Belcher and Kevin Burdette
Missy Mazzoli & Royce Vavrek
Song From
the Uproar
August 8, 2016
With film by Stephen Taylor
Featuring Abigail Fischer and NOW Ensemble
Young Artist Week
August 1–8
Concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Opera Highlights Concert
Chautauqua Opera Young Artists
Steven Osgood, conductor
Saturday, July 16
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Todd
Thomas
Opera Pops Concert
Chautauqua Opera Young Artists
Stuart Chafetz, conductor
Saturday, August 6
2016
Young Artists
Quinn Bernegger
Rachael Braunstein
Chelsea Miller
Brian James Myer
Deanna Pauletto
Abigail Rethwisch
Dennis Shuman
Hans Tashjian
Margaret Bridge
Anthony Ciaramitaro
Kelly Clarke
Allison Deady
Vincent Festa
Lorenzo Miguel Garcia
Megan Grey
Addie Hamilton
Emily Michiko Jensen
Tesia Kwarteng
Heath Martin
Frank Rosamond
Jake Skipworth
Laura Soto-Bayomi
Ryan Stoll
Patrick Terry
Composer-inResidence
Jeremy Gill
Premieres of new works on
June 30, July 16 and August 4
Visit us online for more information: ciweb.org/opera
CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION • CHAUTAUQUA, NY
Spring 2016
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dance
Charlotte Ballet names
Muir as artistic director
to succeed Bonnefoux
Charlotte Ballet’s board of trustees
has selected Hope Muir, currently the
assistant artistic director of Scottish
Ballet, as Charlotte Ballet’s new artistic
director. Muir’s appointment is effective July 2017. Over the next year, she
will work closely with the board of
trustees and staff in preparation for the
company’s 2017–18 season, her first as
artistic director.
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, longtime
president and artistic director of Charlotte Ballet, announced in September
that he will transition to the role of artistic director emeritus in June 2017.
At Chautauqua, as communicated
earlier this off-season, the 2016 Chautauqua Dance season will proceed with
current staff. Charlotte Ballet will continue as the company in residence and
Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride will
continue as director of the School of
Dance and master teacher, respectively.
Born in Toronto, Muir has worked
for the past 27 years throughout Europe, Canada and the United States in
both classical and contemporary dance
companies. Her uniquely diverse career
has seen her create and perform roles
for some of the world’s most prolific
choreographers including Christopher
Bruce, Twyla Tharp, Jiri Kylian, William Forsythe, George Balanchine, Paul
Taylor, Merce Cunningham, Robert Cohan, Javier De Frutos and Mats Ek.
As artistic director, Muir will serve
as the chief architect of Charlotte Ballet’s aesthetic vision and artistic profile.
She’ll be responsible for the dancers of
Charlotte Ballet; supervising artistic
and production staff; playing an active
role in the development of education
and outreach programs and the Charlotte Ballet Academy; cultivating relationships with donors; and serving as
a public representative.
“I am thrilled and honored to have
been invited to be the new artistic director of Charlotte Ballet at such an
exciting time in the company’s development,” Muir said. “Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride have built
a family of artists, produced exciting
and varied work, and grown a loyal
audience. I relish the opportunity to
build on the company’s tradition of excellence and lead it forward for the next
generation.”
Dance Circle celebrates 10 years
of service to students, community
By Karen Dakin
Chautauqua Dance Circle
On June 22, 2006, the Chautauqua
Dance Circle, CDC, held its first formal
organizational meeting, on the same
date it was incorporated. And so the
CDC journey began! The CDC is the
youngest of the organizations supporting the arts at Chautauqua.
The founding co-presidents, Bonnie
Crosby and Mimi Eddleman, worked
tirelessly alongside their husbands,
Steve Crosby, treasurer, and David Eddleman, communications director, over
a number of years to develop the CDC
into the successful organization it is today. A big “Thank You” to the Crosbys
and Eddlemans! The CDC would not
exist today without their efforts!
This summer, the CDC celebrates its
10th anniversary.
The initial focus of the CDC was
to raise scholarship money to support
dance students. This has been a hugely
successful endeavor and, to date, the
CDC has donated $137,000 directly to
Chautauqua Institution for dance scholarships. The 2015 recipients of CDC
dance scholarships are so grateful:
“I would not have been able to spend my
summer dancing in this absolutely wonderful place.”
“Your generosity makes scholarships
possible for students such as myself to
spend a beautiful summer at Chautauqua,
where we can actualize our dreams by
studying with the very best ballet faculty.”
“The scholarship I received from you
has been the biggest blessing my family has
experienced in a long time.”
“From the amazing training, teachers
and performance opportunities, to the lifelong friends, I wouldn’t trade my experiences at Chautauqua for anything.”
“Thank you for helping me come one
step closer to my dream of being a professional dancer.”
Needless to say, the CDC is thrilled
Dance at Chautauqua
2016 Amphitheater Programs
Dance Salon
8:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 29
Charlotte Ballet
in Residence
An Evening of
Pas de Deux
8:15 p.m. Wednesday, July 27
Dance Innovations
8:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 12
8:15 p.m. Wednesday, August 3
School of Dance
Student Gala
School of Dance
Student Gala II
2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 17
2:30 p.m. Sunday, August 14
Chautauqua Festival
Dancers with the MSFO
8:15 p.m. Monday, July 25
C H A U TA U Q U A I N S T I T U T I O N • C I W E B . O R G
to have made these scholarships available to these promising young dancers!
A second part of CDC’s mission is educational programming for the Chautauqua community. Don’t miss the very
special July Fourth Views on Pointe
program this summer. Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride will present “Remembering Violette Verdy,”
who passed away suddenly this winter
at the age of 82. Jean-Pierre asked Violette to be his very first dance instructor
when he took over as artistic director
of Chautauqua Dance in 1983. Violette
was an internationally renowned ballerina, choreographer, writer, distinguished professor, artistic director of
the Paris Opera Ballet and the Boston
Ballet, and a beloved dance instructor
at Chautauqua. Jean-Pierre and Patricia
will show a video of Violette teaching
dance students at Chautauqua. This
will take place at 3:30 p.m. Monday, July
4, in the Hall of Christ, after which we
will celebrate CDC’s 10th anniversary.
Other Monday afternoon Views on
Pointe programs include Mark Diamond sharing his thoughts on the Choreographic Workshop, which encourages dance students to choreograph their
own ballets and then have them performed for the public. Dancers David
Morse and Sarah Hayes Harkins will
present the ins and outs of partnering.
We will again host pre-performance
lectures before all dance performances.
All in all, this will be one very special CDC season! We hope you join us!
Opera Guild offers opportunities to partake in exciting new chapter
By Sue Martin
Chautauqua Opera Guild
We are so looking forward to celebrating our 2016 opera season! This summer
will be remarkable to newcomers, as
well as long time opera lovers. Yes, there
will be major operas at the Amphitheater (La Traviata) and at Norton Hall (The
Mikado) as expected, but there will be so
much more. The Guild board members
have been working during the entire
off-season to make the 2016 summer an
extra special one for you. Planning has
extended from the new landscaping
around Norton Hall to a casual-dress
benefit party, The Social Setting, for the
young and not-so-young.
Our new general and artistic director, Steven Osgood, is creating amaz-
ingly new programming this year
which will delight you. Wait until you
witness Opera Invasions! They’ll entice
everyone at parks all over the grounds.
This season the Guild will be hosting several new events, as well as our
annual Guild Picnic on July 21 and Soiree on July 31. Get ready to mark your
calendars! First you’ll want to attend
the Welcome Reception for Osgood on
Sunday, July 3, at Norton Hall. Please
come and introduce yourselves and
your families. Also, be sure to make
reservations, with your friends, for
our pre-opera dinner at the Women’s
Club on July 9, following the Operalogue at Smith Wilkes Hall! And from
2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, July 17, we invite all
adults to our benefit The Social Setting,
to enjoy hors d’oeuvres at the new La
Familia restaurant at the St. Elmo.
Numerous events will whet your
opera appetite this season, including
the dazzling Opera Highlights and
Pops concerts with the Chautauqua
Symphony Orchestra and fascinating
master classes led by Osgood, Marlena
Malas, Craig Rutenberg and John Fisher. In addition, there will be two new
Musical Theater Revues. This year, you
will be able to enjoy a refreshment as
you experience the Artsongs in the Afternoon recitals, Thursday afternoons
during Weeks One through Six, newly
returned to the Athenaeum Hotel Parlor. Make an afternoon of it and stay for
tapas following the recitals!
The Opera Guild continues its
commitment to bringing opera to the
youngest members of the Chautauqua
community, through our educational
programming at the Children’s School
and Club throughout the season. Keep
an eye out for the “Opera on Wheels”
cart and join us for a new Family
Friendly Opera Revue, on July 19 and
Aug. 2. (“Bravo! Bravo!” was standingroom-only last season!)
The Opera Guild this season also
continues its exclusive Adopt-an-Artist
program, which is open only to Guild
members. To get the real “inside scoop”
on the opera from Chautauqua’s extremely talented Young Artists, we invite all of you to consider joining.
lease learn more about the Opera
Guild and consider joining by visiting
ciweb.org/opera-guild. Join us in being a
part of this new chapter in the history
of the Chautauqua Opera Company!
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Spring 2016
Music
L ocal t e am att e nds K e nn e dy C e nt e r
Pa r tn e r s in Ed u cation I nstit u t e
At left, Deborah Sunya Moore (vice
president and director of programming,
Chautauqua Institution), Jennifer Davis
(music teacher, Chautauqua Lake Central
School) and Tim Mains (superintendent,
Jamestown Public Schools) pose in front
of a sculpture of the 35th U.S. president
at the John F. Kennedy Center Partners
in Education Institute in April.
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua
Lake Central School and Jamestown
Public Schools are members of the
Partners in Education program of
the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.
Selected because of their demonstrated
commitment to improvement of
education in and through the arts,
the Partnership Team participates in
collaborative efforts to make the arts
integral to education.
Chautauqua’s participation in the
program is part of a larger arts
education initiative spearheaded by
Moore to more deeply engage with and
serve Chautauqua County students and
teachers through year-round programs.
Logan Chamber Music Series
2 0 1 6 S e ason
4 p.m. Mondays at Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall unless otherwise noted
Subject to change • All chamber music concerts are open-seating
June 27
New York Brass Arts Trio
July 4
Harlem Quartet & Aldo López-Gavilán
July 11
Sixth Floor Project
July 18
Chautauqua Quartet
July 25
Calmus
August 1 Sō Percussion
August 8 • 5 p.m.
Song From the Uproar
This performance takes place in Norton Hall
Steven Osgood, conductor
Abigail Fischer, soprano
NOW Ensemble
Chautauqua Opera Young Artists
Music: Missy Mazzoli
Video: Stephen Taylor
In English with English supertitles
August 15 Lysander Piano Trio
August 22 • 5 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center
G I F T P L A N N I N G and T H E E L E A N O R B . D A U G H E R T Y S O C I E T Y
The following individuals have included Chautauqua in their will, as beneficiary of a retirement plan, IRA, trust, or through a gift of real estate. These Chautauquans are
members of the Eleanor B. Daugherty Society, named for a retired music school teacher from Buffalo, NY, who left a significant bequest to Chautauqua. Chautauqua
Foundation recognizes these thoughtful individuals for their generosity and foresight in helping to ensure the Institution’s future. For more information on how you can
become a member of the Daugherty Society, please call Dusty Nelson, director of gift planning, at 716-357-6409 or email [email protected]
New members are highlighted with the symbol (
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W. Andrew Achenbaum
Joan B. Alexander
Dr. Robert K. Alico
Caroline Thompson & Steve Allen
Joanne and Henry Altland
John E. Anderson
John and Diane Arch
Sherra and Jim Babcock
James M. Bailey
Drs. Arthur and Barbara Banner
Robert and Mary Bargar
Constance Barton
William E. and LaDonna G. Bates
Bob and Joan Battaglin
Robert W. and Janet W. Baum
Nancy Bechtolt
Ann C. Beebe
Mary and Charles Beggerow
Jill and Arnie Bellowe
Christina Bemus
Alice Benedict
Stephen and Edith Benson
Bobbi and Donald Bernstein
Caroline Van Kirk Bissell
Mary Blair
Robert and Jean Boell
Cathy Bonner
June Bonyor
Diana and David Bower
Loretta Bower
Ted Arnn and Mary Boyle
P. James and Barbara Brady
Kathy and James Braham
Barbara and Twig Branch
Sharon and David Britton
Margaret and William Brockman
Steven and Cynthia Brown
Audre Bunis
Frederic J. and Susan Franks Buse
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Buxbaum
Gloria A. Caldwell
Andrew L. and Gayle Shaw Camden
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Carnahan
Susan Cartney
Christine and Ken Caro
Jean Cheney
Carol and Jim Chimento
Molly Rinehart and Charles Christian
Geoff and Kathy Church
Marilyn and Sebastian Ciancio
Hon. and Mrs. Bill Clinger
Joan R. Clouse
John and Bette Cochran
Helen B. Cochrane
Wendell and Ruth Gerrard Cole
Richard and Dorothy Comfort
Jack Connolly
Ira B. Cooperman
Dr. and Mrs. R. William Cornell
John and Emily Corry
Dr. Ellis and Bettsy Cowling
Virginia H. Cox
Martin A. Coyle
John and Linda Creech
Christopher and Susan Cribbs
Joseph and Nancy Cruickshank
Barbara and John Cummings
Lindy McKnight and Erin Cunningham
Courtney Curatolo
).
Laura and Brad Currie
James and Karen Dakin
Dan and Carrie Dauner
Dave and Mary Davenport
David Delancey
Jennifer DeLancey
John P. DeVillars
June and Barry Dietrich
John and Virginia DiPucci
Judith and Roger Doebke
Rev. Linda L. Dominik
Lee and Barbara Dudley
Carol McCarthy Duhme
Cynthia Norton and Eagle Eagle
David and Miriam Eddleman
Rivona Ehrenreich
Stuart and Jan Eisler
Mr. and Mrs. Hal A. Fausnaugh
Sylvia M. Faust
Norma Ferguson
Rita Van Wie Finger
Jennifer and Rich Flanagan
Lucille and Michael Flint
Shirley A. Flynn
George L. Follansbee, Jr.
Caryn and Henry Foltz
Charlotte and Chuck Fowler
Barbara Fox
Zetta Fradin
Joanne Fuller
Lois T. Galloway
Louise Farnsley Gardner
vic and Joan Gelb
Marc Geller
Barbara and Peter Georgescu
William and Nancy Gerdes
Christopher and Helena Gibbs
Lauren Rich Fine and Gary Giller
Sherry Stanley and John Giusti
Carole E. Gladstone
Joseph and Toni L. Goldfarb
Karen and Tim Goodell
Ellen and Bob Gottfried
Dr. Cheryl O. Gorelick
Carolyn Graffam
Suzanne Gray
Rodney Schlaffman Greenberg
Elizabeth Greene
Don and Kathy Greenhouse
Fred and Judy Gregory
Susan Grelick
Kent I. and Fredrika S. Groff
Elisabeth and Jim Groninger
Carl Grunfeld
Travis and Betty Halford
Pegi Hamner
Mr. James Pryor Hancock
Kathleen E. Hancock
Judith L. Hanson
Walter and Joan Harf
Terrie Vaile Hauck
Paula and Ray Hecker
William and Anne Mischakoff Heiles
George Herchenroether
Dorothy and Bill Hill
Patricia and Robert Hirt
Sally L. Holder
Anita and Sidney Holec
Bob Hopper
Kathleen Howard
Cheryl S. and Carl W. Huber, Jr.
Pat and Jay Hudson
Gale T. Hurst
Don and Mary Hustead
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot W. Irish
Mary Ellen and Robert Ivers
Bob and Gretchen Jahrling
Catherine Jarjisian
Bob Jeffrey
Karin A. Johnson
Barbara and Walter Jones
Lucille Jordan
John F. and Mary Giegengack Jureller
Jeannette Kahlenberg
Norman and Nancy Karp
Bill and Martha Karslake
Judy and Leonard Katz
Naomi and Charles Kaufman
Joan Keogh
Jane and Chaz Kerschner
Patricia L. King
William M. Kinley
Bob and Priscilla Kirkpatrick
Joan G. Kissner
Hans and Ann Gosnell Knaak
Audrey and Kenny Koblitz
Donna and Stewart Kohl
Chuck and Peg Korte
Robert S. Kravitz, DDS
Judy and Jim Kullberg
Robert and Nancy Kyler
Robert D. Lang
Joseph and Judy Langmead
Robert E. and Susan Laubach
Barbara Widrig Lee
CiCi and Owen Lee
Eileen and Marty Leinwand
Ronald and Barbara Leirvik
Clare Levin
Kathryn Lincoln
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Lind
Natalie Kahn Lipsett
Fred and Pearl Livingstone
Kay H. Logan
Paul and Anne Luchsinger
Jeannette Ludwig and Claude Welch
Linda and Saul Ludwig
James H. Lynch, Jr.
Betty and Sid Lyons
Ross Mackenzie
Barbara Mackey
Robert L. and Jean A. Major
Dorothea and Gerald Maloney
Jane and Deac Manross
Alison and Craig Marthinsen
Salvatore and Mary Martoche
Mrs. Patricia L. Maue
Jack and Yvonne McCredie
Pat and Griff McDonald
Geraldine McElree
Susan McKee and Hal Simmons
Robert J. and Carol G. McKiernan
Amy and Pat Mead
Mary Lu Mertz
Don and Alyce Milks
Cynthia B. Miller
Greg and Bijou Miller
Miriam S. Reading and
Richard H. Miller
Kurt Miller and Karen Williams Miller
Sylvia Lucas Miller
KeeKee Minor
Dr. Steve and Mary Gibbs Mitchell
James and Judith Moffitt
Richard and Quack Moore
Sally Moore
Mary Anne Morefield
Wayne and Marilyn Morris
Mary and Thomas Mulroy
Donna B. Mummery
Cynthia and Robert Murray
Dusty Nelson
Linda and Alan Nelson
Jay and Joyce Nesbit
Karen Paul Newhall
Dr. Lillian Ney
Susan Nusbaum
Anne and Stephen Odland
Monica Ondrusko
Melissa and George Orlov
Barbara Brandwein Painkin
Anne and Jack Palomaki
Mary Lou Cady Parlato
Joseph D. and Susan O. Patton
Edward Paul
Pete and Sarah Pedersen
Rosalie H. Pembridge
Katherine and James R. Pender
Steve and Polly Percy
Ginny and Bob Perkins
Tim and Pat Peters
Mary and Bob Pickens
Mr. and Mrs. W. Stephen Piper
John and Eleanor Pless
Gloria Plevin
Av and Janet Posner
Edna Posner
Jeff and Judy Posner
Sam Price
Barbara Rait
Lois Raynow
Harold Reed
Kirk and Susan Reed
Sherry S. Reid
Thurston and Suzanne Reid
Leslie and Tim Renjilian
Ellen J. Reynolds
Les Reynolds and
Diane Payne Reynolds
Neal and Linda Rhoads
Charles and Trudy Rhodes
Mrs. Jack Rice
Kathleen Riley
Patricia Rittman
Jerrie Hawkins Roba
Philip and Rachel Rogers
Sarah and David Rosen
Annette Ross
Joyce and Richard Ross
Dr. James and Sharon Roth
Marcia and Jerry Rothschild
Dale and Howard Sanders
William and Jone Schlackman
Edward C. Schmidt
Barbara F. Schmitt
J. Jason Phillips and Sheila Schroeder
John and Barbara Schubert
Susan B. Scott
Sheldon and Phyllis Seligsohn
Becky Sharp
Mary Ellen Sheridan
Elaine and Allen Short
Suzanne Shull
Elizabeth Wade Siegel
Harriet Simons
Edie and Dan Sklar
Penny and Tom Small
Darwin and Myra Smith
Ted Smith
George and Maggie Snyder
Benjamin S. and
Anna Fornias Sorensen
Merritt H. and David S. Spier
Rabbi Samuel and Lynn Stahl
Sherry Stanley
Dorothy B. Stevenson
Carole Stevens
Lowell and Rebecca Strohl
Lydia Strohl and Eric Riddleberger
Shirley and Donald Struchen
Ann H. and Daniel F. Sullivan
Mrs. W. Wendle Taggart
Joyce Tate
Margery B. Tate
Martha Teich
Stephen and Patricia Telkins
Janet Templeton
Linda Thomas
Allison O. Titgemeier
Beatrice C. Treat
Susan and Jack Turben
Karen S. Turcotte
Mary Tymeson
Rev. George E. Tutwiler
Mrs. Spencer Van Kirk
Tara Van Derveer
Judith Claire and Robert W. VanEvery
Dr. Carol Voaden
Edward and Melanie Voboril
Arlene and Irving Vogel
Nancy Waasdorp
Linda Wadsworth
Laurence and Maria Wagner
Carolyn and Bill Ward
Jo-an M. Webb
Herbert R. and Lorraine H. Weier
Linda Steckley and Pete Weitzel
Cynthia C. and Terry R. White
Lee White
Heather L. Whitestone and Caroline
M. K. Le Vasseur
Dr. Jeanne Wiebenga
Mark Williams
Dent and Joan Williamson
Jane Foster and Arthur Willson
Mrs. Jean Wilson
Lou B. Wineman
Subagh Kaur and
Subagh Khalsa Winkelstern
Sally L. Wissel
Susan O. Wood
Caroline Young
Robert and Donna Zellers
Patricia Feighan and Stephen Zenczak
Barbara Zuegel
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Community / Music
Connections offers support,
link to broader Chautauqua
community for students
By now you’ve probably ordered
your gate tickets and parking pass and
made a list of the ministers, lectures,
operas, plays and concerts you don’t
want to miss. But are you aware of a
program that can enrich your time at
Chautauqua and carry into the off-season for many years to come?
That program is called Chautauqua
Connections, and it costs nothing to
join.
Connections is the largest and
most diverse of “adoption” programs
at Chautauqua (the community support groups for the visual arts, opera
and theater operate similar programs
in their areas). At its core, it’s simply a
commitment to extend friendship to a
budding talent.
The Connections program, spearheaded by Susan Helm and a few volunteers, links community members
with students in the School of Music
(Music School Festival Orchestra, voice
and piano), dancers, Chautauquan Daily
interns and APYA (Abrahamic Program for Young Adults) coordinators.
Connections offers the students and
interns a link to the greater Chautauqua community, and to Chautauquans
who are interested in and supportive
of their endeavors.
What’s involved in being a Connection?
Connections “parents” have many
options to interact with their students
during the summer: attending their
performances and cheering them on,
inviting them for a meal or meeting
for dessert and coffee, offering the use
of a washer and dryer or just a quiet
place to hang out. Friendships developed during the summer often extend
into the off-season and for many years
thereafter.
As you attend performances this
summer, you’re sure to meet Chautauquans wearing a bright button saying
“Ask me about my Connection!” Or
you’ll hear friends talking enthusiastically about their “Piano son” or “my
Voice daughter.” How did they find
these student Connections? It’s easy
for anyone to do — you, for instance!
First, ask yourself what your main
interests are. Do you have a favorite
orchestral instrument? Are you enamored of dance? Are you thrilled by
the unamplified sound of the human
voice? Are you a closet journalist who
writes an occasional letter to the editor?
Then contact Susan Helm at smhelm@
clockwinders.net, ask to join the Connections program, tell her what discipline
you’re interested in, and she’ll find just
the right student or intern to be your
very own Connection. Yes, you get a
free Connections button, too!
Community Band continues 26-year
traditions, welcomes new members
Last summer the Chautauqua Community Band celebrated its 25th anniversary. 2016 marks the beginning of
our second quarter-century.
As always the Community Band
will appear on the Fourth of July and
Old First Night (Aug. 2) on Bestor Plaza. Both concerts begin at 12:15 p.m.
Tradition, patriotism, community
spirit and the Chautauqua Community
Band are almost synonymous. The July
Fourth concert will feature American
music with marches, show tunes, and
the usual audience participation with
children marching and conducting,
face painting, the audience sing-along
and the traditional red, white and blue
patriotic attire of our fans.
At 12:15 p.m. on Old First Night, the
band will present a variety of band
music from around the world. This is
the perfect way for the community to
kick off the OFN celebration with block
parties and porch parties to follow before the evening festivities in the Amp.
The Community Band is a true
melting pot of the Chautauqua community, with all segments represented
— students from the MSFO, members
of the CSO and Chautauquans from
on the grounds and from nearby communities, all coming together to make
music for the pleasure and entertainment of all Chautauquans.
Any Chautauquan who can play
an instrument is invited to be a Community Band member. Members are
provided a T-shirt, lunch on the performance dates and lots of great vibes.
There is one rehearsal for each concert:
at 4:45 p.m. Friday, July 1, and at 4:30
p.m. Thursday, July 28, both in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall. Contact conductor
Jason Weintraub by email at jason_
[email protected], call 716-357-6217
after June 1, or simply show up.
Mark those dates, get out your blankets and lawn chairs, and come share
in the community spirit with Chautauqua’s own Community Band.
CSO League grows Whitaker Fund
through special musician-hosted dinner
The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra musicians will be hosting a very
special dinner on Monday, July 11, at
the Chautauqua Golf Club. Orchestra
musicians will be cooking their specialties and sharing a meal with CSO
League members. The cost for the dinner is $30, and all proceeds will go directly to the Mary Whitaker Endowment Fund for the CSO. In addition to
contributing through the dinner ticket
cost, attendees will be tempted by Si-
lent Auction Experiences. Items up for
bid include private in-home concerts
by CSO members, dinners cooked by
musicians, a round of golf with CSO
musicians, an informal language lesson with a musician, boating with a
CSO member and many more.
This promises to be a wonderful
evening, so please be sure to become a
member of the CSO League and to be on
the lookout for more information about
reserving your spot for the dinner.
C H A U T A U Q U A S Y M P H O N Y O R C HE S T R A
2 0 1 6 C ond u cto r s & soloists
Thursday, June 30 · 8:15 p.m.*
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Saturday, July 2 · 8:15 p.m.
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Jennifer Koh, violin
Monday, July 4 · 8 p.m. · Pops Concert: Independence Day Celebration
Stuart Chafetz, conductor
Nicole Parker, vocalist
Aldo López-Gavilán, piano
Ilmar Gavilán, violin
Thursday, July 7 · 8:15 p.m.*
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Alexander Korsantia, piano
Tuesday, July 12 · 8:15 p.m.
Charlotte Ballet in Residence
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, director
Grant Cooper, conductor
Thursday, July 14 · 8:15 p.m.*
Teddy Abrams, conductor
Edgar Meyer, bass
Saturday, July 16 · 8:15 p.m. · Opera Highlights Concert
Chautauqua Opera Apprentice and Studio Artists
Steven Osgood, conductor
Kathleen Smith Belcher, stage director
Tuesday, July 19 · 8:15 p.m. · Into the Music No. 1: “Bernstein on Broadway”*
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Thursday, July 21 · 8:15 p.m.
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Felix Fan, cello
Composer Annie Gosfield is the Music Alive: New Partnerships
Composer-in-Residence with Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
Music Alive: New Partnerships is a national residency program of
New Music USA and the League of American Orchestras.
Saturday, July 23 · 8:15 p.m.
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano
Tuesday, July 26 · 8:15 p.m. · Into the Music No. 2: “Total Tchaikovsky”
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Abigail Rethwisch, soprano
Collaboration with Chautauqua Dance
Thursday, July 28 · 8:15 p.m.*
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Charles Berginc, trumpet
Kathryn Henry, soprano
Chautauqua Theater Company
Andrew Borba, director
Saturday, July 30 · 8:15 p.m. · CSO with the Music School Festival Orchestra
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Thursday, August 4 · 8:15 p.m.
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Marina Piccinini, flute
Saturday, August 6 · 8:15 p.m. · Opera Pops Concert
Chautauqua Opera Apprentice and Studio Artists
Stuart Chafetz, conductor
Kathleen Smith Belcher, stage director
Sunday, August 7 · 2:30 p.m. · Special Matinée
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Friday, August 12 · 8:15 p.m.
Charlotte Ballet in Residence
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, director
Grant Cooper, conductor
Brian Reagin, violin
Nataliya Pinelis, piano
Saturday, August 13 · 8:15 p.m.
Chris Botti & Joshua Bell with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
Maxim Eshkenazy, conductor
Tuesday, August 16 · 8:15 p.m. · Into the Music No. 3: “An Evening in Spain”
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Jason Vieaux, guitar
Thursday, August 18 · 8:15 p.m.
Ankush Kumar Bahl, conductor
Nicolas Dautricourt, violin
Saturday, August 20 · 8:15 p.m. · “Night at the Movies”
Rossen Milanov, conductor
Tuesday, August 23 · 8:15 p.m.*
Cristian Macelaru, conductor
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Preview performance of new work by Wynton Marsalis
*Community Appreciation Night
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Hurlbut Church prepares for
another summer of service
Hurlbut Memorial Community
Church is a United Methodist Church
with an ecumenical outlook.
Worship occurs at 10:45 a.m. Sundays through June 19 and is preceded
by church school at 9:30 a.m. Beginning
June 26, Hurlbut worships at 8:30 a.m.
Sundays during the summer. The early
Sunday morning worship service offers
a brief message, scriptures, music and
communion. Please join us for these
faith-filled experiences. At Hurlbut everyone is invited to join us for Christian
worship, education, fellowship and service. Our doors are always open! Hurlbut Church also serves lunches, dinners, hamburgers and hot dogs
during the nine weeks of the Chautauqua season. All proceeds the church
receives from these meals support our
missions and ministries of this church.
Come by and enjoy lunches, dinners,
and the Sunday lemonade stand with
us! Hurlbut’s lunches are served Monday to Friday; they allow the families
at Chautauqua, visitors, employees
and anyone who is hungry to enjoy a
reasonably priced, nutritious lunch.
Lunch is served from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15
p.m. weekdays; a turkey dinner on
Thursday begins at 5 p.m. The Hurlbut Lemonade Stand will be
open on Sundays during the summer
starting at 9:30 a.m.! Please come by for
coffee, rolls, hot dogs or hamburgers.
If you would like to volunteer to
help with the lemonade stand, lunch
or the turkey dinner, please contact
us at 716-357-4045. Hurlbut Church
considers this ministry a way of being
of service in our summer community.
We look forward to welcoming you
and serving you. Good friends! Good
food! Serving with a smile!
The church is handicapped-accessible on all levels, since having a limited
use/limited access (LULA) elevator installed a few years ago.
In an older building, repairs are
constantly needed, so Hurlbut Church
always has a new building project going on. Last year, the dining room at
Hurlbut was upgraded by having new
windows, flooring, lights and the walls
redone. This year, the major project was
replacing several cracked beams and
ceiling tiles in the Marion Lawrance
room. We are still looking to replace all
the non-stained glass windows in the
building. Replacing the current single
pane windows will improve energy
efficiency, comfort and safety, as they
will open for easier egress from the
building in an emergency. Gifts earmarked for completion of the building
project are most appreciated. We are encouraged that Hurlbut
and the Chautauqua communities continue to show support, generosity and
faithful stewardship.
DENOMINATIONAL HOUSES
AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS
In addition to Department of Religion programs, denominational houses
and religious organizations at Chautauqua Institution offer religious
services, lectures and low-cost housing options during the nine-week
Chautauqua Season.
Please use the contact information below for more information about
programming and accommodations. Emails and phone numbers are
provided for houses and organizations without a website.
Baha’i Faith
Linda Gillette, chair • [email protected], 716.673.1634
Rick Snyder • [email protected], 716.372.3663
Baptist House
Katie White, host • [email protected], 716.357.3671 (Season)
Catholic House
Website: www.chautauquacatholics.org • E-mail: [email protected]
Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua
Website: www.cocweb.org
Chautauqua Assoc. Disciples of Christ (CADC)
“Disciples Houses”
David Lollis, CADC administrator • [email protected],
716.581.3212
Chautauqua Christian Fellowship
Francie Pickens Oliver, chair • [email protected], 512.587.8120,
716.357.2711 (S)
Christian Science House and Chapel
E-mail: [email protected], Phone: 716.357.2334 (S)
Ecumenical Community of Chautauqua
Website: www.ecoc-chautauqua.org
Gluck to serve as Mystic Heart
Week Nine teacher-in-residence
In its 17th year, the Mystic Heart
Program will expand to offer an even
greater variety of meditation instruction and practice.
Maureen Rovegno, associate director of the Department of Religion,
along with Subagh Singh, co-director
of the Mystic Heart, have announced
that David Gluck, a lifelong Chautauquan, will be teacher-in-residence during Week Nine.
“We are especially pleased that David will be joining us,” said Singh. “He
is a highly qualified teacher of Hindu
and Yoga philosophy and practice, and
his addition as teacher will beautifully
round out our offerings.”
Besides Hindu-based meditation,
the Mystic Heart also shares meditation
techniques and wisdom drawn from
Sikh, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and
Sufi traditions. As the name implies,
the Mystic Heart Meditation Program
seeks to reveal the mystic experience at
the heart of all faiths and wisdom traditions. Each week a different tradition
is represented by the teacher-in-residence, who leads morning meditation
and afternoon seminars. There is also
a weekly Centering Prayer meditation
on Thursday evenings.
The mission of the Mystic Heart is
to provide Chautauquans with opportunities to join with others to learn
about and to experience meditation.
All sessions are open to anyone, from
any background and with any level of
prior experience.
“It is a gift to our community that
people of different faiths or no faith,
with years of experience or no experience, can sit together and get in touch
with their own most peaceful, loving,
compassionate self,” Rovegno said.
A full schedule of Mystic Heart
programs and teacher profiles can be
found at themysticheart.org.
Unity announces 2016 ministers
Unity of Chautauqua guest ministers have been selected for the 2016
season. Ministers in weekly order will
be: the Rev. Ann Marie Acacio, Swoyersville, Pennsylvania; the Rev. Robin
Volker, Delaware, Ohio; the Rev. Marilyn Jackson, Uniondale, New York; the
Rev. Lori Hisson, London, Ontario,
Canada; the Rev. Anna Shouse, Austin, Texas; the Rev. James Stacey, Sunrise Beach, Missouri; the Revs. Patricia
Gulino and Don Laskey, Barboursville, Virginia; the Rev. Linda Taylor,
Roanoke, Virginia; and the Rev. Terry
Dearmore, Manassas, Virginia.
In addition to serving as guest minister for the Sunday morning service at
9:30 a.m. in the Hall of Missions, they
will offer meditation each weekday
morning from 8 to 8:20 a.m., also in the
Hall of Missions. From 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Wednesdays the guest minister for the
week will present a lecture on Unity’s
Positive Path for Spiritual Living, to be
held in the meeting room of the Chautauqua Institution Welcome Center.
The Rev. Ron Neff is minister of Unity
of Chautauqua and Jo-An Webb, Chautauqua, is president of the board of directors. Other board members are Kelly Mareri and Virginia Richardson of
Jamestown, New York, Valerie DiCarlo,
Westlake, New York, and Licensed Unity Teacher Amy Neff of Stuart, Florida.
Episcopal Cottage
Website: www.episcopalcottage.com (also for reservations)
Everett Jewish Life Center at Chautauqua (EJLCC)
Marcia and Jerry Pops, hosts • [email protected], 716.357.2077 (S)
Hebrew Congregation of Chautauqua
Website: www.hebrewcongregationchautauqua.org
Hurlbut Memorial Community United Methodist Church
The Rev. Carmen Perry, pastor • [email protected], 716.357.4045
International Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons
(IOKDS)
Phone: 716.357.4951 (year-round)
Vickie Carter, scholarship program director • [email protected]
Lutheran House
Website: www.lutheranhouse.org
Metropolitan Community Church Fellowship
(Sponsor of Lesbian and Gay Group and PFLAG of Chautauqua Institution)
Monte Thompson, leader • [email protected]
Presbyterian House
Merrilee Harrington, manager • [email protected]
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Eleanor Doud • [email protected], 716.782.3570
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Website: www.uufchautauqua.org • E-mail: [email protected]
Chautauqua UCC Society (United Church of Christ)
• Mayflower House, Reformed Church House, Headquarters Building
Website: www.cuccs.org
United Methodist House
Website: www.umhouse.com
United Methodist Missionary Vacation Home
The Rev. Paul Womack and Natalie Hanson, hosts • [email protected],
716.807.1728
Fenton Memorial Deaconess Home
Scott Vickery, [email protected]
Unity of Chautauqua
Website: www.unitycha.org
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Everett Center releases film
series listing, lecture topics
2016 will mark the Everett Jewish
Life Center at Chautauqua’s (EJLCC)
eighth year. It is Chautauqua’s Jewish denominational house, and it welcomes the Jewish and larger Chautauqua community to share in the joy of
learning and life.
The EJLCC offers a bed and breakfast with five rooms and provides diverse programs, including a film series,
a speaker series, book signings and Yiddish conversations (Thursdays, Weeks
Two to Seven). Complete information
about the EJLCC can be found on its
website, jewishcenterchautauqua.org.
In addition to a staff of a host couple and a program intern, the EJLCC is
administered by a 12-person volunteer
board, including Edith Everett as the
founding chair. The board provides
a vision for the center and sets very
high standards for managing ELJCC’s
finances, maintaining the building,
creating a superb bed and breakfast
experience and program planning.
Beyond the staff and board, EJLCC’s
success is highly dependent on a core
of volunteers who provide hospitality,
serve as ushers, act as coordinators for
the speakers, curate the Center’s film
series and facilitate the Yiddish language conversations.
The EJLCC is always interested in
new ideas and new volunteers. If you
are interested in giving some time to
support the Center, please email info@
jewishcenterchautauqua.org. Your help is
needed and would be so appreciated.
The film series takes place at 3:30
p.m. Sundays and Wednesdays and
will feature “The Farewell Party”
(Week One), “Deli Man” (Week Two),
“Belle and Sebastian” (Week Three),
“The Last Mensch” (Week Four), “The
Green Prince” (Week Six), “Dough”
(Week Seven), “Run Boy Run” (Week
Eight) and “The Outrageous Sophie
Tucker” (Week Nine).
On Aug. 7, the EJLCC will host
“Movie With a Nosh” featuring
“Dough,” a comic British film about a
London Jewish baker who is desperate
to keep his business going in a changing neighborhood. A dessert and sundae buffet will follow.
E J L C C 2 0 1 6 L e ct u r e r s and T opics
Monday afternoons, Tuesdays at noon and some Wednesdays
Week One: Steven Katz, Alvin J. and
Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish Holocaust
studies at Boston University. “Rethinking
Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust”
and “Saving Jews during the Holocaust”
Week Two: Sarah Bunin Benor, associate
professor of contemporary Jewish
studies at the Los Angeles campus of
Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute
of Religion. “Chutzpah to Chidush: A
Century of Yiddish-Influenced English
in America” and “Becoming Frum: How
Newcomers Learn the Language and
Culture of Orthodox Judaism.”
Steven Windmueller, professor emeritus
at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion. “Are Jews Becoming
Republicans: The 2016 Presidential
Campaign and the Jewish Vote”
WEEK THREE: Irvin Ungar, CEO, Historicana.
“Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur
Szyk” and “Freedom Illuminated:
Understanding The Szyk Haggadah”
WEEK FOUR: Yossi Praeger, executive
director for North America, The Avi Chai
Foundation. “What Lincoln’s Second
Inaugural Address Teaches Us About
Lincoln’s Religious Worldview – and Our
Own” and “Applied Jewish Wisdom:
Jewish Values in Charitable Giving”
WEEK FIVE: Anne Lapidus Lerner, assistant
professor emerita of Jewish literature,
Jewish Theological Seminary. “Eve
Exposed” and “Are We Bound by the
Binding of Isaac?”
WEEK SIX: Jeremy Ben-Ami, president, J
Street. “Choices Ahead: Defining the
Future of Israel and Its Relationship with
the American Jewish Community” and
“What Can be Done to Save the TwoState Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict?”
Robert Goldberg, CEO and executive
director of the Jewish Federation of
Greater Buffalo. “The New Jewish
Community”
WEEK SEVEN: Shai Feldman, Judith and
Sidney Swartz Director, Crown Center for
Middle East Studies, Brandeis University.
“The Chaotic Middle East: Impact on
Israel’s National Security” and “Israel,
the U.S. and the New Middle East:
Challenges and Opportunities”
WEEK EIGHT: Tamara Cofman-Wittes,
director, Saban Center for Middle East
Policy, Brookings Institution. “American
Intervention in the Middle East: What
Have We Learned?” and “Slouching
Toward Bethlehem: What Future for the
Middle East”
WEEK NINE: Shalom Sabar, professor
of Jewish art and folklore, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. “Rembrandt and
the Jews: Between Myth and Reality”
and “Religious Ideology and Visual
Culture: The Sacrifice of Isaac in Jewish,
Christian and Islamic Art
Hebrew Congregation plans
Chabad Lubavitch readies full
welcoming activities all season summer of educational events
In 2016, the Chautauqua Hebrew
Congregation will celebrate 56 years
of service to the Chautauqua community, including religious services,
social events, educational talks and
a music scholarship program. We coordinate our efforts with the Chautauqua Department of Religion in an
effort to ensure that our events are
welcoming to all Chautauquans.
Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat
services at the lake, from 5 to 6 p.m.,
take place in a beautiful setting near
Miller Bell Tower. On Saturday mornings, from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., we have
inspiring services led by a rabbi and
cantorial song leader in the Hurlbut
Church sanctuary, followed by delicious kiddush lunches. We welcome
back this year Rabbis Frank Muller
(Youngstown, Ohio), Samuel Stahl
(San Antonio, Texas), Ron Symons
(Pittsburgh), and Elyse Goldstein (Toronto) to conduct services. Also this
year, Rabbis Sid Schwarz (Bethesda,
Maryland), Joshua Caruso (Beachwood, Ohio) and Emily Losben-Ostrov (Erie, Pennsylvania) will join our
roster of distinguished rabbis. Many
of our favorite song leaders will also
be returning this year.
We will sponsor two Friday night
Shabbat dinners at the Everett Jewish
Life Center (July 16 and July 30). In
addition, there will be two Havdalah
services (July 9 and Aug. 6), in the garden behind Smith Wilkes Hall and a
Tisha B’Av service on Aug. 13–14.
This year the Shirley Lazarus
Speakers Series, held on Sunday
nights from 8 to 9 p.m. in the Hurlbut
sanctuary, will feature many familiar
Chautauquans, including Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux of
Chautauqua Dance; the Rev. Carmen
Perry, Hurlbut Church pastor; and
Rossen Milanov, music director of the
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. In
addition, we look forward to the following presentations: Shel Seligsohn
on “Louis Brandeis, A Man for all
Seasons”; the Rev. Frank Sherman
on “Building a New Relationship:
Christian-Jewish Relations in the 21st
Century”; and Jerry Pops on “William Friedman: Breaking the Japanese
Purple Cypher.” The presentations
are always followed by refreshments.
After the program, transportation is
provided throughout the grounds of
Chautauqua.
The Tuesday afternoon social hour
and refreshments program, held in
the Everett Jewish Life Center, encourages social interactions and group discussions, always including refreshments. This program is a great way
to introduce new Chautauquans to
our congregation. A special feature of
the social hour is our annual student
musical recital, featuring fine young
musicians who have received scholarships from our congregation.
The board of directors for the Hebrew Congregation consists of Renee
Andrews (president), Gloria Gould,
(vice-president programming), Larry
Cohen (recording secretary), Joan
Harf (corresponding secretary), Burt
Zucker (treasurer), Joan Spirtas (publicity chair) and at-large members Bob
Gottfried, Patty Lemer, Carole Reeder
and Eleanor Pless. We extend special thanks to our social committee:
Judy Farber, Marilyn Neuman, Sandi
Zucker, Betty Salz, Carole Wolsh and
Judy Katz.
Our egalitarian nature and welcoming atmosphere, which extends
to all Chautauquans, are hallmarks of
the Hebrew Congregation. Updated
information can be found on our website hebrewcongregationchautauqua.org.
Please join us during this year to celebrate all that the Hebrew Congregation has to offer at Chautauqua!
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Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua
welcomes all Chautauquans to participate in their many programs this
upcoming season. Chabad’s events
include daily classes, weekly services,
special lectures, Kosher BBQs and
Community Shabbat Dinners, amonth
many others.
At 9:15 a.m. most weekdays, Chabad
presents classes at the Zigdon Chabad
Jewish House at 23 Vincent (note the
change in location for this season).
Class topics include “Everyday Ethics” on Mondays (July 4 to Aug. 22,
excluding July 11); “Maimonides”
on Tuesdays (July 5 to Aug. 23); “Kabalah ‘n’ Psychology on Wednesdays
(June 29, July 6, July 13 and Aug. 17);
“Talmudic Ethics on Thursdays (June
30 to Aug. 18, excluding Aug. 4); and
“Prayer Re-Examined” on Fridays
(July 1 to Aug. 19). Fridays will also
feature Challa Baking at 12:15 p.m.,
also at Zigdon Chabad Jewish House.
Chabad hosts a Shabbat service and
kiddush from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Saturdays (June 25 to Aug. 20). Men’s
Tefilin Club meets on five Sundays
(June 26, July 17, July 24, Aug. 7 and
Aug. 21) at 9:30 a.m. There will also be
the Tisha B’Av service at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, followed by a service
and lamentations from 9:30 to 11:30
a.m. Sunday, Aug. 14. All these services take place at the Zigdon Chabad
Jewish House.
Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin, leader of
Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua,
will present three 9:15 a.m. Hall of
Philosophy special lectures throughout the season, co-sponsored by Chautauqua’s Department of Religion. Topics and dates include “Laughter is the
Best Medicine” on Wednesday, July
20; “Medical Ethics” on Wednesday,
July 27; and “Anti-Semitism Then and
Now” on Wednesday, Aug. 10.
Chabad’s two annual Kosher BBQs
will again be held from 12 to 2 p.m.
(if rain, 5 to 7 p.m.) on Sunday, July 3,
and Sunday, July 31, at Miller Park.
The entire Chautauqua community is
invited, and there is a small fee. The
Balloon Man and Happy the Clown
will entertain the children.
Chabad also invites all Chautauquan to attend two Community Shabbat Dinners, at 7 p.m. Friday, July 15,
and Friday, Aug. 19, at the Zigdon
Chabad Jewish House. A traditional
four-course kosher Shabbat dinner
will be served along with sharing of
stories, Torah thoughts and Shabbat
songs. Advanced reservations are necessary as space is limited. There is a fee
for this event.
Finally, the Zigdon Chabad Jewish
House will host several special events
throughout the summer.
A special lecture will be presented
from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July
12, by Joseph Bensmihen, the former
CEO and owner of Boca Home Care
Services and President of Private Care
Association of Florida. Diagnosed
with spastic cerebral palsy as a child,
he became instrumental in having
the Canadian law for mainstreaming
children with disabilities changed.
Bensmihen graduated from Yeshiva
University with a bachelor’s degree in
political science and earned a master’s
degree from the Wurtzweiler School
of Social Work. He then spent two
years working at the Bank of Montreal teaching employers how to mainstream talented people with disabilities into the financial sector.
An Open House “Meet and Greet”
will be held from 12 to 2 p.m. on three
Sundays: July 17, Aug. 3 and Aug. 21.
There will be a screening of the film
“Shadows from My Past” from 4:30 to
6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16, and Chabad
is also planning to host “Game Nights
for Kids” during the season. Details to
follow.
The Vilenkins will continue to
serve as a religious and scholarly resources on the Chautauqua grounds
for questions of Jewish law and other
Judaic needs. They can be reached at
917-364-1013, [email protected] or during the summer at the Zigdon Chabad
Jewish house (716-357-3467).
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community
CWC in 2016
House tour, Kiblin park dedication,
events
monarch initiative highlight BTG’s 2016 offers
you won’t
By Nancy Wolfe
Bird, Tree & Garden Club
The Bird, Tree & Garden Club begins its 103rd year at Chautauqua
with plans to offer 100 free programs
throughout the season. The headliner
event that supports these BTG programs is “Little Journeys to Homes in
Chautauqua” a house tour scheduled
for July 12.
The house tour, a biennial event,
has been a Chautauqua tradition for
60 years. Ticketholders are welcomed
into a dozen homes including charming cottages and expansive lakefront
houses. A preview event with architect Bob Jeffrey is scheduled on July 7.
House Tour tickets, at $30, are available on line and allow admission to the
grounds from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. that day,
attendance at the Amphitheater morning programs, shopping discounts at
Chautauqua stores and light refreshments in historic Norton Hall.
The Arboretum, a serene parklike
space at the south end of the grounds,
last received refurbishing 10 years ago.
This year will see a joint effort with
BTG offering support as the Institution’s Gardens and Landscapes staff
begins needed updating.
“Bring Back Monarchs” is the new
BTG initiative. The use of herbicides
and insecticides has decimated the
habitats of many species, including
that of the amazing monarch butterfly. By educating Chautauquans to use
butterfly-friendly native plants, which
incidentally do not require garden
chemicals and irrigation, BTG seeks
to establish butterfly waystations. Sev-
want to miss
Provided photo by Angela James
The Park Cottage at 45 North Lake are one of the private Chautauqua homes included
in the 2016 Bird, Tree & Garden Club House Tour.
eral Monarch Moments programs on
Mondays and a native-plant sale will
support the initiative. Widespread
cooperation of Chautauqua property
owners in this project will also reduce
polluting runoff into the lake.
The dedication of the Ryan Kiblin
Memorial Stormwater Park this summer
culminates efforts to honor the Institution’s late supervisor of grounds, gardens and landscapes. BTG and its members led the way and have contributed
$30,000 toward the memorial garden.
Endangered species, bird songs,
Beatrix Potter’s garden and the alarming impact of microplastics on our ecosystems are among the varied topics
included in BTG’s Tuesday Brown Bag
programs at Smith Wilkes Hall.
Throughout this summer’s season,
Lake Walks, Bird Talks and Walks,
Bat Chats, Garden Walks, Purple Mar-
tin Chats, Ravine Programs and Nature Walks are scheduled, and many
of these programs are appropriate for
children. Also Chris Flanders, a Master
Gardener, will present a new series of
garden workshops for adults. Recent additions to BTG’s summer programs just
for children are the library story hour,
featuring nature and wildlife with the
Institution’s Betsy Burgeson, and the
Children’s School garden programs.
Bird, Tree & Garden Club is deeply
appreciative of its collaborators: Chautauqua Institution, Smith Memorial
Library, Chautauqua Watershed Conversancy, the Chautauqua Lake Association, the Roger Tory Peterson Institution and Jamestown Audubon.
House Tour tickets, and the dates
and locations for Bird, Tree & Garden
Club programs are available on the
BTG website, chautauquabtg.org.
CPOA continues work to improve lighting, safety
By Bill Neches
Chautauqua Property Owners Association
Your Chautauqua Property Owners Association (CPOA) is dedicated to
maintain and enhance quality of life
on the grounds during and beyond the
season. Your dues and donations are
used to sponsor events and to support
the Institution in its parallel mission.
CPOA Officers and Board of Directors:
• President:
Bill Neches
•Vice President:
Barbara Brady
•Secretary:
Debra Dinnocenzo
•Treasurer:
Chip Gamble
•Area Representatives:
Karen Conover (Area 1)
Dianne Hess (Area 2)
Jim Vance (Area 3)
Helen Habenicht (Area 4)
John Dilley (Area 5)
Suzanne Shull (Area 6)
Fred Rice (Area 7)
Phil Carl (Area 8)
Chris Anderson (Area 9)
Carrie Zachry (Area 10)
Darlene Johnston (member at large)
•Class B Chautauqua Trustees:
Greg Miller, Bob Jeffrey,
Hugh Butler, Jim Klingensmith
•Affiliates:
Laura Damon (North Lake
Informed Citizens)
Richard Parlato (POWR)
Jim Lampl (Safety and
Transportation Chair)
The CPOA Outdoor Lighting Committee, chaired by John Dilley, facili-
tated the installation of new LED street
lighting on North Lake Drive. After
lengthy discussions with National
Grid for a number of years, we are
close to an agreement which will have
great impact on the future of street
lighting in Chautauqua. A long-range
plan has been developed to replace our
street lighting with new, energy efficient LED lights. We hope to be able to
begin the installation of the Chautauqua Gateway Demonstration Project in
conjunction with the U.S. Department
of Energy (new LED street lighting on
Pratt Avenue, between Ramble and
Hurst) before the 2016 season.
The CPOA Safety and Transportation Committee, chaired by Jim Lampl,
will continue to focus on the Shared
Space initiative to enhance the safety
of all Chautauquans, especially pedestrians. Bicycle safety-related activities
will include four bike “rodeos” and bicycle safety marketing, safety posters,
safe bicycle route maps, Daily articles
and safety promotions in the Chautauqua Cinema; pedestrian safety activities will include awareness marketing
and reduction of walkway hazards.
This summer the POWR group
(Property Owners Who Rent) will
focus on using the Web safely and
marketing properties with a variety
of resources. The Institution will be
working with POWR to publish the
advance 2017 summer schedule and to
facilitate marketing the availability of
accommodations for the 2017 season.
Your CPOA board of directors will
continue to meet four times each season with President Tom Becker and
the senior staff where we advocate
for property owners by addressing
resident issues, asking questions about
matters related to property owners and
also by distributing important news
from the Institution back to property
owners. Tom told us he prizes the time
that he spends with us at our board
meetings.
2016 CPOA summer schedule:
•Week Zero: The annual CPOA
potluck dinner will be held this
year at Heirloom Restaurant at the
Athenaeum Hotel on Wednesday,
June 22, 2016.
•Week Four: Area Picnics
•July 16: CPOA General Meeting
and Trustees Open Forum
•Aug. 13: CPOA Annual Business
Meeting
Your CPOA is a member- and
volunteer-supported non-profit that
raises funds through dues and donations to pursue our mission of quality
improvement. Our membership year is
from January to December. In addition
to joining by mailing the membership
application card, you may now join
the CPOA, or make a donation, with
a credit or debit card using our secure
online payment system. Please visit
our website at www.cpoa.ws and click
the “Join Us” link on the homepage
and then click on the “Pay Membership Dues” button.
Please pay your 2016 dues promptly. Volunteers are needed. Donations
and queries may be sent to PO Box 12,
Chautauqua, NY 14722. Please visit
our website at www.cpoa.ws for project updates and reports.
Contact the CPOA by email at
[email protected].
4 p.m. Monday, July 25:
Love, Loss and What I Wore
As the Bratton Stage spotlights
women in 2016, the CWC will add
to the theme by presenting a Chautauqua rendition of the award-winning play Love, Loss and What I Wore.
Writers Nora and Delia Ephron use
clothing and accessories and the
memories they trigger to tell an intimate collection of stories that all
women can relate to.
Vivienne Benesch, co-artistic director of Chautauqua Theater Company, will star in the play along with
CWC cast members Ann Fletcher,
Susan Laubach, Tiffany Clementi
Hammes, and Gwen Tigner. Chorus
members will be Lee Heinz, Lisa
Wallace and Michele Keane.
Visit
chautauquawomensclub.org
for ticket information.
July 30 & 31:
Classic to Current: A CWC
Furniture and Jewelry Event
Do you need that special something for your home or for you?
Chautauqua-themed items and
small furniture pieces will be available for purchase at this Sunday
noon event, along with handpicked
refurbished antiques and custom
upholstered pieces. Held at the CWC
House property, jewelry will also
be featured, with high-end costume
pieces designed by Joan Rivers, Heidi Dais and others, plus copies of
jewelry owned by Jackie Kennedy.
A Saturday afternoon preview
party will give shoppers an early
look at items available. Please contact
Nancy Langston at nancyclangston@
gmail.com for additional information.
Summer gatherings throughout
the season
Please visit our website, chautauquawomensclub.org, for our complete
list of summer gatherings and directions for sign up to attend. CWC
members and friends will be hosts
for specified events throughout
the season at private homes and
the CWC House. Attend a variety
of events, dinners and themed activitieswhile gathering with friends
and meeting new Chautauquans.
3 p.m. Saturdays:
Contemporary Issues Forum
CWC offers this series of outstanding speakers each season at the
Hall of Philosophy with the goal of
enrichment and stimulating thought
while covering contemporary issues.
Some of our 2016 offerings:
July 2: Mary Beth Rogers, author
of Barbara Jordan: American Hero,
will discuss the subject of her book,
the first African-American woman
elected to Congress from Texas.
July 23: The second annual Barbara Vackar Lecturer is Mary Mapes,
author of Who Has the Privilege of
Power Now? and former researcher
and producer of “60 Minutes.” Her
story is told in the recent movie
“The Truth.”
July 30: Stephen Kurkjian, who
has served 37 years as an editor
and investigative journalist for The
Boston Globe, will speak on Master
Thieves, his book about the largest
art theft in history at the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
The Chautauquan
Spring 2016
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community
Fund co-chairs announce Bell Tower Society, matching gift
By Cathy Nowosielski & Jeff Lutz
Co-Chairs, Chautauqua Fund
Having co-chaired the Chautauqua Fund for the first time last year,
we are looking forward to returning
for another exciting season! We are
incredibly grateful for the dedicated
volunteers who advocate on behalf of
Chautauqua’s rich mix of programs.
We also wish to extend our gratitude
to members of this community who
generously give what they can, each
year, to provide the vital resources
necessary to deliver an exceptional experience for all. We are also warmed
by the Chautauqua Foundation Board
of Directors having dedicated this
year’s annual fund in honor of Tom
and Jane Becker’s devoted service to
Chautauqua.
Year after year, the collective generosity of individuals, families, sponsors
and foundations makes possible the
Chautauqua experience — subsidizing
the annual cost to deliver the depth
Cathy Nowosielski and Jeff Lutz
and quality of programming that every resident, visitor, student and patron enjoys from the moment they enter these grounds.
The 2016 Chautauqua Fund goal is
$3.85 million dollars, providing the
main source of philanthropy toward
the Institution’s operating budget.
Every gift helps toward reaching this
significant level of support, increasing
the quality of programs while keep-
ing ticket prices affordable for families
and visitors. Please consider how you
can participate, and join us in making your gift or pledge today. It’s now
easier than ever to make a gift — visit
the mobile-friendly, secure website at
giving.ciweb.org; pay with a credit card
or checking account; or, choose a convenient monthly giving option.
We are proud to announce the Bell
Tower Society has been established
to recognize monthly recurring gifts
to the annual Chautauqua Fund. Providing consistent and sustainable support, monthly giving saves time and
resources, and is a testament of your
enduring commitment to Chautauqua.
This summer, Bell Tower Society members will be invited to special events
hosted by program leadership.
For a limited time only, a matching
gift opportunity is being offered for
those who join the Bell Tower Society.
For each new membership in this society (eligible commitments must be
at least $10/month for 12 months or
greater than your total giving to the
2015 Chautauqua Fund, whichever
is more), the Edward L. Anderson, Jr.
Foundation is generously contributing
an additional $500 to the annual fund.
You can select whether your gift
goes to the General Fund (to support
whatever is most needed) or to a specific program of your choice. While
unrestricted donations are among
the most valuable gifts the Institution
can receive, you may direct your gift
towards the arts, religion, education,
youth, recreation or any other area of
your greatest passion and interest. All
gifts are deeply appreciated, and we
encourage you to explore how you can
make a difference at Chautauqua.
To learn more about the Chautauqua’s annual fund or how to join the
Bell Tower Society, please contact the
Chautauqua Fund team at foundation@
ciweb.org or 716-357-6404.
New volunteers are always welcome — please let us know if you are
interested in serving!
Local students visit grounds to engage with arts
Stay connected:
Join the
NOW Generation
· Inviting Chautauquans ages 21-40 to
stay connected year-round.
· Offering social, professional
networking, family-focused and
volunteer opportunities.
· Preparing and empowering young
adults for leadership roles.
NOW Gen events are held both on
the grounds during the summer and
throughout the year in a growing
number of cities around the country.
Are you interested in meeting fellow
young Chautauquans or families in a
city near you?
Sav e t h e Dat e*
Annual NOW Generation
President’s Reception
Sunday, July 3
5:30–7 p.m.
Girls’ Club
“Summerfest”
Saturday, July 30
10–11:30 a.m.
Youth Activities Center (YAC)
NOW Gen Reception
with special guest Steven Osgood
Monday, August 8
7:30–8:30 pm
Miller Cottage
*To sign up for the NOW Generation e-newsletter
and receive invitations to these events and others,
please email [email protected]
For information on additional programs,
volunteer opportunities and more,
please contact Megan Sorenson, staff
liaison, at [email protected] /
716.357.6243.
Please “like” the NOW Generation!
facebook.com/NOWGenCHQ
Chautauquans who arrive early for
the 2016 season may catch glimpses of
children with lunches or bright yellow
school buses arriving at the Turner
Gate for an Institution field trip. These
students will be on their way to take
part in pre-season presentations by
Chautauqua’s arts programs — it’s all
part of a growing initiative to build the
Institution’s presence in local schools.
“These efforts are intended to serve
as an active invitation for youth, teachers, and families in the surrounding
community to engage with the Institution through the arts,” said Deborah Sunya Moore, vice president and
director of programming. “We want
every child in our community to know
that this is their Institution.”
The Young Playwrights Project, a
collaboration between the Chautauqua Theater Company and the Florida
Studio Theatre, is now in its second
year. Third- and fourth-grade students
from Chautauqua Lake, Panama and
Fletcher elementary schools have already had FST and CTC teaching artists in their classrooms over the winter. These students have also gathered
in Bellinger Hall with more than 30
Chautauqua community volunteers to
hear their plays read out loud. Eleven
winning plays were selected to be produced by CTC on Monday, June 20, for
third- and fourth-grade playwrights,
as well as second-grade future play-
Submitted photo
Arnie and Jill Bellowe (left) pose with students visiting Fowler-Kellogg Art Center in 2015.
wrights. Chautauquans will be able
to see these same plays on June 28 in
Smith Wilkes Hall as CTC will present
the opening performance of the 2016
Family Entertainment Series.
The Young Playwrights Project is
generously underwritten by Chautauqua community member and FST
board member Georgia Court.
June 20 is a busy day on the grounds
as it is also the first day of weeklong field
trips with the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution (VACI). Students from
surrounding schools are invited to come
tour the galleries and sculpture garden.
“It is a wonderful opportunity for
the students to tour the galleries and
engage with our staff as they view
our contemporary exhibitions,” said
Judy Barie, the Susan and Jack Turben Director of VACI Galleries. Noting how the students will participate
in a hands-on activity on the porch of
Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, Barie said
that “students will be creating their
own collages to take home after they
view ‘The Art of Making Collages.’ ”
This is the third year for VACI field
trips. The 2016 VACI field trips are generously underwritten by Jill and Arnie
Bellowe, Gloria Plevin, and Scott and
Patti Fine.
K a r ps p r ovid e f u nding fo r f u r nit u r e at ‘ t h e smit h ’
At left, Nancy and Norman Karp sit
on the new furniture made possible
through their generous donation to The
Smith Memorial Library. Alongside them
is Library Director Scott Ekstrom.
“After spending so many years (and
many chilly off-season months) in the
warmth of ‘The Smith,’ we wanted to do
something that would benefit the library
directly and be enjoyed by everyone,
including those who are in Chautauqua
year-round,” Norman said.
Ekstrom expressed his sincere thanks.
“We’ve needed to create a more
comfortable seating area for some time,
and when the Karps suggested funding
it, I was elated,” he said. “They are loyal
patrons of the library and their gift is
very fitting. I am so grateful to them for
making this possible.”
2016
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S AT U R D AY
W E E K O N E • Lecture Theme | Roger Rosenblatt & Friends: On Creative Expression • Interfaith Lecture Theme | Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy
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9:15 Fr. Greg Boyle
10:45 Roger Rosenblatt, author,
Thomas Murphy. Jane Pauley,
author, Skywriting: A Life Out
of the Blue. Garry Trudeau,
creator, “Doonesbury”
2:00 John Shelby Spong, retired
Episcopal bishop of Newark
4:00 New York Brass Arts Trio
8:15* Susquehanna Chorale
10:45 Fr. Greg Boyle, founder and
executive director, Homeboy
Industries
2:30 U.S. Army Field Band &
Soldiers’ Chorus
5:00 Vespers
8:00 Sacred Song Service
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9:15 Fr. Greg Boyle
10:45 Roger Rosenblatt. Lorin
Stein, editor-in-chief, The
Paris Review. Pamela Paul,
editor, The New York Times
Book Review. David Lynn,
editor, The Kenyon Review
2:00 John Shelby Spong
6:00 FES. Chautauqua Theater
Company
8:15 Tiempo Libre
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9:15 Fr. Greg Boyle
10:45 Roger Rosenblatt. Alan and
Marilyn Bergman, Grammy-,
Emmy- and Oscar-winning
songwriters
2:00 John Shelby Spong
8:15 Chautauqua Dance Salon.
Mark Diamond, director
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9:15 Fr. Greg Boyle
10:45 Roger Rosenblatt. Ann
Patchett, author, Bel Canto
2:00 John Shelby Spong
3:30 CLSC Author Presentation.
Geraldine Brooks,
The Secret Chord
8:15* Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. Rossen Milanov,
conductor. Augustin
Hadelich, violin
July 1
9:15 Fr. Greg Boyle
10:45 Roger Rosenblatt. Alan
Alda, actor; author, Things
I Overheard While Talking
to Myself. Arlene Alda,
photographer; author, Just
Kids from the Bronx
2:00 John Shelby Spong
8:00 Theater. In the Next Room
8:15** An Evening with
LeAnn Rimes
June 25
8:15** The Temptations
and The Four Tops
3:00
6:00
8:15
2
Mary Beth Rogers,
author, Barbara Jordan:
American Hero
Theater (opening).
In the Next Room
CSO. Rossen Milanov,
conductor. Jennifer Koh,
violin
W E E K T W O • Lecture Theme | Money and Power • Interfaith Lecture Theme | Money and Power Through a Spiritual and Ethical Lens
3
10:45 The Rev. Barbara Brown
Taylor, professor of religion,
Piedmont College
2:15 Theater. In the Next Room
2:30 Buffalo Silver Band
5:00 Vespers
8:00 Theater. In the Next Room
8:00 Sacred Song Service
4
9:15 Barbara Brown Taylor
10:45 Trevor Potter, founding pres.,
Campaign Legal Center
2:00 J. Douglas Holladay, founder,
PathNorth
4:00 Harlem Quartet & Aldo
López-Gavilán
8:00 CSO Independence Day Pops
Celebration. Stuart Chafetz,
cond. Nicole Parker, vocals.
Aldo Lopez-Gavilan, piano.
Ilmar Gavilan, violin
The Rev. Barbara Brown 5
Taylor
10:45 Mehrsa Baradaran, author,
How the Other Half Banks
2:00 Rabbi Arthur Waskow,
founder and director, The
Shalom Center
5 & 7 FES. Harlem Quartet
8:00 Theater. In the Next Room
8:15* Music School Festival
Orchestra. Timothy Muffitt,
conductor
9:15
6
The Rev. Barbara Brown
Taylor
10:45 Steve Forbes, chairman and
editor-in-chief, Forbes
2:00 David Korten, president,
Living Economies Forum
2:15 Theater. In the Next Room
8:00 Theater. In the Next Room
8:15 The Capitol Steps: Mock
the Vote
9:15
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9:15 Barbara Brown Taylor
10:45 Zephyr Teachout, associate
prof. of law, Fordham University
2:00 John M. Buchanan, former
editor and publisher, The
Christian Century
3:30 CLSC Author Presentation.
Larissa MacFarquhar,
Strangers Drowning
4:00 Theater. In the Next Room
8:15* CSO. Rossen Milanov, cond.
Alexander Korsantia, piano
8
The Rev. Barbara Brown
Taylor
10:45 Timothy J. Roemer, former
U.S. ambassador to India;
senior strategic adviser, Issue
One’s ReFormers Caucus
2:00 Bill Moyers, managing editor,
Moyers & Company
4:00 Theater. In the Next Room
8:15** The Avett Brothers
9:15
9
2:15
3:00
8:15
Theater. In the Next Room
Dorrie Fontaine, dean,
University of Virginia School
of Nursing
Chautauqua Opera with
the Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. La Traviata.
Steven Osgood, conductor
W E E K T H R E E • Lecture & Interfaith Lecture Theme | Moral Leadership in Action
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10:45 The Rev. Raphael Warnock,
senior pastor, The Historical
Ebenezer Baptist Church,
Atlanta
2:30 Brass Band of the Western
Reserve
2:15 Theater. In the Next Room
5:00 Vespers
8:00 Theater. In the Next Room
8:00 Sacred Song Service
11
9:15 Raphael Warnock
10:45 DeRay Mckesson, Black
Lives Matter activist; mayoral
candidate, City of Baltimore
2:00 Andrew Young, former U.S.
ambassador to the United
Nations
4:00 Sixth Floor Project
4:00 Tracey L. Meares, Walton
Hale Hamilton Professor of
law, Yale University
8:15 MFSO. Timothy Muffitt, cond.
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9:15 Raphael Warnock
10:45 Arthur C. Brooks, president,
American Enterprise Institute
9:15 The Rev. Raphael Warnock
2:00 David N. Saperstein, U.S.
10:45 Joyce Banda, former
ambassador-at-large for
president, Republic of Malawi
International Religious
2:00 Jim Wallis, president and
Freedom
founder, Sojourners
8:15 Charlotte Ballet in Residence
7:30* Family Entertainment Series.
with the Chautauqua
Acrobats of Cirque-tacular
Symphony Orchestra. JeanPierre Bonnefoux, director.
Grant Cooper, conductor
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9:15 Raphael Warnock
10:45 Ellen J. Kullman, former CEO,
DuPont
2:00 Ralph Reed, founder and
chairman, Faith & Freedom
Coalition
3:30 CLSC Author Presentation.
Dan Ephron, Killing a King
8:00 Theater. New Play Workshop
8:15* Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. Teddy Abrams,
conductor. Edgar Meyer, bass
15
9:15 The Rev. Raphael Warnock
10:45 Anna Maria Chávez, CEO,
Girl Scouts of the USA
2:00 Joan Chittister, OSB,
best-selling author. Daisy
Khan, founder and executive
director, Women’s Islamic
Initiative in Spirituality and
Equality (WISE)
4:00 Theater. New Play Workshop
8:15 Colvin & Earle
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2:15
3:00
8:15
Theater. New Play Workshop
Kara Richardson Whitely,
author, Gorge: My Journey Up
Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds
CSO Opera Highlights Concert.
Chautauqua Opera Young
Artists. Steven Osgood,
conductor. Kathleen Smith
Belcher, stage director
W E E K F O U R • Lecture Theme | Our Search for Another Earth • Interfaith Lecture Theme | Searching for an Interstellar Spirituality?
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10:45 The Rev. Tony Campolo,
founder and president,
Evangelical Association for
the Promotion of Education
2:30 Chautauqua School of Dance
Student Gala. Jean-Pierre
Bonnefoux, director
5:00 Vespers
8:00 Sacred Song Service
18
9:15 The Rev. Tony Campolo
10:45 Phil Plait, creator, Slate’s
“Bad Astronomy” blog
2:00 David Weintraub, author,
Religions and Extraterrestrial
Life: How Will We Deal with It?
4:00 Chautauqua Quartet
8:15 Music School Festival
Orchestra. Timothy Muffitt,
conductor
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21
9:15 The Rev. Tony Campolo
9:15 The Rev. Tony Campolo
10:45 Charles C. Mann, historian,
10:45 Sara Seager, professor
9:15 The Rev. Tony Campolo
science journalist; author,
of planetary science and
10:45 Jill Tarter, founder and
1491: New Revelations of the
physics, MIT
Bernard M. Oliver Chair for
Americas Before Columbus
2:00 Fr. José Gabriel Funes, fmr.
SETI Research, SETI Institute
2:00 Joshua Ambrosius, assistant
director, Vatican Observatory
2:00 Michael Waltemath, co-editor,
professor of political science,
5:00 CLSC. David McCullough,
Touching the Face of the
University of Dayton
The Wright Brothers
Cosmos: On the Intersection
5 & 7 FES. Chautauqua Opera
6 & 7 FES. Lynn Trefzger…Voices
of Space Travel and Religion
8:15* CSO. “Bernstein on
of Comedy
8:15 Chautauqua Symphony
Broadway.” Rossen Milanov,
8:15* An Evening Piano Recital
Orchestra. Rossen Milanov,
conductor
with Alexander Gavrylyuk
conductor. Felix Fan, cello
22
9:15 The Rev. Tony Campolo
10:45 David W. Miller, chief
technologist, NASA. Ellen
Stofan, chief scientist, NASA
2:00 Paul Root Wolpe, director
Center for Ethics, Emory
University
8:00 Theater. The Profane
8:15** An Evening with Huey Lewis
and The News
23
Mary Mapes, former
principal producer, CBS’s
“60 Minutes Wednesday”
6:00 Theater (opening).
The Profane
8:15 Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. Rossen Milanov,
conductor. Alexander
Gavrylyuk, piano
3:00
W E E K F I V E • Lecture Theme | People and Environment • Interfaith Lecture Theme | A Theology of Ecology
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25
9:15 The Rev. Otis Moss III
10:45 Joel Sartore, photographer
and founder, Photo Ark
2:00 Karenna Gore, director,
Center for Earth Ethics, Union
Theological Seminary
4:00 Calmus
8:15 Chautauqua Festival Dancers
with the Music School
Festival Orchestra. JeanPierre Bonnefoux, director
10:45 The Rev. Otis Moss III,
senior pastor, Trinity UCC,
Chicago
2:15 Theater. The Profane
2:30 NYSSSA School of Choral
Studies
5:00 Vespers
8:00 Theater. The Profane
8:00 Sacred Song Service
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9:15 The Rev. Otis Moss III
10:45 Nalini Nadkarni, professor of 10:45 Cory Richards, expedition
photographer, National
biology, University of Utah
Geographic
2:00 Rabbi Ellen Bernstein,
2:00 Imam Abdulaziz Eddebbarh,
founder, Shomrei Adamah
retired scientist and engineer,
5 & 7 Family Entertainment Series.
Bash the Trash
Los Alamos Natl. Laboratory
8:15 CSO. “Total Tchaikovsky.”
4:00 Theater. The Profane
Rossen Milanov, conductor.
8:15* An Evening of Pas de Deux.
Jon Nakamatsu, piano.
Charlotte Ballet in Residence.
Chautauqua Dance dancers.
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux,
Abigail Rethwisch, soprano
director
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9:15 The Rev. Otis Moss III
10:45 David Doubilet, underwater
photographer, Natl. Geographic
2:00 Susan M. Darlington, prof.
of anthropology and Asian
studies, Hampshire College
3:30 CLSC. Lily King, Euphoria
4:00 Theater. The Profane
8:15* CSO. Rossen Milanov, cond.
Charles Berginc, trumpet.
Kathryn Henry, soprano.
CTC actors. Andrew Borba, dir.
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9:15 The Rev. Otis Moss III
10:45 Bryan Christy, chief
correspondent, Special
Investigations Unit, National
Geographic magazine
2:00 The Rev. Gerald L. Durley,
pastor emeritus, Providence
Missionary Baptist Church
4:00 Theater. The Profane
7:30 Chautauqua Opera with the
CSO. The Mikado
8:15† Britt Nicole
30
8:00
2:15
3:00
8:15
Old First Night Run/Walk
Theater. The Profane
Stephen Kurkjian, author,
Master Thieves: The Boston
Gangsters Who Pulled Off the
World’s Greatest Art Heist
Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra with the Music
School Festival Orchestra.
Rossen Milanov, conductor
W E E K S I X • Lecture Theme | The Future of Cities • Interfaith Lecture Theme | Religious Voices in the City
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August 1
10:45 The Rev. John Philip Newell,
poet, peacemaker, minister
and scholar, Church of
Scotland
2:15 Theater. The Profane
2:30 American Legion Band of
the Tonawandas
5:00 Vespers
8:00 Theater. The Profane
8:00 Sacred Song Service
9:15 The Rev. John Philip Newell
10:45 David Simon, creator and
writer, HBO’s “The Wire”
2:00 Diana Butler Bass, author,
Grounded: Finding God in the
World — A Spiritual Revolution
4:00 Sō Percussion
7:30 Chautauqua Opera with
the Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. The Mikado
8:15*† Sultans of String
2
9:15 John Philip Newell
10:45 Sergio Fajardo, governor,
Antioquia, Colombia. Carolina
Barco, former Colombian
ambassador to the U.S.
2:00 Ronn Richard, pres. and CEO,
Cleveland Foundation. The Rev.
Stephen Rowan, sr. pastor,
Bethany Baptist Church. Rabbi
Robert Nosanchuk, sr. rabbi,
Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple
5:00 FES. Chautauqua Opera
7:30 OLD FIRST NIGHT
3
9:15 John Philip Newell
10:45 Michele Dunne, director,
Middle East Program, CEIP.
Kareem Ibrahim, project
leader, TADAMUN (Cairo)
2:00 William Barber II, founder,
Moral Mondays North Carolina
3:30 Adrian Matejka, author, The
Big Smoke
8:00 Theater. New Play Workshop
8:15* Dance Innovations.
Charlotte Ballet in Residence.
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, dir.
4
9:15 Rev. John Philip Newell
10:45 George W. “Mac” McCarthy,
pres. and CEO, Lincoln Inst. of
Land Policy. Neema Kudva,
assoc. professor, Cornell AAP
2:00 Timur R. Yuskaev, dir., Imam
and Muslim Community
Leadership, Hartford Seminary
3:30 CLSC Author Presentation.
Brian Hart, The Bully of Order
4:00 Theater. New Play Workshop
8:15 CSO. JoAnn Falletta, cond.
Marina Piccinini, flute
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9:15 The Rev. John Philip Newell
10:45 Saskia Sassen, Robert S.
Lynd Professor of sociology,
Columbia University
2:00 The Rev. John Philip Newell.
Diana Butler Bass
4:00 Theater. New Play Workshop
8:15** Straight No Chaser
6
3:00
8:15
G. Terry Madonna, director,
Center for Politics and Public
Affairs, Franklin and Marshall
College; director, Franklin and
Marshall College Poll
CSO Opera Pops Concert.
Chautauqua Opera Young
Artists. Stuart Chafetz,
conductor. Kathleen Smith
Belcher, stage director
W E E K S E V E N • Lecture Theme | Pushing Our Bodies’ Limits • Interfaith Lecture Theme | The Limits and Transcendence of Our Humanity
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10:45 The Rev. Thomas Long,
Bandy Professor of preaching,
emeritus, Emory University
2:30 Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra Special Matinée.
Rossen Milanov, conductor
5:00 Vespers
8:00 Sacred Song Service
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9:15 The Rev. Thomas Long
10:45 Nina Jablonski, professor of
anthropology, Penn State Univ.
2:00 Ron Cole-Turner, prof. of
theology and ethics, Pittsburgh
Theological Seminary
5:00 Chautauqua Opera with the
NOW Ensemble. Song From
the Uproar
8:15 Chautauqua Voice Program with
the MSFO. Marlena Malas,
chair. Timothy Muffitt, cond.
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9:15 The Rev. Thomas Long
10:45 Fareed Zakaria, host, CNN’s
“Fareed Zakaria GPS”
2:00 James “J.” Hughes, executive
director, Institute for Ethics
and Emerging Technologies
7:30* Family Entertainment Series.
Wild Kingdom featuring
Peter Gros
10
9:15 The Rev. Thomas Long
10:45 Randy Schekman,
investigator and professor
of cell and developmental
biology, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
2:00 Robert M. Geraci, author,
Virtually Sacred: Myth and
Meaning in World of Warcraft
and Second Life
7:30 Music School Festival Night
Celebration
11 9:15 The Rev. Thomas Long
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10:45 Michael J. Sandel, Anne T.
and Robert M. Bass Professor
of government, Harvard Univ.
2:00 Ilia Delio, co-author, Humanity
on the Threshold: Religious
Essays on Transhumanism
8:00 Theater. Taming of the Shrew
8:15 Charlotte Ballet in Residence
with the CSO. Jean-Pierre
Bonnefoux, director. Grant
Cooper, conductor
9:15 The Rev. Thomas Long
10:45 Janet Mock, gender rights
advocate; author, Redefining
Realness
2:00 Hava Tirosh-Samuelson,
director of Jewish studies,
Arizona State University
3:30 CLSC. Lucy Kalanithi
presents When Breath
Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
8:15* Canadian Brass
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Terry Stone, managing
partner, Health & Life
Sciences practice group,
Oliver Wyman
6:00 Theater (opening).
The Taming of the Shrew
8:15** Chris Botti & Joshua Bell
with the Chautauqua
Symphony Orchestra
3:00
W E E K E I G H T • Lecture Theme | War and Its Warriors: Contemporary Voices • Interfaith Lecture Theme | The Ethical Realities of War
10:45 The Rev. Amy K. Butler, 14
senior minister, The Riverside
Church, New York City
2:15 Theater. The Taming of the
Shrew
2:30 Chautauqua School of Dance
Student Gala. Jean-Pierre
Bonnefoux, director
5:00 Vespers
8:00 Theater. The Taming of the
Shrew
8:00 Sacred Song Service
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9:15 The Rev. Amy K. Butler
10:45 Phil Klay, author,
Redeployment
2:00 Rita Nakashima Brock,
founding co-director, Soul
Repair Center, Brite Divinity
School
4:00 Lysander Piano Trio
8:15* Music School Festival
Orchestra. Timothy Muffitt,
conductor
9:15 The Rev. Amy K. Butler 16 9:15 The Rev. Amy K. Butler 17
10:45 Kayla Williams, author, Love
10:45 Wes Moore, executive
My Rifle More Than You
producer and host, PBS’s
2:00 Jonathan Shay, retired
“Coming Back with Wes Moore”
clinical psychiatrist, U.S.
2:00 Pamela Lightsey, associate
Department of Veterans Affairs
dean, Boston University
2:15 Theater. Taming of the Shrew
School of Theology
6:00 FES. Chautauqua Regional
2:15 Theater. Taming of the Shrew
Youth Ballet
3:30 CLSC. Diane Ackerman,
8:15* CSO. “An Evening in Spain.”
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Rossen Milanov, conductor.
8:00 Theater. Taming of the Shrew
Jason Vieaux, guitar
8:15 Paul Thorn
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9:15 The Rev. Amy K. Butler
10:45 David H. Petraeus, retired
9:15 The Rev. Amy K. Butler
four-star general, U.S. Army.
10:45 Bryan Doerries, founder,
Wes Moore
Theater of War
2:00 Shareda Hosein, retired lt.
2:00 Paul K. Chappell, author,
colonel, U.S. Army Reserves
The Art of Waging Peace
3:30 CLSC. Stanley Lombardo
4:00 Theater. The Taming of the
presents Homer’s Iliad
Shrew
4:00 Theater. Taming of the Shrew
8:15 The Purple Xperience:
8:15 CSO. Ankush Kumar
A Concert Celebration of
Bahl, conductor. Nicolas
the Life & Inspiration of
Dautricourt, violin
Prince
20
3:00
8:15
Angela Lee Duckworth,
author, Grit: The Power of
Passion and Perseverance
Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. “Night at the
Movies.” Rossen Milanov,
conductor. Columbus
Symphony Chorus
W E E K N I N E • Lecture Theme | America’s Music with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center • Interfaith Lecture Theme | America’s Spiritual Songbook
21
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9:15 Dwight D. Andrews
10:45 The Rev. Dwight D.
Andrews, senior minister,
10:45 Wynton Marsalis, artistic
First Congregational Church
director, Jazz at Lincoln
UCC, Atlanta
Center
2:30 Barbershop Harmony Parade 2:00 The Rev. Dwight D. Andrews.
5:00 Vespers
Jared Jacobsen, coordinator
8:00 Sacred Song Service
of worship and sacred music,
Chautauqua Institution
10:45 The Rev. Calvin O. Butts, 28
5:00
Jazz
at Lincoln Center
pastor, The Abyssinian
Baptist Church, New York City 8:15 Boogie Stomp! The Get
Up and Dance Musical
2:30 East Winds Symphonic Band
Celebration
8:00 Sacred Song Service
23
9:15 The Rev. Dwight D. Andrews
10:45 Geoffrey C. Ward, co-writer,
“Jazz”
2:00 Steven Darsey, author, The
God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob: Music and Worship.
Timothy B. Miller, tenor
8:15* Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra with the Jazz at
Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Cristian Macelaru, conductor
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9:15 The Rev. Dwight D. Andrews
10:45 Amphitheater Lecture
2:00 The Rev. James Evans,
author, The Ambivalent
Gospel of Motown
8:15* Garth Fagan Dance
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9:15 Dwight D. Andrews
9:15 Dwight D. Andrews
10:45 Cécile McLorin Salvant,
10:45 Wynton Marsalis. Geoffrey
Grammy-winning jazz vocalist
C. Ward
2:00 Michael Weis, cantor,
2:00 Rabbi Kenneth A. Kanter,
Brotherhood Synagogue, New
director, Rabbinical School,
York City
Hebrew Union College3:30 CLSC Author Presentation.
Jewish Institute of Religion
Billy Collins, Aimless Love
8:15** The Abyssinian Mass. Jazz
8:15** Jazz at Lincoln Center
at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Orchestra with Wynton
Chorale Le Chateau. Damien
Marsalis: Birth of the
Sneed, conductor. The Rev.
American Orchestra
Calvin O. Butts, narrator
MSFO: Music School Festival Orchestra · FES: Family Entertainment Series · *Community Appreciation Night · **Preferred seating available · †Emerging Artist Series
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Steven J. Brown, chief
operating officer, National
Business Aviation Association
8:15** Mary Chapin Carpenter
3:00
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