NEW LOOK, NEW CHEF, NEW GAME PLAN

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Chautauqua Institution
P.O. Box 28
Chautauqua, New York
14722-0028
Chautauquan
POSTMASTER PLEASE DELIVER BY JUNE 5, 2014
The
Season: June 21–Aug. 24, 2014
www.ciweb.org
S pr i n g 2 0 1 4 E d i t i o n
Institution takes steps toward roadmap
to improve overall customer experience
Chautauqua Institution enters the
2014 season with a renewed emphasis
on improving the customer experience
on the grounds, led by a new customer
experience manager who will devise
and implement an overall, long-term
roadmap.
“We do a great job as a staff in putting together top-notch programming,
but it hasn’t been clear once that’s all
in place whose responsibility it is to
make sure the guest experience lives
up to the programming,” said George
Murphy, vice president and chief marketing officer. “This isn’t just ticketing
or a marketing issue — this cuts to the
heart of the overall experience. To put
a process in place to drive this kind of
institutional change, you need to have
someone with the right background.”
Murphy found that background in
Karen Williams, who began in April
as Chautauqua’s
customer experience manager
and will lead
efforts to standardize practices
affecting the customer experience
Institution-wide.
“Karen’s objecKAREN
tive is to step back
Williams
and look at Chautauqua
Institution in total, including the Athenaeum
Hotel and foodservice, and assess
whether we are delivering the right experience for our guests,” Murphy said,
“And if not, what do we need to do?
We’re going to develop a three- to fiveyear plan that says how we should be
treating our guests and the elements
that should define their experience.”
Williams comes to the Institution
from Alstar EMS, Chautauqua County’s private ambulance service, where
she provided strategic and operational
management to ensure positive customer experience. Prior to Alstar, she
worked for nearly 14 years at FairPoint
Communications Inc., rising from local to regional and then national positions directing marketing and customer-retention strategy.
“My background is very customeroriented, customer-focused,” Williams
said. “Whether in marketing, human
resources work, planning community
events, directing volunteers or business development, my focus has always been on the customer experience,
and what I and others are doing to impact that experience.”
Please see Customer, Page 2
Prize announcement
The 2014 Chautauqua Prize
winner was named too late for
this edition of The Chautauquan.
Please visit ciweb.org/prize to
read the announcement.
Six shortlisted
books vie for
2014 Prize
Chautauqua Institution is
pleased to announce six exceptional
books as the 2014 finalists for The
Chautauqua Prize:
A History of the Present Illness:
Stories
Louise Aronson
Bloomsbury
Sea of Hooks
Lindsay Hill
McPherson & Company
The Boy Detective:
A New York Childhood
Roger Rosenblatt
Ecco
New look,
New chef,
New game plan
Heirloom Restaurant at the Athenaeum Hotel debuts this summer
Visitors to Chautauqua can now enjoy a new
dining experience with a new chef at the Athenaeum Hotel this summer. The space that’s been
known simply as the dining room has transformed into Heirloom Restaurant at the Athenaeum Hotel, with executive chef Travis Bensink.
Heirloom offers an updated look to the historic space. The once wallpapered walls are now
painted a warm neutral tone and new window
treatments and ceiling fans, reminiscent of the
original fans from 1881, create an authentic but
fresh look in the dining room. The updated menu
Inside this issue
Travis
Bensink
(see Page 3), along with its energetic feel and historic atmosphere, define the new restaurant.
Converging trends quickly moved Heirloom
Restaurant from the concept stage to reality.
For one, there are now more new people on the
grounds that are looking for a great and affordable dining experience. Additionally, diners have
become much more sophisticated and socially
aware about what they eat and drink. Those factors increased demand for an upscale and accessible dining experience on the grounds.
Chautauqua Women’s Club names
new president Page 3
Please see Heirloom, Page 3
Borba details a more fully
fleshed-out Go West! Page 7
My Foreign Cities
Elizabeth Scarboro
Liveright
The Man He Became: How FDR
Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
James Tobin
Simon & Schuster
Wash
Margaret Wrinkle
Grove Press
Awarded annually since 2012,
The Chautauqua Prize draws upon
the 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
finalist on Page 19
NOW Generation keeps energized
with off-season events Page 22
The Chautauquan
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Spring 2014
news
AROU N D T H E G ROU N DS
An update on off-season projects and initiatives undertaken by the board of trustees
For more information on these and other
community news items, visit the “On the
Grounds” section of the Institution’s website at ciweb.org/on-the-grounds.
SHORELINE MANAGEMENT,
stormwater management
& TREE MAINTENANCE
Chautauqua Institution has implemented an overall drainage management plan detailing projects that help
us manage stormwater runoff responsibly. The South End Ravine and Chautauqua Golf Club drainage work and
numerous rain garden and buffer zone
plantings were derived from this plan.
In 2013, the final part of the drainage
management plan, the Sustainable
Shoreline Action Plan, was finalized.
Last year’s shoreline projects included
the rain garden at Children’s Beach,
establishing several “no mow” zones,
and buffer zone plantings at the Pier
Building and along Fair Point, including the planting of three large willows.
Currently, the Institution is completing the Palestine Park wetlands/shoreline project and the stormwater management park across from Elizabeth S.
Lenna Hall.
The Sustainable Shoreline Action
Plan also included a review of Miller Park’s overall condition from the
shoreline to Simpson Avenue, part
which was an assessment of the health
of the park’s tree population. This fall,
Chautauqua Institution staff worked
with representatives from Forecon, the
nationally recognized professional forestry management firm based in Falconer, N.Y., to complete an inventory
and assessment of trees in the Miller
Park area. Forecon’s report found that
these trees are capable of intercepting
about 500,000 gallons of water annually, “making an important contribution
to stormwater interception and filtering for the Institution and, ultimately,
Chautauqua Lake.” Based on Forecon’s
assessment, contractors from Tree Services of WNY — whose crews comprise all certified arborists — are completing the following work this spring:
•8 trees will be removed.
•57 trees will be pruned.
•3 trees will require maintenance
of existing cable supports.
The work is expected to be completed by Memorial Day. Forecon representatives and Chautauqua Grounds
and Gardens staff will monitor the
entire process. This fall, lumber from
removed trees will be used in the construction of a new natural playground
in Miller Park, and Chautauqua staff
will replace the removed trees.
AMPHITHEATER Project
The Amphitheater is entering the
final phase of design called the “construction document phase,” where the
design team finalizes the drawings
and specifications for the construction
companies to use for the actual construction of the project, when the funding becomes available. Those involved
will also be reviewing the designs in
consideration of the many comments
received about the project through Qand-A sessions at Smith Memorial Library in 2013.
The historic preservation architect
has completed his review of the project
and provided valuable comments that
are being incorporated into the project.
The back-of-the-house design is finalized, and though the model many saw
and will see at the library still features
the old design, the new drawings will
be on display this season.
As drawings are finalized, Chautauqua will move toward qualifying contractors for this important project, with
the hope of eventually obtaining bids
for the work from contractors who have
demonstrated the abilities to successfully complete a project of this magnitude
and complexity. Construction will not
be scheduled until final fundraising for
the project is completed, and after the
board of trustees authorizes the project.
CAPITAL PROJECTS
Capital projects completed during
the off-season included: replacement
of the boiler at Turner Community
Center to improve the efficiency of the
year-round facility and provide better
temperature controls throughout the
building; renovations of seven guest
rooms at the Athenaeum Hotel; and
installation of a new elevator to provide full accessibility for all floors of
the Athenaeum Hotel Annex. Details
on these projects are available at www.
ciweb.org/on-the-grounds.
CWC appoints Shadd as new president
Customer from Page 1
With confidence in her
istrator, special education
strong leadership skills
principal and director of
and dynamic background,
support services for Monthe Chautauqua Women’s
roe #1 BOCES. She has also
Club board of directors
served as president of the
earlier this spring unaniAlumni Board of Nazamously voted to accept
reth College in Pittsford
Nancy Griffin Shadd as its
as well as unit president
next president. Shadd and
of BOCES. Presently, she is
the CWC are both confifulfilling a second term on
Nancy Griffin
dent that her life experithe board of the National
Shadd
ences, along with being
Susan B. Anthony Musea lover of history, the arts
um and House.
and lifelong learning, will position
Shadd has visited Chautauqua freher to provide today’s leadership quently with friends and family, treaneeds as the CWC continues to imple- suring many memories of her stays.
ment its core mission.
In her role as CWC president, she now
“Nancy is a warm, engaging, and looks forward to becoming an intetalented woman,” said Paula Ma- gral part of the Chautauqua commuson, chair of the Chautauqua Wom- nity and sincerely appreciates the open’s Club board. “I look forward to portunity to serve all Chautauquans.
working with her as she leads the
“I so look forward to listening and
CWC. The club is indeed fortunate learning from the voices of all Chauto have her.”
tauquans,” she said. “We will walk
Shadd resides in Fairport, New hand in hand to propel the ChautauYork, where she has raised her fam- qua Women’s Club to a vibrant future.”
ily, a son and daughter, and led an
Please join the CWC in welcoming
accomplished career in education. A Nancy Griffin Shadd at an opening
speech pathologist and educator, she soiree at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 29, at
held the positions of school admin- the Chautauqua Women’s Club House.
With Murphy, Williams will spend
much of the next several months
benchmarking the current Chautauqua customer experience to begin
building a vision and roadmap, and to
identify areas needing improvement.
Numerous changes in customer experience have been implemented over
the past several years — rewriting the
Institution’s website, overhauling the
accommodations booking engine, improving Main Gate traffic flow, allowing hotel guests to drive straight there
rather than through the Main Gate, establishing a Visitors Center, upgrading
rooms at the Athenaeum, transitioning the Refectory into the Brick Walk
Cafe — but they have lacked strategic
direction.
“We’ve implemented all these what
I would call ‘one-off’ fixes, which our
hunch tells us are all leading us toward
better customer service and satisfaction,” Murphy said, “but quite frankly
we don’t know. They’re not tied to an
overall plan.”
Williams’ charge is to develop that
overall plan, with targets based on
benchmarks established this season
through observation and data from surveys and focus groups, making sure that
input from leaders from all departments
— from programming to grounds staff
— is integral to the overall plan. She will
also begin identifying required investments in facilities, systems, technology
and employees to ensure Chautauquans
receive the highest level of hospitality
and customer service.
“The first step is to understand the
customer’s journey — what ways they
come onto the grounds, how they use
various services, what works and what
doesn’t,” Williams said. “The end goal
is to provide a high-quality, seamless
experience where employees’ pride in
working here shows through, and our
Thomas M. Becker
president
George Murphy
chief marketing officer
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In-season sessions
to introduce new
ALU regulations
Members of the Chautauqua
Institution staff and the
Architectural Review Board (ARB)
will be holding sessions this coming
summer season to assist property
owners with understanding and
navigating the new Architectural
and Land Use regulations.
As you may recall, the Board
of Trustees adopted revised
Architectural and Land Use
regulations in August 2013. These
revised regulations involved
significant public input as a way
of developing regulations which
addressed the desired needs of
Chautauqua property owners while
protecting and caring for our unique
National Landmark Historic District.
During the even weeks of the
summer season, staff and the ARB
will conduct four sessions, open
to the public, which will assist
property owners in understanding
and using the regulations. If you
are planning to do work on your
cottage, contemplating purchasing
a property on the grounds or simply
interested in knowing more about
the new regulations there will be
announcements issued in The
Chautauquan Daily, the Grapevine
and Institution website regarding
specific times and locations.
communications,
accommodations
booking and ticketing processes all
meet industry best practices.”
The experience of first-time visitors
— before and during their stay — is
critically important, Murphy said, recalling conversations from the May
meetings of the Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees.
“[The trustees] were asking, ‘Do we
identify first-time visitors’ needs correctly?’ ” he said. “We need to make
their experience as uncluttered as
possible. We know from surveys that
first-time visitors don’t understand the
scope and complexity of what we offer.
How do we make sure they have the
information they need without overwhelming them?”
In consultation with the Institution’s
senior leadership, Williams will work
to roll out the roadmap in early 2015, including establishing a process for identifying, hiring, training and motivating
seasonal staff across departments.
“There should be a line out the door
of people wanting to work here, in any
position,” Murphy said. “We’re seen as
the premier institution in this county.
We want to be an exciting, desirable
place to work, especially in our most
challenging frontline customer-service positions.”
In addition to her strategic tasks,
Williams also assumes direct oversight
of the Institution’s gate and ticketing
operations and staff, areas where hiring
is not yet finished and initial changes
can have the most immediate impact.
“The most important thing is that
anyone interacting with our systems
or here on the grounds feels like a
Chautauquan, whether they have been
coming for 70 years or are just here for
a couple hours on a Friday night,” Williams said. “Making this investment in
the customer experience is a statement
by this organization. I’m excited for
this opportunity.”
The Chautauquan
Spring 2014
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news
From the president
A courageous heart, a vigorous spirit
W
hat do we know about the
shape of the life we have
before us?
During the few days immediately
preceding sitting down to write this, I
had several visits with Chautauquans
about events in their lives that left this
question swirling in my mind. Events
and conditions, sourced more by
chance than consequence, are introTHOMAS M.
duced to our lives and alter the exBECKER
pected arc of the future. We get lulled
into thinking or convince ourselves
that we know what will happen next because, in part, we
know so much.
So if the orientation to life moving forward is foolishly
applied to control, where do we apply our attention, our
effort?
I know it comes as no surprise that my answer to this
question has to do with the very purpose of Chautauqua,
that of exploring the best in human values and the enrichment of life. And it’s the effort within the exploring that is
important to think about.
We are deeply invested in the arts for their gifts of
beauty, wisdom and inspiration; because we understand
the discipline, talent and sacrifice involved in the making
of art; and because a work of great art offers insight and
understanding throughout the course of our lives. Indeed,
as we change, as these seemingly inexplicable changes
occur in our lives, our relationship to a great work of art
reveals new, heretofore undiscovered gifts.
We live in the most religiously pluralistic country in the
world at a time in history wherein the inability to bridge
religious divides wreaks havoc. Yet there are precious few
resources available to genuinely understand religious traditions, provoke conversation and demonstrate the viability
of an engaged interfaith community. That process of education and engagement is fully expressed at Chautauqua.
Information and learning is increasingly utilitarian.
Define the problem go to the source of information most
appealing to you personally; solve the problem. Oh, by
the way, make sure the presentation of the information
fits into your caffeinated capacity of time tolerance. At
Chautauqua we invite a deeper exploration of topics with a
respect for and dedication to the nuances and complexities
within. It demands more of the presenters and the community of participants. We bring our life experiences to these
presentations as part of our effort to understand, with the
full awareness that the issues may well surpass our experience. We welcome the new.
What do we know about the shape of the life we have
before us?
We know we must face the question with creativity.
We know we need empathy and compassion.
We know we must have an appreciation of the immense
resource of moral, emotional, and intellectual wisdom assembled over time.
We know we need a courageous heart and a vigorous
spirit.
To grasp a small thread of this summer’s mosaic so as to
elaborate on the exploration:
My colleague, Robert Franklin, questions whether there
is such a thing as privacy in our time. Let’s just hypothesize that he’s right. What does that mean? What have we
lost? The Romans thought about the protection of the details of one’s private life as a basic right; a virtuous understanding of who they were. Both of those thoughts will be
put into some tension on July 8 at the Hall of Philosophy
when Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National
Constitution Center, will moderate on the fourth amendment, contemplating the boundaries of governmental
intrusion into our private sphere. Rather than coming to
the debate to see who wins and loses I suggest you come to
better understand the tensions and competing “goods” at
stake. And with that understanding make your own judgment about your stand on these complicated issues. You
might also think about how much more power commerce
now has in this arena than when the Fourth Amendment
was adopted. Ask yourself what are the proper constraints
on commerce in this area of privacy.
Whether in the arts or religion, the engagement of
important and transcendent issues or the chance encounter
with one another, this community offers the promise of
a resource to our capacity to face our future with moral
imagination, creative vigor and a sense of responsibility to
one another.
Tapas Menu
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Artisan Cheese Plate 12
Trio of Chef’s weekly cheese selections,
local honey, fruit preserves & crostinis
Buttermilk Crisp Calamari 9
Citrus rémoulade & house-made
tomato-fennel marmalade
Fennel Sausage Baked Flatbread 12
Roasted pepper pesto, creamy chevre
& caramelized onion
Dinner Menu
5 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Citrus Seared Tuna 13
Charred corn salad, cilantro-lime rémoulade
& wasabi yuzu
Summer Berry & Nut Salad 13
Artisan greens, candied walnuts,
variety of seasonal berries, goat cheese
s& cherry-white balsamic vinaigrette
Skillet-Roasted
North Atlantic Salmon 28
Roasted tomato & fennel marmalade
Roasted Green Heron
Growers Chicken Breast 25
Lemon-oregano marinated,
shitake mushrooms, shallot jus
Moroccan Chick Pea Stew 20
Pickled red onion, cilantro apricot chutney,
Greek yogurt & crispy baked naan bread
See the whole menu at
athenaeum-hotel.com.
Call 800-821-1881 for reservations.
Heirloom from Page 1
Courtesy of the Chautauqua Institution Archives
A crowd gathers to watch Ben Hogan, one of the greatest golfers in history, play the Chautauqua Golf Club Lake Course in 1941.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
Chautauqua Golf Club fêtes 100 years with displays, birthday party
By Jack Voelker & Jack Connolly
General Manager, Chautauqua Golf Club,
& President, Chautauqua Golf Club
Board of Governors
As the Chautauqua Golf Club prepares to celebrate 100 years this summer, plans are well underway to share
its rich history with golfers and community members alike.
A commemorative history is being
written by Dave Turnbull, a member
of the club and historian for the Chautauqua Golf Club Board of Governors.
Turnbull’s book will follow the evolution of the club, its Scottish heritage,
the famous exhibition matches with
legendary golfers, and its growth from
nine holes to 18, to 36, and the addition in 2008 of the Learning Center. It
is a history rich in anecdotes and entertaining stories, and Turnbull has
woven many of these into the book’s
narrative. Archival photos will complement the text.
Many of these photos will also find
their way into displays located at the
golf course and on the grounds this
summer. One display is being prepared for the new Visitors Center, located at the south end of the Post Office
Building. A new commemorative logo
will be featured on all the hole flags on
the course, as well as on popular merchandise in the Pro Shop.
On Sunday, Aug. 3, the golf club
will welcome members past and present, and the general public, to a “birthday party” at the clubhouse. Planned
and presented by the club’s volunteer
board of governors, the event will be
a fun celebration of the club’s history
and an opportunity to honor the lasting relationships and enjoy the friend-
ships that have been built over the
years at the club.
The history of the Chautauqua Golf
Club is a reflection of the history of the
Institution itself. Arthur Bestor, Chautauqua’s president, was instrumental
in the club’s founding and was a golfer
in the very first foursome to play the
Donald Ross 18-hole course completed
in 1924. Dignitaries and performers
appearing at Chautauqua have continued to find a valuable source of recreation and relaxation along our fairways. And the club has always been a
primary point of outreach and connection between Chautauqua visitors and
the surrounding community, through
a shared love of the game.
For more information about the
Chautauqua Golf Club’s centennial
summer, contact the Pro Shop at 716357-6211. Join the celebration!
Bensink, the new executive chef,
is excited to be back in his hometown area with his family. Originally from Clymer, New York, Bensink
most recently worked as executive
chef of Starmount Forest Country
Club in Greensboro, North Carolina. Previously, he was events chef
and lead sous chef at Print Works
Bistro at the Proximity Hotel, also
in Greensboro.
“I’m glad to be part of the Chautauqua Institution tradition,” Bensink said. “Heirloom is a perfect
fit for Chautauqua. It ties in classic
ingredients and blends them with
local and regional flair.”
As for the new menu, Bensink
said he is most excited about the
mustard-glazed pork belly. The
pork belly is cured for seven days,
smoked and then braised before
being finished with a sweet grain
mustard glaze. It is accompanied
with pickled red onion, house-made
cherry-fig preserves and crisp foccacia toast points.
Another exciting new feature
is the tapas menu, which provides
guests with a fun experience conducive for relaxed conversation while
enjoying small plates and a glass of
wine. The tapas menu is available
from 4:30 to 6 p.m. daily.
Heirloom will be open daily for
breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast and lunch will still be a buffet
and the tapas and dinner menu features a wide selection. Visit athenaeum-hotel.com for more information
and to see a complete menu.
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Spring 2014
news
Advocate program enters second year
The 2013 Chautauqua season saw
more new people on the grounds
than ever before and there are many
reasons for this influx. Chautauqua
is advertising in new markets and
fostering its relationship with public
broadcasting. Most importantly, we’re
reaching out to Chautauquans and
asking you to help spread the word.
We know that Chautauquans tell
their friends, families and colleagues
to visit. They want to share Chautauqua’s history, their memories and
their passion for Chautauqua with
others. Becoming a Chautauqua
Advocate not only opens channels
for story sharing, but it also offers a
means to stay connected to Chautauqua during the off-season.
Advocates host small or large events
and invite friends, families and colleagues. Some show a short video created specifically for advocates while
others just share special Chautauqua
moments. In 2013, more than 60 people attended events across the country, and that number will more than
double in 2014. Gatherings have taken
place in Florida, Georgia, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, North
Carolina, Ohio, Texas and Virginia.
Anyone is welcome to become a
Chautauqua Advocate, and Institution
staff is here to help throughout the process. We can assist with guest list creation, mailings and artwork, and provide a DVD on Chautauqua. Visit ciweb.
org/chq-advocates for more information.
B R I E FLY
New Visitors Center hours; seeking Chautauqua artifacts
The Visitors Center on Bestor Plaza will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday
to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays this season.
The Department of Marketing and Communications seeks artifacts and
memorabilia to display throughout the summer, rotating weekly in two
display cases. The artifact and memorabilia displays will highlight the history
of Chautauqua through anything from letters, photographs and postcards to
items you’ve made at Club to old Chautauqua Golf Club scorecards.
All items will be stored safely and returned after the exhibition. This is
an opportunity show off your personal Chautauqua collection. Any item
displayed will be a valuable addition to the collection, especially items that
are different or have a great story to tell.
To make a contribution or for more information, please contact Vanessa
Weinert, marketing manager, at [email protected] or 716-357-6402.
2014 Special Studies offers
wide variety of youth, adult
classes — many on theme
Begin your day with yoga on the
shores of Chautauqua Lake.
Follow breakfast with a turn at the
potter’s wheel in the School of Art.
Continue your exploration of the
week’s lecture theme with a master
class taught by that day’s speaker.
Take an early afternoon guided
tour of the lake with the entire family
aboard a 19-foot Flying Scot.
Work up an appetite with a class on
Brazilian cooking or a vineyard walking tour.
The 2014 Special Studies curriculum
offers a variety of courses for youth
and adults each week of the Chautauqua season, designed to fit anyone’s
busy schedule on the grounds.
The following are a few highlights
of this summer’s offerings:
Master Classes.
founding documents with a class titled
“Self-evident Truths? Understanding
the Declaration of Independence.”
On Theme.
For those who want to continue
the conversation after the Amphitheater lecture is over, Chautauqua offers
Special Studies courses that complement the week’s theme. Week Three
includes “Espionage: The Art of Spying” and “The Digital Self: Current Issues in Privacy.” Weeks Four, Five and
Six explore “Egypt: Past and Present,”
“The Art and Myth of the American
West,” and “Brazil: Its Regions and
their History,” respectively. And Week
Eight’s offering asks “What is Your International IQ?”
Youth and Teen Classes.
Many Chautauquans have fond
memories of the renowned Children’s
School and Boys’ and Girls’ Club. These
traditional programs are still a popular
choice for youth, but Special Studies
also offers a variety of other options,
including ceramics, geocaching, entrepreneurism, a Youth Scholar Camp for
ages 10–14 and Youth Writing Camp
for ages 13–16. New this year, CHQ
Up provides an opportunity for high
school and college students to explore
the week’s theme together by attending lectures and bringing thoughtful
questions to bear on daily discussions.
To browse the 2014 Special Studies
catalog, or to register online, please
visit chqtickets.com. To propose a course
for the 2015 Season, please visit ciweb.
org/special-studies.
All season gate passes are being held at the Will Call office, awaiting
photos to be affixed. Photos will be taken at the Main Gate Welcome Center
beginning June 2 to accommodate those who arrive prior to the season.
Hours of operation from June 2 to 20 will be the same as the Ticket Office:
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday. Regular season hours will begin on June
21: 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily.
As always, we encourage Chautauquans to have pre-purchased all gate and
parking passes before arriving to prevent having to wait in line at the Main
Gate Welcome Center. Contact the Ticket Office at 716-357-6250 to ensure all
your tickets are purchased and mailed in time for your trip to Chautauqua.
Special Studies master classes provide opportunities for further engagement with Amphitheater speakers,
Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle authors and leading experts in a variety of subjects. This summer’s classes
include an entire week of workshops
with Week Two’s National Geographic
speakers, a series on the “ethics of privacy” with faculty from the Lincoln
Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona
State University, and a playwriting
workshop with Molly Smith Metzler,
whose Chautauqua-commissioned play
will be performed in Bratton Theater.
On Wednesday, July 16, Chautauqua
Literary and Scientific Circle author
Danielle Allen will lead an in-depth
examination of one of our country’s
Resident Guest Passes will be valid for six hours between the hours of
11:30 a.m. and midnight, Monday to Thursday; 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. (must be
picked up no later than 2 p.m.) Friday; and 8 a.m. to midnight Saturday. The
charge is $3 with a maximum of six RGPs per day. A copy of the Resident
Guest Pass regulations can be obtained at the Main Gate Welcome Center
ticket window during regular hours of operation.
5 things you didn’t know about
youth programs at Chautauqua
Ticketing reminders for 2014
Resident Guest Pass policy
Host a CSO reception
Hosting a Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra reception is a great way to
entertain the conductor or soloist in a low-key atmosphere after a performance.
If interested, please contact the Program Office at (716) 357-6217.
Dental Congress returns to Chautauqua June 25
The 35th Annual Chautauqua Dental Congress will be held June 25–27 at
Chautauqua, with lectures by University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine faculty scheduled for each morning in the Hall of Christ. For more
information, call (716) 829-2320 or visit www.BuffaloCE.org.
Encore institutes offer choral, dance, theater for older adults
Encore Creativity for Older Adults returns to Chautauqua this summer
to present an innovative program for adults over the age of 55, Aug. 24–29,
2013. The institutes will attract adult students from all over the country to
learn a new art, or continue to perfect lifelong skills. For information, visit
encorecreativity.org or contact (301) 261-5747.
Support students this summer through Connections events
Attention all fans of orchestral music, piano, dance, voice and journalism!
Here is your chance to foster the career of of a budding artist or writer — by
sponsoring a student or two through Chautauqua Connections. Even if you
can’t commit for the whole summer, there are lots of other ways to become
involved. There are no meetings, and it’s free! Check out the website at
www.chauconnect.org or contact Susan Helm at [email protected].
Openings still available for Week Nine 55+ program
Chautauqua’s Office of Senior Programming and Groups Sales offers
Road Scholar programs all nine weeks of the 2014 season and four weeks
during the off-season. For two of the off-season weeks, the Senior Programming Office will partner with the American Foreign Service, which will provide the program presenters. All participants stay at the Athenaeum Hotel.
The Group Sales office still has openings for the 55+ Program during
Week Nine. Participants in the 55+ Program are housed in Bellinger Hall
and participate in all of the programs offered at Chautauqua Institution.
For information, contact the Office of Senior Programming and Group
Sales at [email protected] or (716) 357-6262.
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Children’s School has a long history with Chautauqua’s Schools
of Fine and Performing Arts.
Students from the School of Music
share the “Instrument of the Week”
every Friday during the summer. Also
visiting Children’s School are Opera
Young Artists, joined by an accompanist, giving a small performance with a
cast that often includes a few students.
Field trips on the Institution grounds
include a visit to the School of Art, taking turns at the potter’s wheel, and a
trip to the School of Dance to watch a
ballet rehearsal.
Children’s School activities
complement the week’s lecture
themes. In an effort to bring
families together in conversation,
Children’s School staff have identified
at least three weeks of the 2014 Season
that complement the themes explored
on the Amphitheater stage. This year
includes “Kit & Friends” during Week
One, a reference to the conversations
with author Roger Rosenblatt in the
Amp; an “I Spy” week of scavenger
hunts during Week Three’s examination of “The Ethics of Privacy”; and an
exploration of the American West during Week Five — including a hoedown
at the end of the week.
Kids reconnect with nature.
Chautauqua’s youth camps
take full advantage of the renowned arts and educational resourc-
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es on the grounds, but also embrace
the Institution’s rich natural resources. Preschoolers at Children’s School
grow their own vegetable patch in the
Discovery Garden, while Club offers a
variety of programs that explore Chautauqua’s trees, streams and creatures
with a full-time nature counselor.
The majority of Club students
are there for one or two weeks.
Boys’ and Girls’ Club is rich
in tradition, but the day camp is also
designed as a one-of-a-kind experience for newcomers who are visiting
Chautauqua for a week. The rotating
schedule of activities includes kayaking, arts and crafts, field games, music,
tennis, a full waterfront program and
special events.
Special Studies provides several
alternative programs for teenagers at Chautauqua. For youth
who prefer to build their own schedule
this summer, the Special Studies program offers a range of courses based
on their interests, including cooking,
ceramics, sailing, golf, a Youth Scholar
Camp (ages 10 to 14) and youth writing camp (ages 13 to 16). New this year,
CHQ Up (for high school and collegeage youth) brings young adults together for an in-depth exploration of the
week’s lectures.
Find more information at ciweb.org/
youth and ciweb.org/special-studies.
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Jennifer
Nettles
Arrival
From Sweden
The
Time Jumpers
2014 Amphitheater Specials
Purchase tickets at chqtickets.com or call 716-357-6250
The Music of ABBA by
Arrival from Sweden**
Amphitheater Ball with
the Ladies First Big Band*
ABBA was Sweden’s biggest music
export ever, with 370 million records
sold. Arrival from Sweden has toured
their authorized tribute production to
over 50 nations around the globe. The
music, the outfits, the fun — this is the
closest you will ever get to see ABBA.
All generations can celebrate the
Fourth of July and “trip the light fantastic” in the Amp under the mirrored
ball. The Ladies First Big Band is a
16-member all-female group formed
and directed by bassist Jennifer May.
Saturday, June 21, 8:15 p.m.
American Legion Band of the
Tonawandas, Post 264
Sunday, June 22, 2:30 p.m.
Canadian Brass*
Monday, June 23, 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.
Valerie Capers Jazz Ensemble
Tuesday, June 24, 8:15 p.m.
Pianist, jazz musician, composer
and arranger Valerie Capers has performed across the U.S. and in Europe
with her trio and ensemble. Capers has
performed with a roster of outstanding artists including Dizzy Gillespie,
Wynton Marsalis and Ray Brown. Family Entertainment Series (FES):
Galumpha*
Wednesday, June 25, 7:30 p.m.
Combining stunning acrobatics,
striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle and merriment.
Chautauqua Dance Salon
Thursday, June 26, 8:15 p.m.
Under the Streetlamp**
Friday, June 27, 8:15 p.m.
America’s hottest vocal group performs an electrifying evening of hits
from the American Radio Songbook,
bringing their unique blend of tight
harmonies and slick dance moves to
your favorite doo-wop, Motown and
old-time rock ‘n’ roll hits.
U.S. Army Field Band
& Soldiers’ Chorus
Sunday, June 29, 2:30 p.m.
An Evening with Loretta LaRoche
Wednesday, July 2, 8:15 p.m.
Acclaimed humorist, author, stress
expert and Emmy-nominated PBS star
Loretta LaRoche has been enlightening and entertaining millions with her
unique vision of the absurdities of our
evolved lifestyle.
Friday, July 4, 8 p.m.
Brass Band of the Western Reserve
Sunday, July 6, 2:30 p.m.
FES: The Passing Zone presents
Gravity Attacks!*
Jon Wee and Owen Morse are blowing audiences away with their awardwinning Passing Zone performance
— chainsaws, torches, knives and even
three people from the audience fly
through the air!
Jennifer Nettles:
That Girl Tour 2014**
Friday, July 11, 8:15 p.m.
In 2003, Jennifer Nettles teamed
with Kristian Bush to form Sugarland.
From then on it was hit after hit, three
Grammy Awards, six Country Music
Association Awards and two Academy
of Country Music Awards. Her solo album, That Girl, was released in January 2014. She is now on the road touring to rave reviews. Singer-songwriter
Brandy Clark will be her opening act.
School of Dance Student Gala
A Night in Old New Orleans*
From the Broadway production of
One Mo’ Time, music arranger and
clarinetist Orange Kellin brings a trio
of hot New Orleans musicians — piano, clarinet and percussion — to play
the elegant, thrilling and undeniably
infectious Big Easy sounds.
The Time Jumpers featuring
Vince Gill, Don Sears,
Kenny Sears, Ranger Doug Green**
The Time Jumpers was established
in Nashville in 1998 by high-dollar studio musicians who wanted to spend
some spare time drinking and jamming with their sonically gifted buddies. The current edition of the Time
Jumpers, which at Chautauqua will
feature Vince Gill, includes 11 members, each a master of their instrument.
An Evening with
Engelbert Humperdinck**
Friday, Aug. 15, 8:15 p.m.
For more than four decades the iconic “King of Romance” has remained the
consummate global entertainer. He just
released his first duets album, Engelbert
Calling, with such artists as Elton John,
Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick and Kenny Rogers.
Barbershop Harmony Parade
Sunday, Aug. 17, 2:30 p.m.
WRFA Presents ‘Rolling Hills Radio’ Dancing Wheels*
Matuto*
Monday, July 28, 8:15 p.m.
Matuto’s joyous, ebullient music
merges the forro folkloric music of
Brazil with the sounds of all-American bluegrass, spirituals and swampy
Louisiana jams. Matuto brings guitar,
violin, accordion and a range of Brazilian percussion to this seductively
cross-cultural mix.
Dance Innovations
Pat Metheny Unity Group & Bruce
Hornsby: Campfire Tour 2014**
Pat Metheny has won 20 Grammy
Awards in 12 different categories. Now
with the quartet of musicians in Unity
Group, he again reinvents himself and
the critics are raving. Joining Metheny
on the Campfire Tour 2014 is three-time
Grammy winner Bruce Hornsby. who
has sold more than 10 million records
performed with everyone from the
Grateful Dead to Sting to Bob Dylan.
Monday, Aug. 18, 8:15 p.m.
Considered one of the premier arts
and disabilities organizations in the
U.S., Dancing Wheels is a professional,
physically integrated dance company
uniting the talents of dancers both
with and without disabilities.
An Evening with Livingston Taylor,
Tom Chapin and The Jammin’ Divas
Wednesday, Aug. 20, 8:15 p.m.
Tom Chapin and Livingston Taylor
are two of the most revered and loved
singer-songwriters of their generation
and the Jammin’ Divas are one of the
most exciting new groups in the world
of contemporary folk music.
Yesterday — The Beatles Tribute
Thursday, Aug. 21, 8:15 p.m.
Yesterday spotlights the Beatles’ entire career from the early days of the
Cavern Club through the groundbreaking Sgt. Pepper album and beyond.
The Orchestra starring Former
Members of Electric Light Orchestra
and ELO Part II**
Wilson Phillips**
The Capitol Steps*
Musicians Mik Kaminski, Lou Clark,
Glen Burtnik, Eric Troyer, Parthenon
Huxley and Gordon Townsend continue to tour and perform keeping the
legacy and legendary music of Electric
Light Orchestra and ELO Part II alive.
First appearing on the music scene
in 1990 with their album Wilson Phillips, from which three of its singles —
“Hold On,” “Release Me,” and “You’re
In Love” — went straight to the top of
the Billboard charts, Wilson Phillips in
1992 was the best-selling female group
of all time for a single album. They are
back on the concert stage sharing their
love of music, songwriting and their
unique vocal harmonies.
You may find this evening extremely funny and challenging to your political views. The Capitol Steps are proud
to be equal-opportunity offenders!
Patti Austin Live At Duke’s Place:
Featuring The Duke Ellington
Orchestra & Patti Austin singing
the music of Ella Fitzgerald**
NYSSSA School of Choral Studies
An Evening of Pas de Deux
Junior Guilders of the
Lucille Ball Little Theatre
An Evening Piano Recital with
Alexander Gavrylyuk*
The extraordinary Alexander Gavrylyuk returns for his ninth season for a
solo recital in the Amphitheater, performing works by Mozart, Schumann,
Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff. On Saturday, Aug. 16, he performs with the CSO.
Saturday, August 23, 8:15 p.m.
Grammy Award winner Patti Austin collaborates with the Duke Ellington Orchestra for a spectacular evening of jazz classics which pay homage
to Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington.
Razzer’s Jazzers
*Community Appreciation Nights
**Preferred seating available
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2 015 Lec tur e Theme s
Week One (June 29–July 3): 21st-Century Literacies
How do we go about building literacy in a variety of disciplines and in areas outside our expertise, and encourage others to do the same? How can these efforts
help in building and maintaining a well-informed citizenry? This week we hear
from proponents of literacy in a variety of disciplines, including the arts, history,
science, technology, civics, geography and finance.
Week Two (July 6–July 10): Boys Will Be Boys, Then Men
What’s happening to our boys? How are we raising them? A large and growing
body of scholarship suggests that our boys, all boys, are facing enormous challenges with healthy development and socialization, and are feeling confused and
underappreciated. The archetypes of the protector and provider are being confused by demands for sensitivity and partnership. Why do boys have higher SAT
scores but lower grades? Why are they present more in prisons and more likely
to be diagnosed with psychological disorders? We will hear how experts, schools
and nonprofit organizations are providing new learning and societal support for
“raising” a healthier male population.
Week Three (July 13–17): Immigration
In this week, we track current trends in movements of peoples throughout the
world, including but also stepping outside the ongoing American debate over
legal and illegal immigration. Where are people moving, and why? What is expected of the immigrant, and what of the country of immigration? How does immigration impact economies and change cultures?
Week Four (July 20–24): Irrationality
Duke professor Dan Ariely joins us with esteemed social-science contemporaries
to explore the complex and often irrational world of human decision-making in a
week that will also include analysis of simultaneous research on Chautauquans.
Why do we regularly act in ways that defy our interests? How do we justify our own
dishonesty? In what ways do we consistently contradict our stated intentions?.
Week Five (July 27–31): Art in Politics
The history of politics is also a history of the role of art in politics — to frame, to
distort, to manipulate. Lecturers this week will demonstrate the way art is used in
politics and to influence political processes, using historical and modern examples
in music, fine art, photography, the digital world, comedy, satire and language.
Week Six (Aug 3–7): Vanishing
Almost everything that ever existed, whether physically or theoretically, no longer
does. In this week we mine history to rediscover what has vanished — or nearly
vanished — in anthropology, ecology, the environment, technology, ideology.
What do we wish we could have back, and what are we glad is gone? What exists
now that is about to vanish? Why does it matter?
Week Seven (Aug. 10–14): Redefining Europe
A Colonial Williamsburg/Chautauqua Institution “Emerging Citizenship” Series
Chautauqua once again partners with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to
examine what it means to be a citizen of Europe today. Is the European Union
united, or not? Does European citizenship differ in meaning to residents of established versus developing nations? Twenty-five years after the official dismantling
of the Berlin Wall, how has a sense of citizenship and national pride has developed in former Eastern Bloc countries?
Week Eight (Aug. 17–21): The Middle East Now and Next
Building upon more than two decades of compelling programming on the Middle East, Chautauqua in 2015 brings together today’s and tomorrow’s brightest
thinkers and doers in global affairs for an in-depth, weeklong inquiry to further
understand this troubled region. Five Chautauquans who have provided expertise on the Middle East from the Amphitheater stage will each invite and engage
in conversation a person whom they believe will have significant influence in the
region over the next 20 years.
Week Nine (Aug. 24–28): Creating Healthy Communities
The final week in a three-year series on health care in America, Chautauqua closes
its 2015 Season with a focus on healthy living and preventive care. How can we
encourage physical and mental well-being in our families and workplaces? How
can we design our communities to promote healthy behavior? Can we ensure the
increasing ability to track our own health is helpful to us and our doctors?
Institution announces staff
promotions, new hires
John Shedd has assumed the role
of director of facilities. In addition to
managing capital projects and administrating the Architecture & Land Use
Regulations, Shedd is responsible for
planning, coordinating, evaluating and
directing maintenance activities for all
Institution-owned facilities. Reporting
directly to Shedd are Jack Munella, facilities/project manager, and his trades,
housekeeping and mechanics staff,
who will continue to care for Chautauqua’s buildings and equipment.
Maureen O’Connor Rovegno now
serves as associate director of the
Department of Religion, giving her
a more prominent role in providing
leadership for the department and
working collaboratively with Director Robert Franklin in all areas of its
mission. Rovegno, formerly a member of Chautauqua’s board of trustees,
worked actively on behalf of Chautauqua’s 16-year Abrahamic Program
and currently directs the Chautauqua
Abrahamic Program for Young Adults,
which seeks to foster understanding
and connection among young practitioners of the Abrahamic religions.
Matt Ewalt has been appointed associate director of the Department of
Education and Youth Services. In this
capacity, he provides strategic direction and operational supervision for
Special Studies and Youth Services.
He also works with Sherra Babcock,
vice president and Emily and Richard
Smucker Chair for Education, in planning and executing the morning Amphitheater lectures, literary arts programming and other special events.
Jordan Steves is now director of
communications, responsible for external and internal communications as
the primary editor for most Institution
printed and online communications,
including The Chautauquan Daily. He
also serves as staff liaison to Chautauqua year-round residents during the
off-season and leads efforts to keep
all employees informed of summer
program, projects and initiatives, and
board decisions through regular communications.
Nicole Szydlo is now research associate for the Chautauqua Foundation.
Keri Ellen
Filsinger
Sara
Toth
She is a Chautauqua County native, and
a graduate of Forestville Central School.
While earning her degree at SUNY
Fredonia, Szydlo spent two seasons
working in the administrative offices of
Chautauqua Opera Company. Szydlo is
a graduate of Jamestown Community
College, with an A.A.S. in computer
information systems, and SUNY Fredonia, with a bachelor’s degree in arts administration and communications.
Keri Ellen Filsinger is assistant
front office manager at the Athenaeum
Hotel. She is a 2012 graduate of the
State University of New York at Fredonia with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. As a student, she primarily
researched and published in the areas
of multicultural psychology and psychology of religion. The 2014 season
will be her fourth as an employee of
Chautauqua. She is excited to bring her
education, aptitude and love of Chautauqua to infusing the guest experience at the Athenaeum Hotel.
Sara Toth is lecture associate for
the Department of Education and assistant editor of The Chautauquan Daily. She spent the last three-and-a-half
years as a reporter for the Baltimore
Sun Media Group, covering education
for several community newspapers in
Howard and Prince George’s counties
in Maryland. Prior to that, she interned
at the Daily for three summers from
2008 to 2010, covering theater and then
the literary arts. In 2010, she was the
Ernest Cawcroft Fellow at the Daily. A
2010 graduate of Gannon University
in Erie, she holds a Bachelor of Arts
in English, with minors in journalism
and fine arts and a concentration in
creative writing. She is originally from
Perryopolis, Pennsylvania.
Chautauqua Women’s Club celebrates 125th anniversary in 2014
The Chautauqua Women’s Club
celebrates its 125th anniversary with
a wide range of activities during the
2014 season. Highlighting the journey
since its founding in 1889 is CWC’s anniversary video, “The Women’s Club:
The Heartbeat of Chautauqua,” produced in collaboration with former
president Barbara Vackar and former
board member Betsy Martin.
This must-see video joins historic
footage of early Chautauqua with new
film of CWC’s current activities and
programs. It will be shown at our annual “Season’s Greetings” event, from
4:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, June 25, at the
Club House. Join us for the kick-off
event and welcome our new president,
Nancy Griffin Shadd. That event will
be followed by an Opening Soiree to
welcome Shadd at 4:30 p.m. Sunday,
June 29, also at the Club House (see
Page 3).
The 125th Anniversary Celebration
and Fair will be held from 1 to 5 p.m.
Sunday, July 13, at the Club House. All
are invited to enjoy a silent auction and
raffles, family and children’s activities,
tours of the house, and cupcakes and
lemonade. The silent auction will feature artwork, vacation destinations, a
dollhouse and gift certificates.
Throughout its history, the CWC
has successfully maintained its lovely
house by the lake, provided interesting
programs for the Chautauqua community, and offered scholarship assistance
for students attending the Schools of
Fine and Performing Arts. Much of this
support is made possible by the generosity of individual donor gifts. In this
significant year, the CWC gratefully
acknowledges Bob and Joyce Tate (see
Page 22) for their generous donation
from the sale of their home.
The CWC expresses its deep appreciation for their continuous support of
the club’s mission and recognition of
our many good works that enhance
the Chautauqua experience for all who
come to the Institution each summer.
This year, the CWC offers a variety
of events and programs. The Saturday
Contemporary Issues Forum includes
speakers from the world of politics,
health care, food, finance and education (see Page 11).
The Thursday morning Chautauqua Speaks program opens with
Chautauqua President Tom Becker’s
“Greetings and Updates.” Each week
offers topics and performances of interest to the Chautauqua community
such as Dr. Sebastian Ciancio; the
Rev. Robert Franklin, new director
of Chautauqua’s Department of Religion; and Jon Schmitz, Institution archivist and historian. In Week Three,
Chautauqua’s renowned watercolorist, Rita Argen Auerbach, will demonstrate painting a Chautauqua scene
which will become an item for the
CWC silent auction.
The Young Women’s Group is sponsoring workshops as well as a Youth
Leadership Awards Night. Weekly
programs include bridge, canasta,
and mah jongg along with Wednesday Language Hours, the Professional Women’s Network and the Young
Women’s Group sessions.
Also, look forward to our fundraising events, including the special Anniversary Silent Auction, Chef Tours,
and Ontario Wine Tasting and Lecture. The CWC will again host the
Flea Boutique behind the Colonnade,
beginning at noon Wednesday, July
9, and Artists at the Market, featuring
artists’ hand-made items Wednesday
and Thursday afternoons from noon
to 4 p.m. at the Farmers Market.
The beat goes on, not only in honoring the past, but in celebrating the
present and building a vital future.
Our club strives to be an organization
that continues to build fellowship with
and for our members and friends. May
it be so for the next 125 years.
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As summer nears, Borba details a more fully fleshed-out Go West!
Andrew Borba is excited. Under
his directorship, the second Chautauqua Inter-arts Collaboration is taking shape. This year’s production,
Go West!: The Mythology of American
Expansion, will not only involve last
year’s departmental collaborators on
The Romeo & Juliet Project (symphony,
dance, theater, voice and opera under
the direction of Vivienne Benesch), but
will expand to include Chautauqua’s
visual arts program.
“American expansion, and our perception of it, is bold and imagistic and
I knew very early in the process that
the addition of the visual arts must
be a central part of the project,” said
Andrew Borba, director of Go West!
“[VACI Artistic Director] Don Kimes is
curating a series of paintings and photographs — projectionist Christopher
Ash is one of my key collaborators —
and we are thrilled to be presenting
important visual representations of
the period in a very modern way that
the Amp has never seen. Because this
is a completely original piece, we’ve
had the freedom to engage even more
varied forms, artists and artistic viewpoints than in Romeo & Juliet.”
Go West! will include a movement
from a string quartet by Chautauquan Christian Woehr titled “Missouri Nights.” The work of New York
composer Ricky Ian Gordon, who has
been in residence at Chautauqua several times in recent years to work with
voice students, will also be featured
in two selections from The Grapes of
Wrath, his opera based on the 1939
John Steinbeck novel. The Piano Program will play a Scott Joplin duet, and
renowned Native American flutist Dan
Hill will be a guest soloist in the production as well.
“This will not be solely a celebration nor solely a condemnation,” he
explains. “The genocide of Native
Americans, the struggles of AfricanAmericans, Mexican-Americans, and
all of the immigrants who came here
in search of a better life are part of the
melting-pot experience, for better or
worse. We are considering the merits and the consequences, but a work
of art should not be answering questions. Art should be asking questions.
The many art forms we are bringing
together allow us to address this complexity with power and emotion.”
While Borba has been able to draw
on many sources, “we’re not doing
a Ken Burns documentary,” he said.
“We can’t. There are thousands of stories involved in American expansion.
It is even more multifaceted and varied
than I imagined, so in our subtitle, using the word mythology is significant.”
While it is not possible to convey all
that actually happened as the nation
moved west, the spirit and impulse that
started it are central to Borba’s piece.
“This will not be solely a celebration nor solely a condemnation,” he
explains. “The genocide of Native
Americans, the struggles of AfricanAmericans, Mexican-Americans, and
all of the immigrants who came here
in search of a better life are part of the
melting-pot experience, for better or
worse. We are considering the merits and the consequences, but a work
of art should not be answering questions. Art should be asking questions.
The many art forms we are bringing
together allow us to address this com-
Chautauqua Institution photo
The three Juliets (dancer Anna Gerberich, singer Rachel Sterrenberg and actor Arielle
Goldman) embrace during the 2013 Chautauqua Inter-arts Collaboration, The Romeo
& Juliet Project. In 2014, Chautauqua’s resident arts programs will produce Go West!
plexity with power and emotion.”
Borba hopes that once Chautauquans have seen Go West!, they will
be moved to continue their own investigations of “America’s impulse to
pioneer and the cost of that impulse,”
as he put it. He is also keenly aware of
how unusual it is to be able to bring all
of these art forms to bear on such an
enormous idea.
“This production showcases for
the rest of the world how vital Chautauqua is to this fractured world, how
rare it is when a group gathers to focus
on intentional learning in community
like this,” he said.
Support for Chautauqua’s inter-arts
collaboration is part of Chautauqua’s
Promise Campaign, and, as such,
Borba characterizes the effort as “an
investment in what Chautauqua does
best. You can’t get something like this
anywhere else. I guarantee you that.”
Go West! will be presented at 8:15
p.m. Saturday, July 26, in the Amphitheater, capping a week of lectures on
the American West. At last year’s interarts collaboration, there was standing
room only.
Donors who wish to learn more
about how they can contribute to this
unique showcase of Chautauqua’s arts
assets may contact Chautauqua Foundation CEO Geof Follansbee at [email protected].
This article is adapted from a piece in
the Spring 2014 edition of the Chautauqua
Foundation’s PILLARS publication.
Chautauqua Fund sets $3.7m goal in 2014, $22m overall for Promise Campaign
The celebration begins in June. One
hundred and forty summers of assembly on these grounds — 1874 to 2014
— is a remarkable feat. Through hard
times and periods of plenty, Chautauquans have joined together to share
in this learning experience that is like
no other. And every so often, it is appropriate to take special notice of this
human collaboration. For where would
the performers and speakers be without Chautauqua’s exceptionally attentive and intelligent audiences?
Participation is the very core of
Chautauqua. It is the promise we make
to our families and ourselves by coming here. There is no end of opportunity
for engagement — lively conversations
with writers, thinkers, actors, singers,
dancers, painters and sculptors — and
all the ways in which we can challenge
ourselves on the golf course, softball
field, tennis courts or by taking a Special
Studies class. For our children, Chautauqua is a wonderland of nature and
nurture through our youth programs.
Indeed, as the board of trustees
recognized in its most recent strategic plan, Chautauqua’s greatest asset
is Chautauquans themselves, and we
want to celebrate you!
On Sunday, June 29, the Chautauqua
community will celebrate Promise Day
— a day complete with musical events,
food and a scavenger hunt and other
fun activities for families. Promise Day
will celebrate the pledge we make to
ourselves and our fellow Chautauquans
by showing up, taking part and building this community anew each year.
Every Chautauquan can do their part
in contributing to the ongoing, successful operation of the Institution, particularly with a gift to the Chautauqua Fund.
McEvoy to chair B es tor Societ y
The Chautauqua Fund is a critical
component of Chautauqua’s annual
operations, and is also a foundational
part of the larger Promise Campaign, a
six-year fundraising initiative. This year
the campaign goes public, having raised
more than $62 million in gifts and pledges toward the total goal of $98.2 million.
The Chautauqua Fund will contribute $22 million in operational support
for the Institution over the life of the
campaign. For 2014, the Chautauqua
Fund goal is $3.7 million.
The Chautauqua Fund has a singular
purpose. It closes the gap between revenues generated by gate tickets and the
cost of putting on the season. Just like
the annual fund campaigns conducted
by colleges, synagogues, mosques and
churches, Chautauqua depends on our
annual pledges to keep the doors open
and the lights burning brightly.
We can make and even exceed our
goal if we join together and participate.
Promise Day will be a great time to experience the power of our community in
action! Come join the fun and the Fund!
Dede Trefts McEvoy is
son,” she said.
an IBM executive who works
Trefts McEvoy has been
in mergers and acquisitions
coming to Chautauqua since
and began her career at
she was an infant. Her great
IBM helping to launch the
grandfather, Dr. Albert H.
company’s new manageSharpe, was a Yale student
ment consulting and services
when he first came to the
businesses. She lives in New
grounds. He ran ChautauCanaan, Connecticut, and
qua’s athletics program for
like so many Chautauquans,
many years in addition to
she’s active in church and a
his legendary coaching at
number of nonprofits back
Cornell, Yale, Ithaca College,
Dede Trefts
home, yet she has recently
and Washington University in
McEvoy
agreed to serve as the chair
St. Louis. The softball field at
of Chautauqua’s Bestor Society
Chautauqua is named for him.
— a new position among the group of
“Of course a lot has changed since
lead donors whose donations of $3,500
those early days at Chautauqua,” says
and above comprise some 76 percent
Trefts McEvoy, who is looking forward to
of the total amount raised annually for
introducing her infant granddaughter,
the Chautauqua Fund.
Margaret, to Chautauqua this summer.
Why has she taken on this challenge?
“In the past a lot of families would
“Philanthropy makes the differbeat the heat and come here for the
ence,” Trefts McEvoy said. “Maintainentire summer …, but the realities of
ing a strong base of donors is critical
dual-career families and professional
to Chautauqua, and the Fund has a
women’s responsibilities have changed
powerful impact on the degree to
how many Chautauquans manage their
which we can minimize increases in
summers. I think the Institution has
gate tickets and cover operational exdone
a great job adapting to accommopenses while investing in programming
date the needs of families today,” Trefts
and our beautiful grounds. It’s critical
McEvoy explained. “And when I think
for those of us who have the means
about Chautauqua now as compared
to make the Chautauqua experience
with the 1970s, how much more beautiavailable to others through scholarful and well tended the grounds have
ships and other support to help offset
become as well as the care and attenthe cost of putting on the season.”
tion that has been put into renovations
While Jack and Yvonne McCredie
and enhancements to our buildings, the
will continue to chair the overall Chauresults are remarkable. These kinds of
tauqua Fund campaign this year, Trefts
investments require us, most notably
McEvoy agreed to step into this new
as leaders inside the Bestor Society, to
Bestor Society position after volunteering for a number of years with the Fund. continue our generous philanthropy to
ensure this forward momentum.”
“Working on the annual campaign
Trefts McEvoy also recently became
has been a great way to meet and recona member of the Chautauqua Institunect with people I wouldn’t otherwise
run into during the course of the seation Board of Trustees in August 2013.
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BARTON
GELLMAN
ALBERTO R.
GONZALES
CYNTHIA J.
TRUELOVE
W. RICHARD
WEST
LESLIE
BERLIN
BRIAN
WINTER
DEBORAH
BRÄUTIGUM
ROBIN
WRIGHT
Lecture platform additions bring nuance to 2014
Week Three
The Ethics of Privacy
Tuesday, July 8
Peter W. Singer is senior fellow and
director of the Center for 21st Century
Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution. He is the youngest
scholar named senior fellow in Brookings’ history. Considered one of the
world’s leading experts on changes in
21st-century warfare, Singer has consulted for the U.S. Department of Defense and FBI, and was named by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Joint
Forces Command Transformation Advisory Group. Singer’s recent book Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone
Needs to Know was described by a former NATO supreme allied commander
as the “most approachable and readable
book ever written on the cyber world.”
Wednesday, July 9
Barton Gellman is a critically honored author, journalist and blogger.
Along with Laura Poitras and Glenn
Greenwald, he broke the story of the National Security Agency’s data-collection
and surveillance programs, and has
since personally interviewed Edward
Snowden, the former NSA contractor
who leaked classified documents. Poitras and Gellman’s coverage won The
Washington Post a Pulitzer Prize. Gellman is author of the bestselling Angler:
The Cheney Vice Presidency, a contributing editor at large at Time magazine
and lecturer and author in residence at
Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs.
Friday, July 11
Alberto R. Gonzales was nominated by President George W. Bush
and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as
the 80th attorney general of the United States on Feb. 3, 2005, and served
in that capacity until September 2007.
Currently, he is counsel to the Nashville law firm Waller Lansden. Effective
June 1, he will begin his duties as dean
of Belmont University’s College of Law,
where he has taught on Constitutional
law, the First Amendment, national security law and separation of powers.
Ken Gormley is dean and professor
at Duquesne University School of Law
in Pittsburgh, specializing in Constitutional subjects. His work on a myriad
of legal and historical topics has earned
him a national reputation as a leading
Constitutional scholar. He is the author
of two Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selections: Archibald Cox:
Conscience of a Nation and The Death of
American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr.
Week Five
The American West
Monday, July 21
Patrick Griffin is Madden-Hennebry Professor and chair of the Department of History at Notre Dame.
His work explores the intersection of
colonial American and early modern
Irish and British history. As such, it
focuses on Atlantic-wide themes and
dynamics. He has published work on
the movement of peoples and cultures
across the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the
process of adaptation. He also examines the ways in which Ireland, Britain,
and America were linked — and differed — during the 17th and 18th centuries. He has looked at revolution and
rebellion, movement and migration,
and colonization and violence in each
society in comparative perspective.
Tuesday, July 22
Cynthia J. Truelove is a well-recognized and respected veteran in the
field of California water and energy
issues. A comparative international
political economist and environmental
sociologist, she recently completed a
term as consulting director of the Water-Energy Policy Research Initiative
and visiting scholar at Stanford’s Water in the West Program. Truelove pre-
viously was senior water and waterenergy policy analyst at the California
Public Utilities Commission, where
she actively engaged in enhancing the
commission’s water policy initiatives
across the arenas of water conservation, the water-energy nexus, and water and climate change.
Wednesday, July 23
W. Richard West Jr. is the president
and chief executive officer of the Autry National Center of the American
West. He has devoted his professional
life and much of his personal life to
working in the national and international museum communities and with
American Indians on cultural, educational, legal and governmental issues.
West is also the founding director and
director emeritus of the Smithsonian
Institution’s National Museum of the
American Indian.
Thursday, July 24
Robert F. List served as the 24th
governor of Nevada. Prior to being
elected governor, he served as district
attorney of Carson City and for eight
years as the state’s elected attorney
general. He was chairman of both the
Western Governors’ Association and
the Conference of Western Attorneys
General. List has served as a presidential or cabinet-member appointee to
governing and advisory boards and
commissions under Presidents Nixon,
Ford, Carter and Reagan, and with
both Bush administrations. List is currently senior partner at the Las Vegas
law firm Kolesar & Leatham.
Friday, July 25
Leslie Berlin is project historian for
the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford
University. She is the author of The Man
Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and
the Invention of Silicon Valley, a biography of Intel co-founder and microchip
co-inventor Robert Noyce. She has also
contributed the “Prototype” column
on innovation to the Sunday Business
section of The New York Times. Berlin
serves on the advisory committee to
the Lemelson Center for the Study of
Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and is also a director of the
IT History Society
Week Six
Brazil: Rising Superpower
Wednesday, July 30
Brian Winter is an author and the
chief correspondent for Reuters in Brazil, based in São Paulo. During a decade living in Latin America, he has
covered popular revolts, the destruction of the Amazon and countless economic booms and busts. He has written or co-written four books, including
two about Brazil: Why Soccer Matters,
a 2014 CLSC selection, which he wrote
with the famous soccer star Pelé, and
The Accidental President of Brazil, a collaboration with Fernando Henrique
Cardoso, who governed the country
from 1995 to 2003. Since moving to Brazil in 2010, he has become perhaps the
leading authority on President Dilma
Rousseff, closely following her government’s economic and social policies.
Week Eight
Chautauqua’s Global Public Square
Thursday, Aug. 15
Deborah Bräutigam has been writing about China, Africa, state-building,
governance and foreign aid for more
than 20 years. Her most recent book is
The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China
in Africa. Currently a professor of international development and comparative
politics and director of the International
Development Program at The Johns
Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, she has
also held faculty appointments at American University, Columbia University
and the University of Bergen, Norway.
2 014 S pe c i a l Pr o g r a m s
Thursday, June 26 · 12:15 p.m. · Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall
Poetry reading. Pittsburgh-area student winners of Carnegie Mellon
University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Writing Awards. Hosted by Jim Daniels,
Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon University
Wednesday, July 2 · 12:30 p.m. · Smith Wilkes Hall
Presentation. Deogratias “Deo” Niyizonkiza, founder and CEO, Village
Health Works (joint program with Department of Religion)
Wednesday, July 2 · Time TBA · Chautauqua Cinema
Meet the Filmmaker Series. “Forty Years on the Farm.” Randy Rudder,
writer and producer
Monday & Friday, July 7 & 11 · 4 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Applied Ethics Series. July 7: “Privacy, Ethics and Nostalgia,” Braden Allenby.
July 11: “Privacy, Ethics and Money, Money, Money,” Adriana Sanford.
ASU Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
Tuesday, July 8 · 3:30 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
“Ethics of Privacy” debate on Fourth Amendment. Moderated by Jeffrey
Rosen, president and CEO, National Constitution Center (co-sponsor)
Friday, July 18 · 3:30 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Intergenerational reading of the Declaration of Independence. Led by
Danielle Allen, CLSC author of Our Declaration
Monday, July 21 · 4 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Lecture. Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science,
Yale University
Monday, July 28 · Time TBA · Chautauqua Cinema
Meet the Filmmaker Series. “Madame Presidenta: Why Not U.S.?”
Heather Arnet, writer, producer and director
Tuesday & Wednesday, July 29 & 30 · Times TBA · Chautauqua Cinema
Meet the Filmmaker Series. July 29: “City of God.” July 30: “Black Orpheus.”
Persephone Braham, associate professor of Spanish and Latin American
studies, University of Delaware
Wednesday, July 30 · 4 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Middle East Update: “Can the U.S. Afford to be the World’s Sole Superpower?”
Geoffrey Kemp, director of Regional Security Programs, Center for the
National Interest; Grover Norquist, president, Americans for Tax Reform
Sunday–Friday, Aug. 3–8 · Times TBA · Chautauqua Cinema
Meet the Filmmaker Series featuring the films of Ken Burns. Aug 3: “The
Central Park Five”; Aug. 4: “The Civil War,” Episodes 6 and 7; Aug. 5: “The
Civil War,” Episodes 8 and 9; Aug. 6: “The Roosevelts,” Episode 3; Aug. 7:
“The Roosevelts,” Episode 5; Aug. 8: “Prohibition,” Episode 1.
Wednesday, Aug. 13 · 4 p.m. · Hall of Philosophy
Middle East Update. Geoffrey Kemp; Dennis Ross, counselor, Washington
Institute
Wednesday, Aug. 20 · Time TBA · Chautauqua Cinema
Meet the Filmmaker Series. “The Other Town.” Nefin Dinc, producer
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2 014 L e c t u r e T h e m e s
Week One (June 23–28): Roger Rosenblatt and Friends
“We write to make suffering endurable, evil intelligible, justice desirable and love possible.” —Roger Rosenblatt
Join the Chautauqua-favorite memoirist and novelist and another set of his distinguished friends for five days on the art of
storytelling through the written word. Appearing onstage with Rosenblatt this week are former “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom
Brokaw (Monday), Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood (Tuesday), Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout
(Wednesday), Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Jules Feiffer (Thursday) and New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon (Friday).
KEITH
YAMAMOTO
MARTHA N.
HILL
week topics
Friday, Aug. 16
Robin Wright has reported from
more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, the Los
Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The New
York Times Magazine, Time, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times of London, CBS
News and Foreign Affairs, among many
others. Her foreign tours include the
Middle East, Europe, Africa and several years as a roving foreign correspondent worldwide. She has covered
a dozen wars and several revolutions.
Wright has also been a fellow at the
U.S. Institute of Peace, the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Brookings Institution and
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as well as Yale, Duke, Stanford and the University of California.
Week Nine
Health Care: From Bench to Bedside
Monday, Aug. 18
Keith Yamamoto is vice chancellor for research, executive vice dean of
the school of medicine, and professor
of cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of California, San
Francisco. Throughout his career, Yamamoto’s research has focused on signaling and transcriptional regulation
by nuclear receptors; he uses structural, mechanistic and systems approaches to pursue these problems in pure
molecules, cells and whole organisms.
Yamamoto has led or served on numerous national committees focused on
public and scientific policy, public understanding and support of biological
research, and science education.
Wednesday, Aug. 20
Rear Admiral Scott F. Giberson is
the acting U.S. deputy surgeon general.
He supports Acting Surgeon General
Boris Lushniak in communicating the
best available scientific information to
the public regarding ways to improve
personal health and the health of the
nation. Giberson was selected by 18th
Surgeon General Regina Benjamin as
the first director of the Division of Commissioned Corps Personnel and Readiness and since March 2010 has served as
assistant surgeon general and chief professional officer, pharmacy, for the United States Public Health Service, advising the Office of the Surgeon General on
career development and management
of more than 1,150 PHS pharmacists.
Thursday, Aug. 21
Martha N. Hill served as dean of
the Johns Hopkins University School
of Nursing until early 2014 and has
been a member of the faculty since the
school was established in 1983. Her
expertise in community-based participatory research focuses on the integration of multi-professional health
care to improve treatment and outcomes for vulnerable and underserved
populations. She has been an active
investigator, mentor, and consultant
on numerous National Institutes of
Health-funded clinical trials and is
recognized around the globe for her
research projects.
Note: John Lumpkin, previously announced
for Aug. 21, will now lecture on Aug. 22.
Week Two (June 30–July 4): Feeding a Hungry Planet
In partnership with the National Geographic Society / Program sponsor: Wegmans
As the world’s population swells and more countries become industrialized, Chautauqua and National Geographic present a
week focused on the increasingly stressed global food supply, a subject the magazine is making into a yearlong series in 2014.
Dennis Dimick, National Geographic magazine’s executive environmental editor, will lead off the week with photographer Jim
Richardson with a visual introduction to the state of the food supply. On Tuesday, Tracie McMillan, author of What America
Eats, and photographer Amy Toensing will illustrate Americans’ relationships with food. Professor of plant pathology Pamela
C. Ronald, co-author of Tomorrow’s Table, speaks Wednesday on the role of genetically modified foods. For Thursday, Barton
Seaver, director of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program at Harvard School of Public Health’s Center for Health and the
Global Environment, will highlight the important connection between environmental resiliency and human health. To end the
week, Jonathan Foley, incoming director of the California Academy of Sciences, speaks on sustainability of civilization and the
global environment on Friday.
Week Three (July 7–11): The Ethics of Privacy
The erosion of individual privacy — with and without consent — carries the promise of a more secure country, greater
collaboration and a personalized consumer experience. In an honest exploration of this shifting balance, Chautauqua
brings together differing views on expectations and limits of privacy. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National
Constitution Center and an award-winning journalist on legal issues, opens the week Monday with an overview of the history
and philosophy of individual privacy. Peter W. Singer, director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the
Brookings Institution, takes the stage Tuesday to discuss privacy and responsibility in the U.S. and within the global context.
For Wednesday, Edward Snowden interviewer Barton Gellman, the Time contributing editor-at-large who was one of three
to break the NSA story last summer, will speak on that scandal and on privacy and the press. On Thursday, Amanda Lenhart,
senior researcher in the Pew Internet & American Life Project, speaks on generational differences in attitudes on privacy, with
specific interest in the younger generations and their digital lives. Ken Gormley, dean of Duquesne University’s School of
Law, on Friday will interview former U.S. attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales about the inherent tension for government in
providing national security while respecting individual freedom.
Week Four (July 14–18): Emerging Citizenship: The Egyptian Experience
A Chautauqua Institution/Colonial Williamsburg Series
From the American revolutionaries in 1776 to present-day efforts across the globe to achieve greater participation in government
and a more democratic society, this week we analyze the citizen half of the social compact. Using Egypt as a case study, what is
the citizen’s responsibility in a 21st-century democracy? Colonial Williamsburg President Colin G. Campbell opens the week to
share his organization’s initiative on the importance of global citizenship on Monday. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian
Gordon S. Wood returns to Chautauqua Tuesday to explain the messiness of the American Revolution, and how it helps inform
our understanding of modern revolutions such as Egypt’s. On Wednesday, Dalia Mogahed, an Egyptian-American who leads
a consulting firm specializing in Muslim societies and the Middle East, will share how the demographics of modern Egypt can
provide insight into its ongoing instability. Center for Strategic and International Studies scholar Jon B. Alterman will speak
candidly Thursday with representatives of Egypt’s major political factions on their hopes and concerns for the country’s future.
Week Five (July 21–25): The American West
As Chautauqua’s arts programs prepare an original production on American expansionism, the week’s lecturers prospect
the history of the country’s frontier. What did our nation gain — artistically, culturally, politically, economically — from
westward expansion? Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, will provide
an introduction to the frontier and the emigrant state of mind on Monday. Cynthia J. Truelove, former senior water policy
analyst for the California Public Utilities Commission, will speak on Tuesday to the pressing issue of water in the region, and the
confluence of water, energy, climate change and policy. On Wednesday, W. Richard West Jr., president and CEO of the Autry
National Center of the American West, will discuss the rich history and culture of native peoples of the West, and how they
continue to shape present-day America. Former Nevada governor Robert List and former U.S. interior secretary and Arizona
governor Bruce Babbitt will take part in a Thursday conversation on the unique issues of the West. To close the week Friday,
project historian for Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University Leslie Berlin will offer an examination of the contemporary
American West, specifically Silicon Valley’s emergence as a technology and innovation capital of the world.
Week Six (July 28–Aug. 1): Brazil: Rising Superpower
The host of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics, the Federative Republic of Brazil is South America’s largest
country, and the fifth largest in the world. Lecturers this week chart its history, politics, culture and growing influence in
global affairs. Brian Winter, chief Thomson Reuters correspondent for Brazil, on Wednesday will speak specifically about the
importance of sports to the nation, and generally about its position as a “rising” nation. On Thursday, Deborah Wetzel, the
World Bank’s country director for Brazil, will outline the current economic realities in Brazil from the government, markets and
private enterprise down to the individual level. Paulo Sotero, director of the Wilson Center’s Brazil Institute, will speak to the
current state of U.S.-Brazil relations on Friday.
Week Seven (Aug. 4–8): A Week with Ken Burns
Perhaps the best-known storyteller of our history, filmmaker Ken Burns returns to Chautauqua to host a week of lectures and
dialogues on the subjects his documentaries have brought back to life. Joined by his daughter, Sarah Burns, and her husband,
David McMahon, Burns will present on their 2012 documentary The Central Park Five on Monday. For Tuesday, Ken Burns will
speak on The Civil War, the most celebrated documentary in public television’s history. Burns and his longtime collaborator,
historian Geoffrey C. Ward, discuss their upcoming documentary Vietnam, to be released in 2016, on Wednesday. For the
week’s final two presentations, Burns and Ward preview The Roosevelts, a film slated for a fall 2014 release on the three most
prominent members of, they will argue, the most important family in our history.
Week Eight (Aug. 11–15): Chautauqua’s Global Public Square
Fareed Zakaria, the respected analyst and host of “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN, leads off a week demonstrating the
interconnectedness of the global society. Expert lecturers will take us to different areas of the world, illuminating issues that
rarely receive serious attention from American media, politicians and audiences. On Wednesday, Michael Morell, the recently
retired deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, will present on international affairs, security-focused environments,
and education as a means to security. Deborah Bräutigam, professor and director of the China Africa Research Initiative at The
Johns Hopkins University, on Thursday will address the “why” and “how” of China’s heavy investment in African development.
Robin Wright, joint fellow at the Wilson Center and U.S. Institute of Peace, ends the week with the question “Whither the 21st
Century?,” and will update where we are going based on where we are now.
Week Nine (Aug. 18–22): Health Care: From Bench to Bedside
Program sponsor: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
In the second of a three-part series on health care in America, Chautauqua explores innovations throughout the health care
delivery experience, from lab bench science to patient care. The week begins with Keith Yamamoto, vice chancellor for
research and executive vice dean of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, who will speak to precision
medicine and how knowledge about the specific patient translates into better health. Lieber Institute for Brain Development
director and CEO Daniel Weinberger will speak Tuesday on laboratory innovations and their eventual effects on patient
experience. Rear Admiral Scott F. Giberson, acting U.S. deputy surgeon general, on Wednesday will address current trends
and innovations in pharmacist training and practice. For Thursday, Martha N. Hill, dean emerita at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Nursing, will discuss her discipline and the role of nursing in the delivery of health care in the United States.
John R. Lumpkin, director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Care Group, will end the week by explaining the
important role of funding in sustaining the flow of medical advancements from the discovery stage to actual practice.
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religion
GLENN C.
LOURY
ABDULLAHI A.
AN-NA‘IM
THE REV. DELMAN
COATES
TINK
TINKER
RACHEL ELIZABETH
HARDING
MICHEL
MARTIN
GESHE LOBSANG
TENZIN NEGI
RABBI SAMUEL M.
STAHL
Diverse perspectives served in Interfaith Lectures
Week Two
With Economic Justice for All
Monday, June 30
Peter Edelman is a professor of law
at Georgetown University Law Center,
where he teaches constitutional law
and poverty law and is faculty director
of the Georgetown Center on Poverty
and Inequality. On the faculty since
1982, he has also served in all three
branches of government. During President Bill Clinton’s first term he was
counselor to Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.
Note: Edelman replaces Michael Katz as
the June 30 lecturer.
Tuesday, July 1
Glenn C. Loury is the Merton P.
Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences
and Economics at Brown University.
He has taught previously at Boston,
Harvard and Northwestern universities and the University of Michigan.
As an academic economist, Loury has
published mainly in the areas of applied microeconomic theory, game
theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality.
Week Three
The Ethical Tensions of
Privacy vs. Interdependence
Monday, July 7
Luke Timothy Johnson is Robert
W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Emory
University’s Candler School of Theology. His research concerns the literary,
moral, and religious dimensions of the
New Testament, including the Jewish
and Greco-Roman contexts of early
Christianity, Luke-Acts, the Pastoral
Letters, and the Letter of James.
Tuesday, July 8
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na‘im is
Charles Howard Candler Professor
of Law and director of the Center for
International and Comparative Law at
Emory University School of Law in Atlanta. He is also associate professor in
Emory’s College of Arts and Sciences, a
senior fellow at the university’s Center
for the Study of Law and Religion Emory University and a fellow of Emory’s
Center for Ethics.
Wednesday, July 9
Yehudah Mirsky is associate professor of Near Eastern and Judaic studies
at Brandeis University and on the faculty of its Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. He studied at Yeshivat Har
Etzion and Yeshiva College and received
rabbinic ordination in Jerusalem. A Yale
Law graduate, he worked in Washington as an aide to then-senators Bob Kerrey and Al Gore, and at the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy.
Thursday, July 10
Sharon Duke Estroff is an award
winning educator, journalist and internationally syndicated Jewish parenting columnist. She is the author of Can
I Have a Cell Phone for Hanukkah? The
Essential Scoop on Raising Modern Jewish
Kids. A 21st-century parenting expert,
Estroff’s body of work is particularly
focused on the complexities of raising
children in a digital age.
Friday, July 11
Michael Patrick Lynch is professor of philosophy at the University of
Connecticut and the author or editor of
seven books, including In Praise of Reason and Truth and Realism with P. Greenough. Lynch is currently an associate fellow at both the Arché Center at
the University of St. Andrews and the
Northern Institute of Philosophy at the
University of Aberdeen.
Week Four
The Role of a Citizen in a
Just Democracy
Tuesday, July 15
Abdul Malik Mujahid is an imam,
an award-winning author, and a producer with a focus on contemporary interfaith, public policy and Islam-West
relations. He serves as the board chair
of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, considered the world’s first interfaith organization, tracing its roots
to the 1893 Parliament held at the World
Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Wednesday, July 16
The Rev. Delman Coates has
served as the senior pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Maryland, for nine years. He has initiated
and revitalized ministries, doubled the
church’s ministry campus and land
holdings and incorporated the Mt. Ennon Development Corporation. Coates
is a candidate for lieutenant governor
of Maryland in 2014.
Wednesday, July 23
Tink Tinker, a citizen of the Osage
Nation (wazhazhe), is the Clifford Baldridge Professor of American Indian
Cultures and Religious Traditions at
Iliff School of Theology. As an Indian
academic, Tinker is committed to a
scholarly endeavor that takes seriously
both the liberation of Indian peoples
from their historic oppression as colonized communities and the liberation of
white Americans, the historic colonizers and oppressors of Indian peoples.
Thursday, July 24
Patrick Q. Mason is Howard W.
Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and
Associate Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in southern California. An expert on Mormonism and the historical role of religion in
American public life, he is the author
or editor of The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South and War and Peace in Our
Time: Mormon Perspectives.
Friday, July 25
Sylvia Stanard is the deputy director of the Church of Scientology’s National Affairs Office, the national headquarters for the church’s humanitarian
initiatives and public policy work. She
has testified in Congress in support
of patient rights, in Geneva at the UN
Commission on Human Rights against
human rights violations in apartheid
South Africa and regularly collaborates with Congress on religious freedom and human rights issues.
Thursday, July 17
Week Six
Brazil: The Interplay of
Religion and Culture
Friday, July 18
Kenneth P. Serbin is professor and
chair in the Department of History at
the University of San Diego. His Brazil-related projects have focused on
the history of the Catholic Church,
the relationship between religion and
democracy, the revolutionary left in
contemporary society, and society, religion and reproductive issues.
Eric Liu is an author, educator and
civic entrepreneur. He is the founder
and CEO of Citizen University, which
promotes and teaches the art of great
citizenship through a portfolio of national programs. His books include
the national best-seller The Gardens of
Democracy and The True Patriot co-authored with Nick Hanauer.
Herman Cain is a businessman and
advocate for the general good. He has
served as a civilian employee for the
Navy, president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, president of the National
Restaurant Association and chairman
of the board of directors of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He was a
candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
Week Five
The American West:
Religious Evolution and Innovation
Tuesday, July 22
John Wigger is professor and chair
of the Department of History at the
University of Missouri. His research
focuses on American religious and
cultural history, with particular interest in religious movements that grow
quickly and become large because they
do something new in their cultural
setting. He has written extensively on
early American Methodism.
Monday, July 28
Tuesday, July 29
Kelly E. Hayes is associate professor
of religious studies at Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI and
has been conducting field research on
religion in Brazil since 1997. “Slaves of
the Saints,” her documentary film about
Afro-Brazilian religions, was produced
with Catherine Crouch and distributed
as a companion to her book Holy Harlots.
Wednesday, July 30
Rachel Elizabeth Harding is assistant professor of indigenous spiritual
traditions in the Department of Ethnic
Studies at the University of Colorado
Denver. She is a specialist in religions of
the Afro-Atlantic diaspora and studies
the relationship between religion, creativity, and social justice activism. She
is author of A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness.
Thursday, July 31
John S. Burdick is professor and
chair of the Department of Anthropol-
ogy at Syracuse University. He has conducted research in Brazil for the past
30 years on the influence of religion
on movements for social and cultural
change, and his current project focuses
on efforts to create affordable housing
for low-income people in Rio de Janeiro.
Friday, Aug. 1
Jeffrey Lesser is Samuel Candler
Dobbs Professor of Brazilian Studies
and chair of the Department of History
at Emory University. His newest book,
Immigration, Ethnicity and National Identity in Brazil examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans,
Asians, and Middle Easterners beginning in the 19th century.
Week Seven
Conversations on the
American Conscience
Note: All speakers this week will appear
in conversation with Krista Tippett, host of
NPR’s “On Being.”
Monday, Aug. 4
Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a Brazilian philosopher, social theorist, and
politician. Having recently served as
Brazil’s minister of strategic affairs, he
is currently a professor of law at Harvard Law School. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading social
theorists, having developed his views
across many fields, including social,
political, legal and economic theory.
Tuesday, Aug. 5
Imani Perry is a professor in the
Center for African American Studies at
Princeton University. She is the author
of two books, More Beautiful and More
Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of
Racial Inequality in the United States and
Prophets of The Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, and numerous scholarly
and popular articles and book reviews.
Wednesday, Aug. 6
Richard Rodriguez is best known
to many Americans as a journalist in
print and on television. His essays appeared, over many years, in the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times. He
was also, for nearly two decades, an
essayist on the “PBS NewsHour,” commenting in his singular, eccentric voice
on the great public issues of our time.
Thursday, Aug. 7
Michel Martin is the host of NPR’s
“Tell Me More,” the one-hour daily
NPR news and talk show that made its
national premiere on April 30, 2007, on
public radio stations around the country. Martin, who came to NPR in January 2006 to develop the program, has
spent more than 25 years as a journalist — first in print with major newspapers and then in television.
Friday, Aug. 8
Nathan Schneider writes about religion and resistance for publications including Harper’s, The Nation, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Al Jazeera and
The New York Times. He is the author of
two books, including God in Proof: The
Story of a Search from the Ancients to the
Internet, a history of debates about the
existence of God.
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Chaplains-in-residence
The chaplains invited for the 2014 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.
Week Two
June 29–July 4
The Rev. Joanna
Moseley Adams
The Rev.
Raphael Warnock
Interim sr. pastor,
First Presbyterian
Church, Atlanta
Pastor, The Historical
Ebenezer Baptist
Church, Atlanta
Week Three
July 6–11
Week Four
July 13–18
Week Five
July 20–25
Week Six
July 27–Aug. 1
The Very Rev.
Alan Jones
The Rev.
Daisy Machado
The Rev.
Peter Marty
The Rev.
Luis Leon
Dean emeritus,
Grace Cathedral,
San Francisco
Prof. of the American
history of Christianity,
Union Theological
Seminary
Senior pastor,
St. Paul Lutheran
Church, Davenport,
Iowa
Saint John
Episcopal Church,
Washington, D.C.
Week Seven
Aug. 3–8
Week Eight
Aug. 10–15
Week Nine
Aug. 17–22
Final Sunday
Aug. 24
The Rev.
M. Craig Barnes
The Rev. Allan
Aubrey Boesak
The Rev.
Cynthia Hale
President and prof.
of pastoral ministry,
Princeton Theological
Seminary
Director, Desmond
Tutu Center, Butler
University, Christian
Theological Seminary
Founding and senior
pastor, Ray of Hope
Christian Church,
Decatur, Georgia
The Rev.
Robert M.
Franklin Jr.
Week Eight
The Global Religious Public Square
Monday, Aug. 11
Ori Z. Soltes teaches theology, philosophy and art history at Georgetown
University. Having spent a lifetime
wrestling with questions that resonate
through the history of the human experience, his dynamic teaching, lecturing, curating and writing reflect a
broad series of interests and a unique
ability to combine them in unusual
ways that are thought-provoking and
intellectually exciting.
Tuesday, Aug. 12
Contemporary and historical religion’s most prolific author, Karen
Armstrong is a highly sought-after lecturer around the world, called upon by
governments, universities and church
and secular organizations alike to educate about the world’s religions. She is
the author of numerous books on religious affairs, including, most recently,
Fields of Blood.
Wednesday, Aug. 13
Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi is the
co-founder and director of the EmoryTibet Partnership, a multi-dimensional
initiative founded in 1998 to bring together the foremost contributions of
the Western scholastic tradition and
the Tibetan Buddhist sciences of mind
and healing. He is also senior lecturer
in Emory University’s Department of
Religion.
Thursday, Aug. 14
Ambassador Michael Anthony
Battle is senior advisor to the African
Bureau of the U.S. State Department
for the first Summit of African Heads
of State and Government hosted in the
United States by a U.S. president. He
works with the policy team managing
the diplomatic side of the summit engaging with the African embassies in
Washington as well as with U.S. embassies in African countries.
Friday, Aug. 15
Week One
June 22–27
During the 1960s, Vincent Harding
and his late wife, Rosemarie Freeney
Harding, worked in various capacities
as full-tie teachers, activists, encouragers and negotiators in the Southern
freedom movement. They were friends
and co-workers with Martin Luther
King Jr., Ella Baker and Fannie Lou
Hamer. He provided the initial draft
for King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech
at Riverside Church in New York City.
Week Nine
From Here to Hereafter: Facing
Death with Hope and Courage
Monday, Aug. 18
Rebecca Brown is a thanatologist
who challenges our American discomfort with death by sharing experiences from her work with hospitalized
adolescents and young adults who are
suffering or dying young. She is the
founder and director of Streetlight, a
support program in Florida that partners premedical students with young
people who are living with a chronic
illness or fear of an early death.
Tuesday, Aug. 19
Emmanuel Y. Lartey comes from
Ghana, West Africa. He is currently
the L. Bevel Jones III Professor of Pastoral Theology, Care and Counseling at
Emory University’s Candler School of
Theology, teaching courses in the areas of his research interests, including
“Spiritual Care in African Religious
Cultures” and “International Perspectives on Pastoral Care.”
Wednesday, Aug. 20
Director, Chautauqua
Institution Dept.
of Religion
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Jared Jacobsen, coordinator of worship and sacred music
June 22 “How Can I Keep From
Singing?”
June 29 The Historic Ebenezer
Baptist Choir, Atlanta,
Georgia
July 6
“Holy Is The True Light”
July 13 Sacred Jazz with Warren
Cooper
July 20 “For Unto Us a Child is
Born”: Handel’s Messiah
July 27
“Ding Dong Merrily on
High”: Christmas in July
Aug. 3 “Wait For The Lord”: Taizé
Prayer Around the Cross
Aug. 10 Strengthening Ties in the
Family of Abraham
Aug. 17 In Remembrance:
A Community Sing of
Fauré’s Requiem
Aug. 25 “You Are The Music”:
Final Chautauqua Thoughts
C h au tau q ua W o m e n ’ s C l u b
Contempor ary Issues Forum
The Chautauqua Women’s Club will present another season of compelling speakers with its Contemporary Issues Forum this summer. All lectures
are held at 3 p.m. Saturdays at the Hall of Philosophy.
June 28
Jeanne Nolan has been growing food organically for more than 20 years.
Her book, From the Ground Up: A Food Grower’s Education in Life, Love and the
Movement That’s Changing the Nation was published in 2013.
Rabbi Samuel M. Stahl is rabbi
emeritus of Temple Beth‑El, in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Making
the Timeless Timely: Thoughts and Reflections of a Contemporary Reform Rabbi and
Boundaries, Not Barriers: Some Uniquely
Jewish Perspectives on Life. During the
summer of 2003, Stahl was the Theologian-in-Residence at Chautauqua.
July 5
Hussein Rashid is a contingent
faculty member, most often affiliated
with Hofstra University. At Hofstra he
offers a course called “Life, Death and
Immortality,” which looks at how the
Abrahamic traditions approach the
questions of the good life and the good
death. He also teaches Islamic bioethics, dealing with the question of when
life begins and ends.
Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organization ProPublica. In Dragnet Nation, she describes an oppressive blanket of electronic data surveillance.
Thursday, Aug. 21
Friday, Aug. 22
Valerie Tarico, former director of
the Children’s Behavior and Learning Clinic in Bellevue, Washington, is
a psychologist with a passion for personal and social evolution. In 2005 she
co-founded the Progress Alliance of
Washington, a collective of future-oriented donors investing in progressive
change. Tarico’s book, Trusting Doubt: A
Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in
a New Light, offers personal insight into
how we can apply “constructive curiosity” to our most closely guarded beliefs.
Eleanor Clift is a liberal political reporter, television pundit, and author.
Her new book Two Weeks of Life analyzes what has become known as the Schiavo affair, which Clift witnessed from a unique vantage point, as her husband
was dying of cancer at the same time.
July 12
John Butman is founder and principal of the idea and content development
firm Idea Platforms Inc. and author of Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a
World of Competing Ideas.
July 19
July 26
Jonathan Zimmerman is professor of education and history at New York
University. A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher, he is the
author of Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory.
Aug. 2
Ken Gormley will speak on the 40th anniversary of the Nixon resignation,
the “Saturday Night Massacre,” and bring the lawyer who negotiated Nixon’s
resignation.
Aug. 9
Francesca Gino is an associate professor of business administration in the
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School who
teaches decisionmaking and negotiation.
Aug. 16
Douglas Hough is on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health. His most recent book is Irrationality in Health Care: What Behavioral Economics Reveals About What We Do and Why.
Aug. 23
David Kozak, professor of public policy and director of the Institute for
Policy and Leadership Studies at Gannon University, will discuss “The Political Climate and Mid-Term Elections 2014.”
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Logan Chamber Music Series
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4 p.m. Mondays • Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall
(subject to change)
Tickets for the Logan Chamber Music Series are no longer distributed at the
Colonnade on Monday mornings. All chamber music concerts are open-seating.
June 23
Garth Newel Piano Quartet
June 30
Cleveland ChamberFest
July 7
Donald Sinta Quartet (saxophone)
The Garth Newel Piano Quartet is known for high-energy performances,
virtuosity, and offering fresh insight into both standard and new repertoire.
As artists-in-residence at Garth Newel Music Center located in Hot Springs,
Va., they maintain a strong dedication to education and the next generation
of chamber musicians. Garth Newel is a Welsh phrase meaning New Home.
Founded in 2012, Cleveland ChamberFest burst upon the Cleveland music
scene with wonder and surprise. Noted for its creative energy and musical
excellence, combined with dynamic and exhilarating programming, the
festival captured the imagination of both critics and audiences. A yet-tobe announced ensemble from the 2014 festival will perform on the Logan
Chamber Music Series.
The DSQ, first-prize winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild Victor
Elmaleh Competition, has earned praise from audiences and critics alike
for its committed performances, recordings and distinctive repertoire.
The quartet’s repertoire is diverse, ranging from commissions by today’s
emerging composers to standards from the saxophone quartet literature
to transcriptions by master composers such as Dvořák, Schubert and
Shostakovich. The quartet is named for its mentor, legendary University of
Michigan saxophone professor Donald Sinta.
July 14
Chautauqua Quartet
July 21
Chautauqua Chamber Winds
July 28
A Far Cry
Aug. 4
Cypress String Quartet
Chautauqua’s own quartet, all members of the Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra, is comprised of Vahn Armstrong, violin (associate concertmaster);
Diane Bruce, violin (principal second violin); Eva Stern, viola; and Jolyon
Pegis, cello (acting principal cello).
Chautauqua Chamber Winds is made up of the principal wind players
from the CSO and Chautauqua School of Music faculty: Richard Sherman,
flute; Jan Eberle, oboe; Eli Eban, clarinet; Jeffrey Robinson, bassoon; and
Roger Kaza, French horn. Richard Sherman and Jan Eberle teach at Michigan
State University; Eli Eban teaches at Indiana University, Bloomington, and
is a member of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra; Jeffrey Robinson
teaches at University of Houston; and Roger Kaza is principal horn of the
Saint Louis Symphony. A Far Cry stands at the forefront of an exciting new generation in classical
music. According to The New York Times, the self-conducted orchestra
“brims with personality or, better, personalities, many and varied.” By
expanding the boundaries of orchestral repertoire and experimenting with
the ways music is prepared, performed and experienced, A Far Cry has been
embraced throughout the world with more than 200 performances, three
albums, and a powerful presence on the Internet. They will also perform
with Charlotte Ballet in Residence at Chautauqua at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday,
July 30, in the Amphitheater.
Known for its elegant performances, the Cypress String Quartet has
been praised for its “artistry of uncommon insight and cohesion,” and its
“beautifully proportioned and powerful” sound. Founded in 1996 in San
Francisco, the quartet maintains a busy tour schedule with performances
at such venues as the Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, 92nd Street Y
and Ravinia Festival. They have commissioned and premiered more than
30 pieces and have a discography of 15 albums, including the complete
Beethoven Late Quartets and an all-Dvořák album.
Aug. 11
Axiom Brass
Aug. 18
Beyer Viola Trio
Praised for its “high level of musicality and technical ability” and
“clean, clear and precise sound,” the award-winning Axiom Brass Quintet
has quickly established itself as “one of the major art music groups in
brass chamber music.” Axiom is the only brass quintet in 27 years to
win the prestigious Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition, and
the only American ensemble to ever win the Preis der Europa-Stadt
Passau in Germany. Internationally recognized for their groundbreaking
programming, their repertoire ranges from jazz and Latin music to string
quartet transcriptions, as well as original compositions for brass quintet.
Baritone Jonathan Beyer is joined by violist Rose Armbrust Griffin and
pianist Susan Nowicki for a special concert of vocal and viola chamber music.
Beyer was a student with the Chautauqua Voice Program and has gone on
to win numerous awards and sing with opera companies and orchestras
across the globe. Armbrust Griffin is on the faculty of Wheaton College,
performs with the Ars Viva Orchestra and the Lake Forest Symphony, and
is a member of the International Chamber Artists and the Jupiter Chamber
Players. Pianist Susan Nowicki is on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of
Music, an active member of the Network for New Music ensemble, a much
sought-after opera and voice coach and private piano teacher.
Food drive highlights
Symphony Partners’ season
By Ellie Doud
President, Symphony Partners
This will be a busy summer for
Symphony Partners as we celebrate
our 10th season of support for the
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
We will be partnering with the CSO
for the Orchestras Feeding America
National Food Drive on June 29 and
July 3. Non-perishable food items can
be brought to the Symphony Partners
table from noon to 3 p.m. at the Sunday,
July 29, Promise Day event on Bestor
Plaza, and to the CSO Independence
Day Pops Concert at 8 p.m. Thursday,
July 3, in the Amphitheater. It is excit-
ing to know that our orchestra is going
to join with over 250 orchestras from
across the country that have helped to
collect over 400,000 lbs. of food.
We will continue to have the very
popular Meet the Musicians Brown
Bag events at Smith Wilkes Hall, Meet
the Sections events following CSO
concerts and the open rehearsal at
Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall followed by a
picnic for all the Symphony Partners
members and orchestra members.
On June 30 at the Chautauqua Golf
Club, we will celebrate our anniversary with an Appreciation Dinner,
hosted by the CSO musicians, for Symphony Partners members.
Community Band continues
24 years of toe-tapping tunes
Once again the Chautauqua Community Band will bring patriotism,
tradition and community spirit to
Chautauqua during the 2014 season.
The band will appear on Bestor Plaza July 4 and Aug. 5, for Chautauqua’s
Old First Night birthday celebration.
Both concerts begin at 12:15 p.m.
The Community Band’s Fourth of
July concert is steeped in patriotism
and tradition but this year features a
few new twists. As always the performance will feature American music
with marches, show tunes and a special tribute to Louie Armstrong with
a new medley titled “Satchmo.” Audience participation will include children marching, audience sing-alongs
and the opportunity to conduct the
band for children ages 8 to 14. Lots of
photo opportunities here — the red,
white and blue attire of the audience is
yet another Chautauqua tradition.
At this season’s Old First Night performance, the band will present a variety of band music from around the
world, the perfect way for the community to begin the OFN celebration.
The Community Band is a true
melting pot of the Chautauqua community. All segments are represented, including students of the Music
School Festival Orchestra, members
of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, employees of the Institution and
residents of the grounds and nearby
communities — all coming together to
make music for the pleasure and entertainment of all Chautauquans.
Anyone who can play an instrument
is invited to be a Community Band
member. Members are given a T-shirt,
lunch on the performance dates, and
lots of gratitude. There is one rehearsal
for each concert: 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, July
1, and 4:45 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, both
at Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall. Contact
conductor Jason Weintraub by email
at [email protected] or at 716357-6217 after June 1, or just show up.
Mark those dates, pack your lunch,
get out those blankets and lawn chairs,
and come share in the community
spirit with Chautauqua’s own Community Band.
Camp offers musical summer for young musicians
For the past 16 seasons, the Chautauqua Band/Orchestra Camp for middle
grades has offered a musical experience for young instrumentalists entering grades 6 through 9. The year 2005
saw the addition of a high school wind
chamber music program and middle/
high school orchestra. In 2010, a high
school jazz program directed by John
Cross was created. Now on the books is
the 2014 program, and it’s time to plan
for a wonderful musical summer.
According to camp director Peter
Lindblom, the camp offers many exciting and valuable musical experiences
for the middle school- and high schoolaged instrumental student. Lindblom
is assistant principal trumpet with the
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and
instrumental music instructor in the
Jamestown, N.Y., public schools.
Lindblom said that he hopes to revive the high school chamber music
program for wind players in 2014.
This year’s camp will be held during
Week Eight of the Chautauqua Season,
Aug. 11-16, culminating with a concert
in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall. The camp
will once again have the availability of
the Institution’s School of Music facilities. Tuition is $200 before June 13, 2013
and $220 thereafter.
A typical day for both programs begins at 9 a.m. with band and orchestra
rehearsals led by conductors Donna
Davis, string teacher and Suzuki coordinator from Dallas, Texas, and Terry
Bacon of the Churchville Chili School
District. Following a lunch break,
which includes recreational activities,
the band and orchestra will resume rehearsals in smaller sectionals and larger groups. The day ends around 3 p.m.
The jazz program for high school
students will be under the direction of
John Cross, local Chautauqua County
music educator and renowned jazz
performer.
The orchestra program is open to
string players entering grades 7 through
12. Exceptions for younger players will
be made based on experience. The jazz
program is available to interested wind
and rhythm section players in grades
9 through 12. The middle school band
camp is for band instrumentalists entering grades 6 through 9.
For more information about the
Chautauqua Band/Orchestra Camp,
please contact Peter Lindblom at [email protected] or 716-661-0557 or visit
chautauquamusiccamps.org.
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2014 CHAUTAUQUA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASON
Saturday, June 28 — 8:15 p.m.
Marcelo Lehninger, guest conductor and music director candidate
Andreas Klein, piano
Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103...................................................................... Richard Wagner
Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58 in G Major............................. Ludwig van Beethoven
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30............................................................. Richard Strauss
Tuesday, July 1 — 8:15 p.m.
Marcelo Lehninger, guest conductor and music director candidate
Eli Eban, clarinet
The Hebrides, Op. 26 (Fingal’s Cave)...............................................Felix Mendelssohn
In collaboration with National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson
Clarinet Concerto, K.622 in A Major.............................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 4, Op. 120, in D Minor (1851 revision)................. Robert Schumann
Thursday, July 3 — 8 p.m. Pops Concert: Independence Day Celebration
Stuart Chafetz, guest conductor
Beverly Ward and Kirby Ward, dancers
“The Star-Spangled Banner”........................................................................Traditional
March from 1941......................................................................................John Williams
Corcoran Cadets....................................................................................John Philip Sousa
Theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.............. Ennio Morricone (arr. Berens)
“She Loves You” & “All You Need Is Love”......... Lennon/McCartney (arr. Shoup)
“Good Lovin’”......................................Randy Clark & Arthur Resnick (arr. Berens)
Two from Toto: Rosanna & Africa......................................... David Paich (arr. Shoup)
Intermission
“I Won’t Dance”...........................................................................Kern & Hammerstein
“Johnny One Note”............................................................................... Rodgers & Hart
“The Song is You”....................................................................................... Jerome Kern
“Cheek to Cheek”....................................................................................... Irving Berlin
“76 Trombones” from The Music Man.............................................Meredith Willson
“Singing in the Rain”............................................................................ Brown & Freed
“Music That Makes Me Dance”.......................................................... Styne & Merrill
“S’Wonderful”..........................................................................George & Ira Gershwin
Armed Forces on Parade................................................................arr. Robert Lowden
1812 Overture, Op 49............................................................. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Charlotte Ballet in Residence
Grant Cooper, guest conductor
Excerpts from Coppelia................................................................................ Léo Delibes
Excerpts from Carmen...............................................................................Georges Bizet
The Miraculous Mandarin: Suite................................................................Béla Bartók
Thursday, July 10 — 8:15 p.m.
Rossen Milanov, guest conductor and music director candidate
Di Wu, piano
Overture to The Tempest...........................................................................Thomas Adès
Piano Concerto in G Major.....................................................................Maurice Ravel
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45.........................................................Sergei Rachmaninoff
Saturday, July 12 — 8:15 p.m. Opera Highlights Concert
Steven Osgood, guest conductor
Chautauqua Opera Apprentice and Studio Artists
Cristian Macelaru, guest conductor and music director candidate
Johannes Moser, cello
Hungarian Dance No. 10 .................................................................. Johannes Brahms
Cello Concerto, Op. 129 in A Minor............................................... Robert Schumann
Symphony No. 9, Op. 95 in E Minor (From the New World)............... Antonín Dvořák
Cristian Macelaru, guest conductor and music director candidate
Augustin Hadelich, violin
Visions from Another World....................................................................Karim Al-Zand
L’arbre des songes (The Tree of Dreams),
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra.....................................................Henri Dutilleux
Appalachian Spring: Suite.......................................................................Aaron Copland
Bolero.........................................................................................................Maurice Ravel
Saturday, July 19 — 8:15 p.m.
Roberto Minczuk, guest conductor and music director candidate
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
Piano Concerto, Op. 16 in A Minor........................................................ Edvard Grieg
Symphony No. 10, Op. 93 in E Minor........................................ Dmitri Shostakovich
Roberto Minczuk, guest conductor and music director candidate
Mayuko Kamio, violin
The Impresario Overture, K.486.......................................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade, Op. 48..................................................................... Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto, Op. 35 in D Major..................................... Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Bruce Hangen, guest conductor and music director candidate
Kenneth Radnofsky, alto saxophone
Symphony No. 4, Op. 60 in B-flat Major............................... Ludwig van Beethoven
Ode to Lord Buckley; Concerto for Alto Saxophone............................. David Amram
Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose): 5 Pièces Enfantines..............................Maurice Ravel
C S O M u s i c D i r e ct o r C a n d i d at e s
Marcelo
Rossen
Cristian
Lehninger
Milanov
Macelaru
Bruce
Maximiano
Christof
Hangen
ValdéS
Perick
Roberto
Minczuk
Daniel
Boico
Saturday, July 26 — 8:15 p.m. — Inter-arts Collaboration: Go West!
Chautauqua Opera, Chautauqua Theater Company, Visual Arts at Chautauqua
Institution, Chautauqua Voice Program, Charlotte Ballet & Chautauqua Dance
Andrew Borba, director
Timothy Muffitt, guest conductor
Tuesday, July 29 – 8:15 p.m.
Maximiano Valdés, guest conductor and music director candidate
Leela Subramaniam, soprano
La Vida Breve: Interlude and Dance.....................................................Manuel de Falla
Beyond the Silence of Sorrow.....................................................................Roberto Sierra
Symphony No. 3, Op. 90 in F Major................................................. Johannes Brahms
Maximiano Valdés, guest conductor and music director candidate
Stanislav Khristenko, piano
(Winner of the 2013 Cleveland International Piano Competition)
Essay No, 1, Op. 12................................................................................. Samuel Barber
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23 in B-Flat Minor................... Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5, Op. 82 in E-flat Major...................................................Jean Sibelius
Saturday, Aug. 2 — 8:15 p.m. Opera Pops Concert
Stuart Chafetz, guest conductor
Chautauqua Opera Apprentice and Studio Artists
Thursday, Aug. 7 — 8:15 p.m.
Bruce Hangen, guest conductor and music director candidate
Roger Kaza, horn
Excerpts from Midsummer Night’s Dream......................................Felix Mendelssohn
Blue Cathedral......................................................................................... Jennifer Higdon
Concerto for Horn..................................................................................... Gordon Jacob
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34.................................................... Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Saturday, Aug. 9 — 8:15 p.m.
Charlotte Ballet in Residence
Grant Cooper, guest conductor
Water Music.............................................................................. George Frideric Handel
The Four Temperaments......................................................................Paul Hindemith
Tuesday, Aug. 12 — 8:15 p.m.
Christof Perick, guest conductor and music director candidate
Oberon Overture.........................................................................Carl Maria von Weber
Don Juan, Op. 20.................................................................................... Richard Strauss
Symphony No. 36, K.425 in C Major (Linz)..................Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Thursday, Aug. 14 — 8:15 p.m.
Christof Perick, guest conductor and music director candidate
Paul Neubauer, viola
Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op. 56a......................... Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Viola and Orchestra.....................................................Aaron Jay Kernis
Chautauqua premiere of new composition commissioned by Chautauqua Institution,
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Idyllwild Arts
Academy for violist Paul Neubauer
Symphony No. 5, Op. 67 in C Minor..................................... Ludwig van Beethoven
Saturday, Aug. 16 — 8:15 p.m.
Daniel Boico, guest conductor and music director candidate
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano
Les Préludes..................................................................................................... Franz Liszt
Rhapsody in Blue..................................................................................George Gershwin
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue
Symphony No. 1 in G Minor.......................................................... Vassili Kalinnikov
Tuesday, Aug. 19 — 8:15 p.m.
Daniel Boico, guest conductor and music director candidate
Elizabeth Joy Roe, piano
Greg Anderson, piano
The Chairman Dances; Foxtrot for Orchestra............................................ John Adams
Concerto for Two Pianos in D Minor................................................. Francis Poulenc
Piano Quartet, Op.25 in G Minor; arr. Schoenberg...................... Johannes Brahms
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t h e at e r / R e c r e at i o n
Plays by women
dominate CTC’s 2014
The plays are selected, the conservatory of exceptional young actors
and unparalleled guest artists have
been cast, the paint, lumber, fabric and
lights have been ordered and Chautauqua Theater Company is ready to begin the 2014 season.
They’re simply waiting for you, the
audience.
“We have completed the selection of
our new plays, our conservatory and
our creative teams and it all adds up to
a fabulously diverse season — onstage
and off!” said Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch. “And for my 10th season,
I specifically couldn’t be more proud
that we will see four of our five mainstage productions penned by women.”
Indeed, writers Lorraine Hansberry, Molly Smith Metzler, Heidi Armbruster and Carol Carpenter will lead
the way before Shakespeare is allowed
to join the party.
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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry • June 27–July 6
The May Queen
A New Play by Molly Smith Metzler • July 18–27
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare • August 8–15
The New Play Workshop
• Dairyland by Heidi Armbruster
July 10–12
• The Guadalupe by Carol Carpenter
July 31–August 2
A Raisin in the Sun
Go West!
Go West! explores the prism of America’s
expansion into the West: its indominable spirit,
its costs and consequences and its
subsequent mythology.
One Night Only • July 26
Chautauqua’s Amphitheater
For tickets or more information:
www.CTCompany.org
CHAUTAUQUA INS TITUTION • W W W.CIWEB .ORG
C TC’s boys of Broa dway
It’s not that our amazing CTC female alumnae aren’t working up a
storm on stage and screen all over
the country — they are — but in
the limited space that we have here,
we wanted to call attention to the
fact that the current Broadway season features no less than five of our
male alumni in leading roles. That’s
an amazing fact in which we take
great pride! Got plans to visit the Big
Apple? Check out these shows (and a
host of others listed on our website, at
CTCompany.org/alumni) and say, “We
saw them when!”
Santino Fontana stars opposite
Tony Shalhoub in a stage version
of the Moss Hart showbiz inspired
memoir Act One. Alex Morf joins
James Franco and Chris O’Dowd in
the revival of Of Mice and Men. Bill
Heck stars opposite Michelle Williams in the revival of Cabaret. Bryce
Pinkham continues a stellar run opposite Jefferson Mays in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and
last year’s Tony Award winner, Gabriel Ebert, now stars in Harvey Fierstein’s newest play Casa Valentina.
Just a few other highlights: also
on Broadway, CTC production stage
manager Jenn Rae Moore and stage
manager B. Bales Karlin continue
working on Bridges of Madison County.
Off Broadway, Clifton Duncan stars
in Kung Fu at the Signature Theater; Amelia Pedlow, Dave Quay and
Claire Karpen make up fully half the
cast of David Ives’ The Heir Apparent
at Classical Stage Company, Michael
To open the mainstage season, resident director Ethan McSweeny stages
Lorraine Hansberry’s Pulitzer Prizewinning A Raisin in the Sun.
“After directing The Glass Menagerie
and Death of a Salesman, I am thrilled to
get a chance to share with CTC audiences a play that I consider to be the
third panel in the triptych of great
American plays of the mid-twentieth
century,” McSweeny said. “I would
call them en suite ‘The Dream Deferred
Trilogy.’ ”
“This was one of the first plays that
I saw as a child and it has stayed with
me since,” Benesch said. “It’s a play that
must be seen at least once, if not 15 times.
I’m thrilled that CTC can offer that opportunity to our Chautauqua community this season. You simply must see it.”
New work abounds
But that’s only the beginning. Celebrating 10 years of the New Play
Workshop in 2014, CTC will see four
new works produced in the center of
its season, from July 10 through Aug. 2.
Molly Smith Metzler’s The May Queen,
the second play commissioned by CTC
and the Chautauqua Writers’ Center,
will receive its world premiere during
Weeks Four and Five.
“Starting last summer with an informal reading of Molly’s first 30 pages,” Benesch said, “then collaborating
on a series of readings and discussions
over the off-season and now designing, casting and nurturing a full production, it has been a true privilege to
be part of the process of bringing this
wonderful new comedy to fruition.
Audiences are going to fall in love with
this May Queen.”
Weeks Three and Six will see workshops of two ambitious new works.
The plays chosen for the 2014 Signature Staged Readings are Heidi Armbruster’s Dairyland, a comedy that
follows a food critic who takes on
the local food movement only to find
herself on the wrong side of an epic
food fight, and Carol Carpenter’s The
Guadalupe, a drama that explores the
changing economic and political realities of America’s rural borderland and
the greed and desperation that fuels it.
“These two plays exemplify the
kind of risk taking that I hope continues to define the next 10 years of new
play development at Chautauqua,”
Benesch said.
And then there’s Go West!
Associate artistic director Andrew
Borba is helming the second inter-arts
collaboration for a one-night-only performance July 26 in the Amphitheater.
“One obviously cannot, in a twohour evening, encompass the entire
story and mythology of America’s expansion,” Borba said, “but to present
at the end of Chautauqua’s week on
the American West, an artistic expression in collaboration with the other arts
organizations here, is an experience
uniquely Chautauquan in both its complexity and cohesion. This totality of experience is the reason people continue
to come to Chautauqua, and I feel very
fortunate to be leading the charge.”
The Tempest
CTC will finish its season with a
once-in-a-lifetime treat: acclaimed
Royal Shakespeare Company actress
and Chautauqua favorite Lisa Harrow
will play Prospero in Shakespeare’s
The Tempest, directed by CTC newcomer Jade King Carroll.
“We’ve been talking with Lisa about
playing one of the great Shakespeare
roles ever since she played Kate in All
My Sons at CTC 10 years ago,” Benesch
said. “We finally have made it happen,
and you’ll probably see me in the front
row for every performance!”
So as the 100 members of the CTC
cast and crew gather their scripts for
the 50-plus events in 50 days that make
up the 2014 Season, their pilgrimage to
the lake is propelled by the promise of
you, the great Chautauqua audience.
“This is the point in the off-season
when the ball really starts rolling,”
said Managing Director Sarah Clare
Corporandy, “and though we still have
miles to go before we sleep, we cannot
wait to share our work with others.”
RECREATIO N a t C h a u t a u q u a
Submitted photo
Gabriel Ebert in Harvey Fierstein’s Casa
Valentina
Schantz and guest artist Karl Kenzler
star in Beyond Therapy at TACT and
Blake DeLong is in a new dance theater piece, The World is Round at BAM.
Internationally, after winning the
Irish Times Theater Award as Best
Director for A Streetcar Named Desire
last season, CTC resident director
Ethan McSweeny returns to Dublin
to direct Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband running through July.
OFN RUN/WALK/SWIM: The Old
First Night Run/Walk/Swim on Saturday, Aug. 2, sponsored by Vacation
Properties and DFT Communications,
will again feature computer timing
chips to ensure precise timing. Those
who can’t be at Chautauqua on race
day can sign up for the “Around the
World” option and participate from
their own neighborhood.
The swim option will be held at
Turner Community Center from 7 a.m.
to 12 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1.
More information about the race
will be announced in The Chautauquan
Daily. To register, visit oldfirstnight.com.
PRE-SEASON: The facilities and
pool at Chautauqua Health & Fitness
at Turner Community Center are open
year-round; visit ciweb.org/recreationfitness for hours, rates and spring classes information.
Courts 1 and 2 at the Chautauqua
Tennis Center are now available for use.
For rates and information, visit ciweb.
org/recreation-tennis or call 716-357-6276.
FITNESS: Fitness classes at Chau-
tauqua are operated through the Special Studies program. To register, visit
chqtickets.com.
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Spring 2014
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opera
Opera explores America’s expansion East and West
By Jay Lesenger
General/Artistic Director,
Chautauqua Opera
As I begin my 20th season at Chautauqua, I’m amazed at how quickly
time has passed and I’m so proud of
opera at Chautauqua these past two
decades. Our production of Benjamin
Britten’s Peter Grimes last summer was
as exciting as anything we’ve performed in recent years. This season
we’re going to top it!
In July, Chautauqua Institution’s
Week Five lectures focus on America’s
western expansion. Chautauqua Opera Company looks in both directions
—West and East.
On July 5, Giacomo Puccini’s most
popular opera, Madam Butterfly, comes
to Chautauqua’s historic Amphitheater. Some years after Commodore
Perry forced the opening of Japan’s
ports to America and Europe, John
Luther Long’s short story “Madam
Butterfly” appeared. When the great
composer Giacomo Puccini saw the
dramatic adaptation on Broadway, he
immediately recognized the operatic
possibilities in this indictment of the
“ugly American’s” treatment of an innocent Japanese geisha.
Internationally renowned soprano
Mary Dunleavy (Cio-
Cio-
San) headlines a terrific cast. Dunleavy has sung
over 70 performances of Violetta in
Verdi’s La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San
Francisco, Gran Teatre del Liceo (Barcelona), Beijing and the Netherlands.
Cio-Cio-San is Dunleavy’s debut in the
role and also her first time at Chautauqua. I am very excited that this wonderful artist will join our opera family
this summer.
Tenor Scott Quinn debuts at Chautauqua as well, singing the role of Lt.
Pinkerton, the American cad who
loves, then deserts, Madam Butterfly.
As a member of both San Francisco
Opera’s prestigious Merola Program
and the Houston Grand Opera Studio,
and as an artist inresidence at Dallas
Opera, he has sung frequently with
all three companies. Quinn has a busy
season coming up with productions at
Fort Worth Opera, Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas, and returns to the
Dallas and Houston Operas.
Mezzo soprano Renée Tatum is a
Chautauqua Opera Young Artist success story. After spending two summers at Chautauqua, Tatum went on
the Santa Fe Opera Young Artist Program, San Francisco Opera Adler Program and then the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Program. She is now
appearing regularly with the Metropolitan and San Francisco operas and
the New York Philharmonic, among
others. She is the winner of numerous
vocal competitions and recently had a
featured article in Opera News. Tatum
last sang the Secretary in our 2009 production of Menotti’s The Consul. This
summer she comes “home” to sing the
role of Suzuki, Madam Butterfly’s loyal
companion.
Baritone Michael Chioldi (Sharpless)
returns to Chautauqua Opera for the
seventh time. Michael has sung with
almost every major American opera
company, including the Metropolitan
Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston
Grand Opera, New York City Opera,
Washington National Opera and Los
Angeles Opera. Internationally, he
has traveled extensively in Japan with
Maestro Seiji Osawa, and has appeared
in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany,
Macau and Spain. At Chautauqua Chioldi has appeared in Lucia di Lammer-
Mary
Dunleavy
Scott
quinn
moor, Marriage of Figaro, Elixir of Love,
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci, Manon
Lescaut and last season’s Falstaff. We’re
always happy when Michael is back at
Chautauqua.
Maestro Arthur Fagen returns to
Chautauqua this season to conduct
Madam Butterfly. He has more than 75
operas in his repertory and has conducted extensively in the U.S. and in
Europe. Fagen has been chief conductor for Kassel, Dortmund, the Flanders
Opera and the Queens Symphony and
has conducted at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Munich
State Opera, New Israeli Opera and the
Vienna State Opera, among many others. He is now the music director of the
Atlanta Opera and professor of orchestral conducting at Indiana University’s
Jacob School of Music.
Hear the power of the human
voice when Puccini’s masterpiece is
sung live and unamplified on July 5
in Chautauqua’s historic Amphitheater. And in a Chautauqua Opera first,
this performance will be recorded by
classical station WNED in Buffalo for
broadcast later this summer as part of
their Music from Chautauqua series.
On July 25 and 28, we look to the
American West in the 1880s. Douglas
Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe is undoubtedly the most popular American
opera written in recent years. It has
also been one of the most frequently
requested “revivals” by the Chautauqua Opera audience and there’s
no wonder. This historic and tuneful
tale focuses on the fabulously wealthy
Horace Tabor, his strait
laced wife,
Augusta, and his romance with the
charming “Baby Doe,” all set against
the discovery of unimaginable riches
in the silver mines of Colorado. But
when Horace loses it all, will Baby Doe
stay with him?
The Ballad of Baby Doe deserves a
great cast and Chautauqua Opera will
have it. Metropolitan Opera star Mark
Delavan returns as Horace Tabor, a role
he sang for the first time at Chautauqua before going on to sing it to great
success at New York City Opera. In addition to the Met, where he has made
Wotan in Wagner’s Ring Cycle one of
his signature roles, Mark has sung all
over the United States and Europe including Convent Garden, Berlin, Munich and Prague. I am very excited to
have Mark back at Chautauqua. Mark
is Horace Tabor.
Leanne Sandel-Panteleo first joined
us singing the title role in Carmen, a
role she has sung to acclaim all over
the U.S. Most recently at Chautauqua,
Leanne brought her Santuzza to Cavalleria Rusticana. In Europe, she has performed with Teatro alla Scala in Milan
and the Berlin Staatsoper among others. Sandel-Panteleo returns to sing
Augusta Tabor, Horace’s industrious
and severe wife, for the first time.
David Crawford is another former
Chautauqua Opera Young Artist who
is now staying very busy in the opera
world. After his summers at Chautauqua, David joined the Merola Program at San Francisco Opera as well
Young Artists in a title role this season.
Maestro Steven Osgood returns to
Norton Hall to conduct. He conducted
last summer’s sensational production
of Peter Grimes. He has led a number
of our Young Artists Opera Highlights
concerts and will lead them again on
July 12. Osgood excels in the standard
operatic repertory which he has conducted for New York City Opera, HaMark
Cree
waii, Fort Worth, and the Netherlands
Delavan
Carrico
Opera. He has made a specialty of new
opera, as conductor and/or associate
as the Seattle Opera Young Artist conductor in a number of recent preprogram. Since 2006, he has been on mieres, including Tan Dun’s First Emthe roster of the Metropolitan Opera peror and Nicholas Muly’s Two Boys at
where has sung more than 200 perfor- the Metropolitan Opera.
mances. This season he sings in nine
In The Ballad of Baby Doe, many of
productions.
Chautauqua Opera’s 2014 Young Art2014 Chautauqua Opera Young Art- ists will be featured in what is one of
ist Cree Carrico sings the title role of my favorite Chautauqua Opera proElizabeth “Baby” Doe. As a member of ductions. This is a great “first opera”
our Young Artists program in 2013, this for your friends and family. Don’t
young soprano showed her talent and miss it!
inventiveness throughout the summer
Happily, Maestro Stuart Chafetz,
and was honored with an invitation to a true Chautauqua favorite, conducts
perform for Opera America’s Emerg- this summer’s Young Artists Pops
ing Artist Recital Series in New York Concert with the Chautauqua SymCity this past fall. She made her New phony Orchestra on Aug. 2. Our Young
York operatic debut as Marie Antoi- Artists will stay busy with a series of
nette in John Corigliano and William weekly recitals, our music theater reM. Hoffmann’s The Ghosts of Versailles vue and a big scenes program onstage
while studying at the prestigious Man- in Norton Hall on Aug. 4.
hattan School of Music. I am very exDon’t miss a note of Chautauqua
cited to be presenting one of our gifted Opera.
2014
Chautauqua
Opera
Season
Madam Butterfly
Saturday, July 5
8:15 p.m. • Amphitheater
Young Artists Opera Highlights
Saturday, July 12
Go West!
Saturday, July 26
The Ballad of Baby Doe
Friday, July 25 and Monday, July 28
7:30 p.m. • Norton Hall
Young Artists Pops Concert
Saturday, Aug. 2
Additional Opera Events
Young Artists Artsong Recitals • 4:15 p.m. Thursdays, Hall of Christ
Musical Theater Revue No. 1 • 6 p.m. July 8, Smith Wilkes Hall
Musical Theater Revue No. 2 • 10:15 p.m. July 15, Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall
Sing-In • 7 p.m. Monday, June 16, Norton Hall
Master Class with Jay Lesenger • 1:15 p.m. Friday, July 4, Fletcher Music Hall
Madam Butterfly Operalogue • 5:30 p.m. Saturday, July 5, Smith Wilkes Hall
Master Class with Marlena Malas • 1:15 p.m. Monday, July 14, Fletcher Music Hall
The Ballad of Baby Doe Operalogue • 5 p.m. Friday, July 25, Norton Hall
The Ballad of Baby Doe Operalogue • 5 p.m. Monday, July 28, Norton Hall
Young Artist Scenes Program • 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1, Norton Hall
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Spring 2014
Visual arts
VACI welcomes new faces in exciting 2014 program
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E X HI B ITIO N s
ciweb.org/vaci
57th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art
June 22–July 14 / Strohl Art Center Main Gallery / Reception 3 p.m. June 22
On the Surface: Outward Appearances
July 16–Aug. 19 / Strohl Art Center / Main Gallery / Reception 3 p.m. July 16
Charles Burchfield Exhibition
June 22–Aug. 19 / Strohl Art Center / Gallo Family Gallery / Reception 3 p.m. June 22
Humor
June 22–July 13 / Strohl Art Center Bellowe Family Gallery / Reception 3 p.m. June 22
Into the West
July 16–Aug. 18 / Strohl Art Center Bellowe Family Gallery / Reception 3 p.m. July 16
Homeward Bound: An American Pictorial
June 22–July 17 / Fowler-Kellogg Art Center / Reception 3 p.m. June 29
FLOWERS
June 22–July 17 / Angela Fowler Memorial Gallery / Reception 3 p.m. June 29
Chautauqua School of Art Annual Student Exhibition
July 20–31 / Fowler-Kellogg Art Center / Reception 3 p.m. July 20
VACI Open Members Exhibition
Aug. 3–20 / Fowler-Kellogg Art Center / Reception 3 p.m. Aug. 4
Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden
June 22–Aug. 22
“Endowing the future,
over and above
our annual fund gift,
ensures that our children
and grandchildren
will be able to enjoy
the Chautauqua
experience.”
GINNY and BOB PERKINS
Help secure Chautauqua’s future.
Contact Karen Blozie,
Director of Gift Planning
Chautauqua Foundation
716.357.6244 | [email protected]
chautauquafoundation.org
By Don Kimes
Artistic Director, VACI
As of this writing, all the entries for
the 57th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art are in and being examined by the juror, Jerry Saltz.
Saltz is an internationally renowned art
critic. That reality is borne out by the
fact that this spring we saw the largest
number of applicants to this exhibition
in my 28 years at Chautauqua.
Since 2006 Saltz has been senior art
critic and a columnist for New York Magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for
The Village Voice for many years, Saltz
has been nominated for the Pulitzer
Prize in Criticism three times. He and
New York Times art critic Roberta Smith,
his wife of 30 years, have been described as a power couple who “shape
the New York art conversation, providing competing and compelling points
of view in the world’s art capital.”
We are anxiously looking forward
to viewing his choices, which will be
made before the end of May. Jerry is
planning to attend the opening of the
exhibition in Week One on Sunday,
June 22, so we hope you’ll stop by for
this exceptionally interesting opening
for what promises to be a remarkable
chapter in this historic exhibition series.
Another exhibition of major significance follows our highly successful
three years series of collaborations with
Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Over the past nine months I have
been working with another venerable Buffalo institution, the Burchfield
Penney Art Center. With the help of
Burchfield Penney executive director
Anthony Bannon, we will present an
exhibition of works by Charles Burchfield, one of the most prominent artists
ever to have emerged from the Cleveland to western New York region.
The exhibition will be presented in
the Gallo Family Gallery of Strohl Art
Center. Burchfield is widely recognized
as one of the major influences on 20thcentury American art. The show will
be on view from Weeks One to Nine.
We are thrilled to host this exhibition,
marking the first time these works will
be shown at Chautauqua Institution.
There are many more exhibitions
and events planned for the summer, including the Annual Student Exhibition
beginning Sunday, July 20, and the annual Members Open Exhibition beginning Monday, Aug. 4. As always, we
welcome you to the galleries and Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden throughout the summer season. Information on
each exhibition is available on the Chautauqua website, at ciweb.org/vaci.
Mark your calendars to be with us
on Saturday, Aug. 2, for the annual
Stroll Through the Arts event, hosted
by VACI Partners. This summer’s planning is well underway and you are all
the VACI Partners need to make this
fundraising evening a success!
Last year Stroll Through the Arts enabled VACI Partners to raise $20,000 for
art scholarships. Most students could
not attend the School of Art without
receiving a scholarship, and this event
makes their stay with us a reality. For the
cost of your ticket, you will have drinks,
dinner, dancing and dessert, and most
importantly, a generous hand in funding the future generation of artists.
Speaking of VACI Partners, this
friends group has been very busy during the winter months planning other
events for the summer as well.
The annual Sponsor-an-Art-Student
picnic, where art students are paired
with Chautauquans, will be held rain
or shine at 4:45 p.m. Thursday, June 26,
at the School of Art. This is a wonderful
program where Chautauquans get to
know one or two art students throughout their seven-week studies here.
If you are interested in getting to
know an artist (or two) and are willing
to invite them to a few of your picnics,
maybe take them for a boat ride so they
can experience Chautauqua from the
lake, or just take them to lunch and
learn about their interests, VACI Partners would love to hear from you. If you
are interested in learning more about
the program, please contact Gretchen
Gaede at [email protected].
At the end of the summer, our student evaluations always reveal that this
very special relationship was a great
way to get to know Chautauquans
and that it was one of the most relaxing and fun components of spending a
summer at Chautauqua. In fact, some
of the best relationships were the ones
where the sponsors told the students
“I don’t know much about the School
of Art.” Get to know us this summer!
Don’t miss Go West!, the follow-up to
last year’s very popular Romeo and Juliet inter-arts collaboration. I have been
working throughout the off-season
with the other artistic directors and director Andrew Borba on a completely
original Amphitheater performance
which will include music, voice, dance,
opera, theater and, this year, the visual
arts! It is going to be an amazing evening in the Amphitheater on July 26.
VACI is also presenting a special
workshop at the School of Art on Saturday, July 12, featuring ceramic artist
Mitch Lyons. Lyons will demonstrate
his technique of making clay monotypes from a slab of clay. He has exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe, and
his work is held in many public and private collections, including the Brooklyn
Museum and the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia.
In addition, Lyons will speak about
his work at 1 p.m. on Sunday, July 13, in
the Hall of Christ. Both the workshop
and the lecture are provided free to the
public. This special weekend is made
possible by a generous donation from
our longtime friend Blossom McBrier,
who has worked in the clay studios for
many years, making large hand-built ceramic pieces. Blossom is celebrating her
90th birthday this year, so we hope that
if you see her this summer, you’ll join us
in wishing this very special Chautauquan artist a very happy birthday.
The VACI lecture series will include
quite a few new faces this summer, including Robert Storr, dean of the Yale
University School of Art, former commissioner of the Venice Biennale and
former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Storr is teaching in the School of Art this summer.
Also speaking in our series are renowned painter Julie Heffernan; Barry
Nemett, chair of painting at Maryland
Institute College of Art; National Geographic photographer Dave Shumway; and professors Ron Cohen of the
University of Iowa and James Sham of
George Washington University. These
distinguished artists and many others will present on Tuesdays and Fridays throughout the first six-and-a-half
weeks of the season. CSA faculty member Sharon Louden, author of the highly
successful book Living and Sustaining a
Creative Life, will be presenting a special
talk and book signing during Week Two.
VACI Managing Director Lois Jubeck, Galleries Director Judy Barie and
I couldn’t be more excited about what
is coming to Chautauqua in the visual
arts this summer. We all look forward
to seeing you there.
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dance / The Arts
Charlotte Ballet celebrates new name,
world premiere of Britten piece in 2014
North Carolina Dance Theatre returns to the Amphitheater this summer with the same beautiful mix of
contemporary dance and classical ballet, but with a new moniker.
The company’s new Charlotte Ballet
identity debuted on April 27, a change
meant to give its home city recognition
while on the road and to resolve any
confusion about its repertoire.
“(Local) audiences may identify
‘ballet’ in a limited way, but in most
cities it’s understood as a mixture
of classic works and contemporary
works,” said Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux,
artistic director of Charlotte Ballet and
Chautauqua Dance, in an April 26 article in the Charlotte Observer. “Everything we do here is ballet.”
The company has launched the new
brand with a provocative ad campaign
starring its principal dancers, all of
whom will grace the Chautauqua Amphitheater stage this summer.
The major program highlight for
Charlotte Ballet in Residence at Chautauqu Institution in 2014 is the world
premiere of a piece based on British
composer Benjamin Britten’s “Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.”
On Wednesday, July 30, the company
will be joined by A Far Cry, the 17-member string orchestra from Boston in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum. Together the two ensembles
will collaborate to perform the premiere
of choreography by Mark Diamond, associate artistic director of Chautauqua
Dance, and Sasha Janes, associate artistic director of Charlotte Ballet.
A Far Cry previously appeared at
Chautauqua and performed the Brit-
ten piece on the Logan Chamber Music
Series in 2012. This seven-movement,
25 minute work struck Chautauquan
Kay Logan as perfectly suited for choreography. The idea was proposed to A
Far Cry and what was then NCDT.
All were excited to collaborate and
plans were set in motion. The Britten
estate was contacted and gave permission for the piece to be choreographed.
A Far Cry will present a different
program on the Logan Chamber Music
Series at 4 p.m. Monday, July 28, in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall. They will then rehearse with Charlotte Ballet and present the world premiere on Wednesday.
The A Far Cry residency and world
premiere is funded by Logan, and
Chautauqua is the beneficiary of what
promises to be an extraordinary evening of dance.
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A m p h i t h e at e r
P r o g ra m s
Dance Salon
8:15 p.m. Thursday, June 26
With the CSO
8:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 8
2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 13
Chautauqua Festival Dancers
with the MSFO
8:15 p.m. Monday, July 21
An Evening of Pas de Deux
8:15 p.m. Wednesday, July 23
Dance Innovations
8:15 p.m. Wednesday, July 30
With the CSO
8:15 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9
2:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10
Dance Circle aims to deepen understanding of dance through 2014 programs
By Chris Anderson
Chautauqua Dance Circle
The Chautauqua Dance Circle (CDC)
is a supportive, enthusiastic link between the Chautauqua Dance program
and the Chautauqua community. We
provide scholarship money to attract
the most promising ballet students to
Chautauqua’s School of Dance. For the
community, we offer Monday afternoon programs and pre-performance
lectures to increase your appreciation
of ballet’s nuances and enhance your
enjoyment of the Charlotte Ballet (former North Carolina Dance Theatre) in
Residence performances.
Catering to dance enthusiasts and
knowledge-hungry
Chautauquans,
our CDC Monday afternoon programs
will take an “inside look” at ballet and
Charlotte Ballet. Two celebrated American prima ballerinas, Patricia McBride
and Cynthia Gregory, will share their
unique perspectives.
During Week Two, McBride, a former principal dancer at New York City
Ballet, now associate artistic director
and master teacher at Charlotte Ballet
and resident ballet faculty at the Chautauqua School of Dance, will present
“The Making of a Balanchine Dancer.”
In Week Five, Gregory, a former principal dancer at American Ballet Theater
and artistic coach at Nevada Ballet Theater, will share “My Life in Dance.”
Curious about Charlotte Ballet’s
signature style? Get an inside look
from the source. During Week Four,
don’t miss “Transitions: Classical to
Contemporary Ballet.” Associate artistic director and choreographer Sasha Janes and former Charlotte Ballet
dancer Rebecca Carmazzi will discuss
and demonstrate the evolution of classical ballet to contemporary dance, using a series of classical ballet positions.
Who can resist “Dance, Romance
and the Art of Partnering”? During
Week Seven, in another lecture and
demonstration, Charlotte Ballet dancers Pete Leo Walker and Anna Gerberich describe the joys and challenges of
partnering, as dancers and as a couple.
Our final Monday afternoon program in Week Eight, “Ballets Russes
and the Birth of Modern Ballet,” Jim
Dakin, CDC treasurer, will use clips
from the movie “Ballets Russes” to
show how the Ballets Russes changed
the course of performing arts. The
company’s groundbreaking fusion of
dance, music and design set the stage
for today’s dance companies.
Your support of the Chautauqua
Dance Circle makes these programs
possible. More importantly, your CDC
dues help the Chautauqua School of
Dance be competitive with other summer dance programs. Ninety percent
of the CDC’s 2013 annual dues will go
toward 2014 dance scholarships. Please
join us! Contact Jim Dakin at [email protected].
Friends fête two decades of
support for Chautauqua theater
Opera Guild helps Lesenger
celebrate 20 years at Chautauqua
By Marsha Butler
Friends of Chautauqua Theater
By Melissa Orlov
Chautauqua Opera Guild
The Friends of Chautauqua Theater
will be celebrating their 20th anniversary this summer. This organization
was imagined and formed during the
summer of 1994 by Ralph Crocket and a
group of friends who wanted a stronger
theater emphasis at Chautauqua. By the
end of the 1995 season, we had recorded
the paid membership donations of 215
Chautauquans.
“We now have over 600 active members who love and actively support the
theater at Chautauqua and elsewhere,”
said Marsha Butler, Friends executive
board president. “We have plans to
celebrate our 20th year throughout the
summer of 2014. Members truly enjoy
having fun together and interacting
with the theater company.”
The Friends will begin the summer
season at 2:30 p.m. the first Sunday,
June 22, with our “Meet the Company”
event at Smith Wilkes Hall, including a
20 anniversary kick-off. At 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 1, we will sponsor the fourth
annual “How I Got This Job” benefit
at Bratton Theater. $25 tickets will be
available at the June 22 program. These
remarkable short monologue presentations by CTC conservatory members
give us a wonderful introduction to the
talent we will be seeing all summer.
Watch The Chautauquan Daily for notice
of our continuing celebratory events
and theater-related activities.
“What a great ride this organization
has been on — from a few people wanting to build a real theater to today’s
gorgeous theater and a world class
company,” said Bob McClure, a Friends
member since the beginning who now
serves as executive board member at
large. “We have had so much fun getting to this anniversary and intend to
have more during this celebratory summer, looking back at the good times and
ahead to where our dreams take us.”
Irene Cramer and family purchased
their summer home two years ago
and she became an active member of
Friends.
“We have loved ‘adopting’ two conservatory fellows, getting to know
them, helping them feel at home in
Chautauqua and learning so much
from them about the world of theater,”
said Cramer, now the Friends’ executive board vice president, company.
New Friends members are always
welcome — forms are available from
executive board members. You can get
additional information and forms by
calling Marsha Butler at 801-209-4848, or
email her at [email protected].
The membership fee is $10 — what
a deal! If you are not already a Friend,
join us and let the fun begin!
This summer marks Artistic/General Director Jay Lesenger’s 20th season
as the creative and inspirational head
of the Chautauqua Opera Company.
His tenure has produced a generation
of singers, introduced untold Chautauquans to opera and provided exceptional entertainment every season.
Chautauqua Opera is the oldest continuous summer opera company in the
U.S. and holds an important position in
the national opera community. A highlight is the Young Artists program.
During his tenure, Lesenger has encouraged the talent of 524 young singers and many have flourished, going
on to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago,
Washington National Opera, Houston
Grand Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin. Further, the Fort Worth Opera and
Palm Beach Opera are managed by
Chautauqua Opera graduates.
But encouraging talent that then populates the national opera stage is only
one of Lesenger’s talents. Most Chautauquans know of him through his
high-quality and sometimes humorous
productions, 72 in all during his tenure.
Lesenger has ensured Chautauqua audiences are introduced to all of the opera literature, not just the old war horses
— 52 different operas are included in
that number, with 15 being Chautauqua
premieres. He has also broadened the
musical offerings for Chautauquans,
adding multiple musical revues and art
songs recitals to each season.
With the generous support of Chautauquans, Lesenger has improved the
structure of opera with Jane A. Gross
Opera Center and rehearsal space, the
rebuild of the Connolly Residence Hall,
and building an almost $4 million endowment for opera. His efforts help
position opera to remain a presence at
Chautauqua for many years to come.
“Producing and directing opera at
Chautauqua has been at the center of
my artistic life for 20 years,” Lesenger
said. “The support, curiosity and affection of the Chautauqua community
have made the opera company’s summers joyful and operatically fulfilling
and has allowed us to perform a wide
range of opera and music theater. The
growth and success of our Young Artists program could only happen in a
place so devoted to the development
and education of talented singers.”
Chautauquans have been graced with
a tremendous talent in Jay Lesenger, and
many developed a love of opera under
his generous, caring tutelage. Please
help the Opera Guild celebrate this milestone by joining us in 2014 and showing
your support for opera as an important
part of the artistic mix at Chautauqua.
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literary arts
Writers’ Center continues
work to help aspiring
writers refine their craft
By Clara Silverstein
Program Director,
Chautauqua Writers’ Center
Many of the speakers at Chautauqua have published books, and if their
words inspire you to explore writing,
join us at the Chautauqua Writers’
Center. On the porch and inside the
Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall,
our programs celebrate the art of the
written word.
Every week, the Writers’ Center
sponsors public readings from our
visiting authors at 3:30 p.m. Sundays
and literary lectures at 12:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays. We also run workshops for writers of all levels. From a
one-day “How Writers Write” master
class taught by E.L. Doctorow on Aug.
6 to a beginning workshop in memoir
Week Three and one in poetry Week
Five, we offer a range of opportunities to learn more about writing. Our
visiting writers, all published authors
and experienced teachers, lead the
workshops. Students learn about the
craft and vision necessary to grow as
writers while also forming a lively and
supportive community.
This summer, in addition to our
usual variety of fiction, memoir and
poetry workshops, we offer several
special topics, including “Poetry and
Art,” taught Week One by Jim Daniels in cooperation with the Visual
Arts at Chautauqua Institution galleries; “Writing About Music” Week Six
with Richard Terrill; and “The Modern
Author’s Blog” Week Eight with 2013
CLSC author Brian Castner. Chautauquans who want to better understand
contemporary American poetry can
take “Poetry Appreciation” with John
Hoppenthaler Week Eight, while those
already writing poetry may apply
for the Advanced Poetry Workshop
with Shara McCallum Weeks Two
and Three. Those interested in writing about travel can study Week Seven
with husband-and-wife authors Jim
Hunt and Linda Lawrence Hunt.
A partnership with the Chautauqua
Theater Company brings in playwright
Molly Smith Metzler for a second year
to teach a weeklong playwriting workshop during Week Five. In a one-session seminar, Deb Pines, author of In
the Shadow of Death: A Chautauqua Mystery, explains self-publishing on July
30. Aspiring book authors can learn
about “The New Era of Publishing”
from agent and author advocate April
Eberhardt during Week One.
We welcome your visit to the Literary Arts Center this summer to hear
our authors read from their work, talk
about their literary passions, and share
their expertise about the art of writing.
For a full listing of our programs, see
the Special Studies catalog, chqtickets.
com or our website, writers.ciweb.org.
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All workshops meet on the second floor of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni
Hall. Check the 2014 literary arts brochure for times. 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 · 6/23–6/27
Prose: Hillary Jordan, “Come Away with Me: An Intensive Workshop on Voice”
Poetry: Jim Daniels, “Poetry and Art: Shared Inspiration”
Special Workshop: April Eberhardt, “The New Era of Publishing: An Agent’s Perspective”
Week Two · 6/30–7/4
Prose: Jonathan Eig, “It Takes a Hero”
Advanced Poetry Workshop (Weeks Two and Three): Shara McCallum,
“Form Unbound”
Week Three · 7/7–7/11
Prose: Marion Roach Smith, “Memoirama”
Poetry: Steven Haven, “Myself and More: Deepening the Poem”
Advanced Poetry Workshop (Weeks Two and Three): Shara McCallum,
“Form Unbound”
Week Four · 7/14–7/18
Prose: Roy Hoffman, “That Place Called Home”
Poetry: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “Writing the World Around You”
Master Class (7/16): Danielle Allen, “Self-evident Truths?”
Week Five · 7/21–7/25
Prose: Donna Jo Napoli, “Twisting the Guts Out of Everything”
Poetry: Andrew Mulvania, “‘Singing School’: Poetry for Beginners”
Playwriting Workshop: Molly Smith Metzler
Week Six · 7/28–8/1
Prose: Richard Terrill, “Writing About Music”
Poetry: Robert Ostrum, “Personal Landscapes for Poets”
Special Workshop (7/30): Deb Pines, “Self-Publishing 101”
Week Seven · 8/4–8/8
Prose: Jim Hunt and Linda Lawrence Hunt, “Transformative Travel: A Wellspring
for Growth”
Poetry: Charlotte Matthews, “Keeping the Moment Alive”
Master Class (8/6): E. L. Doctorow, “How Writers Write”
Week Eight · 8/11–8/15
Prose: Brian Castner, “The Modern Author’s Blog”
Poetry: John Hoppenthaler, “Poetry Appreciation: What’s New (and Old) in
Contemporary American Poetry?”
Week Nine · 8/18–8/22
Prose: Evan Fallenberg, “Rousing the Troops: Character Development”
Poetry: Susan Grimm, “Approaching the Poem Sideways”
Special Workshop (8/20): Kathie Bennett, “You are Your Own Best Book Publicist”
Literary Arts Friends add opportunities for writers to collect feedback
By Fred Zirm
President, Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends
Since the name of the Chautauqua
Literary Arts Friends starts with the
same two words as the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, people sometimes confuse the two organizations or
think they were invented by the Department of Redundancy Department.
The confusion is understandable,but
the two groups perform distinct but
complementary functions.
The CLSC stresses the reading component of the literary process and encourages readers of fiction, nonfiction
and poetry to venture beyond their
usual book list. Published books by
established or new but impressive authors are chosen to be read, heard and
discussed, and the CLSC provides the
authors with an informed and appreciative but discriminating audience.
The Chautauqua Literary Arts
Friends, meanwhile, promote the writing end of the process in various ways.
The group sponsors Open Mic sessions
at 5 p.m. Sundays in order to give authors of varying degrees of experience
a chance to read their work in public.
This year, the Open Mic opportunity will be augmented by Poets on
the Porch and Prose on the Porch —
informal critique sessions after the
Tuesday and Friday addresses by the
week’s writers in residence at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall. Interested writers should bring copies of
one or two short poems on Tuesdays or
one page of prose on Friday to receive
feedback from fellow writers.
The Friends also sponsor writing
contests that afford poets and prose
writers of all ages the chance to be recognized for their excellence. Winners
older than 12 also receive special consideration for publication in Chautauqua,
the Institution’s literary arts journal (a
copy of which you receive if you join the
Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends).
Behind the scenes, Friends members
also help with some of the housekeeping details (announcements, email
lists) involved with the writing workshops at the Writers’ Center, along
with helping to monitor the quality of
the instruction. In addition, they also
provide refreshments at the Sunday
readings by the authors of the week
and organize the potluck supper for
anyone interested in the literary arts
early in the season. All of these activities help more writers refine their
skills and meet other people interested
in writing and reading, and make the
literary arts a central and vital part of
the Chautauqua community.
The authors nurtured by the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends may produce the CLSC selections of the future,
and the love of reading fostered by the
CLSC makes it more likely that wouldbe authors will find an eager audience.
Although confusion arises because
of the two words they share in their
names, this sharing shows they are
two sides of the same coin.
Please consider joining both organizations so literature can continue to
thrive at Chautauqua and beyond.
Alumni Association welcomes first county scholarship recipients this season
By Dick Karslake
President, CLSC Alumni Association
The Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle graduates who are active
members of the CLSC Alumni Association are busy once again planning for
the upcoming Chautauqua season. The
historic class banners will be rehung
throughout the first floor of Alumni
Hall, the porch will have new carpets,
the front walk will have more than
130 new memorial bricks and Pioneer
Hall will have a new coat of paint. The
classes will gather, the book reviewers
will be reading and reviewing, the science lectures will be presented both
at Smith Wilkes Hall and the Hall of
Christ, the Great American Picnic will
be the best ever, and the Eventides will
once again be demonstrating the farflung interests of CLSC graduates and
other Chautauquans.
During the past few years, the
Alumni Association has been concentrating on improving the overall CLSC
experience — refreshing the old CLSC
diploma, establishing additional postgraduate degrees with seals and stoles
with patches, and facilitating the return
of the four arches between the Golden
Gate and the Hall of Philosophy, with
the addition of Keepers of the Arches
to usher new CLSC graduates through
them during the Recognition Day procession. The Alumni Association also
funded a total rebuild of the traditional
Golden Gate arch to restore it to its original late-19th-century design, thanks to
the Class of 2000. While there is enough
credit to spread far and wide through
the organization, special mention goes
to Peg Snyder ’00 and her CLSC Veranda group, vice president for events Tom
Small ’99 and the Banner Committee,
headed up currently by Charlotte Crittenden ’67.
The big news for 2014 is the weeklong
attendance of the first two students benefiting from the writing scholarships
provided by the CLSC Alumni Association Scholarship Fund for Aspiring
Writers from Chautauqua County. For
two years running, 80 percent of the net
proceeds from the Great American Picnic have gone into growing this fund,
along with some individual and class
donations. Whereas all areas of the picnic bring in some “green,” the largest
dollar contributor is the Silent Auction
— which offers surprising opportunities to find unimaginable treasures.
The Alumni Association is committed to building the new fund to levels
that will permit increases in both the
number of scholarships offered each
summer and the length of time the
awardees spend at Chautauqua studying their craft. Be sure to put Sunday,
July 20, on your calendar and come for
family fun, food and other fund-enhancing opportunities.
The Alumni Association is currently
experiencing solid growth as a result of
the recent increasing size of graduating classes. Join now — if you haven’t
already — and become part of this important Chautauqua tradition. Check
with the CLSC Veranda for graduation
requirements.
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Literary Arts
2 0 1 4 C h a u t a u q u a P r i z e F i n a l i s t s | See the winner announcement at ciweb.org/prize
A History of the
Present Illness:
Stories
Louise Aronson
Bloomsbury
The short stories in A
History of the Present
Illness take readers into
overlooked lives in the
neighborhoods, hospitals
and nursing homes of
San Francisco, offering
a portrait of health and
illness in America today.
Chautauqua Prize readers
called the book’s stories
“fully realized and often
chillingly observed” and
described Aronson’s
writing as “honest and
compassionate.”
Sea of Hooks
Lindsay Hill
McPherson & Company
In the novel Sea of Hooks,
the reader gathers and
rebuilds the fragments
of wildly imaginative
Christopher Westall’s
traumatic young life
as he travels from San
Francisco to Bhutan.
“Every paragraph is like
a tiny jewel of a chapter,”
readers said, noting
that Hill “is able in one
sentence to evoke pain,
grief, pleasure, joy.”
The Boy Detective:
A New York
Childhood
Roger Rosenblatt
Ecco
The memoir The Boy
Detective follows
Rosenblatt as he
investigates his own
life and the life of New
York City as he walks
one wintry night — a
masterly evocation of the
city and a meditation on
memory as an act of faith.
Readers called the book
“beautifully written,” “an
exploration of memory
and storytelling and the
places and ideas that
make us who we are.”
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and Scientific Circle Selections
My Foreign Cities
Elizabeth Scarboro
Liveright
My Foreign Cities is a
memoir of Scarboro
and her first husband
Stephen, a young couple
approaching mortality
with reckless abandon,
gleefully outrunning
it for as long as they
can. Readers described
Scarboro’s prose as
“elegant” and “almost
poetic” and commended
her “beautifully written”
portraits of coping with
grief.
The Man He Became: Wash
How FDR Defied
Margaret Wrinkle
Grove Press
Polio to Win the
Presidency
The novel Wash depicts
James Tobin
Simon & Schuster
The Man He Became is
a history of the greatest
comeback in American
political history — Franklin
Delano Roosevelt’s 10year climb from paralysis
to the White House.
Readers called the book
“a true page-turner,”
“meticulously researched”
and “a wonderful history
lesson.”
an intimate power
struggle between slave
and master on the
Tennessee frontier in the
early 1800s. The book
contained “fascinating
characters and fascinating
premise,” readers said,
calling Wrinkle’s narrative
“lyrical, complex and
compassionate.”
These three titles have been confirmed as Chautauqua Literary and Scientific
Circle selections. CLSC author presentations take place at 3:30 p.m. Thursdays
at the Hall of Philosophy. The full 2014 CLSC slate features nine books. More
information on all the books and authors is available at ciweb.org/clsc.
Week Two
Thursday, July 3
Week Six
Thursday, July 31
Week Seven
Thursday, Aug. 7
On Such a Full Sea
Why Soccer Matters
Andrew’s Brain
In a long-declining future
American, abandoned urban
neighborhoods have been repurposed as secure, self-contained labor settlements. Here,
communities of contended
workers (descendents of those
brought over en masse from environmentally ruined
cities in China) devote their lives to the cultivation
of pristine produce and seafood for the wealthy residents of the elite walled villages that lie outside. In
return, the workers are protected from the violence
of the wild, crime-ridden, anarchic quasi-state outsides the cities.
Within one of those labor settlements (Baltimore,
reborn as B-Mor), lives Fan, an almost mythically
gifted fish-tank diver. When the man she loves disappears, Fan shocks her community by leaving the
safety of its gated walls to go in search of him. A
quest that calls into question everything she knows
about herself and her destiny, it soon becomes legend to those she left behind.
Nearly 60 years since his
first World Cup appearance, the
legendary Pelé provides new
insights on the beautiful game.
Co-written with Brian Winter,
Why Soccer Matters explores
the recent history of soccer and
provides new insights into soccer’s role connecting
and galvanizing players around the world.
After more than 60 years, the World Cup returns to
Brazil — the country often credited with perfecting
the sport. Soccer has a unique opportunity to
encourage change on a global level; as a global
ambassador for the sport, Pelé relentlessly promotes
the positive influences soccer can have to transform
young men and women, struggling communities,
even entire nations. In Why Soccer Matters, Winter
and Pelé detail the soccer legend’s goals for the
future of the sport and, by extension, the world.
Speaking from an unknown
place and to an unknown
interlocutor,
Andrew
is
thinking, Andrew is talking,
Andrew is telling the story of his
life, his loves, and the tragedies
that have led him to this place
and point in time. And as he confesses, peeling back
the layers of his strange story, we are led to question
what we know about truth and memory, brain and
mind, personality and fate, about one another and
ourselves.
Written with psychological depth and great lyrical
precision, this suspenseful and groundbreaking
novel delivers a voice for our times — funny, probing,
skeptical, mischievous, profound. Andrew’s Brain
is a surprising turn and a singular achievement in
the canon of a writer whose prose has the power to
create its own landscape, and whose great topic, in
the words of Don DeLillo, is “the reach of American
possibility, in which plain lives take on the cadences
of history.”
Chang-Rae Lee
E. L. Doctorow
Pelé and Brian Winter*
*Brian Winter is also the Wednesday, July 30, morning
lecturer and will present the book for the CLSC.
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Seeking readers for 2015 Chautauqua Prize
CLSC Young Readers programming
takes place Wednesday afternoons
during the season, generally in the
Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.
One author and two major presenters
— Jules Feiffer (illustrator of The Phantom Tollbooth, Week One) Kiku Adatto
(Week Four) and Brian Winter (author
of Week Six CLSC selection Why Soccer
Matters) — will host their programs.
Remaining 2014 CLSC Young Readers selections will be announced
shortly. To view the complete list, plus
a downloadable PDF of the program’s
historic book list, please visit ciweb.org/
young-readers.
The Department of Education
seeks Chautauquans who are writers, publishers, critics, editors, librarians, booksellers and literature
and creative writing educators to be
volunteer readers for The Chautauqua Prize 2015 selection process. In
the spring of 2015, the fourth annual
Chautauqua Prize will be awarded
through a two-tiered judging process wherein each dedicated reader
will be asked to review eight to 10
books, to be read between November 2014 and February 2015. Each
Week One: The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
Week Two: What the World Eats
by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio
Week Four: Babayan and the Magic Star
by Kiku Adatto
Week Five: The Absolutely True Diary
of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman
Alexie (ages 12+)
Week Six: Keeper by Mal Peet
Week Seven: Inside Out & Back Again
by Thanhha Lai
Week Nine: Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Week TBA: Flora and Ulysses:
The Illuminated Adventures
by Kate DiCamillo
nominated book will be evaluated
by three reviewers, with the final
selection made by a three-member,
independent, anonymous jury.
Those interested and who meet
the criteria should contact Sherra
Babcock, vice president and Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for
Education, at [email protected].
She will host instructional meetings during the summer and a conference call in the fall. More information on the prize is available at
ciweb.org/prize.
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religion
Perry to join Hurlbut Church as new pastor in July
On July 1, the Rev. Carmen Perry begins her duties as the new paster of Hurlbut Memorial Community Church, the
year-round United Methodist church
located on the Chautauqua grounds.
Perry has been serving as the pastor of Boulevard United Methodist
Church in Binghamton, New York, and
will be living in the Hurlbut parsonage
with husband Nick and son Nathan.
Perry will also serve as chaplain at the
United Methodist House during the
first week of the Chautauqua season.
Perry’s appointment comes following
the retirement of the Rev. J. Paul Womack, who has led Hurlbut since 2007.
“So many thanks to those who
made my time here such a joy,” Womack said. “This includes those souls
who work so hard year-round and in
during all nine weeks of
the summer to make Chauthe Chautauqua season. All
tauqua comfortable and atthe proceeds from these
tractive.”
meals support our misHurlbut worship occurs
sions and ministries of the
every at 10:45 A.M. Sunday
church. through June 15 and is preHurlbut’s lunches are
ceded by church school at
served from 11:45 a.m. to
9:30 a.m. Beginning June
1:30 p.m. every weekday,
22, Hurlbut worships at 8:30
providing families, visitors
a.m. Sundays during the
summer. Womack will offi- The Rev. Carmen and employees a reasonPerry
ably priced, nutritious meal.
ciate at the June 22 service.
Thursday dinners begin at 5
The early Sunday morning
worship service offers a brief message, p.m. Even with food prices rising, we
Scriptures, music and communion. At were able to keep the cost for lunch
Hurlbut we welcome everyone to wor- and dinner the same as last summer.
The Hurlbut Lemonade Stand will
ship with us.
Something is always happening be open at 9:30 a.m. Sundays during
at Hurlbut Church. We serve lunches, the summer. Please come by for coffee,
dinners, hamburgers and hot dogs rolls, hot dogs or hamburgers! Hurlbut
considers this ministry a way of being
of service in our summer community.
The church is now handicapped accessible on all levels, since having a
limited use-limited access (LULA) elevator installed. We are now looking
to the final phase of our building project, replacing all the non-stained-glass
windows in the building. Replacing
the current single pane windows will
help with energy efficiency and comfort, and even improved 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.
Baha’is prepare three distinct programs Mystic Heart
This summer season, the Baha’i
community of Chautauqua will offer
three programs, each with a very different focus.
For the fourth consecutive year, Van
Gilmer, music director of the Baha’i
House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois,
will conduct a gospel music workshop
during the weekend of Aug. 9–10. Chautauquans are warmly invited to join
singers from around the area for two
rehearsals on Saturday, and a rehearsal
and concert on Sunday. In the workshop, Gilmer teaches the music gospel
style by rote so participants don’t need
to know how to read music — they just
need to share a love for singing and
“making a joyful noise unto the Lord.”
On June 29, Dr. James P. West, professor of economics at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, will
speak on the topic of global economics and ethics. West has traveled and
researched extensively, particularly
in the developing world. India’s economic and political development has
been a lifelong interest for West and he
returns to visit and work in India on a
regular basis.
The Week Four focus of the Department of Religion is “The Role of a Citizen in a Just Democracy.” At the top of
the week, on Sunday, July 13, a group of
young Baha’is will offer a panel called
“Who is Writing the Future: Youth in
the Vanguard.”
Last summer, the international governing body of the Baha’i faith called
114 youth conferences throughout the
world, designed to galvanize Baha’i
young people and their like-minded
friends to devote their energies to work-
ing with junior youth, ages 11 to 14. The
special program, commonly known as
the junior youth empowerment program, aids in their moral and spiritual development, fostering in them
capacity for collective service and true
friendship. It enhances their power of
expression, as well as enabling a strong
moral sensibility to take root within
them. Several Baha’i young people in
our area attended these conferences
and are actively engaged in working
with youth in the Buffalo and Pittsburgh areas. Coordinating the panel
will be Laura Stokes of Pittsburgh, a
graduate of Slippery Rock University,
and Shayan Waseh, a medical student
at the University of Buffalo.
The Baha’is are faith partners of
the Department of Religion, which approves and co-sponsors their programs.
Three unique presentations highlight CCF season
Chautauqua Christian Fellowship
welcomes all to attend our Monday
evening programming for the upcoming 2014 season. We are grateful to the
Chautauqua Department of Religion
for their co-sponsorship of our Christian-based programming. CCF events
are held in the Hall of Philosophy.
7 to 8 p.m. Monday, June 30
Bill Ward, musical presentation
Bill Ward is a singer-songwriter
from western New York. He founded
the Mayville Bluegrass Festival, which
garnered international attention, in
2002. Ward has been named Artist of
the Year by the Chautauqua County
Arts Council and Promoter of the Year
for his festival and collaborative work,
and is a member of the Chautauqua
County Music Hall of Fame. He uses
his gifts as a church worship leader,
teaching artist, community developer,
and promoter to help foster arts programs and festivals in the area.
6:30 to 7:45 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4
Doreen Firestone
Play: “The Prodigal Daughter”
“The Prodigal Daughter,” the female perspective of “The Prodigal
Son,” written and composed by Doreen Firestone, brings the trials of the
daughter’s journey home to forgiveness alive, complete with the appearance of her guardian angel and God,
who land in the middle of her crisis
and bring her home. This unique depiction of a woman’s struggle to heal
her past combines uplifting Scripture
with hilarious moments.
“The Prodigal Daughter” stars Firestone, a New York City stage actress and
operatic mezzo soprano, as the title character, and features Christine Fitzgerald
as her guardian angel and Peter Quinones as the Maker of Heaven and Earth.
Recent performances include the
Manhattan Repertory Theatre and the
Merrick Theatre for the Performing Arts.
7 to 8 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18
Tasso Spanos and Dr. Gena Bedrosian
Tasso Spanos is a certified triggerpoint myotherapist with 32 years’ experience as a pain specialist. He has studied with Janet Travell, White House
physician to President John F. Kennedy.
Spanos founded the Pittsburgh School
of Pain Management and was the director of the Center for Pain Treatment. He
has led his exercise class, “Feeling Better,” since 1982 through Special Studies.
Dr. Gena Bedrosian is a fifth-generation, lifelong Chautauquan who was
an organ and piano student during
her teen years. She is a life member of
many Chautauqua organizations and
has been a member and donor to CCF
for over 20 years. Bedrosian’s background as an emergency physician
and evangelical Christian provides a
unique ethical quality to the care she
renders, evident in her lectures on how
to be as healthy as possible in today’s
U.S. health care climate.
Un i t y o f C h a u t a u q u a a nn o u n c e s 2 0 1 4 m i n i s t e r s
Unity of Chautauqua guest ministers have been selected for the 2014
season. Ministers in weekly order will
be: the Revs. Richard and Judy Thomas, Louisville, Kentucky; the Rev. Ron
Palumbo, Gladwin, Michigan; the Rev.
Robin Volker, Delaware, Ohio; the
Rev. Anne Murphy-Oswald, Berkeley
Springs, West Virginia; the Rev. James
Stacy, Fayetteville, New York; the Rev.
Elizabeth Thompson, Sarasota, Florida; LUT Donna Van Oosten, Chester-
land, Ohio; the Rev. Ron Neff, Stuart,
Florida; and the Rev. Marge Brown,
Summerfield, Florida. Neff will also
speak at the final Sunday of the season.
In addition to presiding over the
9:30 a.m. Sunday service in the Hall of
Missions, each guest minister will offer meditation from 8 to 8:20 a.m. weekdays, 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 a Positive Path for Spiritual
Living, to be held in the meeting room
of the Main Gate Welcome Center.
The Rev. Ron Neff is minister of
Unity of Chautauqua and Jo-An Webb,
Chautauqua, New York, is president
of the board of directors. Other board
members are Kelly Mareri and Andy
Jochum of Jamestown, New York; Valerie DiCarlo, Westlake, New York; the
Rev. Richard Thomas of Louisville,
Kentucky; and Licensed Unity Teacher
Amy Neff of Stuart, Florida.
program enters
15th season
Every summer hundreds of
Chautauquans begin or deepen a
meditation practice. They engage
with others in quiet times of contemplation and learn about meditative practice through the Department of Religion’s Mystic Heart
meditation program. Each week
the department hosts a teacher-inresidence who instructs and guides
morning meditation practice sessions and afternoon seminars.
The Mystic Heart meditation program began in 2000 with the inspiration of the Rev. Ross McKenzie,
the Department of Religion’s retired
director. Under the leadership of the
Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, it grew
in its second year into a full nine
week program. As it enters its 15th
season, the Department of Religion’s
new director, the Rev. Robert Franklin, along with Maureen Rovegno,
associate director, are continuing
the tradition of enthusiasm and support for meditation at Chautauqua.
Program director Dr. Subagh
Khalsa points out that each teacher
comes from his or her own tradition
and brings a unique perspective to
meditation practice and yet, he said,
“The varieties of mystical experience have a certain commonality,
a way that each reveals a bit of the
universal human spirit.”
This year, the Mystic Heart program will host teachers from Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, Muslim and
Christian traditions, all with similar
intent and purpose: to give a meaningful spiritual experience.
The program offers 45-minute
guided meditation sessions at 7:15
a.m. each weekday in the Main Gate
Welcome Center. Afternoon seminars are held from 12:30 to 1:55 p.m.
Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Hall
of Missions, allowing more time for
discussion and instruction. There is
also a silent meditation from 7:15 to
7:45 p.m. each Thursday evening at
the Welcome Center.
All sessions are open to everyone, regardless of background or
experience. There is no charge, but
donations to support the program
are gratefully accepted.
For a complete schedule of the
Mystic Heart program, seminar topics, teachers’ biographies and more,
visit our website: themysticheart.org.
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Chabad prepares to open new home on Vincent
This winter, Chabad Lubavitch has
been busy restoring the main floor of
its new denominational home at 23
Vincent, on the Brick Walk. This continuing and exciting project was made
possible in large part through the generosity of the Lippman-Kanfer Family
Foundation, as well as the many other
generous members of the Chautauquan community.
Chabad is honored to name its new
home the Zigdon Chabad House. Joseph and Pamela Kanfer chose to name
the house in honor of their daughter
and son in-law, Donny and Ketti Zigdon. The Kanfer and Zigdon families
are also involved with the Chabad
of Akron, Ohio, and enthusiastically
stepped up to assist Chabad Lubavitch
of Chautauqua establish its new home
at Chautauqua.
The Zigdon Chabad House will not
only enable Chabad to continue its
current programs, it will provide additional opportunity to expand and
develop its services and activities.
“The Zigdon Chabad House will be
warm and welcoming to all Chautau-
quans and will be a place to experience the joys of Judaism,” said Rabbi
Zalman Vilenkin, leader of Chabad
Lubavitch of Chautauqua.
Chabad welcomes all Chautauquans to join and participate in their
many programs this upcoming season, most of which are free of charge.
Chabad’s events include daily classes,
special lectures, Challah baking, Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh and Tisha B’av services, Kosher BBQs, Shabbat community dinners and ice cream socials.
At 9:15 a.m. weekday mornings in
the Alumni Hall Library Room, Rabbi
Zalman and Esther Vilenkin will lead
classes exploring Maimonides, the
great philosopher, and his work, “The
Guide to the Perplexed,” Everyday
Ethics, Prayer Re-examined, Talmudic
Ethics and Life Cycle Events.
At 12:15 p.m. Friday afternoons at
the Zigdon Chabad House, there will
be a Challah-baking class and participants will leave with ready-to-bake
braided loaves of Challah.
On Saturday mornings Chabad conducts Shabbat services at 9:30 a.m. in
the welcoming atmosphere of the library room at the Everett Jewish Life
Center, followed by a festive Kiddush
lunch at noon. Chabad Lubavitch is
grateful to Edith Everett and the board
of the Everett Jewish Life Center for all
it does for the Chautauqua community
and for Chabad in particular.
Tisha B’av, the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av, commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and
the ensuing exile of the Jewish people
from their land. This day is observed by
fasting and reciting the Book of Lamentations (Aicha). Chabad will conduct
services at 9:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4, and
from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, at
the Zigdon Chabad House.
The community Kosher BBQs will
be held from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday,
July 6, and Sunday, July 27, at Miller
Park. The Balloon Man and Happy
the Clown will entertain the children.
There is a minimal charge and rain
time is 5 to 7 p.m., weather permitting.
The community Shabbat dinners
will be held at 7 p.m. on July 4 and
Aug. 8 at the Everett Jewish Life Cen-
ter. This year from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m.
on Aug. 15, Chabad is hosting a third
Shabbat dinner for the entire Chautauquan community at the Athenaeum
Hotel. A traditional four-course kosher Shabbat dinner will be served
along with stories, Torah thoughts and
Shabbat songs. Advanced reservations
are necessary as space is limited. There
is a fee for this event.
The Special Jewish Lecture series
will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Wednesdays, July 9, 23 and 30 at the
Hall of Philosophy. There are also new
programs to be announced.
Chabad distributed packages of
hand-made Shmura Matzah and hundreds of Passover guides to many
Chautauquans before Passover to enhance their holiday celebration.
The Vilenkins will continue to serve
as a religious and scholarly resource on
the Chautauqua grounds for questions
of Jewish Law and other Judaic needs.
For a calendar of events please visit
Chabad at www.cocweb.org or contact
Rabbi Vilenkin by email at [email protected] or by phone at 917-364-1013.
EJLCC releases lists of guest
Hebrew Congregation plans
speakers, films for summer series 54th season of worship, social
The Everett Jewish Life Center in
Chautauqua provides a focus for both
Jewish and interreligious events at
Chautauqua. During the 2014 season
at Chautauqua, the EJLCC will be
brimming with activities that include
an esteemed speaker series, book signings, Brown Bag conversations, a Jewish film series and a program of Yiddish conversations. All of the activities
are free of charge and the entire Chautauqua community is invited.
In 2014 the EJLCC celebrates its
sixth season. For the speaker series,
the lecturers and topics will include:
WEEK SEVEN: Dr. Laurence
Silberstein. “Living Jewishness As
Secular Culture: The 19th-Century
Legacy of Ahad Haam” and “The
Multiple Becomings of Jewishness in
the 21st Century”
WEEK ONE: Ari Goldman. “The
Liturgy Kol Nidre and its Place in
the Synagogue and the Concert
Stage” and “Jews in the News:
How the press covers Israel and the
Jewish community”
Nine excellent films have been
screened and selected for this summer’s Jewish film series:
WEEK TWO: Dr. Steven
Windmueller. “How American
Jews are Reinventing their Political
Identity From the Tea Party to J
Street” and “What is Happening
to Jewish Institutional Life in the
United States, and Why?”
WEEK TWO: “Noodle,” a narrative
of an abandoned Chinese boy and an
Israeli airline stewardess
WEEK THREE: Dr. Yohanan
Petrovsky-Shtern and Oxana
Petrovsky. “Taverns, Vodka and
Everyday Life in the Shtetl” and
“Rediscovering Jewish Music: S.
Ansky and his expedition to the Pale
of Jewish Settlement in Russia”
WEEK FOUR: Dr. Matthew Levitt.
“Hezbollah and Iran’s Strategic
Partnership and What it Means for
the Middle East and Beyond” and
“Hezbollah’s Global Footprint: From
Africa to North America and Points
In Between”
WEEK FIVE: Nancy Kaufman.
“Gender Equality in Israel: A Status
Report” and “We were Slaves:
Combating Modern-Day Slavery”
WEEK SIX: Alan Cooperman.
“What Does It Mean To ‘Be Jewish’
in America Today, According to the
Pew Survey” and The Polarization of
American Religion”
WEEK EIGHT: Ambassador Yosef
Neville Lamdan. “Why Jewish
Genealogy?” and “Pope Francis, the
Jews and Israel”
WEEK NINE: Matthew Goodman.
“You Are What You Ess: A Social
History of Jewish Food” and “The
Rise and Fall of the Bagel”
WEEK ONE: “Nora’s Will,” voted
Mexico’s Best Picture of 2010
WEEK THREE: “Zaytoun,” the story
of an the relationship of an Israeli
pilot and a Palestinian boy in 1982
war-torn Lebanon
WEEK FOUR: “Fill The Void,” an
exploration of contemporary ultraOrthodox Heredi life in Israel
WEEK FIVE: “The Roundup” (La
Rafle), an account of the French Vichy
government’s collaboration with
Nazi Germany in France of 1942
WEEK SIX: “Dolphin Boy,” a
documentary about a mute IsraeliArab boy who was sent for treatment
at Israel’s Dolphinarium in Eilat
WEEK SEVEN: “The Other Son,” a
tale of babies switched at birth
WEEK EIGHT: “Life In Stills,” a
documentary about Miriam, 96, who
fights to save her photo gallery in Tel
Aviv from demolition
WEEK NINE: “Hava Nagila,” a
documentary of how this popular
song made its way into Jewish
musical history
and educational programming
For 2014, the Chautauqua Hebrew
Congregation continues its 54-year tradition, presenting an extensive summer program of religious services,
social events and educational talks.
We coordinate our programs with the
Chautauqua Department of Religion
in an effort to ensure that these programs are open to all Chautauquans.
Highlighting our program is the Friday evening Kabbalat Shabbat service
at the lake, in a beautiful setting near
Miller Bell Tower. On Saturday mornings we have inspiring services led by
a rabbi and cantorial song leader in the
Hurlbut sanctuary, followed by delicious Kiddush lunches. We welcome
back Rabbis John Bush, Frank Muller,
Gary Pokras and Samuel Stahl to conduct services.
Also this year, Rabbi Ron Symons
will be joined by his wife, Rabbi Barbara Symons, and his brother, Dr. Andy
Symons. In addition, Rabbi Allison
Bergman has agreed to add her name
to our roster of distinguished visiting
rabbis. Many of our favorite soloists
will also be returning this year.
We will have Friday evening Shabbat dinners: two at the Everett Jewish Life Center, July 11 and Aug. 1,
and one at Hurlbut’s social hall on
Aug. 15. In addition, there will be two
Havdalah services, July 5 and Aug. 2,
held in the garden to the rear of Smith
Wilkes Hall. There will also be two
pre-service study sessions on designated Saturday mornings and Tisha
B’Av services on Aug. 5.
This year the Shirley Lazarus Sunday Speakers Series will feature many
key people involved with Chautauqua
Institution programs: Spiro and Marlena Malas, Timothy Muffitt, Roger
Kaza, and Maureen Rovegno. They
will be joined by Rabbi Samuel Stahl,
addressing challenges and prospects
for Conservative and Reform Judaism;
Leigh Anne Hendrick, describing how
the Holocaust is taught to students in
Chautauqua County; and Steve Piper,
discussing the history of the Jews at
Chautauqua as seen through the eyes
of a Methodist.
The Tuesday afternoon social hour,
held in the Everett Jewish Life Center
library, includes discussions and refreshments. A special feature of this
program is our annual student musical recital, featuring fine young musicians receiving scholarships from our
congregation.
The board of directors for the Hebrew Congregation consists of Drs.
Len Katz and Arthur Salz (co-presidents), Renee Andrews (vice president,
ritual), Gloria Gould, (vice president,
programming), Judy Farber (recording
secretary), Joan Harf (corresponding
secretary), Carole Reeder (treasurer),
Dr. Bob Spirtas and Burt Zucker (publicity co-chairs), and at-large members
Dr. Seymour Bayewitch, Dr. Larry
Cohen, Jackie Katz and Eleanor Pless.
Special thanks are due to Joan Alexander, Judy Katz, Betty Salz, Carole
Wolsh and Sandi Zucker.
Our Tuesday afternoon socials and
lovely Kiddush lunches provided after each Saturday morning service offer opportunities for socializing with
friends and introducing new Chautauquans to our program. The egalitarian
nature of all our events and welcoming atmosphere extended to all Chautauquans are hallmarks of the Hebrew
Congregation. Updated information
about all programs can be found on
our website, hebrewcongregationchautauqua.org. Come and enjoy all that
the Hebrew Congregation has to offer
at Chautauqua in 2014!
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BTG continues efforts to educate community on environment
The Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden Club is ready for summer 2014.
After celebrating 100 years of conservation, education, service and fun
last year, we are pleased to announce
our Century House Tour to be held
from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 15.
Twelve unique homes, all at least 100
years old, will be open for viewing.
The homes represent a range of architectural styles and interior design.
Each showcases the creativity of owners who have modified their cottages
to suit their needs while preserving
the homes’ character and charm.
Refreshments will be offered at
Smith Wilkes Hall, home of the BTG.
Gardens that received the 2013 Chautauqua in Bloom awards will be included on the tour map so that visitors may
view them as they stroll through the
grounds. A printable ticket order form
can be downloaded on the BTG page
of the Chautauqua Institution website,
www.ciweb.org/btg, or by requesting an
order form in writing at P.O. Box 721,
Chautauqua, NY 14722.
We will also be celebrating the 90th
birthday of Smith Wilkes Hall this
summer. She has received a spruceup inside and out, and we will serve
birthday cake in her honor on July 1 at
our Tuesday Brown Bag lecture.
Nancy Wolfe, Tuesday program
chair, has scheduled a great season for
us. Birds, trees and gardens remain
our focus, in addition to bats, the state
of our lake and overall ecology. This is
reflected in our walks, talks and chats
as well as our noon Tuesday Brown
Bag lecture series at Smith Wilkes Hall.
Tuesday Brown Bags begin June 24
with an in-depth look at “Chautauqua
Lake: Seeing Her with New Eyes” by
Jane Conroe, well-known science and
environmental educator in the Chautauqua region. In Week Two, “Birds
and Their Dawn Chorus” by Dr. Terry
Mosher, recently retired SUNY Fredonia professor, will teach us on July 1
to identify birds by their song. During
Week Three, July 8, will feature Robert
Jeffrey who will give us an overview
of the homes on the BTG House Tour.
There will be no program on the day
of our House Tour, July 15; Tuesday
Brown Bags will resume Week Five,
on July 22, with a tour of “New York
City’s Garden Spaces” with garden designer Maureen Bovet. Always popular, a “Floral Design” program Week
Six, by Kim Beckstrom of Allegheny
Floral in Warren, Pennsylvania, will
be held July 29. In Week Seven, Aug. 5,
Joan Maloof will discuss “Old Growth
Forests,” which she is working to pre-
serve for future generations.
On Aug. 12, during Week Eight,
Ruth Lundin of the Jamestown Audubon Society, will describe her adventures in building a home out of hay
bales in her talk, “Is This Footprint
Mine?” Mark Baldwin, director of education for the Robert Tory Peterson
Institute, on Aug. 19 will discuss “Fossils: Fascinating Bits of History from
Western New York.”
Our annual Life Member Luncheon
will be held Week Six, on Aug. 1, at the
Athenaeum Hotel. Jon Schmitz, Chautauqua Archivist, will take a look at
BTG programming over the last century, and what role our Smith Wilkes
home has played. Hugh Butler is event
chair. We remind Chautauqua visitors
that all BTG programs, with the exception of our fundraiser Century House
Tour and luncheon, are free.
Childhood memories inspire a Chautauqua decision for Tates
Technically, Joyce Tate’s
first experience with the concept of Chautauqua was back
in 1924, when her mother was
in her seventh month of pregnancy with Joyce. Her mother
had been recruited by the
Chautauqua Circuit to give
readings by Shakespeare.
“She had a wonderful
speaking voice,” Joyce said. Residing in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the time, Joyce’s
mother traveled with the circuit for
three years before deciding to devote all
of her time to raising her children, and
eventually resigned from the circuit.
The next experience Joyce had with
Chautauqua did not occur for many
more years after she was born — and
in an unexpected turn of events.
“We were considering a donation
to an arts organization in Sarasota,”
said Joyce, “And they were offering an
interesting incentive to get people to
make a contribution.”
It was in the late 1990s when a Chautauqua couple made their house available for a one week stay — with them.
“I had remembered my mother talking about Chautauqua when I was a
young girl, and so my husband, Bob
(now deceased), and I thought, Why
not? So we made the donation and
planned our trip to Chautauqua.”
The couple who donated the weeklong stay at their home were longtime
Chautauquans Lee Chaverin White
and her late husband, Carl
Chaverin.
“I think they were scared
to death,” Joyce said. “They
had no idea who we were or
what we were like.”
When the time came to
move in for a week with the
Chaverins, not only did it go
well, the couples got on famously, and the Tates fell in love with
Chautauqua.
“They couldn’t have been better
hosts,” Joyce said. “Lee cooked and fed
us, they took us around the grounds,
showed us the special things about
Chautauqua — they were marvelous.”
After that one week of being on the
grounds, Joyce and Bob decided to buy
their own home at Chautauqua — which
they did before the following season.
They spent each and every summer on
the grounds for the next decade, enjoying almost everything that was offered.
Joyce said there was a particular affinity for the symphony and education
opportunities. Bob played golf and especially enjoyed the morning lectures.
The Tates’ three children would come
to the grounds at different times during summers and Joyce says it was a
wonderful way to spend time with
them since they did not live nearby in
their primary homes.
The couple also took advantage
of the special programmatic offerings of the many “Friends” groups on
Joyce and Bob Tate
the grounds, such as the Bird Tree &
Garden Club, Friends of Chautauqua
Theater and the Chautauqua Women’s
Club, among many others. Joyce said
they were delighted to find that there
was an established Unitarian Universalist group on the grounds, which
they wholeheartedly embraced.
In 2012, Bob was having increased
difficulty getting around and the couple decided it was time to think ahead,
including the future of their Chautauqua home. They thought they would
have to sell it and pay a hefty capital
gains tax on it. In a meeting with their
attorney, he suggested they arrange a
retained life estate, which transfers the
deed of a home to a charitable organization, but allows the family the right
to live in the home until they no longer
can, or choose not to do so.
“There were huge tax incentives. It
was such an attractive opportunity,
and a way to help Chautauqua — so
that’s what we did,” Joyce said.
Several months later, Joyce and Bob
determined that it was too much to try
to continue coming to Chautauqua and
so they terminated their right to use
the home, and in doing so received a
second tax advantage. The home sold
along with its contents, and the proceeds were distributed to the Chautauqua Foundation with a provision for
the Women’s Club and the Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship to each receive
a portion. The Tates had determined
that their gift to Chautauqua Foundation would establish two endowment
funds: one unrestricted and the other
for performing arts and maintenance
of the Amphitheater.
Joyce reflected on her and Bob’s decision and said, “Well we love Chautauqua
— the residents, the staff, the programs
— and this was a way to say thank you
for all of our years of enjoyment.”
As a result of their initial gift of a retained
life estate, the Tates became members of the Eleanor B. Daugherty Society, which recognizes
those who have arranged a gift to Chautauqua
Foundation through their estate. Their gift
also counts toward the Promise Campaign.
For more information on ways you can include Chautauqua in your estate plans, and
make a gift toward the Promise Campaign,
please contact Karen Blozie, director of gift
planning at 716-357-6244 or kblozie@ciweb.
org, or go to www.chautauquafoundation.org.
NOW Generation keeps energized with off-season events
On a sunny spring day in Washington, D.C., approximately 25 young
Chautauquans gathered for an afternoon tour of the National Archives, followed by a cocktail reception at a nearby establishment. Old friends warmly
embraced, and new introductions were
made, among the eclectic group who
shares a love for this Institution.
This was a gathering of the NOW
Generation, made up of Chautauquans
in their 20s and 30s who are dedicated to
devoting their time, energy and resources in ensuring Chautauqua Institution’s
longevity and continued relevance.
Regional events during the off-season are taking place in a number of
cities through the guidance of a NOW
Generation Advisory Council, responsible for creating and driving initiatives that are aimed at engaging greater numbers of young Chautauquans
throughout the year. For those who are
in graduate school, early in their careers or just beginning a family, there
are unique challenges to how one can
stay connected to the Institution and
often, time spent on the grounds is
limited by other commitments.
The council, which was formed in
spring 2013, meets quarterly to help address these issues and brings diverse
professional backgrounds to the table
in finding solutions and creative ways
to maximize one’s Chautauqua experience. They invite greater participation
by young Chautauquans in this process.
“The administration and boards
have given our council a unique (if not
unprecedented) opportunity to engage
directly with Chautauqua’s leadership
and members of the community,” said
council chair John Haskell. “My motivation for helping to form the council was
to bring new relevancy to Chautauqua
for those building or moving into the
prime of their professional or scholarly
careers, while still having fun. I feel
youth, creativity and ambition are central to sustaining and evolving Chautauqua’s mission — by increasing engagement on today’s issues and across age
groups, within and outside the gates.”
There are additional opportunities
for NOW Generation volunteers to assist with these efforts — including the
newly formed role of a Regional Captain
(there are currently captains in New
York City, Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh) — as well as summer programs
throughout the season. Invitations to
events like the upcoming “Cocktails at
the Gallery” with host Judy Barie, galleries director, on July 30 are extended
to those who subscribe to the NOW
Generation e-newsletter or follow the
NOW Generation on social media.
Young Chautauquans are also committing themselves to giving back, by
participating as advocates and philanthropists. The advisory council is
encouraging friends and peers to join
them in making a gift to the Chautauqua Fund, and emphasizes the importance of participation, regardless of
amount. The council is also establishing
a special recognition level for members
of the NOW Generation who make an
annual gift of $250 or more to the Chautauqua Fund. The Lewis Miller Circle
has been created to honor those who
make a leadership-level commitment.
Those interested in participating
with the NOW Generation, volunteering or attending events may contact
Megan Sorenson, staff liaison, at [email protected] or 716-357-6243.
The NOW Generation has a Facebook
group (search “NOW Generation – Chautauqua Institution”) and an informational webpage at www.chautauquafoundation.
org under “Membership Opportunities.”
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Spring 2014
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community
CPOA continues variety of efforts to improve community
By Hugh Butler
President, CPOA
Your Chautauqua Property Owners
Association Inc. (CPOA) supports efforts to maintain and enhance the high
quality of life enjoyed by homeowners,
their guests and tenants at Chautauqua. Issues of our immediate environment including the lake, outdoor lighting and pedestrian safety receive the
most attention, along with sponsorship of community-building activities
such as the pre-season potluck dinner
and the Week Four Area Picnics.
Plan to join us during Week Zero
for the pre-season social and potluck
dinner beginning at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 19, at Hurlbut Church. If you
or an organization you support has
handouts or presentations of interest
to property owners, this is a good time
and place to distribute.
Your Chautauqua Utility District
expects to complete its engineering design leading to a vote in August to authorize (or not) a large capital project
that will be described and discussed
in July. Visit the CPOA website, www.
cpoa.ws, to view past newsletters and
trustees reports for more information.
The CPOA meeting Saturday, July
12, at the Hall of Philosophy will likely include a presentation on the CUD
plant project. The Aug. 9 Annual Meeting includes announcement of new officers and the nominee for the trustee
position.
Area Picnics are hosted by your
CPOA area representative, who encourages all residents to join in beginning
at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16. Watch
The Chautauquan Daily for more details.
If you would like to help your area representative plan this party, let us know
at [email protected].
CPOA membership dues are again
$15 this year. Forms are available on
our website, www.cpoa.ws, which may
also be viewed from a link on the
Chautauqua website’s On the Grounds
pages. Your dues and donations support the activities of CPOA, including
donations such as one recently in support of the new drinking fountain on
Bestor Plaza.
Your CPOA Outdoor Lighting Committee has been working diligently
over the last few years evaluating
choices to provide pedestrian-friendly
street lighting in Chautauqua. The results of this process were incorporated
in a document “Pedestrian Friendly
Outdoor Lighting” which was published by the U.S. Department of Energy: http://1.usa.gov/1kDjy4w
Our Dog Park Committee hopes you
will join others by Turner this summer
to give dogs that unleashed-feeling.
(And please take plastic pickup bags
when you go and take full ones to your
own garbage. Thanks!)
See also the news from the Shared
Space project which includes our 2014
contribution to counselors who encourage our children to make eye contact at each intersection. “Together We
Can” is a song you’ll hear children sing
which reminds them that our path-
ways and roadways are full of pedestrians and that courtesy is expected.
“Wheeling Around Chautauqua” is
another initiative of our Transportation-Safety Committee which reinforces these values for all who share our
sacred spaces. Chautauqua Bookstore
offers Shared Space T-shirts, posters,
water bottles and yard flags, so everyone has the opportunity to support
street courtesy.
Time Warner Cable assures us that
patrons will be informed individually of their array of choices that will
rival past years, including no-contract,
easy-disconnect services. They recommend you call 1-855-234-4898 or 877892-2225 so you can fully understand
your options.
Volunteers are always welcome to
join in the work of the CPOA. Please
contact any of the CPOA board members via [email protected] to
contribute your energy toward making our community a little bit better
each year.
The following individuals have included Chautauqua in their will, retirement plan, as beneficiary of their IRA, a 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, N.Y.,
who left a significant bequest to Chautauqua. Chautauqua Foundation is proud to recognize these thoughtful individuals for their generosity and
foresight in helping to ensure the future of Chautauqua Institution. For information on how you can become a member of the Daugherty Society,
contact Karen Blozie, director of gift planning, at (716) 357-6244/[email protected] or visit www.chautauquafoundation.org.
If you have included Chautauqua in your estate plans and your name is not listed below, please let us know so we can recognize and thank you.
New members are highlighted with the symbol ( ).
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Robert and Mary Bargar
William E. and LaDonna G. Bates
Bob and Joan Battaglin
Nancy Bechtolt
Ann C. Beebe
Mary and Charles Beggerow
Jill and Arnie Bellowe
Christina Bemus
Alice Benedict
Bobbi and Donald Bernstein
Caroline Van Kirk Bissell
Mary Blair
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June Bonyor
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Kathy and James Braham
Barbara and Twig Branch
Paul S. Brentlinger
Sharon and David Britton
Margaret and William Brockman
Audre Bunis
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Buxbaum
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Andrew L. and Gayle Shaw
Camden
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Carnahan
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Christian
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Betsy Clark
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Cunningham
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Judith and Roger Doebke
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Lee and Barbara Dudley
Carol McCarthy Duhme
Cynthia Norton and Eagle Eagle
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Mr. and Mrs. Hal A. Fausnaugh
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Norma Ferguson
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Lucille and Michael Flint
Shirley A. Flynn
George L. Follansbee, Jr.
Caryn and Henry Foltz
Charlotte and Chuck Fowler
Barbara Fox
Zetta and Ken Fradin
Joanne Fuller
Louise Farnsley Gardner
vic and Joan Gelb
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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
Clara W. Golay
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Karen and Tim Goodell
Ellen and Bob Gottfried
Dr. Cheryl O. Gorelick
Carolyn Graffam
Suzanne Gray
Don and Kathy Greenhouse
Fred and Judy Gregory
Kent I. and Fredrika S. Groff
Elisabeth and Jim Groninger
Carl Grunfeld
Linda J. Hack
Murray and Pegi Hamner
Mr. and Mrs. James Pryor Hancock
Kathleen E. Hancock
Judith L. Hanson
Walter and Joan Harf
Terrie Hauck
Paula and Ray Hecker
William and Anne Mischakoff Heiles
George Herchenroether
Dorothy and Bill Hill
Mr. D. Armour Hillstrom
Patricia and Robert Hirt
Sally L. Holder
Anita and Sidney Holec
Kathleen Howard
Cheryl S. and Carl W. Huber, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot W. Irish
Mary Ellen and Robert Ivers
Bob and Gretchen Jahrling
Lois Johnston Walpole James
Karin A. Johnson
Lucille Jordan
David and Nan Jubell
John F. and Mary Giegengack
Jureller
Jeannette Kahlenberg
Norman and Nancy Karp
Bill and Martha Karslake
Evelyn Kasle
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
Audrey and Kenny Koblitz
Donna and Stewart Kohl
Chuck and Peg Korte
Robert S. Kravitz, DDS
Judy and Jim Kullberg
Philip A. Kuster
Robert and Nancy Kyler
Robert D. Lang
Joseph and Judy Langmead
Robert E. and Susan Laubach
Barbara Widrig Lee
Eileen and Marty Leinwand
Ronald and Barbara Leirvik
Clare Levin
George Levine
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
Flora and 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
Geraldine McElree
Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. McKee
Susan McKee and Hal Simmons
Amy and Pat Mead
W. Richard and Mary Lu Mertz
Don and Alyce Milks
Greg and Bijou Miller
Miriam S. Reading and Richard
H. Miller
Kurt Miller and Karen Williams
Miller
Sylvia Lucas Miller
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Dr. Steve and Mary Gibbs Mitchell
Mrs. Dawson E. Molyneaux
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
Jay and Joyce Nesbit
Karen Paul Newhall
Dr. Lillian Ney
Constance Barton and William
Northrup
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
Lois and 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 and Petey Price
Barbara Rait
Lois Raynow
Harold and Martha 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
Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Rieser
Kathleen Riley
Patricia Rittman
Jerrie Hawkins Roba
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Sarah and David Rosen
Annette Ross
Joyce and Richard Ross
Dr. James and Sharon Roth
Marcia and Jerry Rothschild
C. Angus Schaal
William and Jone Schlackman
Edward C. Schmidt
J. Jason Phillips and Sheila
Schroeder
Helene Schwartz
Susan B. Scott
Sheldon and Phyllis Seligsohn
Dr. and Mrs. William Blake Selnick
Mary Jane DeVillars Shank
Becky Sharp
Mary Ellen Sheridan
Elaine and Allen Short
Elizabeth Wade Siegel
Harriet Simons
Edie and Dan Sklar
Penny and Tom Small
Darwin and Myra 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
Lowell and Rebecca Strohl
Lydia Strohl and Eric Riddleberger
Shirley and Donald Struchen
Mrs. Mary C. Swanson
Mrs. W. Wendle Taggart
Robert and Joyce Tate
Margery B. Tate
Martha Teich
Stephen and Patricia Telkins
Janet Templeton
Linda and Robert 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. Van
Every
Dr. Carol Voaden
Edward and Melanie Voboril
Arlene and Irving Vogel
Nancy Waasdorp
John and Linda Wadsworth
Laurence and Maria Wagner
Carolyn and Bill Ward
Mrs. Lois Weaver
Jo-an M. Webb
Herbert R. and Lorraine H. Weier
Beatrice Weiner
Linda Steckley and Pete Weitzel
Cynthia C. and Terry R. White
Caroline Levasseur and Heather
Whitehouse
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
Caroline Young
Robert and Donna Zellers
Patricia Feighan and Stephen
Zenczak
Barbara Zuegel
S U N D AY
2014
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M O N D AY
C A L E N D A R O F
EVENTS
T U E S D AY
W E D N E S D AY
10:45 The Very Rev. Alan Jones,
dean emeritus, Grace
Cathedral, San Francisco
2:15 Theater: A Raisin in the Sun
2:30 Brass Band of the
Western Reserve
5:00 Vespers
8:00 Sacred Song Service
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9:15 The Very Rev. Alan Jones
10:45 Jeffrey Rosen, pres. & CEO,
National Constitution Center
2:00 Luke Timothy Johnson,
prof. of New Testament and
Christian origins, Candler Sch.
of Theology, Emory University
4:00 Donald Sinta Quartet
8:15 MSFO. Timothy Muffitt,
conductor
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The Rev. Joanna
9:15 The Rev. Joanna
Moseley Adams
Moseley Adams
Moseley Adams
10:45 Roger Rosenblatt; Margaret 10:45 Roger Rosenblatt;
10:45 Roger Rosenblatt;
Atwood, author, MaddAddam
Elizabeth Strout, author,
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize2:00 John Shelby Spong
The Burgess Boys
winning cartoonist
8:15 Valerie Capers Jazz
2:00 John Shelby Spong
Ensemble
7:30 FES: Galumpha*
3:30 CLSC. Roger Rosenblatt,
The Boy Detective
8:15 Chautauqua Dance Salon.
Mark Diamond, assoc.
artistic director
10:45 The Rev. Daisy Machado,
prof., American history of
Christianity, Union Theological
Seminary, New York City
2:30 Chautauqua School of Dance
Student Gala. Jean-Pierre
Bonnefoux, dir.
5:00 Vespers
9:15 The Rev. Daisy Machado
10:45 Colin G. Campbell, president
and CEO, The Colonial
Williamsburg Foundation
2:00 Joan Chittister, OSB, author,
social analyst
4:00 Chautauqua Quartet
conductor; Shuai Wang, piano
2
9:15 Rev. Raphael Warnock
10:45 Pamela C. Ronald,
author, Tomorrow’s Table
2:00 Sister Simone Campbell,
exec. dir., NETWORK
3:30 Harlan Beckley, exec. dir.,
Shepherd Higher Education
Consortium on Poverty
8:15 An Evening with
Loretta LaRoche
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9:15 Rev. Raphael Warnock
10:45 Barton Seaver, author,
For Cod and Country
2:00 John Hope Bryant, chairman
and CEO, Operation Hope
3:30 CLSC. Chang-rae Lee,
On Such a Full Sea
8:00 CSO Pops Concert.
Stuart Chafetz, guest
conductor; Beverly and
Kirby Ward, dancers*
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10:45 Barton Gellman, contributing
editor-at-large, Time
2:00 Yehudah Mirsky, associate
professor, Near Eastern and
Judaic studies, Brandeis
University; faculty,
Schusterman Center
for Israel Studies
7:30 FES: The Passing Zone
presents Gravity Attacks!*
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10:45 The Rev. Peter Marty,
senior pastor, St. Paul
Lutheran Church,
Davenport, Iowa
2:15 Theater: The May Queen
2:30 NYSSSA School of
Choral Studies
5:00 Vespers
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9:15 The Rev. Peter Marty
10:45 Patrick Griffin, chair, Univ. of
Notre Dame Dept. of History
2:00 Scotty McLennan, dean for
religious life, Stanford Univ.
4:00 Chautauqua Chamber Winds
4:00 Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling
Prof. of Law and Political
Science, Yale University
8:15 Chautauqua Festival Dancers.
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, dir.
MSFO*
10:45 Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author, The
Idea of America; historian
2:00 Imam Malik Mujahid, chair,
Council for a Parliament of
the World’s Religions
7:00 FES: Nels Ross, ‘In Jest’
8:15 CSO. Cristian Macelaru,
guest conductor;
Johannes Moser, cello*
10:45 Dalia Mogahed, CEO,
Mogahed Consulting
2:00 Delman Coates, senior
pastor, Mt. Ennon Baptist
Church, Clinton, Md.
8:15 A Night in Old New Orleans*
10:45 The Rev. Luis Leon,
Saint John Episcopal Church,
Washington, D.C.
2:30 WRFA Presents “Rolling
Hills Radio”
5:00 Vespers
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9:15 The Rev. Luis Leon
10:45 Amphitheater Lecture
2:00 Kenneth P. Serbin,
professor and chair,
Department of History,
University of San Diego
4:00 A Far Cry
7:30 Chautauqua Opera presents
8:15 Matuto*
9:15 The Very Rev. Alan Jones 10
10:45 Amanda Lenhart, senior
researcher, Pew Internet &
American Life Project
2:00 Sharon Duke Estroff, author,
Can I Have a Cell Phone for
Hanukkah?
3:30 CLSC. Christopher Wakling,
What I Did
8:00 Theater: New Play Workshop
8:15 CSO. Rossen Milanov, guest
conductor; Di Wu, piano*
9:15 The Rev. Daisy Machado 17
10:45 Jon Alterman, director,
Middle East Program, CSIS
2:00 Eric Liu, founder and CEO,
Citizen University; co-author,
The Gardens of Democracy
and The True Patriot
3:30 CLSC. Danielle Allen,
Our Declaration
8:15 CSO. Cristian Macelaru,
guest conductor; Augustin
Hadelich, violin
3:00
6:00
8:15
The Music of ABBA by 21
Arrival from Sweden**
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Contemporary Issues
Forum: Jeanne Nolan,
author, From the Ground Up
Theater: A Raisin in the Sun
(opening)
CSO. Marcelo Lehninger,
guest conductor;
Andreas Klein, piano
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9:15 The Rev. Raphael Warnock
10:45 Jonathan Foley, director,
Institute on the Environment,
University of Minnesota
2:00 Tavis Smiley, host, PBS’
“Tavis Smiley”
8:00 Amphitheater Ball with the
Ladies First Big Band*
2:15
3:00
8:15
5
A Raisin in the Sun
Contemporary Issues
Forum: Eleanor Clift,
author, Two Weeks of Life
Chautauqua Opera presents
Madam Butterfly with
Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. Arthur Fagen,
guest conductor
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10:45 Alberto R. Gonzales, fmr.
U.S. attorney general;
Ken Gormley, dean,
Duquesne Univ. Sch. of Law
2:00 Michael P. Lynch, prof. of
philosophy, University of
Connecticut
4:00 New Play Workshop
8:15 Jennifer Nettles:
That Girl Tour 2014**
2:15
3:00
8:15
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New Play Workshop
Contemporary Issues Forum:
John Butman, author,
Breaking Out: How to Build
Influence in a World of
Competing Ideas
CSO Opera Highlights
Concert; Chautauqua
Opera Young Artists;
Steven Osgood,
guest conductor
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2:00 Herman Cain, host,
syndicated radio program
“The Herman Cain Show”
8:15 Wilson Phillips**
3:00
6:00
8:15
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Contemporary Issues
Forum: Julia Angwin,
author, Dragnet Nation
Theater: The May Queen
(opening)
Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. Roberto
Minczuk, guest conductor;
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
• Afternoon Theme: The American West: Religious Evolution and Innovations
22
23 9:15 The Rev. Peter Marty
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10:45 Cynthia J. Truelove, fmr. sr.
10:45 Bruce Babbitt, fmr. gov., Ariz.;
water policy analyst, Calif.
10:45 W. Richard West Jr., pres.
Robert List, fmr. gov., Nevada
Public Utilities Commission
and CEO, Autry National
2:00 Patrick Q. Mason, chair,
2:00 John Wigger, professor and
Center of the American West
Mormon studies, Claremont
chair, Department of History,
2:00 Tink Tinker, prof. of American
Graduate University
University of Missouri
Indian cultures and religious
3:30 CLSC. Frank X Walker,
5 & 7 FES: Doktor Kaboom!,
traditions, Iliff Sch. of Theology
When Winter Come
‘The Science of Santa’
8:15 CSO. Roberto Minczuk,
8:15 An Evening of Pas de Deux.
8:15 CSO. Bruce Hangen, guest
guest conductor;
Charlotte Ballet in Residence.
conductor; Kenneth
Mayuko Kamio, violin
Radnofsky, saxophone*
W E E K S I X • Lecture Theme: Brazil: Rising Superpower
27
8:15
• Afternoon Theme: The Role of a Citizen in a Just Democracy
16
W E E K F I V E • Lecture Theme: The American West
20
27
The Rev. Joanna
Moseley Adams
10:45 Roger Rosenblatt;
Paul Muldoon, poetry editor,
The New Yorker
8:15 Under the Streetlamp**
9:15
• Afternoon Theme: The Ethical Tensions of Privacy vs. Interdependence
9:15 The Very Rev. Alan Jones 8
10:45 Peter W. Singer, dir., Center
for 21st Century Security and
Intelligence, Brookings Inst.
2:00 Abdullahi A. An-Na’im, prof.
and dir., Center for Intl. and
Comparative Law, Emory Univ.
School of Law
8:15 Charlotte Ballet in Residence.
CSO. Grant Cooper, guest
conductor
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S AT U R D AY
• Afternoon Theme: With Economic Justice for All
9:15 Raphael Warnock July 1
10:45 Tracie McMillan, author,
The American Way of Eating;
Amy Toensing, photographer,
National Geographic
2:00 Glenn C. Loury, prof. of the
social sciences, Brown Univ.
5 & 7 FES: Doug Berky, ‘Foibles,
Fables and Other Imaskinations’
8:00 A Raisin in the Sun
8:15 CSO. Marcelo Lehninger,
guest cond.; Eli Eban, clarinet
W E E K F O U R • Lecture Theme: Emerging Citizenship: The Egyptian Experience
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F R I D AY
9:15
W E E K T H R E E • Lecture Theme: The Ethics of Privacy
6
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• Afternoon Theme: The Fourth Gospel: Tales of a Jewish Mystic
W E E K T W O • Lecture Theme: Feeding a Hungry Planet
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10:45 The Rev. Raphael Warnock,
9:15 The Rev. Raphael Warnock
pastor, The Historical Ebenezer 10:45 Dennis Dimick, executive
Baptist Church, Atlanta
editor, National Geographic;
Jim Richardson, photogra2:30 U.S. Army Field Band &
pher, National Geographic
Soldiers’ Chorus
2:00 Peter Edelman, prof. of law,
5:00 Vespers
Georgetown Univ. Law Center
4:00 Cleveland ChamberFest
conductor
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T H U R S D AY
W E E K O N E • Lecture Theme: Roger Rosenblatt and Friends
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June 22
Moseley Adams, interim
Moseley Adams
sr. pastor, First Presbyterian
10:45 Roger Rosenblatt, author,
Church, Atlanta
The Boy Detective;
2:30 American Legion Band
Tom Brokaw, retired anchor,
of the Tonawandas,
“NBC Nightly News”
Post 264
2:00 John Shelby Spong, retired
5:00 Vespers
Episcopal Bishop of Newark
4:00 Garth Newel Piano Quartet
8:15 Canadian Brass*
2014 Season: June 21 – August 24
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10:45 Leslie Berlin, proj. historian,
Stanford’s Silicon Vly. Archives
2:00 Sylvia Stanard, deputy dir.,
Church of Scientology
National Affairs Office
7:30 Chautauqua Opera presents
8:15 The Time Jumpers feat.
Vince Gill, Dawn Sears,
Kenny Sears, Ranger Doug**
2:15
3:00
8:15
26
Theater: The May Queen
Jonathan Zimmerman,
author, Small Wonder: Little
Red Schoolhouse in History
and Memory
Inter-arts Collaboration:
Go West! with the Chautauqua
Symphony Orchestra.
Timothy Muffitt,
guest conductor
• Afternoon Theme: Brazil: the Interplay of Religion and Culture
29
2:00 Kelly E. Hayes, professor
of Afro-Brazilian and Afrodiasporan religions, IUPUI
6:00 FES: Chautauqua Opera
8:15 Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. Maximiano Valdés,
guest conductor; Leela
Subramaniam, soprano
30
10:45 Brian Winter, chief
correspondent for Brazil,
Thomson Reuters
2:00 Rachel Elizabeth Harding,
asst. prof. of indigenous
spiritual traditions,
Univ. of Colorado Denver
8:15 Dance Innovations.
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, dir.*
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10:45 Deborah Wetzel, country dir.
for Brazil, World Bank
2:00 John S. Burdick, chair,
anthropology, Syracuse Univ.
Maxwell School
3:30 CLSC. Brian Winter,
Why Soccer Matters
8:00 New Play Workshop
8:15 CSO. Maximiano Valdés,
guest conductor; Stanislav
Khristenko, piano
August 1
10:45 Paulo Sotero, director,
Brazil Inst., Wilson Center
2:00 Jeffrey Lesser, professor,
Brazilian studies; chair,
history, Emory University
4:00 Theater: New Play Workshop
8:15 Pat Metheny Unity Group
Bruce Hornsby
Campfire Tour 2014**
2:15
3:00
8:15
2
Theater: New Play Workshop
Ken Gormley, author,
Archibald Cox: Conscience
of a Nation
CSO Opera Pops Concert.
Chautauqua Opera Young
Artists; Stuart Chafetz,
guest conductor
W E E K S E V E N • Lecture Theme: A Week with Ken Burns: Historian, Documentarian and American Conscience • Afternoon Theme: Conversations on the American Consciousness
10:45 The Rev. M. Craig Barnes,
president and professor of
pastoral ministry, Princeton
2:30 Junior Guilders of the
Lucille Ball Little Theatre
5:00 Vespers
3
9:15 The Rev. M. Craig Barnes 4
10:45 The Central Park Five.
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns,
David McMahon
2:00 Krista Tippett, host,
“On Being”; Roberto
Mangabeira Unger,
Brazilian phil., social theorist
4:00 Cypress String Quartet
conductor; Voice Program,
Marlena Malas, dir.*
5
9:15 The Rev. M. Craig Barnes
10:45 The Civil War, “1864.”
Ken Burns
2:00 Krista Tippett; Imani Perry,
author; professor, Center for
African-American Studies,
Princeton University
7:30 OLD FIRST NIGHT
6
10:45 Vietnam. Ken Burns,
Geoffrey C. Ward
2:00 Krista Tippett;
Richard Rodriguez, author;
television and print journalist;
public intellectual
8:15 The Capitol Steps*
W E E K E I G H T • Lecture Theme: Chautauqua’s Global Public Square
10
11
10:45 The Rev. Allan Aubrey
9:15 The Rev. Allan
Boesak, director, The
Aubrey Boesak
Desmond Tutu Center,
10:45 Fareed Zakaria, host,
Butler University, Christian
“Fareed Zakaria GPS,” CNN
2:15 Theater: The Tempest
2:00 Ori Z. Soltes, Goldman
2:30 Chautauqua School of Dance
Professorial Lecturer in
Student Gala. Jean-Pierre
Theology and Fine Arts,
Bonnefoux, dir.
Georgetown Univ.
5:00 Vespers
4:00 Axiom Brass
conductor
The Rev. Allan
Aubrey Boesak
2:00 Karen Armstrong, author,
Fields of Blood
7:00 FES: Chautauqua
Regional Youth Ballet
8:15 CSO. Christof Perick,
guest conductor
13
The Rev. Allan
Aubrey Boesak
10:45 Michael Morell, former
deputy director, CIA
2:00 Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi,
sr. lecturer and director,
Emory-Tibet Partnership
8:15 An Evening Piano Recital
with Alexander Gavrylyuk*
9:15
9:15
3:00
6:00
8:15
9
Contemporary Issues
Forum: Francesca Gino,
author, Sidetracked: Why Our
Decisions Get Derailed and
How We Can Stick to the Plan
The Tempest (opening)
CSO. Grant Cooper,
guest conductor
14
9:15 Allan Aubrey Boesak
10:45 Deborah Bräutigam, prof.
and dir., China Africa Research
Initiative, Johns Hopkins Univ.
2:00 Michael Battle, sr. advisor,
U.S.-African Leaders Summit
Office, U.S. Dept. of State
3:30 CLSC. John Colman Wood,
The Names of Things
8:15 CSO. Christof Perick, guest
cond.; Paul Neubauer, viola*
15
The Rev. Allan
Aubrey Boesak
10:45 Robin Wright, joint fellow,
U.S. Institute of Peace &
Wilson Center
2:00 Vincent Harding, historian
and scholar of religion and
society; activist
Engelbert Humperdinck**
9:15
3:00
8:15
16
Doug Hough, author,
Irrationality in Healthcare:
What Behavioral Economics
Reveals About What We Do
and Why
Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. Daniel Boico,
guest conductor;
Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano
• Afternoon Theme: From Here to Hereafter: Facing Death with Hope and Courage
19
9:15 The Rev. Cynthia Hale
10:45 Daniel R. Weinberger, CEO,
Lieber Institute for Brain
Development
2:00 Emmanuel Y. Lartey, prof.
of pastoral theology, care
and counseling, Emory Univ.
Candler School of Theology
8:15 CSO. Daniel Boico, guest
conductor; Anderson and
Roe Piano Duo*
FES: Family Entertainment Series *Community Appreciation Night **Preferred seating available
8
10:45 The Roosevelts. Ken Burns,
Geoffrey C. Ward
2:00 Krista Tippett; Nathan
Schneider, author, columnist,
editor on religion, resistance
and culture
Jackie Evancho**
• Afternoon Theme: The Global Religious Public Square
12
W E E K N I N E • Lecture Theme: Health Care: From Bench to Bedside
17
18
10:45 The Rev. Cynthia Hale,
founding and sr. pastor,
Ray of Hope Christian Church, 10:45 Keith Yamamoto, vice
Decatur, Ga.
chancellor for research, exec.
2:30 Barbershop Harmony Parade
vice dean, Univ. of Calif., San
5:00 Vespers
Francisco, School of Medicine
2:00 Rebecca Brown, founder,
Streetlight,
Univ. of Fla.
10:45 The Rev. Robert M.
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Department of Pediatrics
Franklin, dir, Dept. of Religion,
4:00 Beyer Viola Trio
Chautauqua Institution
8:15 Dancing Wheels*
2:30 Razzer’s Jazzers
7
10:45 The Roosevelts. Ken Burns,
Geoffrey C. Ward
2:00 Krista Tippett; Michel Martin,
host, “Tell Me More,” NPR
3:30 CLSC. E. L. Doctorow,
Andrew’s Brain
8:15 Chautauqua Symphony
Orchestra. Bruce Hangen,
guest conductor;
Roger Kaza, horn
20
10:45 Scott F. Giberson, acting
deputy U.S. surgeon general
2:00 Rabbi Samuel M. Stahl,
rabbi emeritus, Temple
Beth-El, San Antonio, Texas
Livingston Taylor,
Tom Chapin and
The Jammin’ Divas
21
10:45 Martha N. Hill, dean emerita,
Johns Hopkins University
School of Nursing
2:00 Hussein Rashid, professor,
Hofstra Univ.; associate
editor, Religion Dispatches
3:30 CLSC. Sheri Fink,
Five Days at Memorial
8:15 Yesterday —
The Beatles Tribute
22
10:45 John R. Lumpkin, director,
Health Care Group, Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation
2:00 Valerie Tarico, psychologist;
founder, Wisdom Commons;
contributor, Huffington Post
8:15 The Orchestra starring
Former Members of
Electric Light Orchestra
and ELO Part II**
23
3:00
8:15
David Kozak, “The Current
Political Climate and
Mid-Term Elections 2014”
Patti Austin Live At Duke’s
Place: Featuring The Duke
Ellington Orchestra &
Patti Austin singing the
music of Ella Fitzgerald**
Schedule as of May 12, 2014 (Subject to change)

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