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An artistic farewell for Lesenger: Critic Druckenbrod reviews Eugene Onegin, Page 9 The Chautauquan Daily Chautauqua Opera’s production of Eugene Onegin closes at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Norton Hall. BRIA GRANVILLE | Staff Photographer www.chqdaily.com Seventy-Five Cents Chautauqua, New York The Official Newspaper of Chautauqua Institution | Monday, August 3, 2015 Volume CXXXIX, Issue 32 Linguist Harrison opens week with lecture on vanishing languages GEORGIE SILVAROLE to be able to give something back.” examples of his work and his subjects. “We thought it would be important Staff Writer At 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphi- “I will introduce the problem of to start the week with something peo- theater, Harrison will share his work vanishing languages first, and then ple would say, ‘Oh, yeah that is vanish- It’s about people and their stories. in discovering and documenting fad- I’ll try to provide some evidence as to ing,’ ” Babcock said. “When you’ve lost For K. David Harrison, being a lin- ing languages. Harrison is a profes- why it matters,” Harrison said. “And a language, you lose all your history, guist means preserving stories, societ- sor at Swarthmore College, author of to do that, I’ll take the audience on a the names of plants, family stories. Cul- ies and rare languages. several books including When Lan- virtual tour of some of the world’s lan- tures vanish when a speaking commu- “I’m inspired by the people I meet, guages Die: The Extinction of the World’s guage hotspots, and we’ll meet some nity’s language vanishes.” Babcock’s own relationship with and I feel very privileged to be able to Languages and the Erosion of Human of the last speakers of the world’s most the topic comes back to a visit to Tan- travel around the world and meet these Knowledge, and leader of National Geo- endangered languages.” zania with her daughter. She followed elders and these last speakers of lan- graphic’s Enduring Voices project. His Sherra Babcock, vice president and the Hadza tribe and observed how the guages,” Harrison said. “They’re very lecture will take the audience to four Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for hunter-gatherer society lives, day to day. HARRISON generous in sharing their language different areas where languages are Education, said Harrison comes highly and their culture with me, and I want endangered using photographs and recommended by National Geographic. See HARRISON, Page 4 Donal Fox Trio brings genre-bending ON THEIR TOES:spontaneity to Amphitheater tonight COLIN HANNER Staff Writer World-class pianist, conductor and improviser Donal Fox is known for his fusion of classical and jazz music — though he leans to the spontaneity side of jazz. The Donal Fox In- ventions Trio won’t know what they’ll be playing for audi- ences at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater until well after they’ve arrived. “When I get into Chautauqua and I feel what it’s like there and I see the halls and the Amphitheater, pieces will come to my mind at the moment, and my band members know that,” Fox said. “There’ll be times where I’ll put the actual set together two hours before we play to keep everyone on their toes.” Fox has taken the likes of classical musicians such as Bach and unraveled them to insert elements of jazz. He often fuses it with Afro-Latin notes found in works by such artists as tango composer Ástor Piazzolla. Fox attributes this blend of styles to his own diverse upbringing around different genres of music. “I’m 6, 7, 8 [years old] and I’m just digging it,” Fox said. “It’s an artistic household, and I’m going, ‘I like this mu- sic [and] this music,’ and I start training, and meeting new teachers, and going to institutions and there’s a tendency to compartmentalize.” ILLUSTRATION BY MAURICE DUNN II | Design Editor See FOX, Page 4 Tipton to discuss effect of social Ahn Trio to deliver eclectic mix in changes on church attendance program with New York City vibe ALEXANDRA GREENWALD sor of So- Tipton is a 2011 recipient MORGAN KINNEY start when the sisters attend- that New York vibe. The first Staff Writer ciology of of the Guggenheim Fellow- Staff Writer ed Juilliard together in the half of the program features R e l i g i o n ship. His studies in the so- early 1980s and they began Kenji Bunch’s “Swing Shift,” Over the years, the at Emory ciology of morality have led Angella Ahn picked up performing pieces by some a piece depicting various way Americans pray has University. to a collaboration with Rob- the violin as a child after of their composer peers. Al- aspects of the night shift in changed almost as much as “It’s part- ert Bellah: Habits of the Heart: watching an orchestra’s vio- though their Juilliard days the city. One movement calls the way they live. ly a story Individualism and Commit- lin section and admiring how are long gone, the sisters nev- upon the sisters to become Steven Tipton will dis- about im- ment in American Life, which it selfishly dominated the er stopped playing together. a jazz trio. The final move- cuss these changes through TIPTON m ig rat ion was a finalist for the 1986 melody. While she still plays Angella now lives in Boz- ment, titled “Grooveboxes,” the lens of the Methodist and people Pulitzer Prize. violin, Angella now shares eman, Montana, where she features the trio as it mimics Church at 2 p.m. today in carrying different forms or Tipton’s research on Meth- the melody with her twin teaches at Montana State the sound of a disc jockey the Hall of Philosophy. His modes of faith with them. odism produced Public Pul- sisters Lucia and Maria on University, but her sisters re- spinning without any of the lecture is titled “Close to the Almost all of them are con- pits: Methodists and Mainline piano and cello, respectively. main in New York City — a actual equipment. Heart of Humankind.” vinced that, however differ- Churches in the Moral Argu- The three sisters of the place that continues to influ- “[Bunch] is making all the “If you ask, ‘What’s going ent the worship they offer ment of Public Life. He is cur- Ahn Trio will perform at 4 ence the music they perform. sounds and rhythms and on in American religion?,’ the creator, what God wants rently at work on The Life To p.m. today in Elizabeth S. Today, they will deliver layering with just acoustic it’s not a story of decline and of us is love of neighbors, Come: Re-Creating Retirement. Lenna Hall as part of the Lo- an eclectic mix of selections instruments,” Angella said. fall,” said Tipton, Charles mutual responsibility, and gan Chamber Music Series. loosely configured both Howard Candler Profes- care for the common good.” See TIPTON, Page 4 The Ahn Trio found its around and in contrast to See AHN TRIO, Page 4 IN TODAY’S DAILY Like and follow us online! /chqdaily @chqdaily @chqdaily Back to basics ‘More than anything, Moto perpetuo The making of a it’s persistence’ dancer MSFO dives into second phase “House of Cards” creator Critic Druckenbrod reviews Battaglia, celebrating 50 years of of chamber music performances Willimon delivers Saturday Thursday CSO performance with teaching, to give CDC lecture afternoon lecture Fain, Canellakis Page 2 Page 6 Page 8 Page 11 HIGH 73° LOW 58° HIGH 73° LOW 56° HIGH 71° LOW 55° TODAY’S WEATHER Rain:80% TUESDAY Rain: 40% WEDNESDAY Rain: 10% Sunset: 8:36 p.m. Sunrise: 6:14 a.m. Sunset: 8:35 p.m. Sunrise: 6:15 a.m. Sunset: 8:34 p.m. Missed a story in the Daily this summer? Find it on our website using the search bar at the top of any page. www.chqdaily.com Page 2 The Chautauquan Daily · www.chqdaily.com Monday, August 3, 2015 NEWS Back to basics: MSFO dives into second phase of chamber music performances GEORGIE SILVAROLE Briefly Staff Writer As Music School Festival NEWS FROM AROUND THE GROUNDS Orchestra students near the end of their time in Chautau- Knitting4Peace qua, they’re entering a sec- From 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in the Hall of Missions West ond chamber music phase of Classroom. Call 303-918-4617. the Instrumental Program. Twenty groups — 72 Tennis Weekday “Dawn Patrol” Round Robin Doubles MSFO students in all — will Tennis players are invited to join a doubles round robin give recitals at 2 p.m. today in each weekday from 7 to 9 a.m. at the Tennis Center. Sign- McKnight Hall, 2 p.m. Tues- ups are each prior evening at 4:50 p.m. near the Farmers day in Fletcher Music Hall, Market at the tennis “lottery.” Call 716-357-6276. 4 p.m. Wednesday in McK- CLSC and alumni news night Hall, 4 p.m. Thursday The CLSC Brown Bag Lunch and Book Review will be in McKnight Hall, and 2 p.m. held today at 12:15 p.m. on the porch of the Literary Arts Friday in McKnight Hall. All Center at Alumni Hall. The Week Six selection is Deep Down events benefit the Chautau- Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine by qua Women’s Club Scholar- Héctor Tobar, and will be reviewed by Jane Blemaster. ship Fund. A book discussion of Deep Down Dark will be held at 1 Arie Lipsky, cello faculty p.m.