July 30, 2015 Volume CXXXIX, Issue 29 Pulitzer Prize Winner Toles to Discuss Editorial Cartoons
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Young Artists celebrate variety in today’s Artsongs recital, Page A2 The Chautauquan Daily www.chqdaily.com Seventy-Five Cents Chautauqua, New York The Official Newspaper of Chautauqua Institution | Thursday, July 30, 2015 Volume CXXXIX, Issue 29 Pulitzer Prize winner Toles to discuss editorial cartoons ALEXANDRA GREENWALD Staff Writer The word “cartoon” brings to mind punchlines and quick sketches, but ac- cording to Tom Toles, this year has proven that politi- cal cartooning is anything but lighthearted. “Tragically, editorial car- tooning found itself sort of on the front line of the free expression debate,” said TOLES Toles, editorial cartoonist SAALIK KHAN | Staff Photographer for the Washington Post. A Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra cellist performs earlier this season in the Amphitheater. On Jan. 7, Islamic mili- in Buffalo. Despite his long tants attacked the offices career, Toles said his job has of French satirical news- not gotten any easier. paper Charlie Hebdo, kill- “I tend to inflict a cer- ing 11 people — including tain degree of difficulty on several cartoonists — and the process for myself,” he LittlE blACK NOTES injuring 11 others. said. “I sort of still come to Toles will speak on this the task every day with a and other aspects of mod- certain degree of terror that Fain, Canellakis reunite with CSO tonight ern editorial cartooning I will not succeed in doing at 10:45 a.m. today in the all the things that I would MORGAN KINNEY ing studied at Philadelphia’s Curtis Amphitheater. hope to do in a cartoon. It’s Staff Writer Institute of Music and The Juilliard “There are two ways to just kind of silly, because School together. But tonight they look at editorial cartoon- it’s just a cartoon. But I sort One recent windy day in New take to the Amphitheater stage ing, and one is just kind of of do anyway. For me, it’s York, violinist Tim Fain sat with with the Chautauqua Symphony a lighthearted take, some always been a challenge. A his daughter, watching birds that Orchestra at 8:15 p.m. for their first of the silliness of politics very, very interesting one, reminded him of Samuel Barber’s appearance together as soloist and and poking fun at this per- but definitely a challenge.” “Violin Concerto.” conductor, respectively. son and that person and Among the things Toles pretty much anybody that “We were marvelling at how Bookended by the overture to has worried about accom- Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser and comes along,” Toles said. plishing are raising aware- these birds could effortlessly ride CANELLAKIS FAIN “I’ve always looked at it these gusts of wind — seemingly Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 in E- ness about climate change flat major, Op. 97, Fain will perform more as trying to make the and American wealth dis- without expending any effort at all,” never met the man. According to important parts of the dis- Fain said. “This piece has a qual- Fain, that’s one thing he loves about that same Barber Violin Concerto. parity. Toles said both have The staple of the violin repertoire cussion more interesting, the potential to negatively ity of that, in a way, with an almost playing — getting to know each and to highlight the things unending melody that Barber un- composer’s unique personality. occupies just one region of his mu- impact American society sical sensibilities. Fain balances his that I feel need highlight- and politics, and he wishes leashed.” “[Fain’s] a very, very thoughtful ing. I’ve always seen it as time between performing stan- he could have been more This quality is easily discernable player,” said guest conductor and a proactive art form rather dards and working with living instrumental in raising after playing it for so many years. longtime friend Karina Canellakis. than a reactive one.” composers like Philip Glass. awareness, but he is happy He said, at this point, he feels like Fain and Canellakis have Before joining the Post See VIOLIN, Page A4 with his contributions. he knows Barber, despite having known each other for years, hav- in 2002, Toles spent more than 25 years at newspapers See TOLES, Page A4 ‘Art alone endures’: Mandel to share ‘Station Eleven’ with CLSC Ramachandran to talk on RYAN PAIT the world’s population. The Staff Writer novel jumps between char- role of religious imagery acters and timelines, most Nobody puts Emily St. of them connected to an ac- ALEXANDRA GREENWALD John Mandel in a corner. tor who dies in the opening Staff Writer Her first three novels of- pages in the midst of a per- ten get classified as crime formance of King Lear. A man with an el- novels or literary noir, which Mandel said this open- ephant’s head; a woman Mandel said left her feeling ing scene was in part in- with several pairs of arms; somewhat confined. She said spired by her husband, who a blue-skinned cowherd she realized if she kept writ- works as a writer as well as playing a flute. ing in the same genre, she a playwright. He gave her These images are recog- might get labeled as “just” a some familiarity with the nizable as Hindu deities, crime writer. “way-off-Broadway world,” but they are frequently “The thought of being and also recommended a used in secular contexts by pigeonholed as anything is book to her about the his- non-Hindu artists to deco- just profoundly unappeal- tory of public theater in rate everything from walls ing to me,” Mandel said. MANDEL New York. She found an “As a writer, you can some- to toilet seats and socks. anecdote about an actor Professor of South RAMACHANDRAN times get kind of trapped in Richard Smucker Chair for stage in Norton Hall — ‘all who died from a heart at- Asian religions Tanisha these little marketing cat- Education, said she was en- passes, art alone endures,’ ” tack during King Lear, and it age, especially in the West- Ramachandran will dis- egories.” couraged to read the book Babcock said. “But that’s stuck with her. ern context, what are we cuss the interpretation So for her fourth novel, by her colleagues in the ed- what this book is about: art “I love that play,” Mandel looking at? What is inform- of the Hindu image at 2 she flipped the script, pull- ucation office. She said she survives.” said. “As a novelist, you come ing what we’re seeing?” p.m. today in the Hall of ing from culture both high read the book and enjoyed Babcock said that was across an anecdote like that, Ramachandran said she Philosophy. Her lecture and low — from Shakespeare it, but she pondered its val- what made her realize Sta- and you just think, ‘That’s an became interested in re- is titled “Idol, Art, Murti: to “Star Trek: Voyager” — in ue for Week Five’s theme of tion Eleven was the right opener.’ ” ligious imagery because, order to create something en- “Art & Politics.” choice — her inability to The book starts small, The Multiple Identities of while religion informs tirely different. “And then I couldn’t stop leave Mandel’s words and with the death of one man. Hindu Images.” much of how individuals The result was Station thinking about it,” Babcock characters behind. As the plot develops, so does “If we see the image we understand the world, it Eleven, the Chautauqua Lit- said. “I’m really pleased to Mandel’s scope. She said the can interpret, and we see can also create misunder- erary and Scientific Circle Babcock said she wasn’t have it, because it’s perfect consequences of how con- the act of interpretation standings between cul- selection for Week Five. ready to pick the book for for the week,” Babcock said. nected the modern world as a simple case of assign- tures. However, art and Mandel will discuss her Week Five at first, but the fact “It’s talking about reorganiz- is fascinated her. She said ing meaning, especially in imagery can also act as a work at 3:30 p.m. today in that it kept returning to her ing after a calamity, and art it took three years for the cross-cultural situations, form of communication. the Hall of Philosophy for thoughts meant there was leads the way.” Black Death to spread from we become aware of the With religious dialogues, Week Five’s CLSC Round- something special about it. That calamity in Sta- Constantinople, but today, it risk of not understanding it’s easier to start with im- table. “As I was reading it, I was tion Eleven is the fictional would take an afternoon. what we are seeing,” Ram- ages, she said. Sherra Babcock, vice pretty constantly thinking “Georgia Flu,” a virus that achandran said. “So when president and Emily and about the words over the wipes out the majority of See MANDEL, Page A4 we look at the Hindu im- See INTERFAITH, Page A4 IN TODay’S DaiLY Like and follow us online! /chqdaily @chqdaily @chqdaily Playing for the top Green thumbs and Exhibiting our spots gardens good fortune Seven Piano Program students BTG recognizes Chautauqua In Two critics share thoughts on enter competition finals Bloom winners Saturday’s performance of ‘Carmina Burana’ Page A3 Page A8 Page B1 HIGH 81° LOW 61° HIGH 81° LOW 63° HIGH 78° LOW 60° TODAY’S WEATHER Rain: 0% FRIDAY Rain: 0% SATURDAY Rain: 60% Sunset: 8:41 p.m. Sunrise: 6:10 a.m. Sunset: 8:40 p.m. Sunrise: 6:11 a.m. Sunset: 8:39 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.