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O’RILEY belt Musicians Belt talks take it ‘From water the Top’ conflicts, School of Music solutions students featured on NPR classical in morning music program lecture Eric Shea | Staff Photographer Grant Engle After Nina (Vivienne Benesch) ingests a sleeping pill, she fights to stay asleep in Chautauqua Theater Company’s production of Kate Jessie Cadle Staff Writer Fodor’s Fifty Ways. Zoe (Leah Anderson) attempts to rouse her, while Nina’s husband, Adam (Michael Gaston), tries to help. Staff Writer

Some of the best and The play stars five cast members There could be an inter- brightest musicians from including Artistic Director Vivienne national war over water in the School of Music and Benesch, two guest artist actors, Mi- our future. around the United States FIFTYexplores what it takes WAYS to truly leave your lover chael Gaston and David Aaron Baker, Don Belt, current con- will be on display for Chau- and two conservatory actors, Leah An- tributing writer for and tauquans and a national ra- derson and Josh Tobin. former senior editor of Na- dio audience at 8:15 p.m. to- Though it is Fodor’s first world pre- tional Geographic magazine, night in the Amphitheater. miere on the grounds, Fifty Ways is the gives that warning not in The NPR show “From the third of her plays CTC has produced. an ominous, threatening Top,” hosted by acclaimed 100 Saints You Should Know and Rx de- way, but from the per- pianist Christopher O’Riley, buted in recent years as part of CTC’s spective of a man who has will conduct a live taping New Play Workshop before premiering spent more than 30 years of the program. School of in New York City to national acclaim. experiencing international Music violin students Laura CTC Resident Director Ethan Mc- Jessie Cadle life in more than 65 coun- Park and Alexandra Switala said. “We all hurt each other and leave Sweeny directed the world premieres Staff Writer tries through the lens of are among those perform- each other in all kinds of different ways of three of the four works in Fodor’s ordinary people. ing on stage tonight. — emotionally and psychologically — canon, including this weekend’s. “Conflicts over water The program is broad- Paul Simon taught the world that there but at the same time, it’s an enormous “I think this is Kate’s finest and most are historic. They’re long- casted on almost 250 sta- are 50 ways to leave your lover. Just slip decision to actually end a marriage.” mature play to date,” McSweeny said. “Ev- standing,” Belt said. “But tions to more than 700,000 out the back, Jack. Make a new plan, Stan. Fodor’s play explores the complexities eryone who encounters this play thinks climate change has made listeners each week, and Playwright Kate Fodor re-examines that tie and unwind a married couple that Kate stole something from their life it even more imperative it pairs blossoming musi- what it really means to leave your lover in Fifty Ways, which previews at 8 p.m. and put it in this story. It’s because the that we figure out ways to cians with O’Riley for du- in her play Fifty Ways, aptly named af- tonight at Bratton Theater and opens situations she’s writing about are rela- resolve these problems be- ets and teaching sessions. ter the Simon hit. at 6 p.m. Saturday in Bratton Theater. tionships and family. And the forces that fore they erupt into some It will be the program’s “The famous chorus is almost ironic Fifty Ways, the first play commissioned conspire to keep people together or drive sort of war.” first visit to Chautauqua, in the context of the rest of song … about by Chautauqua Theater Company and them apart are really universal.” Belt will present on and Tom Vignieri, music someone who is really struggling with the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, marks those water conflicts — ‘fifty ways,’ producer for the show, said the idea of leaving his lover,” Fodor CTC’s first world premiere. See Page 4 specifically conflicts in the staff is excited to be here. Bangladesh, Iraq and “It’s always fascinating along the Jordan River — to find a place like Chautau- at 10:45 a.m. today in the qua that’s doing really good Amphitheater. He is the work at attracting a lot of Spotz to share stories from solo row across Atlantic capstone lecturer on Na- top students,” Vignieri said. tional Geographic’s week: “This is an extraordinarily Jessi ca White ocean rowing when she was and Colorado deserts, cycled “Water Matters.” strong show. It’s just a host Staff Writer living in Australia during 3,300 miles across the United He will tell anecdotes of really phenomenal kids.” the country’s devastating States, and swam the 325- and show pictures from “From the Top” has Two years ago, Katie 10-year drought. She began mile length of the Allegheny his field experience. Belt showcased 2,000 pre-college Spotz spent 70 days alone researching charities and River — which she was the will give examples of ordi- musicians from ages 8 to 18 at sea with little more than sponsors, and she set up a during its 12-year history. first person to do. Spotz did nary lives adversely affect- a pair of oars, 300 chocolate “Row for Water” website, The program has also part- that and more to challenge ed by water and examples bars and determination. where people could follow nered with the Jack Kent herself and to raise money of solutions and compro- On March 14, 2010, after Cooke Foundation to pro- her journey and donate to for charity. mises that have been made 3,038 miles, she became the vide more than $1.6 million her cause. Sponsors like Since the row, Spotz has in some of the world’s most youngest person to row solo in scholarships to music stu- GaREAT, Pentair Water, Ki- launched more campaigns to war-riddled countries. across the Atlantic Ocean, dents with financial need. netico Water Systems and raise money for safe drink- “I’m going to try to put a and the first American to The show has provided dozens more covered the ing water in Kenya. In “Ride human face on geopolitical a platform for young mu- row solo from Africa to South entire cost of Spotz’s journey for your Lives,” Spotz and conflicts over water,” he America. By campaigning her so that all donations went a team of 12 others raced said. sicians from all 50 states spotz and has created a national journey, Spotz — who was directly to Blue Planet Net- more than 3,000 miles across The three areas on 22 at the time — raised more work. Costs included things the U.S., from California to which he focuses are the reach that no other music “I was really starting to than $100,000 for Blue Planet such as her 19-foot rowboat, Maryland. The team cycled three areas where he has program can replicate. wonder what I could do to Network, a nonprofit organi- pounds of dehydrated foods, non-stop from start to finish, had the most recent direct Vignieri said the show help water, and I just felt re- zation that provides sustain- solar-powered navigators with members rotating for experience, he said. has inroads with faculty ally called to do (ocean row- from elite music programs able, safe drinking water to and water desalinators. brief breaks to eat and sleep For his April 2010 story people throughout the world. ing),” she said. “It’s not sensi- The 70-day, five-hour and in a following RV. In “Schools on the Jordan River, he such as the Juilliard Pre- ble, it’s not logical, but there’s College Division, the Music Spotz will share hair-rais- 22-minute row was the most for Water,” Spotz paired 10 traveled to the West Bank something in it for me. I didn’t Institute of Chicago, and the ing stories of sharks, fires and physically and mentally chal- schools in the U.S. with 10 and witnessed Palestinian, know what it was, but I knew Preparatory Division of the 20-foot waves from her jour- lenging journey of Spotz’s schools in Kenya to provide Israeli and Jordanian scien- San Francisco Conservatory ney, as well as her mission and that there was some reason I life, but it wasn’t her first safe drinking water for more tists working together as en- of Music. motivation behind the row, at had that gut intuitive feeling endurance challenge. Before than 10,000 children. vironmental stewards. the 2 p.m. Interfaith Lecture to- that this should happen.” Row for Water, Spotz ran 150 See NPR, Page 4 day in the Hall of Philosophy. Spotz first heard about miles solo across the Mojave See SPOTZ, Page 4 See belt, Page 4

Counselors Gardens, Kaufmans of Week landscaping help School of Captain Stern Three engage supervisor Music vocalists expertly steers Clubbers with to discuss through CSO through passion for ‘Keeping of the scholarship, waterborne music Grounds’ friendship outing Page 2 Page 3 Page 9 Page 13

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• CWC invites members to the Clubhouse from 2–5 p.m. today for an afternoon playing Mah Jongg. Players should bring a National Mah Jongg League 2012-13 card. Cards may be purchased at the Chautauqua Bookstore. Counselors of Week Three engage • CWC offers a Flea Boutique from 12–2 p.m. today behind the Colonnade. • CWC will hold its annual Life Member Luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at the Athenaeum Hotel. Life members must make reservations in advance through the Clubhouse or Clubbers with passion for music at 716-357-4961 with a $30 donation. CWC invites men and Gnra t E gle women to life membership. Staff Writer Men’s Club Speaker Series Music is everywhere at Subagh Singh Khalsa, a longtime advocate for better water Chautauqua. The Chau- management, will present “Water, a Very Personal Matter: tauqua Symphony Orches- Exploring and Preserving the Watershed” for the Men’s tra, the Chautauqua Opera T hey work very well Club speaker program at 9 a.m. today in the United Meth- Company and the School of together. This could odist House. Music are integral parts to be one of the best the Institution’s pursuit of Chautauqua accepts non-perishable food lifelong learning. duos we’ve had for Chautauquans can dispose of their sealed, non-perishable Keeping with that spirit of music in quite some foods, such as boxed and canned items, in the gold-papered music education, Boys’ and time here. Girls’ Club named its music carton on the floor inside the north entrance of the post of- — ec GrEG Pr htl counselors as the Week Three fice. The Mayville Food Pantry makes the food available Director, Boys’ and Girls’ Club Counselors of the Week. to needy individuals and families in the Chautauqua Lake Brittany Nichols and Central School District. For more information, contact Lou Genevieve Dougherty, both Wineman at 716-357-5015. native New Yorkers who Bird, Tree & Garden Club are at Chautauqua for the first time, said they were cades. He has served as the • Naturalist Jack Gulvin hosts a nature walk at 9 a.m. today thrilled to be recognized school’s director of athletics beginning under the green awning at the lake side (back) by the leadership at Club. since 1998. He hadn’t met of Smith Wilkes Hall. It is sponsored by the Bird, Tree & The two counselors came to the women before he inter- Garden Club. Chautauqua from the State viewed them for the coun- • The Bird, Tree & Garden Club’s life member luncheon University of New York selor positions, but he said is at 12:15 p.m. Aug. 3 in the Athenaeum Hotel. The Rev. Fredonia and have back- he was immediately im- Mary Lee Talbot will present “What I’ve Learned So Far,” grounds in education. pressed with both of their based on her research of 100 years of BTG history. Res- Dougherty, 23, of Ska- personalities. ervations must be prepaid by Saturday. Send a $30 check neateles, N.Y., said studying “The neat thing is that made out to Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden Club, PO education has been an advan- they both have different tal- Box 35, Chautauqua, NY, 14722, Attn: Sally McClure. tage for the music counselors. ents,” Prechtl said. “They “It gives us a better under- work very well together. This Friends of Chautauqua Theater Company standing of how to keep the could be one of the best duos children engaged and how we’ve had for music in quite Friends are invited to a reception honoring playwright Kate to teach while also making it some time here.” ADAM BIRKAN | Staff Photographer Fodor following Sunday’s 2:15 p.m. performance of Fifty fun,” Dougherty said. The counselors said their Ways at Bratton Theater. Memberships are available at the Nichols, 21, of Smithtown, passion for music and teach- M usic counselors Genevieve Dougherty (left) and Brittany door. N.Y., recently graduated from ing has guided them to cre- Nichols (right) are Week Three’s Counselors of the Week at Fredonia with a degree in Boys’ and Girls’ Club. Chautauqua Connections potluck ate lesson plans for Clubbers education. She said Club has that are informative and fun. been an invaluable experi- As far as coming to ors’ background in educa- out the storm, Nichols and The Chautauqua Connections will hold its Annual Potluck tion has made the transition Dougherty kept the group at 5 p.m. Sunday under the tent on Bestor Plaza. Sponsors ence for her blooming career. Chautauqua for the first “It’s really good practice easy for them. interested with songs, games should bring a dish for 12 people. Call Susan with ques- time, Nichols and Dough- for what we’ve learned in “I think learning about and stories. tions at 716-357-5799. erty said they have enjoyed school,” Nichols said. “It’s as their time at Club, and they Chautauqua and all of its Flanagan heard about the Competitive swim training close as we can get to a class- listed the weather, the ar- facets are more challenging counselors’ improvisation room without actually being chitecture and the people as than being a counselor for skills and took notice. Chautauqua Health & Fitness offers competitive swim in one right now.” their favorite aspects of the them,” Flanagan said. “Al- “I got rave reviews from training with Thomas J. Mann from 2:45–4:15 p.m. on Tues- Greg Prechtl, director of Institution. though Club is unique, once parents who were there that days and Thursdays through Aug. 9 at the Turner Commu- Club, has worked at Fredo- Jennifer Flanagan, the they went through orienta- saw Brittany and Gen keep nity Center. Competitive background required, ages 10 and nia for more than five de- director of programming tion, it’s a walk in the park the kids actively engaged up, including adult Masters. Fee is $80 for six weeks or $8 for Club, said the counsel- for them.” when they had no plan to per session. Flanagan said Nichols’ do that,” Flanagan said. “I and Dougherty’s perfor- thought it was great that they Shabbat dinner mance has stuck out to the were able to come up with a leadership at Club for a few plan at the spur of the mo- The Hebrew Congregation will sponsor a community weeks and naming the duo ment.” Shabbat dinner at 6:30 p.m. tonight in the community room as the Counselors of the With all of the music at of the Everett Jewish Life Center at Chautauqua, 36 Massey. Week was an easy decision. Chautauqua, Flanagan said Reservations are required. The cost is $30 for adults and $15 One of the first signs of the Nichols and Dougherty serve for children under 12. For reservations and information, music counselors’ creativity the vital role at the Institu- call Joan Spirtas at 716-357-3415. was on display in Week Two. tion of teaching children Nichols and Dougherty took about the benefits of music. Pre-opera events Group 2 boys to the steps of “They bridge the gap be- the Colonnade to sing for tween the music activities Next Friday and Monday, July 30, the Chautauqua Opera passing Chautauquans. A that the parents go to and the Guild offers two events before Chautauqua Opera Com- heavy rainstorm hit on the activities for the children at pany’s production of Manon Lescaut. At 5 p.m. in Norton way back to Club. Club,” Flanagan said. “Our Hall, the opera’s General and Artistic Director Jay Lesenger The counselors took the kids might not appreciate will give a talk — an Operalogue — on the production. At Clubbers into Smith Wilkes music like opera or the sym- 6 p.m., Intermezzo (restaurant on the lower level of the St. Hall to get out of the rain. phony if it wasn’t shown to Elmo) will host a dinner buffet for $25 per person. It is a While they were waiting them at Club.” pre-paid, reservation-only event with limited seating. Res- ervations will be taken through Thursday and can be made by calling 716-357-2058. From each reservation, $5 will go to the Opera Guild. Joe Rait Memorial Excursion to Jamestown

The Friends of Joe Rait will make a trip to Jamestown on Tuesday, meeting at the Tasty Acre parking lot at 4:30 p.m. The group will tour the Robert H. Jackson Center at 5 p.m., have a reception with hors d’oeuvres and drinks at 6 p.m., and watch and discuss excerpts from the film “City on Fire” with Willie Horton, ex-Detroit Tigers player, and other baseball personnel at 7 p.m. Call Mark Altschuler at 716-357-2239 by Monday to reserve a spot. A $10 donation is suggested. Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle alumni news

• The CLSC Class of 2006 will meet at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Alumni Hall Garden Room. Agenda includes prepar- ing for the July 27 tea, updates on 2011 and 2012 events and other business. • The Guild of Seven Seals will hold a Brown Bag meeting at 12:10 p.m. today in the Alumni Hall Kate Kimball Room. The Guild will discuss titles for its 2013 winter read and its 2012 winter read, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, along with individual book reviews presented by members. • Items that are part of the CLSC Alumni Association silent auction may be previewed and bid upon from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in the Alumni Hall Dining Room. The auction will conclude as part of the CLSC Great American Picnic held from 12–3 p.m. Sunday. Friday, July 20, 2012 The Chautauquan Daily Page 3 NEWS Gardens, landscaping supervisor Kiblin to discuss ‘Keeping the Grounds’ in lecture

Geor ge Cooper er. She studied film produc- Staff Writer tion at Jamestown Commu- nity College. And suddenly, Gardening is about plan- this is her 11th year in gar- ning and planting, bend- dens and landscaping. And ing and digging; it is about she seems quite happy. hands and knees getting Her office across from the dirty but also about exalt- Main Gate is small but cozy. ing the mind, about pre- Plants surround and deco- serving the past and pre- rate the large window facing paring for the future. east. The walls are an educa- Those and other things tional pastiche of bugs and are on the mind of Ryan Kib- plants, photos and articles lin, supervisor of gardens from a variety of sources — and landscaping at Chau- posters of some special spe- tauqua. And she will talk cies of fly, providing a visitor about them in her lecture much to learn. “Keeping the Grounds” at Jon Schmitz, Chautau- 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall qua archivist and historian, of Christ. said the grounds are crucial Her presentation is the to what is Chautauqua. GREG FUNKA | Staff Photographer second of three preserva- “They were deliberately As supervisor of gardens and lanscaping, Ryan Kiblin makes her office across the street from the Main Gate. tion talks given as part of designed so that people the Oliver Archives Heri- would have the chance to “You are preserving be no lectures. Tending to benches from the Amphi- to replace the old in main- tage Lecture Series. be in nature,” Schmitz said. things that are alive.” the trees and plants is tend- theater. She is mindful of taining the street canopy. Kiblin was born in Buf- “The very existence and feel Kiblin said that when ing to the past and the fu- how young trees do better The phone rings. Kiblin is falo, N.Y., and moved at a of the woods is essential to people arrive at Chautau- ture, she said. than old trees when there on a walkie-talkie. Though young age with her family Chautauqua.” qua it is, indeed, the trees Her job is extensive. It in- is construction around a tree grows slowly, Kiblin to Sherman, N.Y., in Chau- When it comes to nature, and plants that they first cludes making sure every- them. She preserves views moves quickly — working tauqua County. She knew preservation takes on a spe- see. She speculated that thing is watered daily. She and functionality. She has a as she does to “preserve the she didn’t want to be a farm- cial significance, he said. without them, there would has a hand in moving the hand in planting new trees ambience of Chautauqua.” For regret-free writer-in-residence, another shot at life

Jennifer Shore said. “I made this whole list Staff Writer and took about a year of my life to go back to those cross- Letters to the Editor Joe Kita didn’t make his roads to see as best I could Correspondence from our readers high school basketball team. what would have happened It’s like the Bruce Spring- if I made the other choice. Dear Editor: steen’s song “Glory Days” I learned a whole bunch of What was surprising — he carried around the lessons along the way.” was guys weren’t We waited for three hours to get our books signed by regret for 20 years, he said, That will be the topic of congratulating me. Dame Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton. This and then it was time to Kita’s, prose writer-in-resi- They weren’t saying, was the first time my 13-year-old niece had been interested mend what he lost. At age dence for Week Four, Brown ‘Hey, great job. Great in and excited about getting a book signed. We arrived ear- 40, with permission from Bag Lecture, “Have a Regret- story.’ They were ly and could see that we would have a long wait. An hour his editor at Men’s Health, Free Life,” at 12:15 p.m. today later, at the time the signing was to start, a bookstore staff saying, ‘I remember Kita found himself back in on Alumni Hall porch. this, and I wish I had member came by counting those in line. We were No. 188; a gym and trying not to be Another Shot landed him another shot at it.’ he informed people behind us that only 200 books would dropped from his team. on “Oprah,” which led to be signed. We had a number less than 200, so we stayed. After two weeks of try- a phone call from Crystal —JE O KITA My brother kept us company and my older niece brought outs, he made the cut, and af- Cruises and an invitation to Writer-in-residence us water. An hour later when we were finally in front of ter the story was published, give a lecture. He accepted the post office, a bookstore staff member came by writing he got hundreds of letters and went on a cruise or two our numbers on pieces of paper. Now, we were No. 208. We from all over the country. per year to speak to the rich laughed at me,” Kita said. thought, ‘Hell, if I turn this stayed in line, but they did indeed stop at 200. My niece was “What was surprising and successful vacationers. “They said, ‘They’re never down, I’m always going to so disappointed. was guys weren’t congratu- “They had so many fas- going to go for that idea.’ I’ve regret this,’ so I quit the I am not faulting the signers, who have every right to lating me,” Kita said. “They cinating stories. I thought, never let them forget that job,” Kita said. decide how many books they will sign. I am not faulting weren’t saying, ‘Hey, great ‘People would probably like they did go for the idea. They Six years ago, he and the bookstore staff, who tried to keep the people in line in- job. Great story.’ They were to write their memoir, their thought it was fantastic.” his wife took their first formed. My question is, how did we begin at No. 188 and saying, ‘I remember this, life story,’ ” Kita said. “They Suddenly, Kita was at a trip around the world. end at No. 208? Clearly, 20 people got in line ahead of us and I wish I had another had so much money that crossroads. He had two kids She teaches yoga while he between 1:35 and 3 p.m. shot at it.’ ” leaving a legacy of money in college and a six-figure teaches memoir writing, We are trying to teach the girls about the responsibili- A light bulb went off, and didn’t really mean much to salary at a company he loved. and although they struggle ties of shared space at Chautauqua: quiet after 11 p.m., fol- Kita wrote Another Shot: How them, but leaving a legacy He asked the company if he to make ends meet, Kita low the bike and traffic rules, if you want a good seat in I Relived My Life in Less Than of their life experiences and could have the months off said he wouldn’t have it any the Amphitheater go early and wait. There was consider- a Year, in which he faced his what they had learned, that to go around the world, but other way. able discussion earlier this season about saving seats in the 20 biggest regrets — includ- was, my sense, even more as a vice president of inter- “I love writing, and I Amp. It seems to me that saving places in line is like saving ing asking out a crush, miss- valuable to them.” national editorial develop- would probably do it for seats. The 20 people who got in line after the signing began ing his sexual peak and nev- He proposed the idea to ment, they simply couldn’t free even if it wasn’t my deprived my niece and a little boy behind us of a memo- er learning how to surf. teach a memoir class on a leave his position vacant for career,” he said. “I never rable experience for which they waited three hours without “I was kind of having a four-month world cruise. so much time. had any doubt as to what I leaving the line. mid-life crisis I guess,” Kita “My wife and kids “It was risky, but I wanted to be.” I encourage people to model what it means to be respect- ful of others in a shared space, including not saving places in line. I also suggest that the bookstore find a better system for ensuring that the first 200 people who get in line and stay in line get their books signed. Shari Castle 10 Bliss Page 4 The Chautauquan Daily Friday, July 20, 2012 from page one

npr being well-versed in all types ‘fifty ways’ contribute,’ ” Tobin said. “It’s “It’s incredibly exhilarat- tumultuous, and no one re- FROM PAGE 1 of music lets him connect FROM PAGE 1 when you see your parents ing, and exciting and nour- ally warned me. It was sort of with the young musicians he as mortal human beings who ishing to be around the con- five years of existential crisis. I works with on the show. are fallible … and that’s hard servatory members,” Tobin didn’t know what I was doing He pointed out that The play’s primary couple “The vast majority of to do in life.” said. “We’re all in the same gi- … or what I should be doing.” those connections bring the Nina and Adam—played by these kids are as well- Though Grant is a teenager gantic boat: actors-in-training A Yale undergraduate, she best and brightest musi- Benesch and Gaston—have versed in the latest indie and Tobin is entering his third about to enter the business.” took years in the middle of cians to the radio program been married for many years, rock as they are classical year of graduate school at the her education to travel the and corresponding Emmy but the depth and breadth of Leah Anderson — Zoe music,” Vignieri said. “It’s University of North Carolina world and tried to find what Award-winning television their love is called into question just a part of their culture. at Chapel Hill, the two share a makes her most happy. Right show on PBS. as forces threaten their union. One of We’re finding that more closeness to their father. now, it’s theater. “ ‘From the Top’ is in a The precarious position of Tobin’s fel- and more musicians have “What jumped off the “In theater, what’s impor- unique position, because the duo is relatable and star- low actors- the ability to speak differ- page is this could have been tant is the communal sense we’re the only organiza- tlingly humorous. Though in-training ent musical languages.” me at 15 … it’s been a fun of empathy,” Anderson said. tion of its kind that sees the play deals with mature is Anderson, The mission of “From lean back into my adolescent “Life is hard, but it’s hard for all of these kids,” Vignieri themes, it is peppered with who attends the Top” is to celebrate the days,” Tobin said. everyone. In some ways that’s said. “It’s a rare and unique the comedy and wit that de- g r a d u a t e passion, dedication and per- What separates Tobin from horrifying, and in some ways opportunity to catch a rives from average people school at anderson sonal stories of the nation’s Grant is Grant is called to make very comforting.” glimpse of the future of dealing with life. the Brown outstanding young classical tough, mature choices to con- Anderson, a self-described classical music through the Two interlopers for the cou- tribute to his turbulent family University/Trinity Repertory musicians through the radio introvert, first found herself lens of this program.” ple are Grant, their 15-year-old dynamic on stage. Much time Company consortium. Acting and television programs, in theater when she lived in O’Riley has hosted son, and Zoe, Nina’s 20-some- has gone into exploring Grant’s in new work is one of her favor- events and tours. California and needed an eve- “From the Top” for more thing common-law stepsister. tumble into adulthood. ite facets of theater. Vignieri said young mu- ning activity. It allowed her to than a decade. During that CTC conservatory students Tobin also took a tumble “You have a lot of creative sicians at Chautauqua and break out of her shell and give time, the Chicago native portray both characters. — into the arts, as theater input when you are creating around the country have her whole body to a work. has recorded six albums, a tough road ahead if they became a reoccurring outlet a character for the first time,” Josh Tobin — Grant Her love of learning draws including two tribute al- plan to become profession- throughout his childhood, Anderson said. “And there is her to Fodor’s work, which is bums to the alternative al musicians, but he point- Audience adolescence and college life. such a sense of collaboration, incredibly rhythmic. rock band Radiohead. ed out that music has many members “In fifth grade, I was in because nobody really knows “What draws me to it most Vignieri said O’Riley has benefits outside of earning may recog- Comedy of Errors. I got to carry what is going to happen. And is the poetry of the play,” An- a wide variety of musical a living. nize Tobin a sword, and it was the most nobody knows what we are derson said. “It’s important tastes, and he cited a quote “It’s such a healthy pur- from last thrilling experience of my life going to create together.” to have work that stretches by legendary jazz musician suit,” Vignieri said. “It year’s CTC up to that point,” he said. Anderson, like Tobin, con- conservato- Tobin’s penchant for the- nects with her character, Zoe, the bounds of how we exist Duke Ellington. teaches kids so many strong tobin “There are two kinds of fundamental tools in how ry crew. He ater moved beyond carrying a violinist and recent Juil- in the normal world.” music: good music and the to navigate life. It’s a kind played Cos- a fake weapon on stage, and liard graduate in her mid- Tonight’s play takes top- other kind,” he said. of discipline that can be ap- tard in Love’s Labour’s Lost though he tried other majors 20s. Though Anderson is in ics many people know well Vignieri also said O’Riley plied to anything.” and performed in the Late — in history and psychology her late 20s, she relates to the — relationships, love, mar- Night Mask Project. — during his undergraduate emotional rollercoaster that riage — and explores what Tonight, he takes on the career at Davidson College, decade has brought to both it means to be inextricably new challenge of breathing he wound up back in theater. of their lives. bound to others. Due to the live taping of the “From the Top” dress rehearsal life into 15-year-old Grant. Storytelling draws Tobin “She is in this part of her And perhaps audience 5-7 p.m. today in the Amphitheater and the public members will probe the deep- performance/taping 8:15-10:15 p.m. today, the Miller Bell “Fifteen is your transition to the arts, and the chance to life where she can do any- Tower chime schedule has been modified. from the point where every- work with talented peers at thing she wants to and it’s so er questions of what it means one helps you to actually CTC drew him to Chautau- overwhelming,” Anderson just to drop off the key, Lee, Today’s Chime Schedule saying, ‘Wait a minute, I can qua for the second time. said. “My 20s were incredibly and get yourself free.

4:45 p.m. After the strike, the clock chime will shut off belt touched or moved by peo- of those he met along the The second, called “Fault 6 p.m. No chime concert FROM PAGE 1 ple who are dealing with way, he trained himself to Lines and Field Notes: Cover- extremes of one kind or an- be a journalist and based the National Geo- 10:30 p.m. Clock strike is turned back on ing Pakistan for other,” Belt said. “The bot- first story he wrote for Na- graphic,” will be at 12:30 p.m. For his May 2011 story tom line is I enjoy people tional Geographic on one of on Bangladesh, he lived Tuesday in Hurlbut Sanctu- and getting to know people. I the rivers he knew best: the ary. It will also cost $50. with those who have dealt enjoy spending time and get- Chattooga River, which runs For today’s talk, Belt said with frightening floods and ting to see the world through through his home state. damaging droughts due to the eyes of the people I cover. Though water issues have he hopes to simplify larger climate change and the di- And then trying to convey served as a thread through water issues, put a face on the version of the Ganges and what makes them heroic or many stories for the magazine, problems and discuss real, Brahmaputra rivers. It is esti- noble or admirable to the it was just a happy accident, plausible solutions. mated that a good portion of readers of National Geographic he said. It was merely a topic “As the effects of climate the already over-populated who are all over the world.” of interest that wove its way change are even more pro- land will be submerged in The South Carolina native into the complex strands of his found and conflicts over water due to those two fac- was inspired by years spent many works, and serves as the water become even more tors, he wrote. traversing the rivers of the tie to his trip to Chautauqua. acute, there’s going to be a For his upcoming story on state with his soccer pals as Besides today’s lecture, need to ramp up the system The Chautauquan Daily Iraq, Belt spent several weeks a young man and by a trip to Belt will also teach two Spe- of international law to deal Celebrating 136 Years of Continuous Publication living with the Marsh Arabs, Mexico and Central America cial Studies classes on re- www.chqdaily.com with these things,” he said. whose efforts to reconstruct while studying at the Univer- porting during his week on “If there is no way to resolve Editorial Staff their marshes, drained by sity of South Carolina. the grounds. Saddam Hussein until 2003, “That’s been the great One, called “Wet Boots, them through law, then the Matt Ewalt Editor prospect begins to grow that Jordan Steves Managing Editor have been thwarted by Tur- blessing of my work,” he Dry Notebook,” will pres- Jen Bentley Office Manager key’s diversion of the head- said. “It’s been a rich life. I’m ent his experience reporting there will actually be armed Ian Carlino Copy Editor waters of the Tigris and Eu- wealthy in friends around for National Geographic and conflict over water, which we Rebecca Myers Copy Editor phrates rivers. the world, because of this.” will be at 3:30 p.m. today in haven’t really seen much in Rabab Al-Sharif Dance, Institution administration, board of trustees, property owners association “I have always been Motivated by the stories Hultquist 101. It will cost $50. the course of human history.” Kelsey Burritt Symphony, Logan Chamber Music Series, College Club Jessie Cadle Theater, Family Entertainment Series spotz is easy to be unaware of the drinking water for life.” George Cooper Archives FROM PAGE 1 problem while living in the Mary Desmond Religion: Interfaith Lectures, Mystic Heart, For Spotz, water is life. Abrahamic Program for Young Adults U.S., Spotz said, but it is also She doesn’t know how long 2012 Ernest Cawcroft Journalism Fellow easy to help. she will do endurance chal- Grant Engle “I saw how kids wouldn’t go It’s not sensible, it’s Recreation, Sports Club, “I don’t want to say that lenges, but she said water is a Boys’ and Girls’ Club to school, because they’d have everyone should care about not logical, but there’s Yemi Falodun School of Music, CLSC Young Readers lifelong passion. to walk four miles to get wa- water, but everyone should something in it for me. 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Leah Harrison and auditions start right after the background. I might They’re not as experienced, heads in the sand, because Staff Writer Thanksgiving. So we do two hire them for a role they’ve they’re cast in supporting nobody’s going to hire you if weeks of auditions. Then, for never done before, which is roles while covering leading you can’t perform. And in an The 26 young singers fill- every slot we fill, there’s usu- actually something I like to roles, so that’s a chance to audition, I want to know they ing the stage during Chau- ally a back up, because some- do. This is a great place for do something smaller and can do that, not just stand tauqua Opera Company pro- times we’ll call somebody somebody to try something learn how to get up there there in the room. Broadway ductions were once part of a and they’ve gotten an offer out. And also, our pay scale and do it. auditions are completely dif- pool of 800. from another company, and is not high. We’re not a high- ferent. They’re rolling on Months of work from they have to decide whether budget company, but we get What qualities do you want in the floor, jumping on the General and Artistic Direc- to take another offer or our good people because this is a those supporting roles? piano and swinging from the tor Jay Lesenger and Music offer. And we ended up with chance for them to try some- Well, first and foremost, ev- lights. They’ll do anything in Administrator Carol Rausch 26 Young Artists and 26 back- thing here before they try it erybody must have a good an audition to make sure you precede what the Chautau- ups. Or something like that. someplace else. For exam- voice. I’m looking for people notice them. Singers are not qua Opera Young Artists do ple, this was Rachelle (Dur- who sing well, but also have given that freedom, unfor- The Chau- What do singers bring to the kin’s) first Lucia. Hopefully, to stage operas. distinctive voices that make tunately. There’s a more con- LESEnger audition? she will do many of them tauquan Daily sat down with them unique. Unlike a lot of stricting set of rules, but I tell from now on. So that’s part Lesenger to discuss opera We have them bring three directors, appearance is im- them to break those rules all a certain amount, schedule a of it. There aren’t too many auditions, modern expec- arias, one in the original lan- portant to me, but that’s not the time. I want them to get certain amount. We usually times that I’ve had someone tations for singers and the guage, one in English, and overriding. I want voices. I up and let me know that not schedule about 500 people. here who hasn’t succeeded, casting process. a musical theater piece. But want people who can sing only can they sing well, but Then Carol (Rausch, chorus but it has happened. Every any smart singer will come and can be heard. If I’m cast- if I put you in front of 1,300 master and music admin- once in a while, somebody How do you get from 700 or 800 with a longer list than that. ing somebody for the Am- people in Norton Hall, that istrator) and I meet in New comes up, and for whatever applications to the group that’s Any singer who walks in phitheater, I have to know there’s going to be more go- York for 10 days of auditions, reason, they can’t handle here — 26 Young Artists? an audition without five to they can fill that space. I want ing on. and with cancellations, we what they’ve been asked seven arias in contrasting people who have sung at the With the Young Artists, hear about 450. At the end of to do, or they really aren’t languages and styles they’re Met and the largest houses, Tell me about the process of people submit résumés, CDs each day, we go through the prepared. Things happen; ready to sing is crazy. Inevi- because I know they can fill matching singers with each and DVDs to us with an on- people we heard, and we di- it’s the nature of the busi- tably, somebody will bring large spaces. But I want peo- other. line application. This is what vide them into people we’re ness. But a large percentage something that I kind of ple who can sing really, really almost all companies do. interested in and those we’re of the people come ready to In Lucia, I didn’t cast the don’t want to hear — maybe I well and who can act — who We get between 7- and 800 do the work they’ve been other roles until I had Rach- not, and then we break those already heard that same aria will be convincing in the role hundred applications, and hired to do. If I didn’t think elle (Durkin). And that hap- down by voice type. By the the year before, and I’ll say, they’re playing. if anyone has auditioned for they could sing the role, I pened relatively late be- end, there are usually about “What else have you brought? us in the past, there’s usually wouldn’t bring them. And cause of my schedule and 60 or 70 that make it into the Let’s talk about that.” With For young artists, is acting sec- a record of reaction to them. that’s my background. I her schedule. So I didn’t pile for consideration. I have some people, I only hear one ondary to singing in their edu- Basically, if I liked someone, have to know whether or not make a commitment — I a chart with the roles avail- piece, if I’ve heard all I need cation? or if they were wait-listed they’re the right person for had people on hold — but I able for the Young Artists, to hear. Or one and part of the year before, or we liked that role. I’ve surprised a few Really it depends on the in- didn’t make a commitment and we start looking at peo- another aria. Or one aria and them but didn’t have a place people by asking them to stitution, on where they’re with other roles until I was ple who would be appropri- then a musical theater piece. for them, they are automati- ate for those roles. It’s a long, do things that other people going. I think most gradu- sure that Rachelle could do cally rescheduled. For sing- haven’t asked them to do yet. ate schools now have some it. And that’s instinct; it’s tedious process. What are you looking for in a ers I’ve never heard before, And I think it’s worked out, emphasis on acting — one having been around voices singer, and how do you have I go through those CDs and it has given them a chance to would hope — some more for a very long time — hav- When does all that start? confidence that they’ll work out résumés — actually, some of stretch themselves. With the than others, and some more ing a sense of who’s going when they get here? the staff helps me now be- Applications start coming in, Young Artists, it’s a training intensive than others, but if to sound good together. It’s cause there are so many — in late September. Schedul- I’m not hiring people for program. That’s why they’re institutions are not dealing instinct and 35 years of ex- and out of those, eliminate ing starts about a month later, major roles who don’t have here — they’re here to learn. with it, then they’ve got their perience. ‘Madness’ creators to reveal how they lampoon world of fine art

Joanna Hamer over. I left there afire.” that was funny and could would hold a camera or do sculpture, woodcuts and ce- low that.” Staff Writer After moving to New be a scene. We never run out a scene,” Hewitt said. “I re- ramics. He has taught sculp- With episode titles like York to try comedy, of material, that’s for sure,” alized that he was really ture at the School of Art for “YOKO (OH NO)” and A n artist, a gallery owner Kempner spent his days vis- he said. onto something. It was very many years, and this is the “Where’s The Art?,” “The and a fine art dealer all star iting art galleries, and en- “The Madness of Art” is funny, and original and very second summer Hewitt and Madness of Art” brings its in “The Madness of Art,” a tered the art world through now at the end of its third unusual, because the art Kempner will talk about viewers a slice of the eccen- web series that puts the fun an encounter that sounds season and has been praised scene does not make fun of their show. back into fine art. tricity and hilarity of the art like a comedy sketch. by ARTnews and The Huff- itself.” Hewitt often uses video to At 6:30 p.m. today in the world, while featuring the “This art gallery was ington Post, among others. Yet that is exactly what the translate his studio experi- Hall of Christ, creator Jim work of great artists. having a sale, these George The episodes feature real show does — it highlights ence to an Internet audience. Kempner and producer “We make fun of the art Siegel sculptures. They people in the real art world, the bizarreness, uniqueness “I think it’s an interesting Charlie Hewitt will show were beautiful, and I knew including Robert Indiana, and esoteric nature of the art world, we make fun of some way to be biographical in the episodes of “The Madness of they were valuable, and who in the first season world in a way only true art of the art world egos, but we moment, to have somebody Art” and share behind-the- they were 50 percent off,” deems a piece of his own lovers could do. love fine art, we love the art shoot you as you’re speaking scenes stories. he said. “I said to the young art in Kempner’s gallery as Hewitt and Kempner be- about your life, or process,” world,” Kempner said. The show was created kid working there, ‘What if a fake. That scene happened gan to exchange ideas and “There is all this anxiety, 10 years after art dealer he said. “I enjoy talking you’re a dealer?’ He said, when Indiana actually did started making episodes all this frustration, all the Kempner opened his Chel- ‘You get an extra 50 percent walk into Jim Kempner Fine with very little training. about my processes in a vid- insecurities of being an art- sea gallery in New York off,’ so I said, ‘I’m a dealer.’ ” Art one day and became “We didn’t go to film eo format — it’s a little like a ist, and an art dealer,” Hewitt City. Before entering the art When Kempner be- caught up in the filming school, we didn’t have a very sketchbook, in a movie way. world, Kempner had been a gan working full-time, he process. good camera, we didn’t ask “Oftentimes, as a visual said. “We’re working to de- stand-up comedian work- stopped performing com- Another artist on the anybody for permission to do person, I see my studio as fuse all the anxiety of the art ing in California. One day, edy. show is its producer, Char- it,” Hewitt said. animated. When you do a world. It’s a lot of fun, and he wanted to buy a print for “But I still had that urge lie Hewitt, whose work is The authenticity and video, you can actually fol- that’s why we do it.” his room, so he contacted a in me to ham,” he said. featured in the gallery and uniqueness of the show dealer. So two years ago, he got who is represented by Jim made it immediately popular “I knew nothing about out a camera and started Kempner. Hewitt said he re- on the Internet, and the semi- art,” said Kempner. “He filming what happened in turns the favor by helping mockumentary style of film- spent an hour with me, his gallery, Jim Kempner produce “The Madness of ing and acting make viewers showing me what a litho- Fine Art. The material for Art.” invested in the characters, graph was, an etching, a silk- the show needed almost no “I came in one day, and Hewitt said. screen. He talked about the scripting. he had been filming some Hewitt is a multimedia history of printmaking, and “Everyday something scenes on his own, using his artist who works in draw- I was overwhelmed, bowled would happen in the gallery assistant and anyone who ing, painting, printmaking,

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want to take an informal survey this morning. How set out four basins and four jugs. They included a copper many of you have every been to a foot washing pot, a pasta plate and a glass bowl. service? “If it had been me, I would have gone to Target and gotten “I“About 50 percent. four identical sets, but Liz knew that old things would make “Now how many of you go to a church that routinely has a it more welcoming, like home, and it might catch on in their foot washing service during Lent or Easter or some other time? houses,” Taylor said. “Again about 50 percent. They had planned a long introduction with scripture, “Now, how many of you are offered a foot washing ser- Morning Worship and prayer and plenty of instructions. Then Liz changed vice as routinely as communion? her mind and said that everything was ready and there was “Zero. Why is that? This is a memorable story. Jesus Column by MARY LEE TALBOT no wrong way to do it — they could only get it right. And commands us to do it for one another. If we only had John’s slowly, the class did come together and washed feet and gospel, we would not have communion every Sunday, but nities that put a high value on social respectability. anointed hands with no words. foot washing. At Chautauqua, we would not have an annual “You will notice that the amount of water we are talking There was one couple that had been fighting, quietly, communion service, but an annual foot-washing service. It is about is getting smaller. Today we are talking about a basin. all week. The woman went first and took off her husband’s a neglected sacrament that failed to capture the imagination Most people are interested in the water for its theological shoes, “like he was one of their children,” and put his foot of the church in the Middle Ages and is still ignored today,” meaning, but I am interested in its wetness,” she said. in the basin. She did it with such tenderness that he leaned said the Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor. “Have you noticed that bathing makes you a new person? over her and cried. She started crying too, and Taylor said, Taylor spoke at Thursday’s 9:15 a.m. Devotional Hour. Her You can be a cactus of a person, snarling at kids on the red “That was the first time I ever experienced bathing some- topic was “Bathing Deep,” and her text was John 13:1-9. She brick road, and you get into the shower and it dissolves the one’s feet with tears.” described a class she taught with a Presbyterian minister thorns. You are as happy as a seal or at least human again. It The husband took off all the wife’s rings and kneaded her named Liz. They were teaching about how faith is learned is the end of the work day or the beginning of the weekend,” hands. He put her hands on his wet cheeks and held them by what we do with our bodies. she continued. with his hands. Then he reached for her wedding ring and “We talked about the usual rituals of baptism, talked “When we bathe, there is a moment of tender vulner- put it back on her hand. about communion, talked about pilgrimages,” Taylor said. ability and we recall the deep memory of where we came “There was rejoicing in heaven at the miracle that had “We thought we would wrap up the week by doing a word- from. In the womb, we were breathing water,” she said. Fluid taken place,” Taylor said. “And all it took was some people, less foot washing — the act itself would teach us about our increases in a woman’s body during pregnancy, and when some bowls and some water. The ‘hollow shell’ person left bodies and faith. ‘the water breaks,’ new life is on the way. and said, ‘Wow! I can’t believe what I said about rituals.’” “I suggested that we surprise them just like Jesus did the “To bathe a child for the first time is as sacred as any Taylor continued, “I don’t know if Jesus meant to invent a disciples — no advance notice so they would not have time baptism. It is the sixth day of creation all over. And bathing ritual, but he did show the disciples how to get close to him. to trim their toenails or were forewarned not to wear panty- someone at the other end of life begins timidly. It is an inti- He set an example, and we don’t have to understand it to do hose. Liz wisely pointed out that neither of us was Jesus, nor macy with no training, but it becomes just a bath, and we are it. In that basin, you can hear the wind of God over the face was this a common ritual in our world. She suggested that just as familiar with that body as our own,” she said. of the waters. That is how it begins again: wherever two or we offer the anointing of hands for those not wanting their Taylor noted that in the Bible, a bath has no fixed mean- three are gathered together, willing to get wet.” feet washed, and for those who did not want to be touched ing. People bathe to be cleansed from dirt and sin, to become The Rev. George Wirth presided. Alison Marthinson read at all, just stay in the room. That was the bottom line — just more attractive. They bathe in water, blood, milk, dew, rivers the scripture. Marthinson is a longtime, sixth-generation stay in the room.” and tubs. Chautauquan. She sings in the Chautauqua Choir and is a The class revolted. They told their teachers they had “Water is not domesticated even in a small basin. It is a Chautauqua Fund volunteer. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, and hoped to end the class with more discussion of the stimulat- living link to the waters of creation.” has three sons. The Alison and Craig Marthinson Endowment ing questions they had explored, more history and theology. Taylor returned to the story of her rebellious class. for the Department of Religion and the Randell-Hall Memorial ‘They wanted to stay in their heads,” Taylor said. “One “We got the Christians to agree to stay. Most were clergy Chaplaincy provide support for this week’s services. person said that rituals were hollow shells and she wanted who wanted to set a good example. Some were eldest chil- The Motet Consort, consisting of Rebecca Scarnati, oboe; a ritual-free approach to God. I thought she was either a dren, as well as clergy, and they stayed because they would Debbie Grohman, clarinet; and Willie LaFavor, piano, played happy Quaker or a mad Catholic.” do it whether or not they liked it.” two duets with piano by Brahms. The Motet Choir, under Taylor quoted Tom Driver, who taught theology for many They set up the room like a spa with the communion table the direction of Jared Jacobsen, organist and worship and years at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He in the center of a circle of chairs. There were candles on the sacred music coordinator, sang “The Beatitudes” with text by said that spirit-filled acts fall on hard times in faith commu- table, and bottles of scented oil and piles of clean towels. Liz Marilyn Biery and music by James Biery. Taylor at Vespers: How to make fused glass or a life of faith The following is an excerpt from college, to the committee that Sunday’s 5 p.m. Vespers with gave me a scholarship to go the Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor. to seminary, to the seminary It was procured by Mary Lee admissions committee, to Talbot. several ordination commit- Each week, the Department tees. I have been to Chautau- of Religion at Chautauqua in- qua five times. The trouble vites the chaplain of the week with putting these stories in to share his or her faith jour- print is that you have to tell ney. When someone asks you them the same way twice. to tell the story of your life, People will notice if you where do you begin? Do you change details. begin at the very beginning, “Do I start when I was 7 “I was born in a log cabin…?” years old and was attending Or maybe, “I never knew I a clapboard church in Co- was really alive until…” The lumbus, Ohio, the day the Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor preacher talked to me in a reflected on how to talk about real voice that said ‘Hello, old her faith journey at the 5 p.m. soul, what is your name this Vespers on Sunday. Her title time around?’ was “My Life So Far.” “Or when I was 12 and She admitted that she did all hell broke loose because not like to use the word “I” James Meredith wanted to in sermons, as if her stories take college classes? My were better than her listen- friend’s father was an Epis- ADAM BIRKAN | Staff Photographer ers. But her second reason copal priest, whatever that The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor speaks during Vespers Sunday in the Hall of Philosophy. was even more compelling. was, who would be there on “The trouble with telling the first day and greet the and God on the other. They Williams — and he practiced er person’s art. My sister came you about my faith journey crowds who came. drew a cross-shaped bridge, drinking George Dickel neat. for a visit last week and paid Motor Vehicles is that I have told it a lot of “Or when I was 19 and the and I got on my knees to invite “I have a new hobby — I am me for four pieces from the times by now,” Taylor said. “I Navigators came to my dorm Christ into my life. I thought spending way too much mon- flop tray. Some of the ones on Chautauqua is a walking told it at my baptism at age room? They drew a picture of it was the fastest way to get ey on colored glass that you the success tray, she told me I community, and driving 16, to lots of boyfriends in a chasm with me on one side on with my afternoon, and cook in a kiln, and it fuses into should keep trying. I will keep is limited to travel to what could it hurt? As I was festive plates. They never turn practicing and won’t worry so and from the gate and walking over to the library, out the way I planned, and much. I put the best pieces of designated parking I noticed my face was burn- that is why I like it. My one glass in the most pleasing or- spaces. To make the ing and my feet did not touch consolation was putting yel- der, but they are only broken grounds safer and the ground. Jesus, apparently, low frit on a black opal back- pieces. I take a full sheet and more enjoyable for hadn’t known I was bluffing. ground, and it came out look- score it and break it apart. That pedestrians, there are “Or the time on the New ing like stars on the night sky. is how you make fused glass certain restrictions on the Haven fire escape when I “Once I close the kiln, my or a life of faith. use of motor vehicles. knew God was present? Or part is over. It is the heat’s “In my life so far, I make The speed limit for motor the year I spent with an Epis- turn. It is doing things in the the best designs and then en- vehicles is 12 mph. copal priest in preparation? dark that I could dream of in trust them to the dark. Like Parking permits must be I read the novels of Charles the light. Sometimes it looks many of you, when I talk to displayed and vehicles like a cow pie. The heat has God, all I hear is an echo. I must be parked only in turned straight lines into an am still here with the pieces, designated locations. arch, or color stripes into a and I make something useful Motorcycles are not rainbow. But that is the way it out of them. Then I hold them permitted on the grounds goes; it is an art, not a science. out to you and ask if you see during the season. “One person’s flop is anoth- me like I see you.” Friday, July 20, 2012 The Chautauquan Daily Page 7 lecture Skerry: Photography sheds light on plight of marine animals

Laurence Léveillé in places that used to have feared, he said. Staff Writer many, and he read a report Skerry has also worked that stated 90 percent of on several stories about en- When a harp seal swims predators have disappeared dangered species, including for the first time, the air in the past 50 years, he said. hammerhead sharks, whose trapped in its fur coat causes The story had several population has declined it to bob in the water. A angles. Skerry wanted to ap- by 89 percent in the past 20 mother watches proudly proach it like war photogra- years, he said. It is unknown from behind. phy; he wanted to show read- where they migrate or where Before it can learn to swim, ers what was happening to they mate. the harp seal nurses for 14 marine life worldwide. But he “We’re losing them faster days atop the ice at the Gulf also wanted to show what he than we’re saving them,” he of Saint Lawrence, where calls “marine appreciation.” said. “This is, again, part of harp seals migrate for a few Though many people what we’re trying to do with weeks each year in February know what they eat when photography, is to give some and March. they order chicken or steak sense of what these animals But two problems face the at a restaurant, Skerry said, are and why they need to be seals. Hundreds of baby harp he wonders if people realize learned about.” seals are killed each year to what they are eating when The leatherback sea tur- make mittens, hats and coats. they order fish. tle’s lineage dates back about And the ice that remains in “These are animals that 100 million years, making the location is thin, which have no terrestrial counter- the turtles older than dino- means seals can fall through part,” he said. “There’s noth- saurs, Skerry said. But the before they are ready to swim. ing like them on the planet.” leatherbacks are also on the Photojournalist Brian If humans did not catch verge of extinction. Skerry’s story on harp seals so many fish, such as bluefin Hunters have also driven Lauren Rock | Staff Photographer was one of his first cover sto- tuna, the tuna would have both southern and northern ries focused on environmen- Photojournalist Brian Skerry speaks in front a slideshow of his photos Thursday morning in the time to live to be 30 years Atlantic right whales close tal issues for National Geo- Amphitheater. Skerry spends much of his time underwater, photographing ocean life and reporting the old. The case is similar for to extinction. Southern right graphic magazine, published good and bad of what is happening below the surface. other fish. whales have been able to in 2004. During Thursday’s “These are animals that rebound, because they live morning lecture in the Am- would not be allowed to fish, pogenic stresses, because of under proposal, and we’ll see were revered by cavemen. farther from human indus- phitheater, he took the audi- Skerry said. The area used humans — a turtle with plastic what happens. There’s one in They were painted on cave trialization, Skerry said. But around its head or mono- ence through his personal to see 3,000 people, but now the Sargasso Sea near Bermu- walls, and philosophers like only 400 north Atlantic right filament or a hook in its mouth da that’s being looked at right journey as a photographer. 300,000 people visit per year. Plato wrote about them,” he whales remain, because they — if I can help it, if it’s being now, and some other places. I Skerry shared two pho- People need a connection said. “And today, they’re on live just miles off the East impeded, I will try to interfere think that going down that road tos from when he worked on with nature, Skerry said, and the verge of extinction be- Coast. They must deal with there. But journalistically, I have is probably more likely. the harp seal story. One was that message is clear. cause of this lust for sushi.” pollution, becoming entan- to walk a careful line, because of a hunter dragging a seal “Nature is resilient and Don’t be modest. How One of Skerry’s photos gled in fishing gear and get- we can’t interfere with nature, carcass to land. In another, a tolerant to a point,” he said, has your work in photog- and I can’t just swim into every Q seal five or six days old had showed several bluefish ting struck by ships. raphy had a direct impact on “but we must listen. We must fisherman’s net, either, and cut carcasses stacked up at the But despite the many sto- preserving our oceans? fallen through thin ice, and see, and we must act.” them out. I have to be a journal- its mother was frantically Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. ries about the environmen- While he was wandering the tal problems of the ocean, ist. There is a delicate balance, It’s hard to measure some pushing it up for air. Though of these things. Some market, Skerry said, it oc- there is a silver lining. After so that’s where I draw the line. A the seal survived, many oth- examples would be that with curred to him the ocean is Skerry’s global fish crisis If you could correct one ers do not. right whales, there had been not a grocery store. story was published in 2007, misconception about the The story inspired Skerry to Q legislation sort of languishing For the story, he also want- he worked on one about the ocean, what would it be? work on more stories focused in the United States Congress ed to look into fish harvest- value of marine reserves. on environmental issues in If I could correct one that wasn’t going anywhere. the ocean, he said. He has ex- ing methods and the shark During a trip to New Zea- misconception about the After the right whales story Editor’s note: This Q&A has been A plored many places around fishing industry, which kills land, Skerry met with Bill ocean, it would be that it is came out, Congress moved edited for clarity and length. the world to photograph a va- about 100,000 sharks per year. Ballantine, a scientist who not vast and limitless. I think, to pass protection for right riety of marine wildlife. Skerry said he was not convinced the New Zealand in times past, that might have whales in critical habitats. In sure if people had a grasp government to create a ma- What are photographic As a photographer, Skerry Q ethics? You mentioned been the case to our ances- places where mothers and has learned that the best way on how fish are harvested. rine protected area around tors, but today, we know that calves hang out, like off of One common method is bot- Goat Island in 1972. you can’t get too close. I for him to solve the puzzles don’t know how much you the oceans are far from limit- Florida, ships have to slow tom trawling, or dragging Ballantine told Skerry he of the ocean is by spending can enhance. less and full of bounty. Fishing their speeds coming through time underwater. Focusing a net along the ocean floor. expected fish on the verge technology has gotten so great there so there’s not as many on behaviors is an important It catches both the intended of extinction to return. But I think we’re talking about that the fish honestly don’t ship strikes occurring in those aspect of storytelling, but species and anything in the there were also unexpected A the post-production aspect, have a chance. They’re using places. I can’t take credit for taking visually compelling net’s path, he said. In Mexico, results. New Zealand snap- because with digital photog- NASA satellites to look at the that; it’s really the work of the photos to attract readers is a bottom trawl was used to pers, which ate sea urchins, raphy today, there can be a lot temperature variations in the scientists. The scientists say also important. catch shrimp. Skerry took a were extinct. That let sea ur- of manipulation. I can tell you ocean, and they know that the that the article helped move “I need to understand the photo of fishermen throwing chins eat all the kelp around that National Geographic is best fishing is going to hap- that legislation along. George science,” he said, “but what I the other dead animals back them. When the area became extremely pure about that. They pen on the edge of cold and W. Bush enacted some of these really want to capture is the into the ocean. protected, fish came back have very strict standards. In warm currents. And you can marine-protected areas — terms of digital photography, if poetry of what happens in The cover photo of the and controlled the sea urchin see these as clearly as look- including Kingman Reef. Enric we’re shooting digitally, we have the ocean.” story was a thresher shark population, which allowed ing at a newspaper. Fishermen actually said that he was talking to shoot in what’s called the raw After his harp seal cover caught in a net at the Sea of the kelp to emerge again. No will go there, and they know to some of the White House format, which is the purest form story, Skerry worked on an- Cortez in Mexico. The shark’s one knew there was kelp in exactly when the fish are go- staffers around that time and — it has the most information. other about the global fish pectoral fins reminded Sker- the area, Skerry said. ing to spawn so that the big brought in the story with my I have to shoot in sequence, crisis, which is worldwide ry of a crucifixion. His chal- When Ballantine originally aggregations are there. I think photographs to show just how I’m not allowed to delete any overfishing. lenge was to take a photo that had the idea of a marine re- there’s still this perception that beautiful Kingman Reef was photographs in the field, and I the ocean is endless and has and why it needed protection. He wanted to look into would resonate with readers, serve in New Zealand, people have to deliver every single pho- that topic, because he wit- who often think of sharks assumed there would be noth- this limitless bounty, but that’s Again, it’s a collaborative effort tograph on a hard drive to my far from the truth. between the scientists and the nessed fewer fish and sharks as creatures that should be ing left to do because they editor. On a typical story these photographer. The president days, I might shoot 30,000 or Do you write the text of Chile last year asked for that 40,000 pictures, of which we Q with your photos? And if photo of the shark crucifixion only publish 10 or 12. But my not, how does that happen? picture. Those are the kinds of editor will go through every I did write all the text in the things that I do think have some one of those 30,000 to 40,000 book. At the magazine, the A sort of substantial impact. pictures. In terms of correction, way it typically works is if I pro- the only thing that’s allowed is pose a story and it becomes What is the most dan- color correction and contrast, approved, then they assign a Q gerous situation you’ve because a digital photo comes writer. We have a great writer, ever had while diving? out of the camera kind of flat, Don Belt, in the audience today I’ve had my share of dan- and sometimes they have a bit who will be speaking here to- A gerous moments over the of a cast to them. So we will sit morrow. The photographer and years. On the radio show this with the engineer in the engrav- the writer will work together on morning, I talked about how ing department at the magazine the story and often overlap in I’ve been trapped under arctic and make sure the colors are the field as well. With my book, pack-ice for a few moments, accurate. But we won’t make with Ocean Soul, I wanted it to not able to find my exit. I’ve them totally crazy or wacked- be my own personal story, so been grabbed by Humboldt out. They have to be very pure. I wrote about 23,000 words of squid — this very scary sea And then there’s three levels of the stories behind the photos monster with 24,000 teeth on checks. My editor will look at and my life in the fields. With its arms. I had a boat sink on the raw file and the corrected Ocean Soul, I wrote it myself. me once in Canada during a one, the director of photography Do countries need to blizzard. I came up from a dive will do that, and the director of Q extend their 200-mile and I saw the boat listing and the layout and design depart- territorial limit to protect I said “Oh, just a bad list from ment. If they think that anything sea life or would that just my angle.” And then I saw the is too much, then they’ll back invite further abuse by some captain leap into the ocean off. It’s really just color cor- countries? with a survival suit. That wasn’t rection and contrast and no a good sign. I was doing a Countries have a 200-mile manipulation. We won’t take out story on marine life of Ireland a exclusive economic zone. I something or put something in. A few years ago. I was diving on suppose, on one hand, it would It’s very pure. With Geographic, the west coast of Ireland, and certainly allow those countries it’s been said that you can put my assistant, Sean, and I came who are willing to do the right quotes around the photos, and I up from a dive — the boat thing in terms of protection to think that’s true. never saw us. There was a big protect parts of the ocean that Atlantic swell and the sun was When you’re taking pic- are not currently protected, so at our backs, so they never saw Q tures of animals in pain, that would be a good thing. But us. We ended up drifting for how do you not interfere? I think it’s probably unrealistic about two and a half hours. We I have an ethic for myself that that’s going to happen. It’s got picked up by a fishing boat that says that if the animal more realistic that we can try A eventually, so that was a little is being harmed or stressed to get some sort of constitu- dicey. There’s these moments, by natural situations — like the ency and some sort of agree- but I would definitely empha- little leatherback that’s being ment on how to protect the size that for the handful of dic- eaten by a vulture — although high seas, which are sort of the ey moments, there’s countless I may want to interfere, I won’t, “Wild West” these days, and fantastic experiences, and the because that’s natural, and there are things happening out good far outweighs the bad. that’s the way it’s supposed there which are not so good for to be. If I see an animal that is wildlife. There are some high —Transcribed by in stress because of anthro- seas marine-protected areas Sydney Maltese Page 8 The Chautauquan Daily Friday, July 20, 2012 religion Shapiro: Water moistens the soul, reawakens us as conscious beings

Mary Desmond “That’s what you do when and sky, the fields were bar- Staff Writer you’re an alien invader. ren, neither plant nor herb What’s the point of invading had yet sprouted for God had Two guides for human some other ecosystem — you not yet caused it to rain upon relationships and responsi- want to take it over — that’s the earth. And there was as bilities toward the earth can why you’re going in there,” yet no human to till the soil, be found in Genesis: One is Shapiro said. then a mist, a mist rose from good and organic, the other Many people are alien in- the ground and watered it. is dangerous, Rabbi Rami vaders, he said. Alien invaders And God formed a human Shapiro said. are obvious; they are people from the face of the ground On Wednesday, Shapiro who feel disconnected from and breathed life into its nos- continued with the Interfaith this planet, people who feel trils and the human came Lecture Week Four theme they came from somewhere alive,” Shapiro said. “Water: Life Force/Life else and spend their lives de- The story tells of man Source” with a discussion of vising ways to make it back. arising from organic ori- the human consciousness, at- “We don’t really want to gins, from the mud and the titudes toward the environ- be here, and the short time water of the young world. It ment and the Jewish ritual that we are we say is simply tells the story of a world that of mikveh in a lecture titled, a test to get to the real place, needs man to help tend and “The Way of the Mikveh: the better place, the place care for it, to till its soil, to Water and the Reclaiming of where really all the prob- garden its greenery. Consciousness.” lems of physicality are done “The earth had the mist Shapiro is the director of away,” Shapiro said. and potential, but then God Wisdom House, a center for Shapiro teaches in the takes the mud, the dirt and interfaith dialogue and prac- philosophy department at the water and breathes life in tice in Nashville, Tenn. He is Middle Tennessee State Uni- it, breaths consciousness in MICHELLE KANAAR | Staff Photographer also an adjunct professor at versity. Many of his students it, and we become conscious Rabbi Rami Shapiro speaks on water from a Jewish perspective Wednesday in the Hall of Philosophy. the Middle Tennessee State are alien invaders, he said. human beings,” Shapiro said. University. He writes a col- They are taught that this life “We are the way mud says izes — it is very common on er, Shapiro said. In his lecture, People should go into the umn in Spirituality & Health is unimportant, that the real ‘hello.’ We are the way mud earth, and describes the state Shapiro recommended that water and fully immerse magazine called “Roadside world is the next world and knows itself. We are the speak- when particular people view practitioners of all faiths adopt themselves three times, Sha- Assistance for the Spiritual that only a few people will ers for the water. We are the the world and people around the mikveh ritual. piro said. In the first immer- Traveler.” make it there. Shapiro said speakers for the earth, because them as objects that can and Due to gaps in understand- sion, people should take time Wednesday’s lecture be- his students are enthralled we are earth, and water and should be exploited. ing, the mikveh is sometimes to reflect and honor where gan with a retelling of two by the concept of the rapture. divine consciousness.” The “I-thou,” the second viewed negatively in non- they have been and how they stories of creation, told in They all want to be raptured, Those two stories are very way of viewing the world, Jewish societies. Those who have arrived at Chautauqua, Chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis. but they have different opin- different and offer contrast- translates to the more organic do not know about it often Shapiro said. The story of Chapter 1 tells ions of how it will happen ing implications for the na- story of Genesis. When peo- associate it with the men- In the second immersion, of alien invaders; the story and to whom it will happen. ture of man and the nature ple exist from the “I-thou” strual cycle and surmise that people should honor the fact of Chapter 2 tells of organic “No rapture to me, I’m not of the earth. To better grasp perspective, they see every- it connects the menstrual cy- that at Chautauqua, they are life becoming self-conscious, going — I’m Jewish. I’m not the complexity of the com- one, and everything around cle with the notion of being entering an “I-thou” mental- Shapiro said. going to be raptured, I’m go- parison, it is important to them as connected to them unclean, Shapiro said. ity, he said. In Genesis 1:26-28, it is ing to be left behind, along analyze the understanding — a brother or a sister — “Unclean in Judaism, in “You’re going to spend written: “And God said: ‘Let with the Catholics, Muslims, of the consciousness of being because everything around Hebrew, it doesn’t sound so days, weeks or maybe the us make humans in our im- Buddhists,” Shapiro said. and our understanding of them comes from the same bad. Unclean is code word whole season meeting peo- age, after our likeness; and let “What bothers me about God, Shapiro said. ingredients: mud and water. for being in a state of holi- ple on a different plane — a them have dominion over the the rapture is, A: its discon- We can find an under- “We are the way the earth ness, it means that you’re not plane where you recognize fish of the sea, and over the nect from this world; and B: standing of God in the Book says ‘wow,’ we are the way fit — you’re too powerful, as you walk around that each birds of the air, and over the its homicidal tendencies,” of Exodus, when God tells that nature is surprised by too much in a state of divine one of us is a manifestation cattle, and over all the earth.’ Shapiro said. “I fly a lot, and Moses that “I will be what I itself,” Shapiro said. creativity to be in normal so- of the divine,” Shapiro said. So God created humanity in my prayer when I get on the will be,” Shapiro said. Both states of being exist ciety,” Shapiro said. “You’re With the third dip into the God’s own image, in the image plane is ‘No rapture this trip.’ “The Bible is telling us not within our word, and both too dangerous. A Torah scroll water, people should focus of God were they created men Because for all I know, the that God is Lord up there can exist within the same is unclean as well as a wom- on moving beyond the “I- and women. And God blessed pilot is going to be raptured, somewhere, but God is the person. Too often, the “I-it” an during her period is un- thou” state of being into the them; and God said to them: and the rest of us are going happening, the being — not state can take over, Shapiro clean, not because either one “I-I” state of being. That state ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and down, and I don’t want to die a being — but being itself, said. of them is dirty.” of being reflects the nature of fill the earth, and subdue it; for his faith.” the dynamic becoming of “When that happens, The mikveh should be God when he said to Moses, and have rule over the fish of The lack of attachment to life that exists all around us,” we stop tilling the soil, and taken generally, Shapiro said, “I will be what I will be.” the sea, and over the birds of the earth felt by “alien invad- Shapiro said. “God is reality. then the world becomes and practiced by people of all “We recognize not just the air, and over every living ers” is worrisome, Shapiro God is dynamic. God is cre- dry, and hard and lifeless,” faiths, as a way to get back that the others are divine, thing that moves upon the said. If people feel no affinity ative. God is a never-ending Shapiro said. “Not only the from the alien invader, or “I- but that we’re all part of the earth,’ ” Shapiro said. for the temporal earth, they process.” world around us, but our it” way of being back to the same thing. We now begin In the first story, man are much less likely to care Martin Buber, a philoso- own world, our own bodies, organic, “I-thou” status. to glimpse what the world is made in a supernatural for its well-being. pher, described the two ex- our own psyches — we be- A mikveh must be done in looks like from God’s point event, remote from the earth. The second story of cre- istential states of being that come hard and lifeless. We running water. Shapiro sug- of view. It’s not just all of us The world was fully formed ation, found in the second people could, the “I-it” way of no longer have the mist aris- gested that Chautauquans together, it’s just the one in and thriving before man was chapter of Genesis, tells an being and the “I-thou” path. ing from within, and we no begin a tradition of using the and of itself, and we see God created and delivered as its organic story of human in- The first way of being, the “I- longer have the capacity to lake as a mikveh. not just as everything, but master. Man came to earth to ception. It reads: “On the day it” way, is the state of being breathe the divine around During the first week of a we see it from God’s perspec- dominate, Shapiro said. that God made the ground the “alien invader” character- us.” visit to Chautauqua, people tive,” Shapiro said. In Judaism, there is a should go to the lake whenever Chautauquans should use practice called mikveh. The they feel comfortable — alone, their time in Chautauqua and mikveh is a ritual bath that re- or with friends and family — their mikveh in the lake as an freshes and “remoistens” the and participate in a cleansing, intrinsically magical experi- body and spirit of the partak- remoistening mikveh. ence of spiritual rebirth and rejuvenation, Shapiro said. “When you go home, you take the “I-I” and the “I- thou” with you.” Friday, July 20, 2012 The Chautauquan Daily Page 9 music Kaufmans help student vocalists through scholarship, friendship

Sydney Maltese treat.’ And the guy looks at Staff Writer me and he says, ‘I’m Matt Worth’s father,’” Naomi said. C huck and Naomi As was the case with sev- Kaufman have a large family eral of their Connections stu- — three children, two grand- dents, the Kaufmans became children and an impressive friends with the young vocal- number of “voice kids.” ist’s parents. This year, their “Somebody once asked student is Michael Gracco. us, ‘How do you put every- “We just adore those kids. body up in your house?’ And To be able to stay in touch Chuck answered, ‘Vertical- with them once they’re gone ly,’” Naomi said. from here is special, so grati- For years, the couple from fying,” Naomi said. “You Raleigh, N.C., have supported build a friendship and build a Chautauqua’s young vocal- relationship with them.” ists, primarily baritones — to “To me, when the kids leave whom they refer as their own the end of Week Seven, the Although they love their kids — through the Connec- whole place changes,” Naomi connection with young vo- tions program. The Kaufmans said. “I think it’s vital having calists best, the Kaufmans open their home to the vocal- young people here, in all of appreciate every opportunity ists from the School of Music, the disciplines, and watching Chautauqua offers. The com- providing everything from them grow and have the op- munity in Chautauqua is sin- dinner to laundry and good portunity to really work with gular in its friendliness, they conversation. They never wonderful mentors.” said. miss a Wednesday recital. The Kaufmans’ appre- “Just walking down the Chuck and Naomi, who ciation of young vocalists street, people say hello. You are not vocalists themselves, motivated them to arrange don’t know who they are, but appreciate young talent im- for an endowment to be cre- people say hello to you. And mensely. ated through a bequest to when my granddaughter was “We’re audience,” Chuck the Chautauqua Foundation, little, she looked at me and said. which will support young vo- said, ‘Bubbe, do you know ev- “We’re very important,” calists in the future. erybody here?’” Naomi said. Naomi added. “We really feel like Chau- The chance to connect with The Kaufmans made tauqua has given us so much artists young and old excites friends with many of the in our life for so many years. the Kaufmans most. people in the School of Mu- We figured that was a way we “It’s just an added level of sic’s voice program during could give back to them to say delight in your life to be with the years, including program thank you for all these won- artistic people,” Naomi said. chair Marlena Malas. derful years we’ve been here,” “She isn’t one of these Naomi said. teachers that’s forever cutting Naomi serves on the The Kaufmans’ bequest inten- you down. She always tries Women’s Club Scholarship tion makes them members of the to build you up,” Chuck said. Committee and often ush- Eleanor B. Daugherty Society, “She has connections that ers at performances. Once, which recognizes those who have really make life a little less while taking up a collection included Chautauqua in their es- difficult for them when they for scholarship money after tate plans through a life-income leave.” a performance, a man ap- gift, trust, by making Chautau- “Marlena knows how to proached her and asked for qua a beneficiary of their IRA, help them with their net- what she was collecting. She 401-K or other retirement plan, work,” Naomi said. explained that the money was through a gift of real estate or Many of the Kaufman’s for scholarship students. through a bequest intention in “voice kids” went on to suc- “I said, ‘You’re going to their will. cessful careers, and the hear a singer tonight, Matt Kaufmans often keep in touch Worth, who’s absolutely fabu- For more information on how you with their former students. lous. He couldn’t be here last can leave a legacy at Chautau- They had the excitement of year because there wasn’t qua, please contact Karen Blozie, LAUREN ROCK | Staff Photographer watching one student on the enough scholarship money director of gift planning, at 716- Naomi and Chuck Kaufman support School of Music voice students through an endowment they PBS program “Live from the available, and he’s here this 357-6244, or email kblozie@ci- established with the Chautauqua Foundation. Metropolitan Opera.” year. You’re really in for a web.org.

Newman Fund supports Spotz lecture

The Margaret Miller New- qua Foundation and the Chau- man Lectureship Fund spon- tauqua Literary and Scientific sors this afternoon’s Interfaith Circle. She was active in the Lecture by Katie Spotz. Chautauqua Women’s Club, Margaret Miller Newman, the American Association of who died in 1981 at the age University Women reading of 93, was a granddaughter of group, the Mayville Tuesday Chautauqua co-founder Lewis Club and the Mayville Grange. Miller. She served as historian In her earlier years, New- of the Smith Memorial Library at Chautauqua and was prom- man conducted an interior inent in historical and preser- decorating business in Cleve- vation societies at Chautauqua land. Before her death, New- and in western New York. man was honored at a dinner Newman was a member of held to recognize members the Chautauqua County His- of the Charles Edison Fund hitting a torical Society, the Chautau- board. high note

LAUREN ROCK | Staff Photographer Voice and instrumental students showcase their skills at a voice concert in Fletcher Music Hall Wednesday evening. Page 10 The Chautauquan Daily Friday, July 20, 2012 music Park’s hard work lands her second appearance on ‘From the Top’

Yemi Falodun relaxed and ready to per- It will be her second time Staff Writer form.” on the NPR show. It will be quite a feat for “Last time, I performed Laura Park, a prized her to top that performance. with a string quartet,” Park violinist and pupil of Al- But Park, with fellow vio- said. “And when they an- mita and Roland Vamos, linist Alexandra Switala, nounced they were coming is quickly rising in recog- will attempt to thrill the au- back to Chautauqua, they nition every time she per- dience once again at NPR’s needed someone to represent forms on stage. “From the Top” recording Chautauqua.” Last week’s solo at the Mu- at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the The 18-year-old violinist sic School Festival Orchestra Amphitheater. Christopher knows that although she has concert put Park’s dazzling O’Riley, a celebrated pianist, garnered much success and elegance and talent on full will host the event, which praise, there is more for her to display. will feature stories and mu- achieve, and she keeps herself “I thought her perfor- sic from young classical mu- busy with chamber recitals, mance was the epitome of sicians. opera rehearsals and practice. what I would like to hear in Playing Tchaikovsky’s “When people say, LAUREN ROCK | Staff Photographer the Shostakovich concerto,” Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34, Park ‘Great show,’ that’s already really hard.” Park said. “I know what I School of Music student Almita said. “All the musi- figures she will be less dra- passed,” Park said. “I’m Building a great career sound like in the practice violinist Laura Park practices for her Friday cians I spoke to thought the matic and more lighthearted grateful of comments that does not happen overnight, room.” appearance on NPR’s performance was so intelli- with her show selection. include, ‘You have a bright but Park is going above and Her teacher sees Park’s “From the Top.” gent, so tasteful.” “It’s really cute and short future’ and ‘You have a beyond many people’s expec- willingness to better herself. “In the moment, I wasn’t — an easy listen and delight- good career ahead of you,’ tations. “And this is what a teacher nervous,” Park said. “I was ful,” Park said. because that’s why I work “I have a long way to go,” wants to see,” Almita said. In guest teaching violin students, For Peled, curiosity leads Vamos offers respectful critiques to drive for improvement

Yemi Falodun said about nique sound. Yemi Falodun perfor med friend told me a story of how Staff Writer her antici- “I need to improve a lot of Staff Writer all over the Tiger Woods won a tourna- pation on things,” she said. “I need to world and ment for millions of dollars, Repertoire and technique w o r k i n g work on my vibrato and my “I can make it sound like led various and the next day, he was the go together like violin mae- with Va- bow. I don’t think my sound a child, a woman or a grand- lectures at only one on the practice tee, stros Almita Vamos and mos. She at- right now is very good.” pa,” cellist Amit Peled said premier mu- hitting golf shots at 5 a.m.” Jacques Israelievitch. You tended Chi- That is where Vamos about his instrument. sic festivals. Peled carries that mindset cannot have one without the na’s Central comes into play, with her ex- The renowned teacher will “ W h e n to his philosophy on being other. vamos Conserva- perience, wisdom and con- lead a cello master class from peled the last cel- a musician. Furthermore, he “Some teachers go left tory of Mu- structive criticism. 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. today at list plays, I practices what he preaches. and some go right; we go sic, where she studied with “I always ask them, ‘Has Fletcher Music Hall. turn to the public and ask, In 2011, Peled kicked off along the same straight line,” maestro Liang Danan. your teacher mentioned “The range of the cello is ‘What do you think I would an extensive concerto debut Vamos said about her and She will enter her second this?’ ” Vamos said. “So, if that of the human voice,” Peled have said here,’ ” Peled said. tour in the United States and Israelievitch’s similar ap- and final year at Univer- the teacher is opposed, it’s said. “You can play as low as a “And they usually hit right Germany with the Nord- proaches to music. “I studied sity of Southern California, not my place to say, ‘I want to bass or as high as a soprano.” to the point of what I would westdeutsche Philharmonie. with Louis Persinger, and he where she is a graduate stu- teach you another method.’ ” In teaching the class, Peled say. And that is — for me — a He also recently released studied with Josef Gingold. dent. She is also a first-time What helps that teacher- hopes to incorporate educa- good sign that they can ar- his third album, Reflections. And they both studied with Chautauquan. student relationship is a re- tion and fun without losing ticulate my ideas.” And he is set to return to the Eugene Ysaye, so we have a “My friend told me about spectful understanding in prestigious Kennedy Center similar background.” this place and Jacques Israe- which there is room for dia- his balance. Peled admits success Vamos will instruct Israe- lievitch, so I wanted to go,” logue in the critique. It also “It’s always hard to find the comes with a desire to be and stage this season, following lievitch’s students in her vio- she said. keeps students from having fine line between making it a remain the best. Using sports his grand recital debut. lin master class from 1:30 to She will play Béla Bartók’s to deal with conflicting phi- show and really helping the analogies, he demonstrated He performed with the 3:30 p.m. today in McKnight Violin Concerto, No. 2, first losophies, which may leave students,” Peled said. “It takes how aspiring musicians can CSO Thursday evening in Hall. movement. them unsure or uninspired. charisma to not only teach the learn the valuable lessons the Amphitheater. That common bond and “A lot of artists play oth- “All the students are students, but to captivate the from elite athletes, such as “You can be very busy with approach makes it an easier er classical musicians, but good here,” Vamos said. audience. You don’t want to Michael Jordan, Roger Feder- family, but you still have to do transition for Israelievitch’s I like Bartók’s music,” she “I don’t have any students entertain and have the stu- er and Tiger Woods. your obligations,” Peled said. students, who are assigned to said. “It’s very different.” who I feel like saying, ‘Oh dents walking out of the class “If you don’t have curios- “And at the end of the day, work in Vamos’ class today. Following her recent my god, your teacher told not knowing anything.” ity, then you will not have you will be judged by your “I’m so excited to play for chamber music recital, She you to do that — you’re ri- And there is much to the drive to question how to voice, not by how fast you her,” Xiaoxue “Sunny” She will look to make her tech- diculous!’ ” learn from Peled, who has get better,” Peled said. “My play or how loud you play.” Ashcroft to show off what her voice can do in concert tonight

Yemi Falodun da Dykstra he asked if she had thought out her favorite spirituals, group to sing for; they’re so Harder said. “They really get Staff Writer to apply for about auditioning for Chau- which include “Take My welcoming.” to show off what their voices the Chau- tauqua. Hand, Precious Lord,” “Right A major reason for the sud- can do.” Sarah Ashcroft is prepared tauqua Voice “It was one of my best and on King Jesus” and “This Lit- den change in stage presence Chautauqua’s inspiring to display how much she has P r o g r a m . favorite audition I ever had,” tle Light of Mine.” comes from all the things she atmosphere adds wings to matured. The voice concert, But Ash- Ashcroft said. “Marlena Ma- “These three songs just hit is absorbing from her peers. her dreams, Ashcroft said, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. tonight at croft kept las was amazing.” close to home for me,” Ash- “I learned how to look at by providing her a nice, safe McKnight Hall, will feature missing the After earning her degree croft said. “There is some- what others are doing and environment where she can Ashcroft, along with her fel- ashcroft deadline. from Hope, Ashcroft em- thing fascinating about sing- say, ‘Hey, I think I can try explore her voice. low vocalists. “I ended barked on a journey to Chau- ing in English, because it’s that,’ ” Ashcroft said. “Not “Every week, I meet more “For being so young, she up going to Philadelphia to tauqua’s fabled grounds. a text everyone can under- only am I watching myself and more people, and they has an enormous voice,” student teach at the Julia R. “I came here saying I want stand.” grow, but I’m watching the Bénédicte Jourdois, a pia- Masterman School,” Ash- to learn,” she said. “And Her affinity with those others grow. I think that is keep saying these positive nist and vocal coach, said of croft said. “Linda told me to that’s happening and so songs is why Ashcroft feels something that I will take things to me,” she said. “It’s 22-year-old Ashcroft. “She get in contact with Don St. much more.” tonight’s performance will away from this experience.” really nice to hear, because grew a lot already. And I can Pierre, since he was at Cur- In the fall, Ashcroft will be one to cherish. Voice coach Joel Harder is it’s kind of scary sometimes see it daily.” tis.” begin her studies at the East- “I was way more nervous also taking notice. to think about how I am go- Ashcroft studied at Hope St. Pierre then agreed to man School of Music with for my first recital,” Ashcroft “They are all gaining ing to spend 15 years of my College, where she was en- help coach Ashcroft, and Katherine Ciesinski. said. “Now, I’m excited, be- confidence through their life studying voice. And couraged by her maestro Lin- during her last coaching, But tonight, she will belt cause it’s such a wonderful repertoire and experience,” maybe … I’ll have a career.” Student piano recital serves as tune-up for competition

Yemi Falodun year, following his first go at competition. Li admitted the recital is a “It’s really important to me.” when you are playing. When Staff Writer Chautauqua. “The ideal for me is to play good way to gauge how pre- Morales, 21, studied at the you’re finished, we’re friends In the past week, he has the same way, with the same pared she is for the competi- National Conservatory of again. You only have to do “There’s always the little practiced diligently, attended freedom today and tomor- tion, especially because she Music in Mexico. In the fall, what you know and then see demon in the back of your master classes and played at row,” Delfin said. “In the end, remains undecided on what she will enter a graduate pro- the opinion of the jury.” she head that says, ‘Don’t mess it the Music School Festival Or- it’s all about making music.” piece to play. The mounting gram at Southern Methodist said up on the competition,’ ” pia- chestra concert and a cham- Rosa Li, who studies un- pressure is glaring and could University, where she will The annual Chautauqua nist Michael Delfin said, tak- ber recital. He will now try der Andre Watts at Indiana greatly influence her prepa- study under Joaquin Achu- Piano Competition grants ing a deep breath. his hand at the recital and University, feels a similar ration and performance. carro. its winner $7,500 and has a Twenty-one-year-old Del- competition. anxiousness. “When you’re in that situ- Morales plans to play second prize of $3,000. All 22 fin joins a handful of young After such an experience, Moreover, the 20-year-old ation, that’s the part that slips Etude No. 7 pour les degrés piano students are required musicians gearing up for Sat- it is easy to see how he could pianist is undecided about for me, the technicality of it chromatiques, by Debussy, to participate. urday’s annual Chautauqua be feeling some heat. what piece she would like to all,” Li said. “So, I’d like to and Etude, Op. 10, No. 5, by Piano Competition via the “But if you are to control showcase. test that out.” Chopin. The preliminary round is student piano recital from that, it becomes more adrena- “I can only foresee that I Most students are vul- “Etudes are really difficult from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Satur- 2–4 p.m. today at Sherwood- line for a performance,” Del- will be extremely nervous,” nerable to the pressure that for me, because my hand is day in Sherwood-Marsh Stu- Marsh Studios. fin said. Li said. “In hindsight, I will comes with competition. But not really that big,” Morales dios. The semi-final round is Delfin studies at The Pea- He will play Rach- be very thankful to have Astrid Morales, from Mexico said. from 1:30–6:30 p.m. Wednes- body Institute of The Johns maninoff’s Étude-Tableau in this recital. But right now, it City, is eager to get the com- But it is her competitive day, Aug. 1, in Elizabeth S. Hopkins University with Bo- D-Major, Op. 39, No. 9 at the is added pressure. And it is petition started. spirit that will override what Lenna Hall. And the final ris Slutsky and Judah Adashi. recital. It is a piece he hopes definitely one more thing to “I really want to win a she lacks in size. round is from 1–5 p.m. Satur- And he will enter his senior also to showcase at the piano get through.” prize here,” Morales said. “The competition is only day, Aug. 4, in Lenna Hall. Friday, July 20, 2012 The Chautauquan Daily Page 11 Community

PENDER FAMIly supports family Entertainment series

TOP LEFT: Vocal Trash entertains a packed Amphitheater Wednesday evening for the Family Entertainment Series. The evening’s performance offered a variety of song, dance and percussion using recyclable materials, along with a powerful message of conservation and environmental awareness.

LEFT: Because of their longtime participation in family activities at Chautauqua, Jim and Kathy Pender choose to sponsor events in the Family Entertainment Series, including Vocal Trash’s performance, through the Michael Pender Memorial Fund of the ADAM BIRKAN | Staff Photographer Cleveland Foundation, founded in memory of their youngest son.

“Theater and music were great loves of his, so we really look at this as something Michael would love, too,” Kathy Pender said. “He was very much a family person.”

The tradition of spending summer in Chautauqua spans three generations in the family. Jim and Kathy’s five grandchildren now enjoy the Institution just as their parents did in the ’60s.

“It brings families together,” Pender said.

BOTTOM LEFT: Children and families gather with the Penders at Wednesday night’s performance. ADAM BIRKAN | Staff Photographer LAUREN ROCK | Staff Photographer Get to the Point! BEMUS POINT NY Page 12 The Chautauquan Daily Friday, July 20, 2012 classifieds

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BTG SPonsors final purple martin chat GREGORY FUNKA | Staff Photographer Nature guide Jack Gulvin will conduct the final Purple Martin Chat of the 2012 Season at 4:15 p.m. today at the lakeside purple martin birdhouses located between the Sports Club and Miller Bell Tower. Gulvin will lower the houses and share commentary on bird behavior. Bring lawn chairs for guaranteed seating. Sponsored by the Bird, Tree & Garden Club. Friday, July 20, 2012 The Chautauquan Daily Page 13 SYMPHONY

Captain Stern expertly steers CSO in Tuesday’s waterborne outing John Chacona Guest Reviewer “La Mer” was similarly well plain the inclusion of Leon- REVIEWventilated and brisk. Stern’s ard Bernstein’s suite from his On a night when the Am- journey “From dawn to mid- score to “On the Waterfront,” phitheater floor felt like a burn day on the sea,” as Debussy perhaps even to defend his barrel and the air was thick For the past seven years, he titled the first movement, choice. He needn’t have done enough to chew, the notion of has led the Kansas City Sym- wasn’t a dreamy reverie on a so. That is music that makes a waterborne outing had obvi- phony but also spent four sun-dappled pond, but rather its own argument, full of ous appeal. So was a hydrauli- years as permanent guest a bracing day’s sail down- slashing rhythms, juicy mel- cally themed program that be- conductor of the Orchestre wind. A dissonant fire siren odies and the brash spirit of gan with Ravel’s “Une barque National de Lyon in France, added an unexpected color to 1950s New York. sur l’océan” and ended with which gives his Debussy and the second movement, “Play Stern must have known that Debussy’s “La Mer.” Ravel a certain authority. of the waves,” but the conclud- world well. His father, violinist And with his crisp, white Many conductors play their ing “Dialogue of the wind and Isaac Stern, was a frequent col- dinner jacket and black music as if enveloped in a nim- the sea” was forceful with- laborator of Bernstein’s, and pants, conductor Michael bus of shimmering haze. Oth- out being hectoring and shot the conductor himself partici- Stern lacked only the epau- ers — Pierre Boulez comes to through with clear, seaside pated in Bernstein’s early 1980s lets and yachting cap of jo- mind — shine a light into the sunlight. In his pre-concert re- Los Angeles Philharmonic vial Captain Merrill Stubing haze, making every note and marks, Stern warned against Institute as a student. So it’s of “The Love Boat.” He was a gesture clear and precise. hearing Ravel and Debussy no surprise that he caught the charming host, too, express- That was Stern’s way. The as the musical analogue of the reference to the closing pages Greg Funka | Staff Photographer ing his delight at returning sailboat on his “océan” didn’t French Impressionist painters. of “Appalachian Spring” in TOP: The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra performed a water- to the Amp after an absence drift, but was gently moved “I think (the music) is more the sweet, flute and harp of the inspired repertoire Tuesday evening in the Amphitheater. of 26 years. Can it have been along by a refreshing yet powerful because you see it love music, nor the splendidly ABOVE: Michael Stern led the CSO as guest conductor. that long? Stern, born in 1959, moderate sea breeze. Ravel’s with your ears,” he said. evoked “dawn on the docks” easily looks 15 years younger. billowing waves, topped by These ears saw a game- music that opens the suite. been directed by Robert Alt- sentially American place,” In that interval, he has a spray of harp glissandos, changing work of art, as rev- He didn’t try to duplicate man — a Kansas City native Stern said in his podium re- guest-conducted widely, were rollers, never tsunamis. olutionary in its way as the the hustle and muscle of Ber- — less nervy that Bernstein’s marks, adding that he was founded a contemporary It was the classicist Ravel “Eroica” symphony, with no nstein’s white-hot 1960s New own interpretation, perhaps, honored “to include a piece music ensemble in Tennessee who worshipped Couperin: misty, pictorial impression- York recording of the piece. but well considered and rich — and it is a great piece — by and held music directorships more noble than sentimental. ism in sight. Why even try? It was “On the with internal dialogue. a composer who served his in Europe and United States. His reading of Debussy’s Stern felt the need to ex- Waterfront” as it might have “Chautauqua is a quintes- country so well.” DeFrees Memorial Lecture Fund supports Belt Amphitheater presentation

The Joseph H. DeFrees held more than 70 patents He was an officer of the donated considerable land Institution and later, as an discussing the possibility of es- Memorial Lecture Fund on products he designed Pennsylvania Furnace and to the community for parks. adult, became an active sup- tablishing an endowed lecture- provides the funding for throughout his life. He was Iron Company, the Ticona Mr. DeFrees married the porter of opera at Chautau- ship or supporting another as- today’s 10:45 a.m. lecture by particularly interested in Manufacturing Company former Barbara Baldwin of qua. Mrs. DeFrees, an Insti- pect of Chautauqua’s program, Don Belt. the study of fluids and wa- and Ray Industries before Jamestown in 1945. Mrs. De- tution trustee from 1976 to please contact Karen Blozie, The Joseph H. DeFrees ter. He was a 1929 graduate he formed the Allegheny Frees began visiting Chau- 1984, died in July 1992. director of gift planning, at Memorial Lecture Fund of Cornell University with a Valve Company and the Al- tauqua as a child. She stud- 716-357-6244, or email her at supports lectures in science, degree in civil engineering. legheny Coupling Compa- ied voice and piano at the If you would be interested in [email protected]. environment and technol- Mr. DeFrees spent his life ny in the 1950s. He worked ogy. The lectureship, estab- in the petroleum and tank actively to preserve historic lished in 1987 by the De- transportation industries. buildings in Warren and Frees Family Foundation of Warren, Pa., memorializes Joseph H. DeFrees, who died in 1982 at the age of 76. Mr. DeFrees was a War- ren, Pa., industrialist who Page 14 The Chautauquan Daily Friday, July 20, 2012 program

Man of the world

Photos courtesy of Don Belt National Geographic contributing writer Don Belt, who will give today’s 10:45 a.m. Amphitheater lecture on the politics of water, has reported from all over the planet. ABOVE: Belt walking a muddy road in Bangledesh, a country he profiled for a May 2011 story. RIGHT: With his Bedouin friend Petra in Jordan, where he once lived while on assignment. BELOW: In a bunker with Israeli soldiers in Southern Lebanon in 1994.

9:15 The Bible Decoded. (Programmed 12:45 Catholic Community Seminar 4:00 (4-5:30) Student Chamber Music before curtain at the Bratton kiosk.) (Programmed by the Chautauqua by Chabad Lubavitch of Series. “Is Dialogue Possible in Recital. School of Music. (Benefits Bratton Theater Women’s Club) For men and women. Chautauqua.) Rabbi Zalman Today’s Church.” Rev. William the Women’s Club Scholarship 8:15 SPECIAL. NPR’s “From the Top” Women’s Club House Vilenkin. Alumni Hall Library Donnelly, retired, assisting priest, St. Program.) Program at chautauqua- with host Christopher O’Riley – 2:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds. 10:00 Voice Master Class. (School of Ann’s Community, Rochester, New music.com. McKnight Hall Live Taping. Amphitheater Fee. (Purchase tickets at Main Gate F Music.) Marlena Malas. McKnight Hall York. Methodist House Chapel 4:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds. Welcome Center.) Leave from Main FRIDAY 12:45 Jum’a/Muslim Prayer. Introduction Fee. (Purchase tickets at Main Gate Gate Welcome Center JULY 20 10:15 Service of Blessing and Healing. UCC Chapel at 12:30. Hall of Christ Welcome Center.) Leave from Main 2:30 (2:30-5) National Federation of Gate Welcome Center 10:30 (10:30-12) Cello Master Class. 1:30 (1:30-3:30) Violin Master Class. Music Clubs’ Chautauqua Student 7:00 (7 – 11) Farmers Market. (School of Music) Amit Peled. Fee. (School of Music) Almita Vamos. 4:15 Purple Martin Chat. (Programmed by Scholarship Recital. McKnight Hall Fletcher Music Hall Fee. McKnight Hall the Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden 3:00 LECTURE. (Programmed by 7:15 (7:15–8) Mystic Heart Meditation: Club.) Jack Gulvin, BTG naturalist. Spiritual Practices of World 10:45 LECTURE. Don Belt, contributing 2:00 INTERFAITH LECTURE SERIES. Chautauqua Women’s Club.) Katie Spotz, endurance adventurer Purple Martin houses between Sports Contemporary Issues Forum: Religions. Leader: Subagh Singh writer, National Geographic. Club and Miller Bell Tower Khalsa. (Sikhism/Yogic Meditation). Amphitheater for clean water advocacy. Hall of “Clinton, Bush and Obama: Where Philosophy 5:00 Hebrew Congregation Evening Do We Go From Here?” Peter Baker, Bring gate pass. Main Gate Welcome 12:00 (noon–2) (Sponsored Flea Boutique. Service. “Kabbalat Shabbat: White House correspondent. Hall of Center Conference Room by Chautauqua Women’s Club.) 2:00 (2-4) Student Piano Recital. Welcome the Sabbath.” Family Sa Philosophy SATURDAY 7:45 Episcopal Holy Eucharist. Chapel of Behind Colonnade (Benefits the Chautauqua Women’s Club Scholarship Fund.) Sherwood- Service led by Rabbi Gary Pokras; JULY 21 4:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds. the Good Shepherd 12:15 (Programmed Brown Bag Lecture. Marsh Studios Susan Goldberg Schwartz, soloist. Fee. (Purchase tickets at Main Gate by the Writers’ Center.) “Have a 8:00 Morning Meditation. (Sponsored by Miller Bell Tower (Pier Building in Welcome Center.) Leave from Main Unity of Chautauqua.) Hall of Missions Regret-Free Life.” Joe Kita, prose 2:00 (2-5) Mah Jongg. (Programmed case of rain) ••• 68th Meeting at Chautauqua of Gate Welcome Center writer-in-residence. Alumni Hall Porch by the Chautauqua Women’s Club.) 8:45 Catholic Mass. Chapel of the Good Memberships available at the door. 6:00 (6–7:45) Chautauqua Choir the National Federation of Music 5:00 Catholic Mass. Hall of Philosophy Shepherd 12:15 Challah Baking. (Programmed by Women’s Club House. Rehearsal. All singers welcome. Clubs — Northeastern Region. Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua.) (Two rehearsals required to sing at 6:00 THEATER. Fifty Ways. (Reserved 8:55 (8:55–9) Chautauqua Prays For 2:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds. 7:00 (7–11) Farmers Market. seating; purchase tickets at Main Peace Through Compassion. Hall Everett Jewish Life Center Porch Sunday worship services.) Elizabeth Fee. (Purchase tickets at Welcome 8:45 Catholic Mass. Chapel of the Good Gate Welcome Center or Colonnade of Missions Grove 12:15 (12:15-1:30) Brown Bag Lecture. S. Lenna Hall Center.) Leave from Main Gate Shepherd lobby ticket offices and 45 minutes (Sponsored by the Chautauqua 9:00 Nature Walk. (Programmed by the 6:30 Shabbat Dinner. (Sponsored before curtain at the Bratton kiosk.) Chapter of Parents, Families and 2:30 Fire Extinquisher Classes. Fire Hall 9:00 Peace Pole Pilgrimage. (Sponsored Chautauqua Bird, Tree & Garden by the Hebrew Congregation of Bratton Theater by Chautauqua Society for Peace Club.) Jack Gulvin, BTG naturalist. Friends of Lesbians and Gays, 3:30 Chautauqua Heritage Lecture Chautauqua.) Prepaid tickets and Social Justice.) Led by Marjorie 6:00 (6 7:45) Chautauqua Choir Meet under green awning at back of and the Metropolitan Community Series. “Keeping the Grounds.” required. Everett Jewish Life Center – Church.) “Marriage Equality: Personal Preservation Talk II. Girth. Meet on Mina Edison Avenue Rehearsal. All singers welcome. Smith Wilkes Hall. Ryan Kiblin 6:30 (6:30-8) Voice Concert. School of on the North End and proceed to (Two rehearsals required to sing at Reflections on the Political Struggles supervisor of gardens an landscaping, Music. (Benefits the Women’s Club 9:00 Men’s Club Speaker Series. South End, with narration along the Sunday worship services.) Elizabeth and Economic Benefits for Jamestown, Chautauqua Institution. Hall of Christ Scholarship Program.) Program at “Water Matters to Chautauquans.” NY and Beyond.” Greg Raab, way. S. Lenna Hall Subagh. Men’s Club Meeting. United 3:30 (3:30-5) Chautauqua Dialogues. chautauqua-music.com. McKnight Hall president, Jamestown City Council. All (sponsored by the Dept. of Religion.) 9:30 Hebrew Congregation Sabbath 6:45 Pre-Chautauqua Symphony Methodist House 6:30 Visual Arts Lecture Series. “The are welcome. Women’s Club House Services. Service led by Rabbi Gary Orchestra Concert Lecture. Lee Facilitator led group discussions. No fee Madness of Art.” Produced by 9:15 DEVOTIONAL HOUR. “Even a Cup.” 12:15 but sign up required at 2:00 Interfaith Pokras; Susan Goldberg Schwartz, Spear. Hurlbut Church Sanctuary CLSC Seven Seals Brown Bag. Charlie Hewitt; written and created The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor, (Programmed by the CLSC Alumni Lectures. Locations to be announced soloist. Hurlbut Church Sanctuary 8:15 CHAUTAUQUA SYMPHONY professor of religion, Piedmont by Jim Kempner. Hall of Christ Association.) Alumni Hall Kate 3:30 (3:30-5) Seminar. (Sponsored by the 9:30 Chabad Lubavitch Community ORCHESTRA. Robert Duerr, guest College. Amphitheater 8:00 THEATER. Fifty Ways. (Reserved Kimball Room Shabbat Service. Rabbi Zalman conductor; Buffalo Philharmonic Dept. of Religion.) “Groping for God.” seating; purchase tickets at Main Vilenkin. Kiddush will follow. Everett Chorus. Janice Chandler-Eteme, LaDonna Bates, M.S.W. (No fee — Gate Welcome Center or Colonnade limited to 25. Daily registration at the Jewish Life Center Library soprano; Tyler Duncan, baritone. lobby ticket offices and 45 minutes Amphitheater door.) Hall of Missions 11:00 (11-7) Piano Competition Preliminary Round. Sherwood- •Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 Marsh Studios (German) 12:30 (12:30 2:30) Social Bridge Johannes Brahms –