Igor Gersh works Aug. 22 at Potter Violins in Washington D.C. where he is working part-time following his time at Chautauqua this season. JEROME SKISCIM / SUBMITTED PHOTO Igor Gersh is a professional viola player
When a CLSC Young Reader has read 16 books on the historic book list, they can receive a Medallion Award and a certificate. To verify, they need to submit a filled-out form on a green
On the grounds, Chautauquans are free to walk into many of the performances given by festival school students. The students may spend only a few weeks in Chautauqua, but they have the opportunities to be
Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time isn’t a brand new story. It was a classic time-traveling science fantasy novel published in 1962, which won the Newbery Medal. Illustrator and cartoonist Hope Larson adapted L’Engle’s story
Chautauqua Music Camps concerts continue this weekend. On Friday, Aug. 17, the middle school and high school students who are spending a week on the grounds gave four performances. Saturday, Aug. 18, they have two
As the 2018 Chautauqua season reaches the end of Week Eight, many students in the festival schools have left, and the programs are wrapping up. The Music School Festival Orchestra had its last concert Monday
CLSC Young Readers are going to explore the weekly theme, “The Forgotten,” through reading The Ethan I Was Before by Ali Standish, a book about a story of loss for ages 8 to 12. When
Monday, Aug. 13, is the last chance of the season to hear instrumental students from the Music School Festival Orchestra perform all together in the Amphitheater. Timothy Muffitt, music director and conductor of the MSFO,
Cello is considered to be a soul instrument, said Arie Lipsky, cello faculty and chamber music chair, because the cello’s sound is the closest to human voice as is possible for an instrument. The Student
Matthew Payne performs at the Voice Program's annual Sing-In at Fletcher Music Hall on Tuesday, June 26, 2018. HALDAN KIRSCH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER As Chautauqua reaches the end of Week Seven, the Voice Program is coming to
In every Silkroad Ensemble concert, the ensemble aims to provide the audience with an experience of traveling around the world, according to Jeffrey Beecher, co-artistic director of Silkroad. “(A Silkroad Ensemble concert is) an introduction
The golden shovel method is the form Nikki Grimes uses in writing One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance, a poetry book in which Grimes has included works by master poets during the Harlem Renaissance and
The operetta The Student Prince tells a fairytale story, with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly. It has a long history: It is based on Wilhelm Meyer-Förster’s play Old Heidelberg. There is
Diplomats are by definition “strangers in the strange land,” according to Ambassador Barbara Stephenson, president of the American Foreign Service Association. “That’s always been our lives,” Stephenson said, “ ... figuring out ‘How do we
Amanda Lynn Bottoms performs as Carman during a rehearsal for the School of Music: Music School Festival Orchestra with Chautauqua Voice Program of Bizet's "Carmen," Sunday, August 8, 2018, in Lenna Hall. BRIAN HAYES/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
There is a joke that “it is 90 percent panic and 10 percent playing” for percussionists at orchestra concerts. “The percussion in the orchestra concerts is fascinating, but very often, you are waiting to play