While harps have the reputation for being ethereal and delicate, the musicians who play the six-foot tall, 80-pound instruments are anything but fragile. “We don’t flit-float around. We go to places early, we set up
If 13-year-old William Haslett stacked up all the books he’s read this year, it would be taller than him. That’s what Valerie Haslett said of her son, who is one of five young Chautauquans to
Bryant Terry serves activism with a side of greens. “While we continue to work for food justice — the basic human right to fresh, safe, affordable and culturally appropriate food in all communities,” Terry writes
Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown’s world is turned upside down when she and her family move from Los Angeles to a farm. Through Sophie, young readers learn to cope with changing environments, the death of relatives and
Throughout the week, speakers are appealing to Chautauquans’ minds. The Chautauqua Vegan Group is taking a different approach — appealing to their stomachs. At 6 p.m. Tuesday in Hurlbut Church, the Chautauqua Vegan Group is
Over the course of five days, the instructors at the Chautauqua Music Camps transform a group of 117 middle and high school students from around the country into stage-ready orchestras, bands and jazz ensembles. “One
Long before the internet, blogging and social media, journalists were unmasking and explaining the wrongdoings of corrupt institutions for the public. One such reporter was Nellie Bly. In Nellie Bly and Investigative Journalism for Kids:
After seven weeks learning, practicing and performing with one another, the Music School Festival Orchestra will play their final concert. “It’s hard to believe we’re already at the last program,” said Timothy Muffitt, MSFO music
Art makes truth easier to swallow. “We as people, individually and as a society, often want to ignore the truth,” said Beau Willimon, screenwriter and playwright. “The artist has to investigate these things we’re afraid
At 15 years old, Aaron Berofsky was skeptical of his teachers who said playing the same piece felt different every time. “Some of my best teachers would say, ‘Every time I come back to a
Eight Music School Festival Orchestra students and three voice students will perform Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at 7 p.m. Thursday in Fletcher Music Hall. The 1918 piece, written in the midst of war, is
For their end-of-season recital, the 10 Music School Festival Orchestra cellists will play pieces that were arranged specifically for them. Arie Lipsky, chamber music chair, commissioned a cellist from the University of Michigan to arrange
The voice students are ready to say — or rather, sing — goodbye to one another, their teachers and the Chautauqua community. The annual Voice Sing-Out will be at 1 p.m. Thursday in Fletcher Music
Seventy-two years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. An estimated 39,000 people died. Six-year-old Sachiko Yasui survived. Her story is told in Caren Stelson’s Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s
Stephen Sondheim once said, “Oklahoma! is about a picnic, Carousel is about life and death.” In a performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel at 6 p.m. Wednesday in McKnight Hall, the Voice Program isn’t shying
Chautauquans can hear their favorite operas like never before as the Music School Festival Orchestra and Voice Program students join together to perform opera scenes. At 8:15 p.m. Monday in the Amphitheater, Voice Program Chair