August 16, 2011
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Sandy D’Andrade said her collection of knitwear is inspired by everything from the koi fish in a pond near her home to the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s “Magic Flute.”
D’Andrade has been selling her wares to benefit the Chautauqua Opera Guild for several years. Her items can be seen and bought today through Thursday at the Connolly Residence Hall.
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August 14, 2011
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Chautauqua Opera patrons are well aware of what occurs onstage during a performance. They see the singers in costume and makeup and the lights and the set, and they hear the sounds of the orchestra.
What the average audience member rarely sees, however, are the tedious hours of coaching, training, rehearsals, blood, sweat and tears that preceded them.
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August 11, 2011
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Sterling Price-McKinney’s career took him from playing piano for a traveling circus to playing piano for Bob Hope to playing piano for the Chautauqua Opera Company.
“I love interesting people,” Price-McKinney said. “I never kiss and tell. I’m not a namedropper. I’m not a social climber. I just exist. I don’t know what I am. I let other people decide. And whatever they think I am is probably what I am.”
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August 8, 2011
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This coming Sunday, the Chautauqua Opera Guild will be hosting a fundraising golf tournament and dinner. The fee will be $125 per person for those who are not members of the golf club, $100 for members and $50 for those who wish to attend dinner only.
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August 7, 2011
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Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears…
August 6, 2011
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Chautauqua audiences will probably recognize “The Fiddler on the Roof” as one of the oeuvres of musical theater writing duo Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. At 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater, the audience will hear Young Artists from the Chautauqua Opera Company perform some of Bock and Harnick’s lesser-known hits, like “Fiorello!” and “Tenderloin,” as well as some selections from “Fiddler.”
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August 5, 2011
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Daily File Photo Chautauqua Opera Studio Artists perform in last year’s opera scenes program. Josh Cooper | Staff Writer What do Giuseppe Verdi, 19th-century Italian composer, and Stephen Sondheim, a Jewish kid from the Upper West Side, have in common? Perhaps ostensibly not much, but at 4 p.m. today in Norton Hall, their music will [...]
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August 4, 2011
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This week’s Artsongs recital will be the final installment in a recital series that has featured songs on such diverse topics as vegetarianism and telephone corporations.
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August 2, 2011
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A survival score for The Magic Flute:
- Slog through the arch nobility.
- Struggle through yet another rescue story.
- Endure the misogyny.
- Enjoy the stagecraft and the immortal music, and know that it is silliness that wins the heart in this fairy tale.
August 1, 2011
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When the Chautauqua Opera Company performs Mozart’s The Magic Flute at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Norton Hall for the last time, it will be in a language the Chautauqua audience will understand: English.
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Greenhouse to take audience on her journey out of Christian Science
Hoffman fights for women’s rights inside secular Judaism, at Western Wall
Gergen: Millennials should learn from the World War II generation
President Roosevelt: ‘I Have Seen War. I Hate War.’
Audubon Quartet to perform final concert
Fish: Value of arts, humanities found in pleasure we take in them
Dybul: Eliminate preventable diseases for ‘a more perfect world’
Through his photography, Reza ‘shakes the hearts of people’
Writers’ Center workshops help Chautauquan get published
BTG seeks historical input for 100th anniversary in 2013
138th assembly draws to close with Becker’s Sunday address
Hillcrest Concert Band brings worldly program to Amp
Holbert to preach on season’s final Sunday
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