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
The Arts
Jared Jacobsen loves to tell a good story. At 12:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Amphitheater, Jacobsen, organist and coordinator of worship and sacred music, will
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
Can music paint a picture? The question, expressed in different ways, concerns the age-old debate over whether music does and can mean anything definite. Critics,
There’s no favorite performance or audience for storyteller David Gonzalez. He stopped keeping track once he realized he had performed 5,000 times. “I love it
When artist Lee Tribe speaks at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Hultquist Center, he won’t lack for a well of experience from which to draw.
“Trittico botticelliano” Ottorino Respighi Italian composer Ottorino Respighi was born on July 9, 1879, in Bologna and died on April 18, 1936, in Rome. Although
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.
Students learn about more than just music from Curtis Burris, chair of the strings department. “Talking to Curtis in a lesson is (only) half ‘here’s
If you don’t know JACK, here’s your chance. At 4 p.m. Monday in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, the JACK Quartet will present an eclectic program
Inviting visitors is an unusual occurrence at the School of Art. From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday in the School of Art studios, Chautauquans will
Unlike art exhibitions organized around a predetermined theme, the defining characteristic of the VACI Open Members Exhibition is simply that the artwork be that of
Forget about going out with a bang. Instead, the Chautauqua Opera Company is capping its season with some pops … Opera Pops, that is. “I’ve
Audiences have invented its nickname: The Titan. The Giant. These are among them. They are quantitative. Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is long — about an
Dominating stage sets for two award-winning plays of the 21st-century are monochromatic paintings: a purely white canvas in Yasmina Reza’s Art and a red one
And then the audience said, looking to their programs, “Will they return?” — speaking about two of Chautauqua’s favorite dancers for the past decade. No