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President Thomas M. Becker gavels a previous season to a close.

Sacred Song provides fitting sendoff

August 26, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Two short months ago, excitement, joy and greetings among old friends swirled through the Amphitheater as Institution President Tom Becker tapped the gavel three times to open the 2012 Season.

As the Sunday sun sets and the final note of the Massey Organ fades into the twilight hour, Becker will repeat the tradition in a totally different atmosphere. With three more taps, he will close the season during the final Sacred Song Service at 8 p.m. in the Amp.

“This is like the death of 2012 Chautauqua in a way,” said Jared Jacobsen, organist and coordinator of worship and sacred music. “We have to help people kind of get up to it and then get through it.”

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Final Tallman mini-concert puts organ on display

August 21, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

For Chautauqua organist Jared Jacobsen’s last Tallman Tracker Organ mini-concert of the season, he will give a musical tour of the instrument.

In a brief performance titled “Tallman Organ 101,” Jacobsen will play songs that highlight each of the organ’s four families of tone: the foundation, church-like sound; the flute sound; the oboe sound; and the string sound. The concert is at 12:15 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ.

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The Rev. Joel Hunter delivers his sermon, titled “Searching for Complements.” Hunter is senior pastor at Northland, A Church Distributed, in Central Florida, and Week Nine chaplain-in-residence. Photo by Lauren Rock.

Hunter: ‘We need to find people who irritate us, who won’t always agree with us’

August 20, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

“It was my first day at the insane asylum. I was just 25, and I was working on my doctorate and signed up for a year of clinical pastoral education,” began The Rev. Joel Hunter, Week Nine chaplain at Chautauqua.

Hunter is the senior pastor at Northland, A Church Distributed, in Central Florida. His title was “Searching for Complements,” and his text was Genesis 2:15, 18-23.

“It was in Indianapolis and a place for the criminally insane. It was all ancient brick and it felt like every Alfred Hitchcock movie I had ever watched. I was overwhelmed. As I went looking for the administration building, I passed a parade of attendants leading some of the patients.

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Sacred Song celebrates Christmas in August, offers time to share with Chautauqua family

August 18, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

It doesn’t matter if people are wearing Bermuda shorts and flip-flops, said Jared Jacobsen, as soon as they start singing Christmas carols — ’tis the season.

Jacobsen, Chautauqua organist and coordinator of worship and sacred music, will lead a Christmas-themed Sacred Song Service at 8 p.m. Sunday in the Amphitheater. The service will be a traditional carol sing of old, familiar songs, as well as a couple of newer ones.

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Hymn-poet Wren to present lecture on Bliss

August 14, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Internationally renowned hymn-poet Brian Wren will lecture on “More to Follow — An Appreciation of P. P. Bliss” at 7 p.m. tonight in the Hall of Christ. Bliss, according to Chautauqua organist and coordinator of sacred and worship music Jared Jacobsen, was a very popular hymn writer at the end of the 19th century and a frequent platform guest of Chautauqua Institution.

Wren’s residency during Week Eight, including tonight’s lecture, a master class through the Writers’ Center and participation in Sunday’s Sacred Song Service, which featured a program composed entirely of his works, is supported in part by the Mary Anne and John Morefield Endowment for the Advancement of Poetry at Chautauqua.

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Tallman Organ mini-concert features music evoking perpetual motion machines

August 14, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Chautauqua organist Jared Jacobsen will “sew” a musical set on the Tallman Tracker Organ at 12:15 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ.

Jacobsen said he got the idea for the concert, titled “Sewing a Musical Sampler,” when he was playing Bach’s organ reworking of Vivaldi’s Concerto in A Minor for a friend.

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Sacred Song to feature great hymn writer of our time

August 11, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Sunday’s Sacred Song Service will introduce a poet who will inspire morning worship service hymns for the rest of the week.

The service, at 8 p.m. in the Amphitheater, will feature hymns by Brian Wren, who is spending Week Eight in residence at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center and teaching a Special Studies class on writing words for worship. Students’ prayers and hymns will be used during morning worship services throughout the week. The class is Monday through Friday, 3:30–5:30 p.m.

Jared Jacobsen, Chautauqua organist and coordinator of worship and sacred music, said he has been trying to bring Wren to Chautauqua for years and was finally able to do so with the help of Sherra Babcock, director of the Department of Education and Youth Services, who has worked with the poet before.

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Massey concert features composers with Chautauqua ties

August 8, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Many well-known composers have made their way to Chautauqua throughout the years, and Chautauqua organist Jared Jacobsen will showcase their works in a brief Massey Memorial Organ Mini-Concert titled “Chautauqua Connections” at 12:15 p.m. today in the Amphitheater.

He will play “La Media Noche” and “Jota” from the “Hispania Suite” by Albert Stoessel, who was Chautauqua’s first orchestra conductor, as well as “Contemplation,” from Sinfonia No. 3 by Herman Berlinski, which was first performed at Chautauqua by international concert organist Claire Coci.

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