MARY LEE TALBOT
Staff writer
After lectures and church services, the oldest opportunity for lifelong learning at Chautauqua Institution is the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. The 8 p.m. Sunday evening Sacred Song Service will honor the CLSC Class of 2026 in music and words.
The class theme is “Keepers of the Flame: Voices for Democracy.” CLSC class members Corinne Hatcher and Annell George-McLawhorn will serve as readers. The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, senior pastor of Chautauqua, will preside. For the prelude, organ scholar Owen Reyda will play an improvisation of his own on the Massey Memorial Organ. Sonya Subbayya Sutton, interim director of Sacred Music, will direct the Chautauqua Choir.
A prayer by Thomas Troeger, poems by Mary Oliver, Emma Lazarus, Maya Angelou and a prayer from the New Zealand Prayer Book are featured in the readings. “Earth Song,” music and words by Frank Ticheli; “MLK,” words and music by U2, arranged by Bob Chilcott; and “The Dream Isaiah Saw” with music by Glenn Rudolph and text by Thomas H. Troeger are the featured anthems. Guest pianist Arlene Hanjilian will accompany the choir on “The Dream Isaiah Saw.”
The postlude, as always, will be “Largo,” by George Frideric Handel from his opera Xerxes.
