This weekend, many will say goodbye to Chautauqua Institution’s grounds as the 2016 season ends. But they will say a couple more permanent goodbyes, including to the presidency of Tom Becker, and to the Amphitheater:
The last time Rabbi Ken Kanter visited Chautauqua Institution, he presented a program at the Everett Jewish Life Center at Chautauqua on Jewish contributions to Broadway in the early American popular music industry. Now, he
For Michael Weis’ 30th birthday, his then-girlfriend gifted him a session with a psychic. Weis went into the meeting very skeptical, but the moment he thought he knew for sure it was bogus was when
Jared Jacobsen feels a special bond with early 20th-century American composer George Gershwin, because they both have done some of their best work at Chautauqua Institution. At 12:15 p.m. August 24, Jacobsen will play the
The Rev. James H. Evans Jr. grew up in Detroit where “music is everywhere.” The city’s public schools had robust music programs, and Evans started playing music in third grade. “I started with the clarinet,
It’s the seventh inning stretch at Turner Field, the home of the Atlanta Braves, when the noisy ballgame comes to a silent halt. Every fan, regardless of the scoreboard, turns to focus on the performance
For this summer season’s last Tallman Tracker Organ Recital, Jared Jacobsen will pay tribute to its roots. At 12:15 p.m. August 23 in the Hall of Christ, Jacobsen will lead this week’s recital: “An American Organ
Most people are surprised to learn that the guy sitting at their table in a noisy jazz club is a minister. But as both a jazz musician and the senior pastor of First Congregational Church
To kick off this week’s focus on American music, Sunday’s Sacred Song Service will be led by Alice Parker, who Jared Jacobsen calls “America’s song leader.” At 8 p.m. August 21 in the Amphitheater, Parker will
Capt. Paul K. Chappell’s parents thought he was a freak. But that notion wasn’t based on anything Chappell did; it was actually based on his parents’ ethnicities. Chappell’s mother was Korean and his father was
The main reason Lt. Col. Shareda Hosein joined the United States military was so she could go to college. A daughter of immigrants, Hosein couldn’t afford tuition. She and her family didn’t fully understand the
The 19th-century Hungarian composer and organist Franz Liszt is somewhat of a great-grandfather to Jared Jacobsen.9 Jacobsen and Liszt are not related by blood, but by a lineage of piano and organ instructors. At 12:15
The Rev. Pamela Lightsey is a liberationist, a war veteran and the first out black queer lesbian woman ordained as a minister in the United Methodist Church. Her social justice activism knows no bounds: She
George Shearing was more than just a legendary blind British jazz pianist. He was a Chautauquan and Jared Jacobsen’s former housemate. At 12:15 p.m. Tuesday in the Hall of Christ, Jacobsen will lead this week’s
On Monday, Chautauquans heard about moral injury from the Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock. Now they will hear from Jonathan Shay, the clinical psychiatrist who first coined that term. At 2 p.m. August 16 in the Hall
The Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock grew up in a military family: Her birth father and stepfather were both veterans. But growing up, Brock didn’t really understand war — she didn’t understand what it does