All children should be able to see themselves on the shelves of the library. But according to Lee & Low Books, as of 2016 only 11 percent of children’s books written in the past 23
There’s no direct path to success. “It’s been an amazing, strange, wonderful journey that didn’t have a pattern in a traditional sense,” Jon Nakamatsu said. “I feel lucky every time I get to walk onto
There’s a ghost in Fletcher Music Hall. At least that’s what the voice students performing Benjamin Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Fletcher Music Hall
After spending three years in the audience, Vincent Ip is ready to take to the Amphitheater stage. The 2016 Sigma Alpha Iota Competition winner for piano will perform Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with
Since he was 5 years old, Aaron Berofsky has known he wanted to be a violinist, but it wasn’t until recently that he found a second passion — teaching. “I’ve always love performing,” said Berofsky,
The West isn’t the critical victim of radical Islam. “The real threat it represents is to the Muslim world,” said Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the former chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the
When most people read Langston Hughes and John Steinbeck, they see poems and novels. Composer Ricky Ian Gordon sees operas. “Words inspire me,” Gordon said. “I was fascinated by the way words were set to
The five finalists of the Sigma Alpha Iota Competition are ready to face off. At 2 p.m. Wednesday in Fletcher Music Hall, the young musicians will take to the stage to perform for judges, the
A monk, a Jew and a peasant walk into an inn. What follows isn’t a punchline, but a heartwarming tale of three unlikely heroes who become friends despite a society that pits them against one
Malcolm Bilson plays music the way 18th-century composers intended. The fortepiano expert plays on pianos modeled after the instruments composers such as Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were creating music for, revealing a different sound than
Behind every great orchestra is a great conductor – and behind him, is a great conducting fellow. “The conducting fellowship has been a wonderful arrangement,” said Timothy Muffitt, conductor and music director of the Music
Five years ago when Soyeon An came to Chautauqua, she had never even been to the United States. Now, she’s returning to the open arms of her “American parents.” An is the recipient of The
Chautauqua Institution offers the exciting opportunity to live and learn among some of the greatest minds and artists of our time. Perhaps no one appreciates that more than the young musicians studying in the School
Frederic Chiu’s mission is to use his skills on the piano to convert others into classical music fans. At Chautauqua, that’s not a hard feat. “It’s like a little intellectual paradise,” said Chiu, a renowned
Poetry doesn’t have to be intimidating. In Out of Wonder, the CLSC Young Readers selection for Week Two, co-authors Kwame Alexander, Marjory Wentworth and Chris Colderley are breaking down the walls that keep children from
On her bedside table, next to her Chanel perfume, Bénédicte Jourdois keeps a reminder of her family’s — and country’s — past. “I have two little vases made out of bombshells,” said the School of