These new pictures called “Barnscapes” are more like halls of mirrors. They are not scapes at all, though they are metaphors for the long stalk
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After a summer full of classes, rehearsals and performances, the Festival and Workshop dancers in the Chautauqua School of Dance will take the stage one
The lives of two women living centuries apart — a contemporary New Yorker and a historical queen — run parallel in the 2016 novel The
Week Seven’s poet-in-residence Julia Spicher Kasdorf to discuss relationship between poetry and news
People can be somewhat terrified of the news in 2017, but Julia Spicher Kasdorf has a way to soothe those fears: poetry. Or, more specifically,
At 15 years old, Aaron Berofsky was skeptical of his teachers who said playing the same piece felt different every time. “Some of my best
This season of dance at Chautauqua Institution has featured an array of well-known choreographers, from Alvin Ailey and George Balanchine to Sasha Janes and Ólafur
The first time Dawn Monique Williams encountered Romeo & Juliet in junior high, she didn’t get it. So her mom took her to Blockbuster Video,
Steven Mackey considers himself a kind of musical mutt. Mackey grew up playing electric guitar. He admired Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar and Led Zeppelin. In
As she worked on her book about the bombing of Nagasaki, author Susan Southard soon realized she wasn’t writing solely about survivors. “It’s not just
When a longtime poet looks back on their work, they might feel a sense of satisfaction. William Heyen experienced a different feeling entirely, something he
Received wisdom tells us that the great Hollywood film scores were born in Vienna and brought to California by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner.
When it came to scheduling a residency at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center, Week Seven was the only week that worked for writer Kim Todd. She’s
Symphony in D Major, Hob. I:101 (“The Clock”) Joseph Haydn (Franz) Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Lower Austria, on March 31, 1732, and died
Eight Music School Festival Orchestra students and three voice students will perform Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale at 7 p.m. Thursday in Fletcher Music Hall.
For their end-of-season recital, the 10 Music School Festival Orchestra cellists will play pieces that were arranged specifically for them. Arie Lipsky, chamber music chair,
The voice students are ready to say — or rather, sing — goodbye to one another, their teachers and the Chautauqua community. The annual Voice