Massey Memorial Organ

The Massey Memorial Organ will be silent for the rest of the 2018 season. Amphitheater crew members, including head of

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwx90Ba0tNw   A new keyboard for the Massey Memorial Organ arrived from London on June 20, escorted by Chautauqua

As the sun sets and the final strains of the Massey Memorial Organ fade, President Michael E. Hill will tap

The menu has been set. The instrument has been polished, and the chef is prepared. This isn’t a fine dinner

Jared Jacobsen loves to tell a good story. At 12:15 p.m. Wednesday in the Amphitheater, Jacobsen, organist and coordinator of

From the age of 1, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach could sing 40 songs from memory. By age 2, she could

Jared Jacobsen knew something was up. “I would walk in the room and people would change the subject,” Jacobsen said.

Though Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel never met in person, the legendary composers will go head-to-head in the

Chautauquans heading to the Massey Memorial Organ mini-concert Wednesday should be ready to take a march. Thankfully, organist and coordinator

After 110 years, multiple restorations and the complete rebuild of its home around it, the Massey Memorial Organ remains standing

Echoes of weeping, wailing, worrying and lamenting will fill the Amphitheater today. But don’t worry — it will just be the Massey Memorial Organ as organist Jared Jacobsen performs a somber mini-concert at 2 p.m. Jacobsen will play Franz Liszt’s “Variations on Bach’s ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen,’” which translates to “Weeping, Wailing, Worrying, Lamenting,” and Olivier Messiaen’s “Dieu Parmi Nous,” or “God Among Us.”