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by Joan Lipscomb SolomonStaff writer

What does it mean to be a person of faith in the 21st century? Week One’s chap-lain, the Rev. Alan Jones, tackles this quandary head-on. In fact, his theme for the week is “The Never-ending Conversation: Being a Person of Faith in the 21st Century.”

The chaplain’s sermon at 10:45 a.m. Sunday in the Amphitheater introduces the series with “The Burn-ing Bush: Saying the Unsay-able.” In Exodus 3:1-14, God answers Moses’ request for identification by saying, “I am that I am.”

At the 5 p.m. Vesper Ser-vice on Sunday at the Hall of Philosophy, Jones will share his personal faith jour-ney. The series returns each morning at 9:15 Monday through Friday in the Amp.

Monday’s message ex-plores “Life in the Spirit: Education for Freedom.” St. Paul implored his followers,

giving old songs a ‘new life’

by laura McCrystal | Staff writer

When the original cast members of the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” sang together for the first time, they were strangers and the show did not even have a script, but they realized their voices blended together well.

Now, more than four years later, Christian Hoff, J. Robert Spencer, Michael Longoria and Dan-iel Reichard are touring as The Boys in Concert, living out the same story they told in the musical, and bringing their story to Chautauqua at 8:15 p.m. Saturday on the Amphitheater stage.

Original cast of Broadway’s ‘Jersey Boys’ hits on popular music from the ‘60s

of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons featured in “Jersey Boys,” The Boys in Concert also surprise fans with oth-er popular music from the 1960s. They bring their own energy and excitement to interpre-

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Chaplain addresses 21st-century faithJones to incorporate personal faith journey

in Philippians 2:1-11, to “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.”

At 7 p.m. Monday at the Turner Community Center, Jones will dedicate the new labyrinth. He draws on his experiences with that medi-tation form at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, where he is dean emeritus, and at France’s Chartres Cathedral, where he is an honorary canon. This event is open to the public, and those attending will need to bring gate passes.

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One of Chautauqua Institution’s most pop-ular lecturers, Roger Rosenblatt, returns for another appearance as host and modera-tor for the Week One morning lecture series, “Roger Rosenblatt and More Friends.” The weeklong conversa-tion will demonstrate the literary giant’s mastery of getting to the heart of the story.

Jim Lehrer, Alice McDermott, Alan Alda, Anne Fadiman and Marsha Norman

will join Rosenblatt to explore the humor, pathos and ideals of contemporary literary arts at 10:45 a.m. on the Amphitheater stage.

Rosenblatt will also serve as Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle author for the CLSC Roundtable/Lecture on Thursday in the Hall of Philos-ophy to present his book Making Toast: A Family Story.

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The Boys in Concert will sing the “Hits of the ’60s” in the amphitheater Saturday night. left to right: Tony nominee J. robert Spencer, Michael longoria, daniel reichard and Tony winner Christian Hoff.

“It’s cool to go out there and represent a time we identify with even more than our own generation.”

— Christian Hoffmember of The Boys in Concert

Four Seasons, on whom the musi-cal is based, said Hoff, who played Tommy DeVito in the original pro-duction.

“It’s also bigger than us,” Hoff said. “We know that loyalty and family is everything. And we haven’t forgotten where we came from — ‘Jersey Boys’ — but we are taking that loyalty and looking to-ward the future.”

“Jersey Boys” won several Tony Awards and the original soundtrack of the show became a Grammy Award-winning plati-num album, but the four perform-ers eventually left the show and

took their careers in different di-rections. They reunited at the be-ginning of 2010 to open their tour as The Boys in Concert.

Within a month of beginning their tour, they had weekly shows booked across the country through February 2011. The group is in transition to a new name, The 4 Hitmen, and hopes for a lifelong career together, Hoff said.

“It’s just been amazing to get back together,” he said. “We missed singing together. And our friend-ship.”

Although they attract audi-ences who want to hear the songs

tations of songs from The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Monkees, Motown and more.

Most recently, they created a nine-minute medley of Motown music, which brought fans to their feet in Atlanta last weekend. Spen-cer, who played Nick Massi in the Broadway production, said it is his favorite number to perform.

With a variety of music from the 1960s, The Boys in Concert have created a show that appeals to au-diences of all generations.

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these operas, the stories are about everyday people. Consequently, the production is fairly violent and ex-tremely passionate.

“This is real visceral opera. This is blood and guts singing,” said Jay Lesenger, artistic/general di-rector for the company. “I think it’s just darn good entertainment.“

In Rustic Chivalry, Turiddù, played by Hugh Smith, has returned from the army and discovered his for-mer lover, Lola, played by Chautauqua Opera Com-pany Studio Artist Jennifer Feinstein, has married Chioldi’s character, Alfio. To console himself, Turiddù has an affair with Santuzza, sung by Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, and she is impregnated. When the show be-gins, Turiddù is pining for Lola, and the rest of the op-era revolves around the repercussions of his inability to be faithful to Santuzza.

“He was a good guy, but he’s an example of when his world fell apart, he went down the wrong path. He used Santuzza,” Smith said. “I get frustrated with this character, too, as a male, like, why doesn’t he just take responsibility with her? … He’s really a coward.”

onight, Michael Chioldi gets to enjoy a ca-thartic dichotomy as he sings two contrasting roles in Chautauqua Opera Company’s final main-stage production of the season. “It’s like therapy for me,” he said. “I get to get a lot out of my system by playing these characters.”

The show is the double bill of Rustic Chivalry (Ca-valleria rusticana) with music by Pietro Mascagni and The Clowns (I Pagliacci) with music by Ruggero Le-oncavallo. It plays at 7:30 p.m. tonight and Aug. 2 in Norton Hall.

In Rustic Chivalry, Chioldi plays a lovable man, Al-fio, but, in The Clowns, he plays Tonio, a hunchback. “Alfio is a good guy. He’s a hard worker, he’s built this business on his own, he’s the most successful per-son in town, and everyone loves him,” Chioldi said. “Tonio is not a nice guy. He probably was beat up a lot when he was young, he was made fun of because of his deformities, he’s not particularly attractive. … It’s not one of the nicer men I’ve played.”

Chioldi’s presence in each show, however, isn’t the only link between the two operas. The primary con-nection point is the verismo, or truthful, quality of both. While older operas were about aristocracy, in

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by Beverly HazenStaff writer

Think back to the music and young love during the late ’50s and early ’60s, and the name Dion should ring a bell of recognition. The music legend comes to Chautauqua at 8:15 p.m. tonight at the Am-phitheater for an evening of rock ‘n’ roll and reminiscing.

It was in the Bronx of New York where Dion DiMucci was born in 1939, and where his musical skill and style began — on the street corners and in the bars of his neighborhood.

“At the age of 12, my un-cle purchased a secondhand guitar as a gift for me,” Dion

wrote on his website. “I was soon caught up in the music of Hank Williams and some rhythm and blues, which was odd for a city boy in the 1950s.”

The driving, lonesome sound of Williams appealed to Dion, and he collected 70 of Hank’s singles, which he could sing by heart. Dion felt a connection to music and it provided an escape from the call of the streets and gangs, as well as family limits. R&B, blues, doo-wop and rock ’n’ roll all influenced his ap-proach to music.

Around the age of 15, Dion considered himself a rebel.

The Wandererdion brings rock ’n’ roll to amp tonight

by Laura McCrystalStaff writer

This entire week at Chau-tauqua Institution has been devoted to the craft of cap-turing a single instant — a photograph is a flash of time.

Whether they are “streak-ers, strollers or scholars” de-termines what Chautauquans will get out of this week on photography, Anthony Ban-non said. But in contrast to the length of an entire week, today he will discuss the power of a photograph in a single instant.

Bannon, the Ron and Donna Fielding Director of George Eastman House, helped plan and invite lec-turers for Week Five. He will conclude the week with his 2 p.m. Interfaith Lecture, “Contemplative Photography and Thomas Merton,” today in the Hall of Philosophy.

In planning this week at Chautauqua Institution,

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Bannon concludes photography week with link to contemplation

Bannon said he applied the same ideas that he does for exhibits at George East-man House: People par-ticipate on different levels, and he cat-egorizes people as streakers, strollers and scholars.

Streakers might have stopped by lectures this week, absorbing a sentence or two from which they can learn, he said. Strollers are more engaged but are casual listen-ers, whereas scholars are fully engaged in the subjects. The idea of this categorization is that each person brings a dif-ferent experience and back-ground, and it is important to provide something of interest for each individual.

Bannon

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by Sara TothStaff writer

What do you get when you cross poetry with pho-tography?

The Chautauqua audience will find out when former United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins speaks with An-thony Bannon, Ron and Don-na Fielding Director of George Eastman House, at 10:45 a.m. in the Amphitheater.

The format of the morn-ing lecture this morning — with Bannon engaging in conversation with Collins — is similar to the format of the weeks hosted by writer Roger Rosenblatt earlier this summer and two years ago. Collins was Rosenblatt’s first guest in 2008, and is again talking about his work on the Amp stage. It’s just in a dif-ferent context this time.

“We’ll be playing ping-pong with the idea of image

— written image and visual image,” Collins said. “You can say that poetry and pho-tography, the pen and the camera, really have nothing to do with each other, but there are connections here.”

Theoretically, Collins said, poetry and photography both fit into the idea of time. Both change our sense of the tem-poral, and both fit into our ideas of noise, sound and si-lence. There’s actually a genre of poetry that consists of po-ems about other works of art: ekphrastic poetry. While Col-lins said an ekphrastic poem is usually about a painting, he felt the term applied to photographs, too.

“I’m not sure if this term exists outside my own con-juring of it, but my word of the day is photo-ekphras-tic — poems that are spe-cific meditations on photo-graphs,” Collins said.

A wider connection be-

Collins

Members of the Chautauqua Opera Company rehearse for tonight’s double bill of Cavalleria rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) andI Pagliacci (The Clowns) at 7:30 p.m. in Norton hall. The production closes Monday evening.

tween poetry and photogra-phy, Collins said, is that they are both observational arts — there is even a such thing as an observational poem: the poet looks at something, and describes it.

“As the photographer is looking through lens in his observation, the poet is often

stringing images togeth-er,” Collins said. “Maybe the observation provokes a memory or a meditation, or maybe an antagonism. I think poets are visual creatures, not exclusively as photographers are, but there’s a big visual compo-nent in the poetry.”

Collins was U.S. poet laureate from 2001-2003 and has won numerous awards, including fellow-ships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the John Si-mon Guggenheim Memo-rial Foundation. Collins is currently a distinguished professor at Lehman Col-lege of the City University of New York and a senior distinguished fellow of the Winter Park Institute at Rollins College in Florida.

Collins finds poetry in photography

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by Kathleen ChaykowskiStaff writer

When I moved to Chautauqua this summer to report for The Chau-tauquan Daily, I found something

unexpected while I was unpacking shorts and sunscreen for the season.

Before I left for college, someone gave me a note written on scrawled cursive on bright, starchy paper that I have taken with me everywhere I move.

I took it with me to California, where it was posted on my door on the inside of my room where I saw it every day before I left for class. And I brought it with me 4,000 miles from my Stanford University dorm to Chautauqua for the summer, where it makes its home in my reporting notebook.

It says, “When you come to the edge of all the light you have known, and are about to step into the darkness, faith is knowing one of two things will happen — There will be something to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.”

Its significance to me wasn’t a traditionally religious one, but it was a way of looking at life, an attitude that we can always move forward.

There are probably a handful of people in your life who practically emanate sunshine when they speak. And the person who gave me that note, Lenelle Morse, is one of those people.

Lenelle is a first-violinist in the Chau-tauqua Symphony Orchestra and was my orchestra teacher for 10 years at Canterbury School in Fort Wayne, Ind. She started me on the violin in the third grade and saw me through to the 12th grade. She saw me grow up, just as she did the remarkable number of students she has introduced to the arts.

by Kathleen ChaykowskiStaff writer

When internationally acclaimed pianist Martina Filjak was 12 years old, she was lying in a hospital bed for one month. Her uncle had come to visit her and brought her a cassette of only

one piece, Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major. She listened to the piece over and over again, almost every day. When

Filjak left the hospital and returned home, she could play the piece from beginning to end without even practicing. It had been ingrained in her subconscious.

This Ravel concerto is the very piece Filjak will perform Saturday as the featured soloist in the last Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra con-cert of the season, conducted by Music Director Stefan Sanderling. The concert, which starts at 8:15 p.m. in the Amphitheater, also includes An-tonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, also called the New World Symphony.

The Ravel piece is a jazzy concerto whose color and rhythm reflect Parisian life in the 1930s, Sanderling said.

The first movement is melodious and atmospheric with a melancholy character, while the second movement is highly lyrical and reminiscent of a Sergei Rachmaninoff concerto. The third movement is cheerful and “bursting,” looking eagerly toward the future, Filjak said.

by Joan Lipscomb SolomonStaff writer

A frequent complaint about modern life is, “It’s all so complicated.” Week Nine Chaplain Cynthia Hale doesn’t see it that way. In her Sunday sermon, she will explain why “It’s Not Complicated.” To Jesus, in John 17:20-23, it’s as simple as loving unity. St. Paul echoes this teaching in Ephesians 4:1-6: “One Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.”

Hale will begin her se-ries Sunday morning at 10:45 a.m. at the Amphi-theater. At Sunday’s 5 p.m. Vesper Service at the Hall of

Philosophy, she will share her personal faith journey. The series will return to the Amphitheater each morn-ing at 9:15 a.m., Monday through Friday.

Monday’s message, “Ear-ly Morning Rendezvous,” finds Jesus, in Mark 1:35, “in the morning, while it was still very dark, getting up and going out to a de-serted place, and there, he prayed.”

Tuesday’s topic is “Carpe Diem — Seize the Day.” Mo-ses, in Exodus 7:25 and 8:10, seven days after the Lord had struck the Nile, tells Pharaoh, “Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.” St. Paul, in Ephesians 5:15-

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CSO reporter reflects on inspirational teacher Morse

by Lori HumphreysStaff writer

Attorney and author Philip K. Howard is not rec-ommending William Shake-speare’s dictum, “First let’s kill all the lawyers,” but he is convinced that our national and state governments are strangled by too many laws. At 3 p.m Saturday in the Hall of Philosophy, as part of the Contemporary Issues Forum sponsored by the Chautau-qua Women’s Club, Howard will argue why “Life Without Lawyers: Restoring Respon-sibility in America” is neces-sary — in fact, essential.

“People are frozen, para-lyzed, by overly detailed rules and fear of lawsuits,” observed Howard, author of

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Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra first violinist Lenelle Morse

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Stefan Sanderling conducts Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 during the Thursday Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra performance in the Amp.

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17, urges, “Be careful then, how you live, not as unwise people, but wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil.”

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The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffo-cating Amer-ica and Life Without Law-yers: Liberat-ing Ameri-cans From

Too Much Law.Howard has translated his

opinion and concerns into ac-tion. In 2002 he founded the nonprofit, nonpartisan legal reform coalition Common Good, which is dedicated to “restoring common sense to America,” according to its website. Common Good is an active translation of How-ard’s effort to “affirmatively define an area free from legal interference.” It is an effort

to unglue the legal system in the following areas: health care, education, civil justice and the value of play.

Though Howard can of-fer many examples to prove his point, he would look no further than this summer’s efforts to clean up the BP oil spill, which were initially stymied by federal Environ-mental Protection Agency regulations. However, make no mistake, Howard is not suggesting that law and reg-ulation should be abolished. He said that the answer is not to deregulate, but to have laws that are more purpose-ful and set boundaries that allow for people’s freedom to act and solve problems.

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Howard to lead forum discussion on lawyers Hale says modern life isn’t all that complicated

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The sun is setting, glistening silver and yellow. You are standing in the sea, and waves wash up around your legs. You sway slightly, and your toes dig deeper into the sand. You wonder where these waves come from, where the energy starts. Looking back at the shore, you see it is merely

a crust. The ocean is the larger living space, and you are part of it now, con-nected to all other shores, all other people, through the droplets at your feet.

If you can imagine the ocean, the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra’s con-cert at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater will bring you to a familiar place. The concert features a special piece: soprano Janet Brown singing “A Song of Longing, Though …” with words by Tom Beal and music by guest conductor Grant Cooper.

by Jack RodenfelsStaff writer

With projects spanning five continents and more than 30 years of experience, photojournalist Ed Kashi will portray his passion for photography at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater, where he aims to educate and inspire Chautauquans to take interest in sociopo-litical plights around the world.

Kashi will touch on some of his projects that he is most passionate about — includ-ing documenting the experi-ences of people living in the Kurdish area in Northern Iraq, the negative impact of the oil industry on the Niger Delta region, modernization in India, and the lives of ru-ral villagers in Madagascar.

“It’s going to be a mix-ture of very serious issues — both geopolitical in na-ture and issues close to home,” Kashi said.

Close to home, Kashi will discuss “Aging in Ameri-ca” — an eight-year project completed in 2003 which launched a traveling exhibi-tion, an award-winning doc-umentary film, a website and a book which was honored as one of the top photo books of 2003 by American Photo.

“My goal with ‘Aging in America’ was to paint the portrait of what America will deal with, in the near future,” Kashi explained. “I tried to create a time-less body of work for what I consider one of the press-ing issues of our lifetimes.”

Kashi, a self-described

by Laura McCrystalStaff writer

The most expensive photograph Sotheby’s ever sold went for $2.9 million; it was Edward Steichen’s “The Pond — Moonlight.”

Christopher Mahoney, senior vice president of Sotheby’s photograph de-partment, does not cite this

by Beth Ann DowneyStaff writer

Neil Shicoff wants to start giving back, to both the peo-ple who taught him in the past and those who will give themselves to the future of his art form.

Shicoff, a renowned vocal-ist and actor who boasts a 35-year international career in opera and performance, will

Kashi

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Guest conductor Grant Cooper gestures to the violins during “overture: Aotearoa,” a piece from Cooper’s homeland of new Zealand in Cso concert earlier this season.

Photographer Kashi raises awareness with visual storytelling

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“visual storyteller,” since 1979, has had work pub-lished in various publica-tions, including Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and MediaStorm, and had five books published.

Perhaps Kashi’s most recognized work includes his work in Niger for Na-tional Geographic Magazine. Chronicling the negative effects of oil development in the impecunious Niger Delta region, Kashi’s work led to a photographic and editorial essay book, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta.

“It’s always about raising awareness, touching peo-ple’s hearts, opening their minds and moving them to think,” Kashi explained of his sociopolitical journal-istic work. “I try to illumi-nate stories that I feel people need to know more about, or bring up issues that people don’t know anything about.”

Same ocean, different shores

In the case of love, how many of us have looked up at the moon and thought that our loved one could

look up at the moon at the same moment?— grant Cooper, guest conductor

CSO performs recent composition set to poetry

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Mahoney to discuss ethics behind photography in the auction house

Mahoney

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number to brag about the high cost, but rather to d e m o n -strate that there is a serious fine arts market for photography, just as exists for paintings

and other art forms. In this respect, Mahoney

said his Interfaith Lecture today at 2 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy will be “intrigu-ingly different” for the Chau-tauqua Institution audience. His lecture is titled “Photog-raphy in the Auction House: a Discussion of Ethics.”

In teaching young vocalists, Shicoff is giving back by paying it forward

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arrive on the grounds today and spend the next several days work-ing with students in the Voice Program.

Shicoff shares a common bond with the students, hav-

ing also studied closely with Voice Chair Marlena Malas in the beginning of his ca-reer. He described Malas as both an “enlightened spirit” and a “fantastic technician,” adding that she helped carry him through many roles, as well as many different life experiences.

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Prolonged exposure of a full moon rising over Chautauqua Lake