deborah treftsStaff Writer

Fueled by caffeine and energized by enthusiasm, “Irrationality” mastermind Dan Ariely has already been ensconced at Chautauqua Institution for eight days honing his plans.

Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University, is a social scientist who designs and conducts simple experiments

to study how people genuinely act within and occasionally outside the marketplace.

Working at the nexus of psychology and econom-ics, he has observed, re-corded and analyzed how people actually behave.

At 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater, Ariely

will address why people regularly act in ways that defy their interests and how they justify their own dishonesty. All through this week, he will also lead special after-noon sessions of expanded discussion on the week’s theme. The times and locations vary by day — today’s session is at 3:30 p.m. in the Hall of Philosophy.

He said he would like Chautauquans to think about the role the environment plays in their decisions and leave with a different sense of what they do wrong and do right in their personal life and what they can do about it.

Dishonesty is a central and continuing area of research for Ariely, and it is the focus of his third book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone — Especially Ourselves.

During the 2012 season, Ariely kicked off a week dedicated to “The Ethics of Cheat-ing” and wrote a guest column on plagia-rism and essay mills for The Chautauquan Daily. The following summer he taught a three-day special seminar on lying.

This morning, Ariely will provide Chautauquans with ideas on how to bet-ter immerse themselves in the expand-ing field of irrationality during the week ahead.

It is a week that he has helped bring to fruition, too. Ariely has worked with staff in the Institution’s Department of Educa-tion since early 2014 to assist in shaping the narrative and choosing the week’s other speakers.

“They are all friends who are doing interesting research, give good talks and have the agility to do things fast in the af-ternoon sessions,” he said.

alexandra greenwaldStaff Writer

Seventy-one years ago today, Lutheran minister and theologian Dietrich Bon-hoeffer was among the conspirators who sought to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Bonhoeffer was motivated by his op-position to Hitler’s annexation of German Protestantism, but according to Philip Jenkins, these actions are often not placed in the same category as other forms of re-ligious violence.

Jenkins, co-director of the Program on Histori-cal Studies of Religion at Baylor University, will discuss the necessity of historical context for un-derstanding religious violence at 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy. The Week Four Interfaith Lecture theme is “The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Reli-gion and Violence.”

“The fact that I’m using the Hitler ex-ample means that I’m suggesting it’s kind of a complicated picture,” Jenkins said. “Sometimes, there are kinds of violence that people actually approve of, but my main theme is how violence has a strong historical connection. Religion and vio-lence are closely linked across the spec-trum.”

Jenkins has written two books on the relationship between religion and vio-lence, including The Great and Holy War, Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can’t Ig-nore the Bible’s Violent Verses. His interest in the topic came from work on the gen-eral topic of fear, he said.

“I was doing work on things like ter-rorism and drug panics, and I worked on [the question], ‘What are the ideas within religion that really scare people?’ ” Jen-kins said. “And way back when, one of the great issues was religious cults and the idea of religious cults seducing your children. That then got into the issue of religious violence and terrorism, and the overlap between the two.”

This work led Jenkins to conclude that while certain religions might be more closely associated with violence in any given era, no tradition is immune to vio-lent ideology or free from violent scrip-tures.

“The phrase goes: We don’t see things not as they are. We see things as we are,” Jenkins said. “As our ideas change, what we see, what we remember changes.

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Chautauqua Quartet to honor colleagues, celebrate musicMorgan KinneyStaff Writer

With more than seven de-cades of history, the Chautau-qua Quartet is an institution of its own.

“We’re kind of a big deal,” joked violinist Vahn Armstrong. “It’s been going on for a long time.”

Armstrong and his colleagues continue the tradition at 4 p.m. to-day in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall as part of the Logan Chamber Music Series.

The string quartet — two vio-lins, a viola and a cello — draws members from the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra out of the Amphitheater and into the recital hall.

Of the four musicians, violin-ist Diane Bruce has been with the group the longest. She’s seen three iterations of the quartet, and said that it keeps getting better. If it didn’t, she said, she wouldn’t keep coming back.

“It’s hard work doing this sym-phony,” Bruce said. “We have a very busy schedule, and then we add quartet rehearsals on top of it. But it’s such a privilege to play quartet music that we all feel like it’s worth the sacrifice.”

Today’s program includes two pieces: one piano quintet by An-tonín Dvořák and a string quar-tet by Samuel Barber. Like many groups, the ensemble said it tries to strike a balance between mu-sic the audience ought to rec-

ognize and music that’s simply worth playing.

The Barber piece will be per-formed in memory of Mary Whitaker and Vern Kagarice, two orchestra members who passed away in the last year. According to violist Eva Stern, the piece’s second movement — which was prominently featured in the mov-ie “Platoon” — is meant to serve as an emotional and beautiful tribute to their departed colleagues.

The Dvořák quintet adds a pi-ano into the mix as a slight twist to what’s usually a string quartet concert. Armstrong said he is par-ticularly excited to have fun with the piece. ruby Wallau | Staff Photographer

Members of the Chautauqua Quartet: violist Eva Stern, violinist Vahn Armstrong, cellist Jolyon Pegis, and violinist Diane Bruce.

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Behavioral economist Ariely to introduce week on ‘Irrationality’

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JenKins

Jenkins to investigate Scripture’s role in religious bloodshed

T hey finish each other’s sentences, completing a string of shared thoughts through quick jabbering, as if it was ef-fortless.

Another activity they both make look effortless: play-ing the viola.

Katie and Patrick Gallagher are both musicians in the Music School Festival Orchestra. They’re also siblings.

“When we’re playing the same instrument, well, we always try to correct the other one,” Patrick said. “Which, in turn, annoys the other one.”

“Yeah, I’m like, ‘Patrick, that’s the wrong note,’ ” Katie said.“Or I’m like, ‘Do it this way.’ ”“ ‘Do a better fingering.’ ”“ ‘No, you should do it this way.’ ”“We both have similar but differing opinions, and we want to

express that to the other one,” Patrick said. “When we’re playing different instruments, we get along very well.”

Katie and Patrick’s back-and-forth chatter is something that ex-ists only in their own spheres. When they’re with the orchestra, they’re silent. Focused.

At 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater, Chautauquans will have a chance to see Katie, Patrick and the 80 other MSFO musi-cians perform a third concert this season. Already, music director Timothy Muffitt said, the students are forging bonds not too dif-ferent from the Gallaghers’.

“There’s a great sense of camaraderie in the orchestra, espe-cially in each section,” Muffitt said. “You just see the individuals in the section coming together nicely, and that’s sort of a natural occurrence since they work so closely with each other.”

Tonight’s program reflects that intimate and condensed time spent together. Before each Amp performance, the MSFO has just about a week to learn an entirely new repertoire.

all in the familyMSFO siblings share passion for viola

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remembering mary

Benefit golf tournament to support Whitaker Endowment for CSO

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showing their #PattiPrideDance Circle lecture, dinner celebrate McBride’s honor

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experimentation on displayCritic Kuntz reviews VACI’s “From Clay to Table” exhibition

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BrieflyCollin Hanner & Morgan Kinneystaff writers

There wasn’t a time when Mary whitaker wasn’t smil-ing, and that’s not much of an overstatement. Between her two loves — golf and music — the reasons were few and far between to not be happy.

“she once told me she loves playing the orchestra, she loves music, but golf was her passion,” said Donna Dolson, a French horn player for the Chautauqua sympho-ny Orchestra and longtime friend of whitaker.

The Mary whitaker Me-morial Golf Tournament takes place today at the Chautauqua Golf Club to benefit the Mary E. Whita-ker endowment Fund estab-lished through the Chautau-qua Foundation to support the CsO. The 18-hole scram-ble event starts at noon.

whitaker, a violinist with the Chautauqua symphony Orchestra for 35 years, was slain late last summer in her sherman, new York, home — a 15-minute drive from Chau-tauqua Institution. The death of the 61-year-old took the en-tire community by surprise.

One of whitaker’s Man-hattan neighbors told the New York Times her death was “the most random awful thing anyone can imagine,” adding that her killing was “confusing, bizarre and dis-turbing all at the same time.” In Chautauqua, the reaction was similarly dumbfounded.

“The last [CsO] perfor-mance [of the season] was on a Tuesday night,” said Rainy evans, a friend of whitaker. “It wasn’t until a wednesday afternoon they discovered her because she had missed an appointment. we knew some-thing was wrong because that wasn’t Mary. within an hour of hearing of it, what musi-cians were here met in the plaza and we had a vigil. ev-erybody was in shock.”

Immediately following that day, Rainy evans and her husband, Rick, decided they had to do something to honor their friend’s memory. Conversations with whita-ker’s partner, suzanne Gil-man, on how to memorialize whitaker were wide rang-ing, but they all came back to whitaker’s love.

A golf benefit was the end

result. More than 50 players will take the course for the scramble, and a dinner and silent auction will follow in the evening. A cash bar will also be available throughout the event for spectators and other guests.

Players will have the op-portunity to purchase mul-ligans, from which proceeds will provide a scholarship to a young golfer in Chautauqua Lake Central school District.

even in death, whitaker’s friends acknowledge the en-dowment means she is still working for the orchestra. she spent her life as an active member of Local 802, new York City’s largest musician’s union, and advocating for the symphony in Chautau-qua. Friends said her knack for problem-solving and re-lentless positivity made her great at her job.

“If there was a challenge, she could meet it head-on with grace and you would never know,” Dolson said. “she was always working behind the scenes and you would never know it. even when she died, she was al-ways working for the orches-tra and no one knew it. That’s who she was — she was rep-resenting [the orchestra].”

Rick evans said the ben-efit is a fitting celebration of someone who spent most of her free time on the green. He recalls one particular round he played with whita-ker where she chose to for-sake the revelry at the 19th hole for more golf.

“we’re all drinking beer

there, but Mary stopped after one or two glasses and said, ‘I’m not going to drink any-more because I’m going to the learning center to practice,’ ” he said. “The rest of us kept knocking down beers.”

But whitaker took note of their post-round celebration and knew what was making them happy. After Rick ev-ans had torn his meniscus, whitaker left a four-pack of beer on the evans’ front porch as a certain kind of “medicine.” He has yet to drink the beer and hopes to share it with all members of the CsO at some point.

Cindy Frank, a violinist for the CsO and a regular in whitaker’s foursomes, shared some of her favorite memories with whitaker on the course. Frank admitted she’s not the greatest golfer, but also said that never mat-tered to whitaker.

“she was really enthusi-astic and very patient with

other people who weren’t as good,” Frank said. “she was just that person — every-one’s favorite golf partner.”

Occasionally, Frank said, their golf antics spread be-yond the course.

“somebody had drove their ball by the range and we picked up a ball that we thought was ours,” she said. “It said ‘Mojo’ on it. we were hitting that ball around all day and for the rest of the summer, and into the winter, it was all about that mojo.”

They later discovered Mojo is actually a golf ball mass-produced by nike. But Frank said the novelty never really disappeared, and at the event today, each golfer will be presented with a Mojo golf ball along with the story behind it in hope that it will bring happiness to other golfers.

“That was the thing about Mary — it was all about hav-ing fun,” Frank said. “we’re going to find our mojo [at the benefit].”

Those interested in support-ing the benefit are welcome to join golfers and supporters alike after the afternoon of golf has ended. A happy hour, din-ner and silent auction will take place at the Chautauqua Golf Club starting at 5:30 p.m.

Remembering Mary Golf benefit to support Whitaker Endowment for CSO

The Briefly column appears on Page 2 daily and is intended to provide space for announcements from Institution-related organiza-tions. If a meeting or activity is featured that day in a story, it should not be repeated in Briefly. Submit information to Laura Scherb in the Daily’s Editorial Office. Please provide name of organization, time and place of meeting and one contact person’s name with phone number. Deadline is 5 p.m. four days before publication.

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Runs from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. today in the Hall of Mis-sions’ west Classroom. Call 303-918-4617.

Chautauqua Tennis Center news

Tennis players are invited to join a doubles round-robin each weekday from 7 to 9 a.m. at the Tennis Center. sign-ups are each prior evening at 4:50 p.m. near the Farmers Market. Tennis weekday “Dawn Patrol” Round Robin Doubles call 716-357-6276.

Annual Chautauqua team tennis 7:45 a.m. to noon sat-urday. sign up to enter by Thursday at the Tennis Center or call 716-357-6275. Limited to 32 players.

Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle and alumni news

The CLSC Class of 2001 meets for coffee at 9 a.m. every Monday at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.

The CLsC Brown Bag Book Review is 12:15 p.m. today on the porch of the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall. week Four’s selection is The Opposite of Loneliness by Ma-rina Keegan. Beth Peyton will review the book.

A book discussion of The Opposite of Loneliness will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall. Jeff Miller, CLSC activities coordinator, will head discussion.

The Banner Committee of the CLsC Alumni Associa-tion reminds class representatives to make arrangements at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall to have their class banner carried in the Recognition Day Parade.

The CLsC Class of 2009 will hold a social from 4 to 5 p.m. wednesday on the porch of the st. elmo.

Pioneer Hall is open for docent tours every Monday and wednesday from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m.

Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends news

After the Tuesday Brown Bag on the porch of the Lit-erary Arts Center at Alumni Hall, CLAF will sponsor an informal critique of prose or poetry. Please bring five cop-ies of no more than one page of prose or poetry to share. Direct questions to CHQLIT@aol.com or 240-485-7233.

At 4 p.m. Aug. 4 in the Hall of Philosophy, selected Chautauquans will have the chance to read their favorite poem and briefly explain why it is their favorite. Pick up an application at the smith Memorial Library, the Liter-ary Arts Center at Alumni Hall or the CLsC Veranda and submit it by July 30. The form is also available online at at ciweb.org/literary-arts/literary-arts-friends

Chautauqua Women’s Club news

Mah jongg games at the CwC. Members only, but mem-berships available at the door. Games will be played from 2:30 to 5 p.m. every Monday and Friday.

Join the CwC on this evening to make new friends. Duplicate Bridge games at the CwC house from 1 to 4

p.m. on Tuesday afternoons. Fee paid at the door.

Keyser sells lemon tarts

At noon Monday, Herb Keyser will sell his famed lemon tarts near the Amphitheater and adjacent to the kiosk. Keyser will take delivery orders at 716-357-6404 or 716-357-3449.

School of Music events

Marlena Malas will give a master class at 1:15 p.m. to-day in Fletcher Music Hall.

Malcolm Bilson will give a piano master class at 5:30 p.m. today in sherwood-Marsh Piano studios. There is a suggested fee. He will give a pre-concert lecture at 2:30 p.m. in elizabeth s. Lenna Hall.

Chautauqua Opera Guild news

Chautauqua Opera Guild invites you to attend the mu-sical theater revue, Backstage Pass: Heart & Music, at 10 p.m. Tuesday in elizabeth s. Lenna Hall.

The Guild invites its members to the annual luncheon at 12:15 p.m. Thursday on the lawn of norton Hall. Con-tact Macie Van norden at 819-810-9147 or email vannorden.margaret@gmail.com. If you are not a member, call Barbara at 716-357-3315 or join at the luncheon.

Bird, Tree & Garden Club news

At 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, join leaders from the Jamestown Audubon society and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute for a Bird walk and Talk. Meet at smith wilkes Hall.

Join sharon Reed, master gardener, and Joe McMaster, master horticulturist, on a Garden walk at 9:15 a.m. or 4:15 p.m. Tuesday. Meet at the back of smith wilkes Hall.

At 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, there will be a Brown Bag at smith wilkes Hall on the “London Chelsea Flower show” by Maureen Bovet, garden designer and photographer.

Chautauqua Prize dinner

The fourth annual Chautauqua Prize Dinner will hon-or Phil Klay, author of Redeployment, on Friday evening. Make your reservations in the Veranda or the reception desk in the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.

Swing Dance lessons

Prior to wednesday’s Amphitheater Big Ball, a special swing dance lesson will take place at 7:15 p.m. in smith wilkes Hall. Veteran dance instructors Dianna Ploof and Ben and Adam Handen will offer 45 minutes of instruction.

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Rainy Evans, Jeff Szabo, and Mary Whitaker.

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Mary, her pets, and her partner, Suzanne Gilman.

Hayley RossStaff Writer

Flashback to 1973, an ar-ticle with the headline “Stars of New York City Ballet to dance in Chautauqua Am-phitheater,” appears in the Chautauquan.

The article described Master Teacher of the Chau-tauqua Dance program, Pa-tricia McBride, as “the most exciting ballerina in Amer-ica.” Forty-two years later, McBride is still being cel-ebrated at Chautauqua Insti-tution. On Thursday night, members of the community gathered at President Tom Becker’s cottage to celebrate McBride’s recent Kennedy Center Honor. The Chautau-qua Dance Circle sponsored the event.

McBride said being a Ken-nedy Center Honor recipient was a surprise and honor. Very few dancers receive the award, so she said she felt like she was representing dance as a whole and, by ex-tension, showing that danc-ers are just as important as movie stars.

That weekend at the Ken-nedy Center is one that Mc-Bride said she will never forget. She got the chance to spend time with the other

honorees and their families and meet President Barack Obama and First Lady Mi-chelle Obama.

“I thought the celebrities would play such big stars, but they weren’t,” she said. “They were down to earth

and really nice.”The Charlotte Ballet per-

formed the finale of Who Cares? with members of the New York City ballet such as Tiler Peck and Lauren Lovette, a former student at Chautauqua.

“We were excited to not only get to perform with them [NYC Ballet] but also to get to spend a few days with them too,” said Ales-sandra Ball, a dancer with the Charlotte Ballet who has been working with McBride

for almost 10 years. McBride said that the best

part about the weekend was sharing the experience with her children and husband, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux.

“It was a memory for a lifetime,” she said.

Ball said she loved watch-ing McBride through the whole process.

“When they first told us that Patti was receiving a Kennedy Center honor, I saw this new light in her eyes,” Ball said.

At Thursday night’s din-ner, photos of McBride and Bonnefoux at various stages of their careers filled the room showing their transi-tion from dancers to teach-ers and leaders in the dance community.

While most of the world knows McBride as a Bal-anchine dancer, in Char-lotte and Chautauqua, she is known for her teaching and coaching ability — as well as her love for her students.

“She highlights the finest quality of the artistic staff at this Institution and the best expression of humanity in this community,” Becker said.

It is McBride’s generosity and kindness is something that her dancers and the

community admire most. “Her gift to this place

is not only her art and her discipline but also her deep deep kindness and human-ity,” Becker said.

Ball said working with McBride on “Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux” was a pivotal moment in her dance career. It changed the way she used her arms and her musicality. But it also taught her more about being an artist.

“I love working with Patti because she really wants to bring the best out of the indi-vidual and she isn’t trying to make a dancer look a certain way or make them look ex-actly like her,” Ball said.

McBride’s celebration will continue at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Christ where the CDC will present their second “Views on Pointe” lecture of the season, “#Pat-tiPride.” Marty Merkley, vice president and director of programming at Chautau-qua Institution, will speak, in addition to Bonnefoux and Ball. They will describe the experience at the Kennedy Center and McBride’s contri-butions to Chautauqua.

“If I could celebrate Pat-ti every day, I absolutely would,” Ball said.

joHn foRdStaff Writer

Prior to the season, the In-stitution announced plans to further engage the Chautau-qua community on the Am-phitheater project.

It’s working. The commu-nity is engaged.

Another full house at-tended the Institution’s Q-and-A session Friday in the Hall of Christ. Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer George Murphy; Director of Operations and Administra-tor of Land Use Regulations John Shedd; and consulting engineer Steve Dechert, a vice president of LPCiminelli and the Institution’s construction representative, answered the many questions posed by fa-cilitator Elliot Fishman and members of the large crowd.

As at previous sessions, many participants appeared supportive of the Institution’s plans. Others raised concerns similar to those voiced by the Committee to preserve the Historic Chautauqua Amphi-theater, which prefers a more limited rehabilitation of the Amp. Members of the Chau-tauqua Institution Board of Trustees, who will ultimately deliberate on the project, were at the meeting as observers.

Fishman said he felt it best to devote the session to questions and answers. He led off with questions about the timeline of the Institu-tion’s project. He said many Chautauquans were clearly concerned about whether the Amp project could be com-pleted in only one off-season.

Dechert said the Institu-tion now sees the project as an 18-month endeavor inter-rupted by the nine weeks of the 2016 season, with the overarching objective of a cer-tificate of occupancy by the beginning of the 2017 season.

Dechert said the plan is to do as much preliminary work as possible prior to the beginning of the 2016 season. This presumes that the board of trustees approves the proj-ect to go to bid at its August meeting and subsequently authorizes the administra-tion to award contracts in November. Construction planners would like to bid out 16 to 18 subcontractor packages in September to keep the process moving.

Work that could be com-pleted prior to next sum-mer’s season would include preparatory site work; con-crete and steel fabrication; mechanical, electrical and plumbing prep work, and staging of some materials on Institution property across Route 394, Dechert said. He said securing insurance for the work would be a prereq-uisite to starting.

More specifically, Dechert said, major concrete forms such as structural caissons and cylindrical columns to hold up the Amp’s roof could be prefabricated.

Emphasizing that there is not a “done deal” regarding the Amp design, hedd told the audience that everyone involved in the project feels “under the gun” in trying to develop a coherent construc-tion schedule based upon board of trustees approval that has not yet been granted.

“We’re trying to keep things fluid, and to be ready if we get the green light from the board, while at the same responding to concerns on timing and other issues,” Shedd said. Q-and-A sum-maries follow below:

What if the Amp is not ready by the beginning of the 2017 season?

Shedd said if the Institu-tion cannot secure a certifi-

cate of occupancy in time, “We’re already looking at ways we can manage the 2017 season in alternative venues. We don’t want that to happen, but we want to be ready for all eventualities.”How will the Institution com-municate with the community during the project?

Murphy said information would be available to prop-erty owners and especially those whose homes line the routes for construction vehi-cles onto and off the grounds. He said the Institution may install a camera on the Amp construction site, and will provide biweekly email in-formation bulletins. Organiz-ing webinars is a possibility.The side promenades are much narrower in the prospective new Amp. This could reduce the com-munity feeling about the site.

Shedd said bowl safety and accessibility are key is-sues, and while the side promenades would be nar-rower, the area to the west of the Amp would be greatly expanded and would afford a gathering place for Chau-tauquans.The expanded back-of-house may disrupt traffic flow around the Athenaeum Hotel entrance, and there may be safety con-cerns. And what about the red bridge behind the back of the Amp?

Shedd acknowledged that safety and accessibility are paramount project goals, and said altering but retaining the Peters Bridge was still on the table, either as a drawbridge or a structure with a sharper angle. A pathway leading pe-destrians through the ravine behind the Amp is also being planned. He said traffic flow would be carefully moni-tored to ensure all safety con-siderations are met.

The bowl floor would be lowered by 7 feet, and the orchestra pit prospectively lowered by anoth-er 7 feet below that. What about sightlines for the choir to follow its director and for the audience to see the orchestra?

Shedd said studies had shown that the sightlines would be adequate. Murphy urged the audience to exam-ine new images addressing this issue. They are now dis-played in the Smith Memo-rial library.How will waste be removed from the site?

Dechert said, “Decon-struction material will be loaded onto trucks and re-moved via South Lake Drive through the Bryant Gate. We will do what we can to provide noise abatement throughout the project.” Shedd said the Institution is seeking an environment-friendly LEED certification for the project, and will re-cycle materials from the cur-rent Amp where possible. Dechert added that plaques and other memorials would be preserved.What measures will be taken to preserve the access roads?

Dechert said the roads will be tested by vibration monitoring systems and oth-er methods this fall and next spring. They will be repaired and repaved as needed after the project is completed.What about ground water around the Amp?

Shedd said site prep work should reveal what measures would be needed for water abatement. But he anticipat-ed in any case that sub-sur-face pipes would be installed to re-route water around the Amp. The new elevator and orchestra pits would be thor-oughly waterproofed.Some have calculated that we

have eight sellouts per year now and inter-arts programming represents 5 percent of total Amp programming. Why are capacity and an orchestra pit driving this expensive project?

Shedd and Murphy reiter-ated that there were many factors influencing the need for a facility upgrade, safety and accessibility leading among them. But capacity is an issue, too.

“Think about the Ken Burns week last year, where our average audience was 4,400, or our impressive in-ter-arts productions,” Mur-phy said. “When it rained for Burns or in any case for inter-arts, the Amp’s capacity dropped to 3,200. And these types of events could become signature events for Chautau-qua. We want them to. But we

lose over 1,000 seats for them. That doesn’t make sense.”

The committee has partnered with the firm CJS Architects, who have attempted to offer an alternative to the Institution’s plan. How will you engage with them?

Murphy said elements of the CJS plan had been pub-licly discussed last week by Executive Project Architect Marty Serena, and the Insti-tution’s historic preservation panel would likely address the CJS plan in its report, which is due shortly. The panel conclusions would be publicly available.

See the Daily for details and schedules as the Institution’s tour, briefing and Q-and-A ses-sions continue today, Wednes-day and Friday.

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Dance Circle lecture, dinner celebrate McBride’s honor

Bria Granville | Staff Photographer

Patricia McBride, former principal ballerina with the New York City Ballet, speaks with guests during a dinner in her honor held Thursday at the President’s Cottage. McBride, now a master teacher with Chautauqua Dance, was one of five recipients of the 2014 Kennedy Center Honors.

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Lincoln Applied Ethics Program

2015Se aSon

This afternoon’s lecture has been designated part of Chautauqua’s programming in applied ethics, funded through the generosity of the David and Joan Lincoln family.

“Dvořák was famousfor being a tunesmith andwriting all of these fantas-tic melodies — they’re bythe pound,” he said.Armstrong said this

plethoraofmelodiesispartof what makes chambermusicsofun.

In the orchestra, a section mayhaveitstimeinthespot-

lightas itplays themelody,but that spotlight is inevita-bly relinquished for accom-paniment parts. Chambermusic,hesaid, isanoppor-tunity tostruthis stuffandpassthemelodyaroundthequartet continuously.

all things considered, Armstrongsaid, there’sre-ally no reason not to attend.

“It’s free, air-conditioned, outoftherain—comeoninand enjoy it,” he said.

Through the years, ariely hassharedhisresearchfind-ings through a range of fo-rumsintheU.S.andabroad,including graduate and un-dergraduate courses, peer-reviewedacademicjournals,a Wall Street Journal columntitled “ask ariely,” TeD Talks, executive seminarsand New York Times best-sellingbooks,amongothers.

In addition to The (Hon-est) Truth About Dishonesty, ariely wrote Predictably Ir-rational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic,andmostre-cently, Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puz-zles, based on his Wall Street Journalcolumn.“I’m not happy with

people thinking versus do-ing,” he said. “I don’t care so much where theoriescome from. It’s whateverworks. When we do stud-ies, we don’t like to use focus groups. We prefer to get what we think about as real data about behavior. I want to see outcomemea-sures. I want to see people

makingchanges.”While ariely holds ap-

pointmentsatDuke’sFuquaSchool of Business, Centerfor Cognitive neuroscience, Kenan Institute for ethics Business, School of Medi-cine and Department ofEconomics,he is also a co-founder of Duke’s Center for advanced Hindsight.

This center is conduct-ing basic research on the psychologyofmoney,moti-vation and dishonesty, and it uses applied research to foster interventions that willhelppoorcommunitieswithintheU.S.andAfrica.

“at the end of 2007, en-thusiasm for behavioraleconomics really started,”Ariely said. “The financialcrisismayhavehelpedmyfield.Ikeptthinkingthatitwould stop soon, but I have this feeling that people are behaving in positive ways as a result.“People are reading my

books and trying things. It’s wonderful to get the sense that even though the world of policy is slow, peo-ple are doing things. Kids are even doing projects for science classes. reactions … have been fantastic, and there are lots of requests from companies to helpthemthinkaboutethics.”

“If you look at some ofthe early books of the Bible, they contain passages that are extremely violent, notjust because they’re describ-ing a violent society, but be-cause god is clearly saying, ‘now I want you to go out and not just to fight thosepeople, but to kill every lastman,woman,childanddog.’ and those passages areactuallyverycommon.”

Though these bloody passages have led to someviolence, Jenkins said such Scripture does notmake atradition inherently violent.

“out of the Bible has come Judaism and Christi-anity, and both of those re-ligions have been violent in some eras and not violentinothers,”hesaid.“Sothattells you something aboutthe role of Scriptures. We

have stereotypes of differ-ent religions, but there have been great wars in history fought by Buddhism usingreligious lines. If there is a religionthatisimmunefromthis, I don’t know what it is.”To combat the stereo-

typing of religions and the useofScripturetopromoteviolence, Jenkins said un-savory texts must be rec-ognizedandunderstoodintheir historical context.

“The worst thing you candoabout[violentScrip-tures] is pretend they aren’t there and hope they go away, because they won’t,” Jenkins said. “If you don’t payattentiontothem,thenyou have no real defenses when fanatics and extrem-ists do rise up and try and invokethoseScriptures.Wehavecenturiesandmillen-nia of experience in dealing with these texts. We should be able to come up withbetter solutions than that.”

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This evening’s pieces —JohnAdams’“TheChairmanDances: Foxtrot for orches-tra” conducted by Dean Whi-teside,the2015DavidEffronConducting Fellow; SamuelBarber’s SymphonyNo. 1 inOne Movement, Op. 9; Wil-liam Schuman’s New Eng-land Triptych; and aaron Co-pland’s “Billy theKid” Suite—arenoexception.

“They’re all challenging in their own way,” Muffittsaid. “There are some verydifficult individual, personalchallenges — especially inthe Barber symphony. Thereare great challenges for en-semble in the Adams piece.Themusic’salwayschalleng-ing.”

Patrick and Katie are no newcomers to challengingmusic—Katie,a19-year-oldincoming freshman at theUniversity of Notre Dame,willdualmajorinmathemat-ics andmusicnext semester.Patrick, 21, a rising senior at the University ofMinnesotainthefall,ismajoringinmu-sic education.

Mara gallagher, Katie and Patrick’smom— and a

violinist herself — said herkids didn’t always play viola. Ittookatriptoamusiccon-ference in Montreal to turn themontoit.

“I saw they had a kids’ class, and I thought, ‘They canplay the violin, I’m surethey could learn another clef anda fewmorepieces.’ So Isent them both to the violaclass,” gallagher said. “The class was in French, so they hadalittlebitofadifficulty.But you know what? They managed.”

Viola quickly rooted itself in Patrick’s heart, gallagher said, while Katie was encour-aged to continue pursuing the violin. The kids went on to pursue other things as well—Patrickearnedablackbelt in karate, Katie a brown belt; Patrick enjoyed cooking while Katie fell into running and square dancing.

“But then, a few years ago, Katie got it in her head, ‘You know, I want to play the viola, andtheytoldmenotto,butIwant to play the viola.’ That’s my perspective,” Gallaghersaid. Katie’s commitments to

performances and solo recit-alsbarredher fromditchingthe violin, though—peopleexpected her to show up

with a violin in her hand, her mothersaid.“So she also started prac-

ticing viola, and she entered a competition, and the firstcompetition she entered, shewon,” gallagher said. “and she didn’t tell her teacher she was entering— shewantedto do it quietly.”

It wasn’t until this past June that Katie decided her thirdsummeratChautauquawould be dedicated entirely to the viola. Caroline Coade, a viola faculty member andaprofessorat theUniversityof Michigan, said the switch cameeasily.“Shehasanuncannyabili-

tytolearnmusicveryquicklyandthemusicalitycomeseas-ily to her,” Coade said. “But I also appreciate that she’s su-per intellectually curious too, so she wants to dig deeper thanshecangomusically—it’s fascinating.”

Patrick’s talents lie in his desire to teach, Coade said. “He’s the more cerebral

one. He’s the one who wants to be a teacher, and she’s not sure what she wants to do withherperforming,”Coadesaid.“They’redifferent,evenin their repertoire. What she picked for Tuesday’s viola re-citalwasfunandflashy,andhiswasaustere,verymelan-choly, very stark.”

Patrick and Katie have blended their talents before

coming to Chautauqua —theyperformedaduetintheChicago Botanic garden this past June.

“That was just fun because it was kind of chill and it was a nice day out,” Katie said.

“and we got along that day, with the duets,” Patrick said.“During the performance

hewasgivingmethelook.”“Because—”“— the page was turned

towards me, and not him,”she said.

“and so I had to stand in a weird, leaning way while playing.”Patrick demonstrated:

pseudo-violin in hand, he wiggled on one foot, leaning sideways and pretending to play.

“We got along,” Katie said. “Well, we usually get along.”

Coade said they’d like to recreate their performancetogetherduringtheirtimeinChautauqua. When Katie and Patrick brought the idea up to Coade,shesentthemstraighttothemusicofficetogetitfig-uredoutforthemselves.

“That’s clearly what that was — they created an op-portunity so that they could play together,” Coade said. “Basically, I think themoralof the story is learn how to ask for what you want. Cre-ate opportunities for your-selves.”

bria granville | Staff PhotographerKatie and patrick gallagher both started playing the violin before the age of 6. Having since each transitioned to the viola, the siblings now play together in Chautauqua’s music School festival orchestra.

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miranda willsonStaff Writer

There is a say-ing that Chautau-qua would be noth-ing without its lake, which is perhaps the heart of the Institu-tion. As biologist Rick Constantino points out, that heart would be nothing without its kid-neys.

“Trees are the kidneys of the watershed,” he said. “They filter water, slow down runoff and keep nutri-ents from entering the lake.”

Constantino is a senior biologist and eco-services manager at Forecon Inc., a forestry and natural resourc-es company based in James-town. He will highlight the importance of tree planting and pruning for the health of Chautauqua Lake and the safety of Chautauquans dur-ing tonight’s Lake Walk. The walk begins at 6:30 p.m. at the covered porch at Heinz Beach, below the Youth Ac-tivities Center.

During this past off-sea-son, Forecon worked on an ongoing, large-scale inven-tory project at Chautauqua to assess the health and di-versity of the trees on the grounds. Though the com-pany has done work for the Institution since 2013, this year’s focus is on trees in “Old Chautauqua,” which

includes central ar-eas such as Bestor Plaza, the Athenae-um Hotel and the Hall of Philosophy.

“We physically walked up to and as-sessed the size, con-dition and risk fac-tors associated with each tree,” Constan-

tino said.Constantino’s team ex-

amined the biodiversity of the trees on the grounds, encouraging gardens and grounds to plant different types and sizes of trees.

“The Institution was very heavy on a few species, in particular sugar maple trees,” he said. “Whenever you have a significant pro-portion of one species, you worry that if an invasive spe-cies comes through, you’ll lose a lot of your trees.”

Forecon has actively worked to stop the spread of invasive species, particu-larly the emerald ash borer, which has affected trees in New York state. EABs are a species of beetle that bore holes into ash trees, cutting off the trees’ circulatory sys-tems and strangling them to death. The company offers a chemical that can be injected into trees to protect them from EAB infestations.

“The demand for that service has picked up — es-pecially with the number of trees that are now being

found with EAB in them,” said John Gifford, vice presi-dent of Forecon.

Though EAB has not been spotted on trees at the In-stitution, Constantino said this type of pest is one rea-son why planting different kinds of trees is important, as it reduces the likelihood that many trees would be devastated if EAB or another invasive species were to per-meate the area.

Constantino said Chau-tauqua has worked to save and prolong the lives of some of its biggest, oldest

trees. Part of Forecon’s job this year was to advise the Institution of when to cut down its cherished, ancient specimens and replace them with younger, newer trees, especially when the older trees posed safety risks to people.

“By pointing that out, it helped them realize they needed to continue with their aggressive planting program,” he said. “As we remove a tree, we have to replace a tree, or plant two trees. We also pointed out additional planting sites

where perhaps they could put more trees in.”

Constantino said Fore-con’s involvement with Chautauqua falls under the category of an urban forestry project, as it maintains its trees not for timber resourc-es, but for the aesthetic and environmental services they provide.

Urban forestry is just one of the many types of proj-ects Forecon undertakes. Gifford said the name of the company is a combina-tion of the words “forestry,” “recreation,” “ecology” and

“conservation.”With two offices in New

York state, three in Pennsyl-vania and one in West Vir-ginia, Forecon works with forest landowners to ensure their forests are well main-tained and valuable. Gifford values this work because it creates economic incentives for people to invest in and maintain forestland.

“It’s expensive to own forestland, and people tend to take that for granted,” he said. “It’s nice to say we should preserve woods, but not everyone realizes what it takes to keep an investment forestland property properly managed.”

Forecon aims to prevent investors from having to sell their properties to develop-ers, as the true value of trees is not necessarily reflected in their market value.

“When they’re economi-cally challenged, a lot of forestland ends up being subdivided and sold for development purposes,” Gifford said. “But a well-managed forest property provides society with many benefits, such as clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat, shade and recreational op-portunities.”

Chautauqua, he said, is no exception.

“Those trees are a valu-able resource for a communi-ty like Chautauqua,” he said.

deborah TrefTsStaff Writer

Half of all wives in the United States are widows by age 60, and seven of 10 baby boomer wives will outlive their first husbands. Roughly 1 million women be-come widows each year.

Seventy percent of wid-ows fire the financial advi-sor they used as a couple following their husband’s death. Married couples often prepare inadequately for the possibility of their spouse’s death. Not only are their wills out-of-date, their ac-count information and pass-words are not shared.

Enter Kathleen Rehl, owner and founder of Rehl WEALTH Collaborations LLC, who became acutely aware of statistics and lapses such as these after the death of her husband when she was just 60. At the time, she was owner of Rehl Financial

Advisors, which she had started in 1996.

At 1 p.m. today at the Chautauqua Women’s Club House, Rehl will speak from personal and pro-fessional experience about emotional and financial transitions.

Her talk is titled “A Widow’s Journey: The Club No Woman Wants to Join.”

Based on attendance at and responses to her previ-ous addresses to the Chau-tauqua Professional Women’s Network in August 2014 and July 2013, CPWN founder and chair Avivah Wittenberg-Cox recognized a continuing need within the Chautauqua com-munity for Rehl’s practical advice. She convinced Rehl to come back this summer.

Nearly 20 years after earn-ing her doctorate in educa-tion at the University of Il-linois at Urbana-Champaign and starting a career in teaching and development,

Rehl became a licensed fi-nancial planner.

Two years ago, she relin-quished her financial plan-ning license to reach more widows through speaking, teaching and writing.

Last January, Rehl com-pleted a new two-year pro-gram through the Sudden Money Institute and became a Certified Financial Transi-tionist. She is also a member of SMI’s teaching faculty, and dean of women at the Pur-poseful Planning Institute.

Since 1999, Rehl has writ-ten three financial books for widows: Moving Forward on Your Own: A Financial Guide-book for Widows, Working with Widows: Understanding Grief and Emotions of Women in Transition, and Planning for the Times of Your Life: 45 Great Fi-nancial Planning Ideas.

Rehl decided to write only e-booklets last year. She said she provides them for free on her website, kathleenrehl.com.

“One is a chapter from my

book, Moving Forward on Your Own. Anyone can download it,” she said. “I say, ‘Share the love; pass it on.’ It is not copy-righted material.”

In 2014, Rehl began writ-ing e-booklets. To date she has completed five.

“I have an idea for a sixth e-book for this fall,” Rehl said. “I first think of the title, and then I write it. This will be called ‘Living Forward.’ It will be about how to help professionals work with new widows so they have clarity and vision about the coming stages in their life, including the grief stage.”

Rehl established the Kathleen Moore Rehl Mov-ing Forward on Your Own Family Foundation last year. Through it she provides grants to nonprofit organiza-tions that help widows.

“This is a calling for me,” Rehl said. “This is my person-al ministry. It’s what keeps me jazzed. It’s a very creative encore career for me.”

This week, the Ever-ett Jewish Life Center of Chautauqua will present two lectures tackling the state of American politics and what citizens can do to change things.

Norman Ornstein, po-litical scientist and resident scholar at the American En-terprise Institute, will pres-ent a lecture at 3:30 p.m. today and lead a Brown Bag follow-up at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday.

Today’s lecture, titled “The Sorry State of Ameri-can Politics: How We Got Into Our Tribal Mess” will address the sharp politi-cal polarization that has morphed into the new nor-mal for the American po-litical scene.

Ornstein will speak to the causes and the rise of this dysfunction, but how it’s different from the di-vided governments of the past. Looking toward 2016 and the consequences of this continued “tribalism” could push the country into an even more danger-ous political climate, Orn-stein will use his wealth of political analyst experience to wrestle with political po-larization.

The conversation will continue on Tuesday as

Ornstein leads a Brown Bag discussion on “Coping with Dysfunction: What We Can Do to Get Out of the Mess.” Ornstein and participants will discuss the limitations and possibilities of struc-tural reform of the political system, as well as the bad ideas that have been pro-posed to solve the problem.

Ornstein is the author of many books on the subject, including his most recent New York Times best-seller, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism.

Rehl to advise widows about financial transitionEJLCC welcomes political scientist Ornstein to lead Week Four programs

Constantino to discuss how trees help lake, grounds

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“E very year, about Oct. 31, I begin a season of prayer and fasting,” said the Rev. Frank Madi-son Reid III at the 10:45 a.m. Sunday worship service and sermon in the Amphitheater. “I ask

God to show me what the theme for my preaching and teach-ing for the next year should be. The day after Thanksgiving in 2014, he said that 2015 would be a year of great awakening. So wherever I go, my assignment is to tell you that it is time for a great awakening.”

Reid, chaplain for Week Four and the pastor of Bethel AME Church in Baltimore, preached on “It’s Time for a Great Awakening — Wake Up Everybody!” His Scripture was Romans 13:11-14.

As he began to preach, Reid said that his father, an Afri-can Methodist Episcopal pastor and bishop, told him that a sermon did not have to be eternal to be everlasting and that he should leave the congregation wanting to hear more.

“I have 13 minutes and 14 seconds, starting now,” he said. Reid asked Jared Jacobsen to play “Yes, God is Real” while

he invited the congregation to reach across the aisles, hold hands and pray together. “ ‘There are some things I may not know. There are some places Oh Lord, I cannot go. But I am sure of this one thing, that God is real for I can feel Him in my soul.’ ”

He continued, “I am standing here where Franklin Delano Roosevelt stood and where Booker T. Washington stood, and I tell you, ‘Wake Up Everybody!’ I don’t know what area of your life needs a wake-up call, but we all need to wake up. The world is in the condition it is in because we have gone to sleep.”

Reid said one of his favorite classes at Yale was on the Great Awakening, the religious revivals of the 1740s and 1810s. The First Great Awakening featured the preaching of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.

“There was a spiritual revival but also social and political renewal.”

The Second Great Awakening started around 1810 and reached its zenith in the 1840s.

“We have been at our best [as a nation] when we have had a great awakening,” Reid said. “Women’s suffrage and the abolitionists took new form after the Second Great Awaken-ing. The Social Gospel appeared after that. Some people say that after the Montgomery boycott, the Civil Rights Move-ment became the third great awakening.”

When we look at our nation today, Reid said, with the violence in our underserved neighborhoods and the violence of highly paid professional athletes against women, “we need a great awakening. A sleeping church can’t provide it; a sleeping educational institution can’t provide it. ‘Wake Up Everybody.’ Turn to your neighbor and say ‘wake up.’ ”

“Wake Up Everybody” is a song, written by John White-head and Gene McFadden, originally sung by Harold Mel-vin & the Blue Notes with Teddy Pendergrass and redone recently by John Legend and the Roots.

“With all our great technology, America, with all our wealth, something keeps pulling us back, and we are sleep-ing through the revolution,” Reid said. “I want to take you to the Book of Romans; it is a wake-up call for the church. Chau-tauqua is celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Lutheran House. Luther’s commentary on Romans set the Protestant revolution going. He found that the Word of God belonged to everyone. He sent a wake-up call that changed the world.”

The first 11 chapters of Romans are doctrinal chapters.“You have to know your faith — to not be ashamed of the

Gospel,” Reid said. “Paul is telling the Romans they have something greater than Caesar, and the way they live is de-termined by their doctrine.”

In Chapter 12, the more practical theology begins. The Romans were to overcome evil with good.

“Paul challenged the irrationality the people faced, that they did things they should not and did not do the things they should,” Reid said.

Paul told them to be subject to the political authorities im-mediately after he told them not to conform to them.

“How do they do that?” he said. “You have got to know what time it is. You have got work to do, America, in your-selves, your communities and your churches. It is high time to wake up out of sleep, out of our Democratic sleep and Re-publican sleep, out of our liberal sleep and conservative sleep. Wake up, for the night is far spent. Wake up, for you have work to do. Worship is work and work is worship.”

Your children will be glad that you came to Chautauqua for Week Four, Reid said.

“You came home wiser, better and stronger,” he said. “Wake up and call on Jesus’ name.”

The congregation stood and applauded. Before he began to preach, Reid gave The Rev. Robert M.

Franklin Jr., director of the Chautauqua Institution Department of Religion, a check for $1,000 toward the development of the African-American Denominational House. Franklin presided at the service. John Haughton, a member of the Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees and the Slugs softball team, read the Scripture. Jared Ja-cobsen, organist and worship coordinator, directed the Chautauqua Choir. “We are God’s People” Responsorial Psalm 100 by David Haas, was led by cantors Paul Roberts and Pati Piper. The Chau-tauqua Choir sang the anthem “Worthy to be Praised” by Byron J. Smith. The offertory anthem was “The Beatitudes” by Craig Phillips based on Matthew 5:3-12.The postludes was Fugue in E-flat, S. 552 (“St. Anne”) by Johann Sebastian Bach. The Mr. and Mrs. William Uhler Follansbee Memorial Chaplaincy provides support for this week’s services.

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Gena Bedrosian with spe-cial guest mezzo-soprano Morgan Middleton will pres-ent a recital titled “Bringing Scripture to the Keyboard:

Sacred and Classical Piano Works of Mozart, Mendels-sohn and More” from 7 to 8 p.m. tonight in the Hall of Philosophy.

The music will include classical works and hymn arrangements by Mendels-sohn, followed by a brief tes-timony from Bedrosian.

Bedrosian is a lifelong Chautauquan whose early training included both organ and piano scholarships here over three years. She has sung in the Chautauqua Choir for over 20 years. She and

Gary raised their three sons through Club, positions at the Daily and many campus jobs.

Bedrosian is retired from a 36-year career as an emer-gency physician. She is a member of the Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers, performing numerous choral concerts annually. She per-forms classical organ, piano, hand bells and sacred choral

music as witness to Christ’s saving grace in many venues in New York and Southwest-ern Florida.

Bedrosian will accom-pany Middleton in arrange-ments of “Steal Away,” “There is a Balm in Gilead,” “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” and “The Lord’s Prayer.”

Middleton is a first-time participant in the Chautau-qua Festival voice program. She was awarded the Mary C. Bedrosian Voice Schol-arship. Middleton recently completed her bachelor’s degree in vocal arts perfor-mance at the University of Southern California, where she performed in the Thorn-ton Opera Chorus and per-formed the roles of Arme-linde (Cendrillon) and Mrs.

Nolan (The Medium) with USC’s Chamber Opera. She sang in recital as part of the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Association’s Summer Chamber Music Se-ries. Middleton is a first-year master‘s student at the New England Conservatory.

All are welcome to attend this evening’s recital, spon-sored by Chautauqua Chris-tian Fellowship and co-spon-sored by the Chautauqua Department of Religion.

Pianist Bedrosian, singer Middleton to give evening recital for CCF

‘Wake Up’ to change the world

Column by MARY LEE TALBOT

Morning Worship

SAALIK KHAN | Staff Photographer

At left, the Rev. Frank Madison Reid III, senior pastor of Bethel AME Church in Baltimore, speaks to the crowd gathered at the Sunday morning worship service at the Amphitheater. At right, the Rev. Robert Franklin, director of the Department of Religion, opens the service with the call to worship.

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alexandra greenwaldStaff Writer

no one wants to talk about death, but everybody needs to talk to their families about dying.

This is the message that Shahid Aziz hopes to im-part during the fourth of five weekly sessions of “Coura-geous Conversations About Death and Dying: now is the Time” at 3:30 p.m. today in the Presbyterian House chapel.

“it’s a journey we all have to take, and for any impor-tant journey we all plan like crazy,” Aziz said. “This is one journey we all need to plan. And since we don’t know when we’re going to take this journey, we need to plan now so you’ll have the journey the way you want it. You never know when you’re going to lose your ability to make decisions.”

The seminar will consist of a presentation by Aziz about the process of creat-ing an advanced directive, or living will, by deciding what mental and physical thresh-olds are required by an indi-vidual for a meaningful life.

These thresholds might include the loss of speech, ability to swallow or abil-ity to recognize family, after which an individual would no longer want their lives to be prolonged through medi-cal intervention.

“We know we can’t stop

[the terminally ill] from dy-ing — we can only prolong their dying,” Aziz said. “if i’m helping to prolong your life, how meaningful is that life to you? if it’s not mean-ingful, then i’m only prolong-ing your dying process and prolonging your suffering.”

The program will also in-clude a role-played conversa-tion about these physical and mental thresholds between Aziz and an attendee.

Aziz said the demonstra-tion is meant to show how simple such discussions can be, as they do not require the presence of a lawyer and only need to cover three topics: the minimum mental function-ing, the minimum physical capacity, and which medical treatments that are acceptable to the individual in question.

“if everybody answered those three questions in the USA, the end-of-life decision-making would be so much easier, people won’t get un-necessary treatment, and the cost of health care would go way down,” Aziz said.

in addition to the seminar, Aziz will lead a smaller dis-cussion at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Presbyterian chapel to al-low for a more personal, in-depth conversation.

Aziz said the community response through the first three weeks has been largely positive.

“it was extremely helpful in enabling us to help our children better manage the end of life experience,” said Walt grosjean, who attended Aziz’s July 13 seminar with his wife. “it also helped us to set our own personal stan-dards for the type and extent of medical care we would want or not want at the end of our lives.”

Though the conversation in both the seminar and small group is not religious, As-sociate Director of religion Maureen rovegno said her department sponsored the

discussion because they cover “the full spectrum of life, in-cluding death.”

“last year, we did a week [of interfaith lectures] on ‘From Here to Hereafter: Facing Death with Hope and Courage,’ ” rovegno said. “And when rebecca Brown did the Monday keynote, she just knocked people over with her fabulous message about understanding death in relation to life, honoring and respecting death as op-posed to fearing it, and de-constructing our culture’s death phobia. it really struck a chord, and we realized we needed to do something more actively here [on the subject of death].”

Andrew Dickson, of Hos-pice Chautauqua County, has been in attendance for these seminars to represent his or-ganization. Dickson said if more people completed ad-

vanced directives in the way Aziz advises, end-of-life care would become much simpler.

“[Hospice] comes into people’s lives when things are most stressful and emo-tionally draining,” Dickson said. “We step into this, and it’s a minefield. We’ve got to sort it out. our social work-ers mediate these sorts of discussions and disagree-ments between family mem-bers when it’s too late, when we can only try to make peace.”

Dickson said while Hos-pice Chautauqua County has served the institution with bereavement counseling and other assistance for years, seminars like this one are needed long before hospice is called in.

“As a society, we’ve got a long way to go before these

kinds of conversations are happening on a regular basis without Dr. Aziz and without Chautauqua institution spon-soring programs like this,” he said. “Chautauquans are above-average people. Maybe we’re preaching to the con-verted, but it’s still such an important subject.”

no matter how these con-versations are held, Dickson said the advanced directives were not only practical, but a gift to the individual’s fam-ily members.

“i’ve never found an attor-ney or a health care provider that will say that advance directives are a bad idea. no-body,” he said. “it’s a road-map, and it’s a gift. it’s a little bit of sanity in an otherwise completely insane time. And not enough people have had these discussions.”

Aziz to help Chautauquans navigate conversations about death

jake zuckermanStaff Writer

Some things are best kept within the family, be they mom-and-dad business, a secret recipe or Week Three’s last interfaith lecture on im-migration.

Continuing the week’s theme of “We Were Strang-ers once in A Strange land,” gail Christopher, vice presi-dent of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and her daugh-ter, Heather Mcghee, presi-dent of Demos, closed the week with a split lecture on the changing demographics of Americans’ country of ori-gin, race, ethnicity and age.

Speaking first, McGhee of-fered a 20-minute answer to Director of religion robert Franklin’s question of how each of their organizations will play a role in affecting the national future.

“Demos is a 15-year-old policy organization that was founded on an idea that the

inequalities in our economy are tied inextricably to an inequality of voice in our de-mocracy,” Mcghee said.

She said Demos offers policy advice to politicians and the media in an attempt to produce positive change for the middle class. Mcghee said America’s lack of politi-cal care for the middle class equates to neglect of what was once one of America’s

greatest triumphs.“The middle class in this

country didn’t actually create itself,” Mcghee said. “i actual-ly think that the middle class, the idea of being secure, with hard work and effort, was America’s single greatest in-vention. … Because no coun-try in the world had ever done that on the scale that we did.”

However, Mcghee argued, America is not investing in the middle class the same way it did after World War ii, which led to a middle-class boom. Federal policy has since tilted toward the wealthier, leading to today’s increased inequal-ity of wealth.

Constructing her argu-ment, Mcghee said Demos works to inform the public of who they are and how today’s policy shapes tomorrow’s fu-ture. She cited the immigra-tion Act of 1965, which lifted racial quotas on immigra-tion, as an example. She said the policy is emblematic of a change of American self and

should be a role model for self-examination today in po-litical choices.

“To be a people in a de-mocracy whose taxes sup-port common investments, who must make decisions every day and at the voting booth that provide for our common future, we have to have a higher sense of who we are,” she said.

Speaking after her daugh-ter, Christopher stepped up to the lectern and discussed the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. At the foundation’s inception, its first leaders were given simple instructions for how to use its funds.

“Do what you will with this money, so long as it helps children,” Christopher said, reiterating Kellogg’s words.

More specifically, Christo-pher works to rid the world of the concept of valuing any human life as above or below one another. She considers the ideology harmful to the nation, yet she expects it to

manifest more with each gen-eration. She works to fix this through children, attempting to “heal” them of harms done in America’s racial history.

“i believe this adherence we have to a fallacy of a no-tion, a belief in a hierarchy of human value is a core wound in the soul of Amer-ica,” she said. “We have yet to heal.”

According to Christo-

pher, the country needs to take steps toward healing these wounds. The first of those steps starts with facing the ugly side of America’s founding — specifically, the emphasis colonists placed on owning slaves.

“We have to face that fact, and we have to face the consequences of that fact,” Christopher said. “And once we face those consequences, we have to face the implica-tions of them. lastly, we face the feelings.”

Closing the week on im-migration, Christopher fo-cused on the importance of a common love of human-ity and the power love can have in all aspects of life, education and public policy. if people can embrace this love of one another, she said, they can solve the world’s problems.

“We can grow into a dif-ferent nation,” Christopher said. “A nation that embraces our humanity.”

Mother-daughter panel closes week on immigration

RUBY WALLAU | Staff Photographer

At left, Demos President Heather C. McGhee speaks about diversity and democracy during the Friday Interfaith Lecture in the Hall of Philosophy. At right, Gail Christopher, vice president for policy and senior adviser at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, speaks about diversity and her experiences.

I actually think that the middle class, the idea of being secure, with hard work and effort, was America’s single greatest invention.”

—HEATHER McGHEE President, Demos

I believe this adherence we have to a fallacy of a notion, a belief in a hierarchy of human value is a core wound in the soul of America.”

—GAIL CHRISTOPHERVice president for policy and senior

adviser, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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The edith B. and arthur e. earley lectureship under-writes tonight’s Music school festival Orchestra concert with Timothy Muffitt.

The earleys started com-ing to chautauqua in 1959 because “it’s a unique place in the world.” art earley gradu-ated from Wake forest Uni-versity, was a member of the board of visitors for many

years, and has received the University’s distinguished alumni award. He earned his master’s from the Univer-sity of North carolina. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Meldrum & Few-smith advertising inc., an in-ternational advertising agency headquartered in cleveland.

edith earley graduated from duquesne University

and earned her master’s de-gree at the University of Pittsburgh. she taught in the McKeesport, Pennsylvania, schools before she married in 1955 and then taught in cleve-land for two years afterward. she was active as a volunteer in many cleveland charitable organizations and was a great supporter of chautauqua. she passed away in 1995.

art earley was a trustee of the cleveland Play House, The cleveland institute of Music and the cleveland The-ater festival. He was a director and officer of the Cleveland arts council and was Presi-dent of the cleveland Hearing and speech center. He de-voted a great deal of his time to his profession of commu-nications, serving on several

The emily and Richard smucker endowment fund sponsors this week’s resid-ing of and engagement in the lecture platform of dan ari-ely, James B. duke Professor of psychology and behavioral economics at duke University.

The smuckers established this endowment with the chautauqua foundation in

2007 to bring speakers to the grounds for longer peri-ods of time to allow them to participate more fully in the community’s dialogue about the week’s theme.

emily smucker is an active volunteer in their hometown of Medina, Ohio, and serves as a director at the institute for american Values. she and

her husband Richard, both graduates of Miami Univer-sity (Ohio), were introduced to chautauqua in the early ’70s by friends. They became property owners in 1991.

Richard smucker is presi-dent and ceO of the J.M. smucker company, makers of the leading U.s. brand of jams, jellies, and preserves.

He is the great-grandson of J.M. (Jerome Monroe) smuck-er, who founded the company bearing his name in Orrville, Ohio, in 1897. He received an MBa from the Wharton school of the University of Pennsylvania. in addition to serving on the board of smucker’s, is a director of sherwin-Williams company.

The Joan Brown camp-bell department of Religion endowment provides fund-ing for this week’s interfaith lecture series.

When the Rev. Joan Brown campbell announced she would retire at the end of 2013 as director of the de-partment of Religion, chau-tauquans expressed their desire to honor Joan's work and her contributions to the chautauqua community and to contribute resources to help carry on that work.

Barb Mackey, inspired by Joan's vision, made the larg-est single gift commitment the department of Religion has ever received through the combination of annual contributions and ultimately, through a bequest to estab-

lish the Joan Brown camp-bell department of Religion endowment. additional gifts are continuing to honor Joan's legacy.

like many women of her generation, campbell was first a wife, mother & com-munity volunteer. at age 50, campbell was ordained. she was already a leader in the ecumenical interfaith move-ment where she gave leader-ship for over 30 years.

Campbell is truly a “first woman.” in every job she held, she was the first woman to carry that responsibility. She was the first woman to be associate executive direc-tor of the Greater cleveland Council of Churches; the first woman to be executive direc-tor of the U.S. office of the

World council of churches; the first ordained woman to be general secretary of the National council of the churches of christ in the USA; and the first woman director of the department of Religion at chautauqua.

as general secretary of the National council of churches and as executive director of the U.S. office of the World council of churches, camp-bell participated in some of the great historic events of the last century. she led a delega-tion to present the catholic edition of the New Revised standard Version of the Bible to Pope John Paul ii. she orga-nized volunteers to work for the election of carl B. stokes as the first black mayor of a major american city. she

worked with Martin luther King and brought him to her own congregation, the first white church in cleveland to receive dr. King. campbell served as an honorary elec-tion monitor with President Kaunda of Zambia in the election of Nelson Mandela as the first African president of south africa, and she suc-cessfully negotiated with fidel castro and President clinton the return of elian Gonzales to his father.

campbell's continuing commitment to world peace is reflected in her work with the charter for compassion and her work as chair of the Global Women's Peace initia-tive and with the National Religious Partnership on the environment.

Smucker Endowment Fund sponsors Ariely’s weeklong residency

Earley Lectureship underwrites tonight’s MSFO performance

Campbell Endowment funds Week Four Interfaith Lecture Series

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Melissa KuntzGuest Critic

the allusive title of this exhibition, conceived by Gal-leries Director Judy Barie, suggests a play on the con-temporary phrase “farm to table.” this food movement aims to encourage consump-tion of local products and to educate on the relationships between farmers, commu-nities, sustainable and safe production practices and the food we eat. On view in the exhibition “From Clay to table” is handmade, func-tional tableware by six ce-ramic artists. the suggestive title challenges the viewer to take pause and consider the source — not of our food, but of the items from which we consume that food. One important aspect of the farm-to-table movement is encouraging us to savor and appreciate what we eat in a much more thoughtful man-ner than most of us practice on a daily basis. this exhibi-tion inspires us to give the same respect to the dishes we use, and to appreciate the aesthetics, craftsmanship and skill of the artists who devote their time to making one-of-a-kind items. Con-sciously deciding to support local artists rather than con-sume cheap, mass-produced dinnerware is certainly something to consider after viewing the stunning (and reasonably priced) work on display.

to add another layer of in-terest to this exhibition, cu-rator Barie asked each artist to conceive of one word that could be used to describe their work. Kate Westfall’s word, “adornment,” relates to her appreciation for the or-namentation of Baroque and

rococo architecture. Broad bands of solids act as the “support” for decorative ar-eas in both the architecture and her ceramics. textured and stamped patterns in Westfall’s work also suggest these influences. A selection of fine, masterfully crafted vases, bowls, mugs, jars and candleholders all share con-trasting bands of solids and patterns, and are all glazed in earth tones. On her web-site, she writes of having syn-esthesia, which manifests as colors having relationships to numbers, emotions and people. she thus selected the palette for her glazes using the five colors that give her a sense of peace and remind her of home; she hopes the

owners of her work will have a similar reaction to it.

in contrast to Westfall’s more ethereal works are Joseph Pintz’s substantial forms. Each of his objects, although not actually weigh-ing much, has a commanding presence. He chose the word “simplicity,” which certainly describes the platters, jugs, canisters and bowls on dis-play. they do not have adorn-ments, and the only texture is visible in brushstrokes and varying thicknesses of the glazes. the colors he chose — greens, blues, yellows and salmons — suggest metal patina or a polished stone. thick rims on the bowls and trays, combined with simple forms, make these

beautiful pieces transcend the earthenware they were made from, appearing much more massive than they ac-tually are, and seeming to be crafted from materials other than clay. He states that that “stubborn physicality” of his pots forces one to slow down and focus on the meal, the moment and the company around the table.

“stripes” most decidedly describes Jeremy ayers’ two-tone, banded wares. ayers has one of the wid-est selections of functional forms on display, including plates, teapots, cake plat-ters, cream-and-sugar sets and vases. One of two clay bodies is dipped into a whit-ish glaze. then, the glaze is sprayed off in strips with re-sultant stripes in either light or darker clay. His forms are stunning, especially in some of the larger vases, where the cylinder undulates in and out like an accordion of fold-ed paper.

ani Kasten’s work, al-though technically functional, certainly pushes the bound-aries of serviceability; Brian Giniewski’s bowls and vases are equally sculptural. Kas-ten chose the word “texture” to define her body of work. Wheel-thrown, hand-built and utilizing varying clay applications to create surface texture, crackle and layers,

the objects have an aged ap-pearance. although forms are predominately based in func-tionality, canisters, bowls and cups are accompanied by an “ark” vase, covered with lines of texture that look to be cre-ated from decades under the sea. two stunning “egret” vases cast bird-like shadows on the wall. Giniewski’s beau-tifully “austere,” pieces are solid red, white or black. Only two forms are used — the vase and the bowl. the use of repetition and simplicity speak to minimalism, and cer-tainly allow these objects to be viewed as sculpturally as they are practical.

And, finally, Jennifer Al-len’s “Pattern” pieces are influenced by her youth in alaska, and the beauty of the natural landscapes. Folds and seams, darts and ruffles are crafted from clay, speak-ing to her love of textile arts. the series of pieces on dis-play, glazed in turquoises

and blues, with decorative fauna in coppers, reds and golds reference nature, as well as patterns found in Japanese or art and crafts fabrics. Her functional forms include plates and bowls, but also soy dispensers and an exquisite butter dish. allen’s works beg to be collected and lovingly displayed and used. in her artist statement she eloquently sums up the sentiments in “From Clay to table.” she says her deter-mination to keep the “hand-made” an essential part of the contemporary home is motivated by moments when pottery is in use; she aims to emphasize beauty, joy, nour-ishment and celebration through her ceramics.

Melissa Kuntz has written reviews for art in america and the Pittsburgh City Paper while also maintaining a studio practice. She is currently profes-sor of painting at Clarion Uni-versity of Pennsylvania.

From Clay to table: experimentation on display

SCooterSAll users of power-driven mobility devices (scooters) are required to register their scooter with Chautauqua Institution. There is no charge for this registration or for the sticker that will be displayed on the scooter (2012-2014 stickers are still valid). Registration forms can be downloaded at ciweb.org/scooters or can be picked up at any ticket window. Completed forms can be turned in at any ticket window or information desk, and a sticker will be issued.

» on the grounds

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RUBY WALLAU | Staff Photographer

At left, a creamer, large serving bowl and small bowl from the collection “Pattern” by Jennifer Allen, on display as part of the exhibition “From Clay to Table” in the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center. At right, mugs from the collection “Simplicity” by Joseph Pintz. The exhibition closes Thursday.

RUBY WALLAU | Staff Photographer

James Kirby and Jeannie Lee, visiting from Boston, view the collection “Adornment” by Kate Westfall.

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7:00 Monday Night Porch Night.(ProgrammedbytheChautauquaWomen’sClubYoungWomen’sGroup.)CWCHouse

7:00 Palestine Park Program.“AJourneyThroughBiblicalTimes.”PalestinePark

7:00 Performance. (SponsoredbyChautauquaChristianFellowshipandco-sponsoredbytheDepartmentofReligion.)“BringingScripturetotheKeyboard:Sacred&ClassicalPianoWorksofMozart,MendelssonandMore.”Gena Bedrosian,piano; Morgan Middleton,mezzosoprano.HallofPhilosophy

7:00 APyA Murder Mystery Night. (ProgrammedbytheAbrahamicProgramforYoungAdults.)Allyoungadultsarewelcome.MeetintheMarionLawranceRoom,HurlbutChurch

7:00 Introduction to the labyrinth.(SponsoredbytheDepartmentofReligion.)Bringgatepass.LocatedadjacenttoTurnerCommunityCenter

7:15 (7:15–7:45)Taizé and Tea. MeditativeWorship.RandellChapelatUCCHeadquarters

8:15 MuSIC SCHOOl FESTIVAl ORCHESTRA. Timothy Muffitt,conductor;Dean Whiteside,2015DavidEffronConductingFellow;

•The Chairman Dances: FoxtrotforOrchestraJohnAdams

•SymphonyNo.1inOneMovement,Op.9SamuelBarber

•New England Triptych WilliamSchuman

•Billy the Kid:SuiteAaronCopeland

TuTUESDAYJuly 21

7:00 (7–11)Farmers Market

7:15 (7:15–8)Mystic Heart Meditation: Spiritual Practices of World Religions.Leader:Subagh Singh Khalsa(SikhDharma).Donation.Bringgatepass.MainGateWelcomeCenterConferenceRoom

7:30 Bird Talk & Walk.(ProgrammedbytheBird,Tree&GardenClub.)Guidedwalk.Rainorshine.Bringbinoculars.MeetatSmithWilkesHallentrance

7:45 Episcopal Holy Eucharist. ChapeloftheGoodShepherd

8:00 Daily Word Meditation.(SponsoredbyUnityofChautauqua.)HallofMissions

8:45 Catholic Mass.ChapeloftheGoodShepherd

8:55 (8:55–9)Chautauqua Prays For Peace Through Compassion.HallofMissionsGrove

9:15 MORNING WORSHIP. The Rev. Frank Madison Reid III,seniorpastor,BethelA.M.E.Church,Baltimore.Amphitheater

9:15 Garden Walk.(ProgrammedbytheBird,Tree&GardenClub.)Sharon Reed,mastergardener.Rainorshine.Meetatthelakeside(back)ofSmithWilkesHall

9:15 Jewish Discussions. (ProgrammedbyChabadLubavitchofChautauqua).“Maimonides:GuidetothePerplexed.”Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin. LiteraryArtsCenteratAlumniHallLibrary

9:30 Special lecture: Ethics and the Arts. (SponsoredbytheDepartmentofReligion;producedbytheUnitarianUniversalistFellowship.)“TheEthicsofArchitecture.”William Roy laubscher.HallofPhilosophy

10:15 Service of Blessing and Healing.UCCChapel

10:45 lECTuRE. David A. Pizarro,associateprofessorofpsychology,CornellUniversity.Amphitheater

10:45 Story Time. (Storiesplannedfor3-to4-year-olds.)SmithMemorialLibrary

12:10 Catholic Mass.ChapeloftheGoodShepherd

12:15 Tallman Tracker Organ Mini-Concert.“LiquidMusings.”Jared Jacobsen,organist.HallofChrist.

12:15 Brown Bag lecture.(ProgrammedbytheBird,Tree&GardenClub.)“LondonChelseaFlowerShow.”Maureen Bovet,gardenphotographer.SmithWilkesHall

12:15 Brown Bag lecture.(ProgrammedbytheWriters’Center.)“ThePowerofPoetry.”Marjory Wentworth.LiteraryArtsCenteratAlumniHallporch

12:15 Brown Bag lecture. (ProgrammedbytheEverettJewishLifeCenter.)“CopingWithDysfunction:WhatWeCanDoToGetOutOfTheMess.” Norman Ornstein.EverettJewishLifeCenter

12:15 lGBT & Friends Brown Bag. “Diversity—ANecessaryIngredientforaHealthyCulture.” (SponsoredbytheMetropolitanCommunityChurch.)LiteraryArtsCenterGardenRoom

12:30 (12:30–1:55)Mystic Heart Meditation: Meditation Seminar.“PeaceWithin,PeaceintheWorld.”Subagh Singh Khalsa(SikhDharma).Donation.HallofMissions

1:00 (1–4)Duplicate Bridge.Formenandwomen.(ProgrammedbytheChautauquaWomen’sClub.)Fee.CWCHouse

1:00 Docent Tours.MeetatFowler-KelloggArtCenter

1:15 Mah Jongg. (ProgrammedbytheSportsClub.)SportsClub

2:00 INTERFAITH lECTuRE SERIES. “ReligiousAlternatives:ChoosingLoveroverPower.” Tony Campolo,founderandpresident,EvangelicalAssociationforthePromotinoofEducation.HallofPhilosophy(simulcastinHallofChrist)

2:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds.Fee.(PurchaseticketsatMainGateWelcomeCenter.)LeavefromMainGateWelcomeCenter

2:00 (2–3:30)Student Chamber Music Recital. (SchoolofMusic.)(BenefitstheChautauquaWomen’sScholarshipFund.)McKnightHall

2:15 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds.Fee.(PurchaseticketsatMainGateWelcomeCenter.)LeavefromMainGateWelcomeCenter

2:30 Pre-Concert lecture.(SchoolofMusic.)Malcolm Bilson.ElizabethS.LennaHall

3:15 Social Hour Denominational Houses

3:15 Hebrew Conversations and Refreshments. EverettJewishLifeCenteratChautauqua

3:30 Chautauqua Heritage lecture Series.“IndustrializedKilling!AccountabilityandJusticeforSyria.”David Crane,chiefprosecutor,SpecialCourtofSierraLeone;faculty,SyracuseUniversityCollegeofLaw.HallofChrist

4:00 (4–5:30)Guest Artist Pianoforte Recital. (SchoolofMusic.)Malcolm Bilson,pianoforte.(BenefitstheChautauquaWomen’sClubScholarshipProgram.)ElizabethS.LennaHall

4:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds.Fee.(PurchaseticketsatMainGateWelcomeCenter.)LeavefromMainGateWelcomeCenter

4:15 Garden Walk.(ProgrammedbytheBird,Tree&GardenClub.)Joe McMaster.Meetatthelakeside(back)ofSmithWilkesHall

4:15 Special Session. Expandeddiscussionon“Irrationality.” Dan Arielyandresearchteam. SmithWilkesHall

4:30 Knitting4Workshop.(SponsoredbytheDepartmentofReligion.)MethodistHouseporch

5:30 Meet the Filmmaker Series.“(Dis)honesty.”yael Melamede,produceranddirector.Fee.ChautauquaCinema

7:00 Visual Arts lecture Series. Helen Frederick, founder,PyramidAtlanticprintstudio;professorofstudioart,GeorgeMasonUniversity.HultquistCenter

7:00 Bible Study.(SponsoredbytheDepartmentofReligion.)“ReflectionsonthelettertotheEphesians.”The Rev. Carmen Perry,leader.UnitedMethodistHouse

7:00 Motet Choir.HallofChrist

7:30 FAMIly ENTERTAINMENT SERIES. Golden Dragon Acrobats. (CommunityAppreciationNight.)Amphitheater

7:30 (7:30–10)Voice Opera Performance.(SchoolofMusic.)Handel’sAriodante.John Giampietro, director.(BenefitstheChautauquaWomen’sClubScholarshipFund.)FletcherMusicHall

10:00 Musical Theater Revue. “BackstagePass:Heart&Music.”ChautauquaOperaStudioArtists.ElizabethS.LennaHall

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