Morning Stretch Class Week 6
Week 5, 6 | Tu, Th | Heinz Fitness 2 | Ages 14 and up Begin your day with a morning stretch! Improve your flexibility and mobility. Help your muscles work more efficiently and effectively to improve posture, increase muscle blood flow, decrease muscle soreness and back pain, help prevent injuries, reduce stress and improve your ability to perform daily activities. We will explore all joint ranges of motion and stretch our muscles from head...
2024 Guest Artists, Composers & Librettists
...America) – writes music described as “always dramatic, reflective, rarely predictable, and often electronic” (Musical America). She was the inaugural Resident Composer at Opera San José in the 2022-23 season and recently completed a three-year tenure as Composer-In-Residence at Opera Philadelphia. This season, Opera Philadelphia presented the “triumphant world premiere” (Wall Street Journal) of 10 Day in a Madhouse, co-commissioned by Opera Philadelphia and Tapestry Opera. The New York Times writes, “opera needs works like...
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Musicians Reach Agreement
...title, though he has long served as a go-to conductor for CSO pops concerts. In addition to the CSO schedule, 2021 patrons will enjoy the Music School Festival Orchestra on Monday evenings Weeks One through Four, with a special additional performance on Saturday, July 3, keeping symphonic music as the centerpiece of Chautauqua’s Independence Day celebration. ABOUT THE CHAUTAUQUA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1929 and today continues its legacy as...
Four Leaders Join Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees
New Trustee Class Begins Term Today CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution’s Board of Trustees elected Paul Hagman, Jesse Marion and Gwen Adams Norton to four-year terms of service at the final meeting of the body’s 2020–21 cycle on Aug. 28. Additionally, members of the Chautauqua Corporation elected Rick Evans as the newest of the four trustees selected by Chautauqua property owners at the Corporation’s annual meeting on Aug. 14. The new trustee class officially begins its term today,...
Scott Simon
One of America’s most admired writers and broadcasters, National Public Radio’s Scott Simon has reported from all 50 states and every continent. He has covered 10 wars, hundreds of campaigns, sieges, natural disasters, civil wars, scandals — and his fair share of sporting events. The host of “Weekend Edition Saturday” and a lifelong fan of the Chicago Cubs, Simon joins the Chautauqua Lecture Series on Independence Day to reflect on what the stories of touchstone...
‘Epic Collaboration’
Bush 3rd Graders’ Imagination Takes Center Stage Through CHQ Young Playwrights Project Applause, cheers, and excitement filled the auditorium of Bush Elementary School as the special guests bowed. “Did you enjoy that play?” asks Emily Olcott, one of four teaching artists visiting the school that day from Chautauqua Institution. “YES!” the children replied in unison following the short performance. “Well, great! Because we’re going to perform another play for you except… This one hasn’t been...
Rabbi Josh Feigelson
...Prize for Applied Jewish Wisdom. Most recently he served as Dean of Students at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Josh is a Wexner Graduate Fellow and was the founding co-chair of the Wener Fellowship Alumni Committee. He is the author of Eternal Questions: Reflections, Conversations, and Jewish Mindfulness Practices for the Weekly Torah Portion (Ben Yehuda Press, 2022) and the host of “Soulful Jewish Living: Mindful Practices for Every Day,” a podcast co-produced by...
Backcountry Hiking and Backpacking for Beginners
Week 9 | M, Tu, W, Th | Hultquist 201B | Ages 16+ This course is for adults of all ages and young adults interested in learning how to tackle a backcountry hike or a multi-day backpacking trip. $15 Materials Fee...
Chautauqua Institution’s Chautauqua Opera Company, Voice Program to Unite in 2022
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution today announced the unification of its resident Chautauqua Opera Company, led by General and Artistic Director Steven Osgood, and Voice Program, led by Chair Marlena Malas. The newly combined program, under the auspices of Chautauqua Performing and Visual Arts, will be known as the Chautauqua Opera Company and Conservatory as the Institution moves into the 2022 season. The opera company’s existing Young Artist Program and the Voice Program, which serve...
Setti D. Warren
Setti D. Warren is Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to this role, he served as executive director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. He previously served as mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, from 2010 to 2018 and was the first African American to be a popularly elected mayor in Massachusetts. During Chautauqua’s week on “The State of Believing,” and on the second-annual Chautauqua County Day, he...