“I knew students would be glad to have a place to go for dinner, but we’ve had dividends I never expected.” —Susan Helm
Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce the selection of Rossen Milanov as the ninth music director of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. As music director, Milanov will serve as the principal conductor and artistic director of the CSO and as an advocate for the orchestra and the classical arts within and beyond the CHQ community. The 49-year-old Bulgarian-born conductor will begin his responsibilities immediately in preparation for his inaugural summer of residency in 2015. His public debut will take place at the CSO’s season-opening performance on Thursday, July 2, 2015, and he will conduct 10 concerts in the 2015, 2016 and...
2005 David Effron Conducting Fellow Kazem Abdullah is becoming one of the most watched American conductors on the scene today. At 34, he is in his second season as Generalmusikdirektor of the City of Aachen, Germany, where he conducts both the orchestral and operatic seasons. He recently took some time to answer questions we had about his life and career.
Left to right: Colin G. Campbell, James A. Pardo Jr. CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — July 17, 2014 — Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce Colin G. Campbell, president and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, as the 29th recipient of the Chautauqua President’s Medal. James A. Pardo Jr., chairman of the Chautauqua Institution Board of Trustees, presented the medal in a ceremony prior to Campbell’s lecture at 10:45 a.m. Monday, July 14, in the Institution’s historic Amphitheater. Campbell’s presentation keynoted a week of CHQ programming titled “Emerging Citizenship: The Egyptian Experience,” produced in partnership with Colonial Williamsburg. “Colin Campbell always had an inkling to...
(Chautauqua, NY) Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the leadership of Vivienne Benesch Artistic Director and Sarah Clare Corporandy Managing Director, presents Lorraine Hansberry’s award-winning classic A Raisin in the Sun, directed by CTC Resident Director Ethan McSweeny (CTC’s The Glass Menagerie, Broadway’s A Time to Kill), June 28 through July 6 on the Bratton Stage. CHQ’s production stars Jonathan Majors (Walter Lee), Lynda Gravatt (Broadway’s Cat on A Hot Tin Roof) (Lena), Chelsea Williams (Ruth), Chasten Harmon (Beneatha), Derek Johnson (Broadway’s The Lion King) (Travis), Christian Demarais (Karl Lindner), Tramell Tillman (Bobo), Oge Agulue (George Murchison), and Toby Onwumere (Joseph...
(Chautauqua, NY) Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), under the leadership of Vivienne Benesch Artistic Director and Sarah Clare Corporandy Managing Director, is proud to announce programming for its 2014 season featuring Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Ethan McSweeny (June 28-July 6), The May Queen, a world premiere by Molly Smith Metzler (July 18-27), directed by Vivienne Benesch, and Shakespeare’s The Tempest (August 8-15), starring Lisa Harrow, directed by Jade King Carroll on the Bratton Theater Mainstage. “I couldn’t be more proud that my tenth season as artistic director will see four of our five mainstage productions...
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — May 15, 2014 — Chautauqua Institution is delighted to announce “My Foreign Cities” (Liveright) by Elizabeth Scarboro as the 2014 winner of The Chautauqua Prize. As author of the winning book, Scarboro receives $7,500 and all travel and expenses for a one-week summer residency at CHQ. She will host a public reading and book signing at a date to be determined this summer on the Institution grounds.
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — April 30, 2014 — Perhaps the most urgent topic of Chautauqua Institution’s 2014 season, “The Ethics of Privacy” is a week of themed programs that will deeply analyze a subject that continues to play prominently on national newscasts, newspaper fronts and magazine covers.
CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — April 16, 2014 — Chautauqua Institution is pleased to announce six exceptional books as the 2014 finalists for The Chautauqua Prize: A History of the Present Illness: Stories by Louise Aronson (Bloomsbury) Sea of Hooks by Lindsay Hill (McPherson & Company) The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood by Roger Rosenblatt (Ecco) My Foreign Cities by Elizabeth Scarboro (Liveright) The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency by James Tobin (Simon & Schuster) Wash by Margaret Wrinkle (Grove Press) The winning book will be selected from this shortlist and announced in mid-May. The short stories in A History of the...
Smithsonian magazine has named Chautauqua, N.Y., as the No. 1 “Best Small Town to Visit in 2014” in the cover story of its April 2014 issue. The feature, by former New York Times “Frugal Traveler” columnist Susan Spano, cites Chautauqua Institution’s mix of lectures, classes, recreational activities and fine, performing and literary arts programs as the basis for the distinction.