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Writer discusses ‘flashes of insight,’ Page B7 The Chautauquan Daily The Official Newspaper of the Chautauqua Institution | Friday, July 20, 2007 VOLUME CXXXI, ISSUE 24 CHAUTAUQUA, NEW YORK 50¢ ACHIN’ FOR CLAY Blumenauer believes cities can become truly livable again by Roger Coda Staff writer One of the architects behind the emergence of Portland, Ore., as one of the most “livable” cities in America — who’s also been christened the “Johnny Appleseed of Livability” — will present his vision at Chautauqua of how U.S. cities can become healthier, and indeed thrive, in the face of mounting obstacles. “I’m interested in developing how cities of today need to be reshaped to deal with the challenges of this century,” said U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, whose presentation, “The American City: Leading for a Change,” will be at 10:45 a.m. today at the Amphitheater. His talk wraps up a week devoted to American cities in the 21st century. “We have a clash of unsustainable patterns of water use, energy, urban heat islands and sprawl,” said the six-term Congressman from Portland, a city that has an international reputation for high livability standards. Chautauquans who spend the rest of the year in New York City or other major metropolitan areas know all about heat islands — a phenomenon that occurs when massive development actually generates sharply higher air temperatures. Elements of a city, from transportation systems and energy demand to water consumption and even the extent the city relates to the surrounding environment, pose opportunities for the future, Blumenauer said. But if they’re not done well, he cautions, they will actually make these and other problems worse. In a public-service career in its fourth decade, Blumenauer has established a unique role as Congress’ chief spokesperson for livable communities. These are communities that maximize choices for its residents with- ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ STAR COMES TO CHAUTAUQUA by Emanuel Cavallaro Staff writer With all the exposure Clay Aiken has been getting these days, it’s easy to forget that he didn’t win season two of “American Idol.” But when it comes to competing on a ratings powerhouse like Fox’s talent show, losing isn’t always a bad thing, particularly when 38 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research, are tuning in. Today the 29-year-old is a multiplatinum-selling artist with three fulllength studio albums to his name, the most recent being “A Thousand Different Ways,” released in September of 2006. He will appear tonight in “An Evening With Clay Aiken” at the Amphitheater accompanied by a 42piece orchestra as part of the Chautauqua Institution’s performance series. Though Aiken lost in the finals to Ruben Studdard by some 134,000 votes out of 24 million cast, his star has since outshone Studdard’s. As of Nov. 2006, Aiken had sold 4.3 million albums, compared to Studdard’s 2.3 million, according to Nielson SoundScan. In 2003, Aiken even graced the cover of Rolling Stone. The singer’s connection to the Fox show isn’t likely to go away anytime soon, though Aiken has never seemed very concerned by this. “I can never discount the fact that if it weren't for ‘American Idol,’ this wouldn't be happening,” Aiken told Billboard in a 2003 interview that followed the release of his first single, “Bridge Over Troubled Water”/“This Is the Night,” which sold 393,000 copies in its first week. “I'd love to be able to establish myself on my own and not always be the contestant,” he said. An unlikely superstar, Aiken is known more for his vocal talents and genial demeanor than any sort of star quality. At his first audition in Atlanta “Idol” judge Simon Cowell told him, “You don’t look like a pop star, but you’ve got a great voice.” Later, he received a make-over courtesy of “Idol” producers, which might have enhanced his appeal. Now, following the release of his newest album, his look has changed yet again. Sporting modish attire and a long shag haircut in recent appearances and promotional photos, Aiken resembles a dapper Edward Furlong. In a music industry troubled by waning sales and digital piracy, See AIKEN, Page A4 Blumenauer A conversation on urban management Mayors Campbell, Brown speak on challenges of cities by Judy Lawrence Staff writer Jane Campbell, former mayor of Cleveland and the first woman to hold that position, shares the podium today with Mayor Byron W. Brown of Buffalo, N.Y. Campbell is the daughter of Joan Brown Campbell, director of Chautauqua’s Department of Religion. The presentation will be in the form of a conversation. “He’s just taken office, and I just finished my time as mayor, and we both managed cities that are challenging,” she said. They’ll discuss “how you create opportunities in difficult times.” Campbell and Brown will speak at 2 p.m. at the Hall of Philosophy. Campbell served in the Ohio House of Representatives, where she was majority whip and assistant minority leader. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she earned a bachelor’s degree, and Cleveland State University, where she earned a master’s degree in urban studies. During her term as mayor, Campbell Campbell Brown focused on economic development, budgetary discipline, technology improvement and redevelopment of Cleveland’s Lake Erie waterfront. See MAYORS, Page A4 out sacrificing growth or economic development. “It’s a place where — if you put all the pieces together properly — families are safer, healthier and more economically secure,” Blumenauer said. Right now, Blumenauer said, choices are severely limited or altogether absent. “In too many communities, the only choice is to live far away from the inner city, far away from work and recreation. People have to burn a quart of gas to buy a quart of milk,” he said. “A livable community gives people the opportunity to live near where they work, where recreation and shopping are accessible,” he said. There must be a range of transportation options, such as mass transit, bicycle paths and even walking routes for this goal to be achieved. “Every trip that we take is a pedestrian trip; the question is how long is that going to be,” he said. The overall goal, Blumenauer said, is to maximize choices and minimize environmental impacts. Portland has accomplished this by adhering to urban growth boundaries that concentrate development within existing pockets of the city where it can be more easily accommodated. The results are clear. Existing neighborhoods are revitalized. Farmland, forests, open See BLUMENAUER, Page A4 A story of ‘jealousy and passion’ Famous gypsy returns to Norton Hall in CARMEN by Kate Sullivan Staff writer The Chautauqua Opera will spin a tale of love, intrigue and scandal in its second performance of the season, Carmen. Although originally considered a flop when it opened, Georges Bizet’s Carmen has become the icon of opera, known to most people inside and outside of the opera world. “Every number in Carmen is a famous tune,” John Kramar, the show’s stage director, said. “And if you’ve never been to an opera, you’ll sit there going, ‘Oh, I know that.’ … It’s kind of unbelievable.” The opera follows Carmen’s escapades in life and love. Using her beauty and wit, she has two different men pining after her, Don José and Escamillo, sung by Michael Wade Lee and Derrick Parker, respectively. “(Carmen) is very beautiful; she’s very smart. She’s kind of cunning, manipulative (and) seductive,” said Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, who sings the title role. “It’s all about survival — survival of the fittest, survival of the smartest, survival of the cunning. She’s lucky she has all these gifts, and she uses them to her advantage,” she said, likening Carmen to a cat that lands on her feet all the time. Carmen’s charm and seductive nature help keep her from jail and win her a suitor as well. The handsome Don José is ordered to take Carmen to jail after she attacks another woman. What he does not realize is the power a gypsy woman can hold over a man. He succumbs to her charms and lets her go free, against his commanding officer’s orders. What ensues are romantic snares with Carmen as the central issue. She seems not to notice the issue, but instead toys with the emotions of three different men at the same See CARMEN, Page A4 Photo by Michele Roehrig Carmen, played by Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, throws her rose at Don José, played by Michael Wade Lee, during Carmen. The opera shows July 20 and July 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Norton Memorial Hall. Today’s Weather Hi: 69° Lo: 56° Precip: 30% The ‘Wilde’ side Ballet legend Patricia Wilde lectures at Smith Wilkes Hall. Page A5 New director Sherri Babcock joins Institution staff as new director of education. Page A3 Divided cultural identity Artist Alberto Rey presents work tonight at Hultquist Center. Page B7 PM Showers Saturday’s Weather Hi: 73° Lo: 55° Precip: 10% Sunny Page A2 The Chautauquan Daily Friday, July 20, 2007 NEWS Briefly briefly Independent Health sponsors Clay Aiken concert Independent Health proudly sponsors “An Evening with Clay Aiken” at 8:15 p.m. tonight at the Amphitheater. Independent Health has a long history of supporting arts and culture, which is known to have a healthy impact on the participants and communities they serve. “Independent Health is proud to be part of this season at the Chautauqua Institution where the very best lecturers, performers and musicians showcase their expertise,” said Dr. Michael W. Cropp, president and CEO. “We look forward to thousands of guests becoming informed, entertained, enlightened and renewed at this worldrenowned venue.” Independent Health began operations in 1980 and has consistently been rated among the top health plans in the country for customer service and member satisfaction. Their comprehensive portfolio of products and services include HMO, POS, PPO and EPO products, Medicare and Medicaid plans, traditional indemnity insurance, consumerdirected plans and coverage for self-funded employers, along with health savings account (HSA) and pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services. Independent Health’s extensive provider networks include more than 789,000 physicians, 3,600 hospitals and 38,000 pharmacies nationally. Combined, the company provides health benefits and services to nearly 375,000 individuals in Western New York and throughout the country. For more information, visit Independent Health’s website at www.independenthealth.com. The Briefly column appears on page 2 daily and is intended to provide space for announcements of Institution-related organizations. If a meeting or activity is featured that day in a story, it should not be repeated in Briefly. Submit information to Laurie in the editorial office. Please provide name of organization, time and place of meeting, and a contact person’s name with phone number. Deadline is by 5 p.m. four days before publication. Non-perishable food accepted at post office Chautauquans leaving the grounds can dispose of their sealed non-perishable foods, e.g. boxed and canned items, in the gold-papered carton on the floor inside the north entrance of the Post Office. The Mayville Food Pantry empties the box periodically. The food will go to needy individuals and families in the Chautauqua Lake Central School District. For further information, contact Lou Wineman at 357-5105. Corry Opera Fund supports Rapp to speak at Men’s Club tonight’s Carmen performance on learning better balance The John A. and Emily McKnight Corry Opera Fund provides support for this evening’s opera performance of Carmen. John A. and Emily McKnight Corry are longtime residents of Bronxville, N.Y., where both have been active in local affairs. Mr. Corry is a retired senior partner in Davis Polk & Wardwell, a significant New York City law firm, and is a member of the Chautauqua Development Council and of the Cabinet for the Idea Campaign. Mrs. Corry, the former Emily Sellstrom McKnight, grew up in Jamestown and spent a number of summers with her family at Chautauqua in the log cabin at 16 Peck Ave. Don Rapp, author of On Balance: Mastery of Physical Balance for Life, will give a presentation on how “Better Balance Can be Learned” at 9 a.m. today at the Men’s Club meeting. Rapp has taught child development and gerontology at Florida State University. He earned his doctorate in child development and is a certified personal trainer with certification by the American Society of Sports Medicine. He also has been appointed to the Governor ’s Council on Physical Fitness in Florida. The event is open to men and women and will be held at the Chautauqua Women’s Club. Nature walk Meet naturalist Jack Gulvin at 9 a.m. today at the entrance to Smith Wilkes Hall for a Nature Walk sponsored by the Bird, Tree & Garden Club. CWC Flea Boutique open today The Flea Boutique, a thrift shop sponsored by the Chautauqua Women’s Club, is open from noon to 2 p.m. today and every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday behind the Colonnade. The quaint shop features bargain-priced items such as antiques, collectibles, linens, small furniture, books, clothing, kitchen items, toys, sporting goods and electronics. Mah jongg for CWC members The Chautauqua Women’s Club invites club members to join them at 1:30 p.m. today at the clubhouse for an enjoyable afternoon playing mah jongg. Bring your set if possible; cards are available at the bookstore. New or renewal memberships will be taken at the door. C H I L D R E N ’ S S C H O O L S TA F F ‘World’s Fair’ lecture David Cope will talk about “The World’s Fair on the Brink of War, NYC 1939” at 3:30 p.m. today in Smith Wilkes Hall. Pre-opera performance dinner The Opera Guild is sponsoring a dinner prior to tonight’s performance of Carmen. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. at Hurlbut Memorial Community Church for a themed buffet dinner. Dinners are $18 per person, and reservations are requested. To reserve a spot, call Virginia DiPucci at 7982120. CLSC book sale Stock your bookcase with CLSC treasures at the sale of a large quantity of old CLSC books at the Great American Picnic from 12 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Alumni Hall. Sunday at the Movies The fourth in the video series being shown by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) continues with West Bank Story, a musical comedy conceived by Ari Sandel that shows a lighter side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This short 2007 Academy Award-winner can be seen at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Lawrence Room of Hurlbut Memorial Church. CLSC Class of 2003 The CLSC Class of 2003 will have a potluck dinner and class meeting at 5 p.m. Sunday in Alumni Hall. All class members are encouraged to attend. Beverages will be provided. Photo by Marie Cornuelle Friends of the Theater Ice Cream Social Friends of the Chautauqua Theater Company invite its members and their guests to attend their Ice Cream Social from 1 to 3 p.m. Aug. 5 in the parlor of the Athenaeum Hotel. Socialize with fellow theater enthusiasts at an old-time ice cream social. Reservations are required by July 27. Send payment to Friends of the CTC, P.O. Box 1083, Chautauqua, NY 14722. Call Sandy at 357-4151 for information. The Children’s School staff for the 2007 season enjoys a few moments together during a very busy summer. Top of boat (front): Katie Gustafson, Cassie Dunlap, Erin Alexander, Lindsey King, Amanda Dickerson, Erica Harvey, Danielle Cookson; (back) Amanda Espersen, John Denton, Jody Matteson, and Ashley Crosby. Right of boat: Heidi Zarou and Alex Kyler. Left of Boat: Marisa Redard and Jenna Foster. Standing (left to right): Laura Calhoun, Tiffany Kilburn, Lisa McMullen, Marianne McElree, Mark Doty, Marty Manor, Kit Trapasso, Gretchen Jervah, Carolyn Alexander, Kathie Szabo, Tina Jeffe, Sandy Holden, and Jake Mitchell. Sitting (left to right): Anna Davis, Katie Odland, Karen Munski, Annette Weintraub, Carol Collins, JoAnn Borg, Katie Marusic, Keishia Blake, and Julie Garvin Business Licenses If you operate or rent accommodations or any type of business on the grounds you must purchase a rental permit or business license at the Treasurer’s Office in the Colonnade Building. (357-6212) Sears Luxury Transport Let Me Treat You Like Royalty Robert M. 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The stakes are huge and the global consequences for getting it wrong are immense: degraded public health, increasing social and political unrest and environmental collapse. At a time of heightened anxiety around the world, these changes could not come at a worse time. At home, we face demographic challenges of our own. Unlike other developed nations, most of which have stabilized or even declining populations, we will gain 100 to 200 million people by the middle of the century. Most of these new residents will be concentrated in the 10 “megaregions” scattered around the country. How do we craft effective policies, organize our institutional structures and engage our commu- American cities: From ‘a new vision’ to ‘leading for a change’ I n preparation for my Chautauqua presentation today, I returned to the speech I made during my last visit. After all, the theme of this week’s discussion, “21st Century Cities,” is not so terribly different from my presentation in 2001, “Livable Cities: The New American Vision.” Six years ago, my text focused on powerful themes — global warming, disaster preparation, livable communities initiatives — that are certainly relevant today. Yet even though the broad themes were there, that message now seems antiquated and remote in the context of subsequent events. Just weeks after my presentation, we suffered the horrific attacks of Sept. 11. Soon thereafter, we embarked on the tragedy that is the war in Iraq. While I have opposed this war from the beginning, making dire predictions before we attacked about the probable descent into chaos and sectarian violence, I didn't foresee this conflict turning so quickly into the worst military and foreign relations debacle in American history. Six years ago, I spoke of the imminent dangers posed by our failure to prepare for natural disasters. I had spoken in some detail on the floor of the House about New Orleans’ obvious vulnerability to a major storm, months before Katrina brought that city to its knees. But when the hurricane struck, it proved more than just the vulnerability of that city; it exposed the failure of America’s disaster response. Six years ago, I talked about global warming — but hadn’t yet experienced the emotional force of increasingly frequent and intense weather events. Reading about the steady disappearance of Greenland’s immense Jacobshavn Glacier did little to prepare me for viewing it in person recently, floating among that glacier’s icebergs and talking with the Inuit people about the impacts of global warming on their entire way of life. Even though my old speech contains the right elements, it does not begin to capture the force these factors are having on our policies, our communities and our world. The changes since the summer of 2001 have heightened our sense of vulnerability, deepened the divisions between us and created vastly different moods at home and abroad. What has not changed is the critical role our cities play in these challenges, making our discussion today even more urgent. The changes brought about by nities in solutions that meet the depth and breadth of this challenge? Never since the dark days of World War II has the need for American leadership been more acute. This time, the stakes are higher. The threat comes not just from the destructive forces of fascism, but from global pandemics, ecological devastation and potential economic collapse. Our only option is to address these challenges directly. We should start with the federal government, whose transportation, housing and economic policies drive local decisions about who pays for development and where and how it occurs. Federal farm policy affects not only our diets and our landscapes, but urban and rural economies, global trade and poverty. Federal purchasing policies and facility locations have immediate effects on every American community, regardless of size or location. How we prioritize and fund our transportation systems, define and tax our resources and even how our military procures its supplies all offer us incredible opportunities to redirect people and tens of billions of dollars to serve longer-term, more sustainable goals. Human society has risen to — and overcome — significant challenges before. Throughout history, villages, followed by towns and city-states and now our urbanized metropolitan regions have been the engines for human progress. Today’s conflict between urban benefits — the concentration of resources in a central location; the creative generation of ideas, culture and technology — and the toxic legacy of flagrant resource consumption is nothing new. Our future has always been determined by how we’ve been able to balance these tensions. Today there is little room for error. We cannot afford to let that balance slip into the negative. As never before, we must harness the constructive power of our cities. The governments that set priorities, create wealth and foster creativity must chart a path for humans to live lighter on the land as they add to the greater good. This is the promise of cities. Today, as never before, our future depends on our ability to realize that promise. Congressman Earl Blumenauer represents Oregon’s third congressional district, including Portland. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He will be giving the 10:45 a.m. lecture today at the Amphitheater. Sherri Babcock named new director of education Former college professor, administrator begins work at Chautauqua by Sara Macho Staff writer Sherri Babcock can predict the future — the future of Chautauqua in seasons 2008, 2009 and summer seasons yet to come, that is. As the new director of education for the Institution, Babcock, who officially began her first day July 15, will work with the director of religion, the vice president of programming and the president to set the themes for summer lecture sessions in future seasons. Babcock, who most recently worked as the founder of Project Partnerships where she provided hands-on advising to liberal arts colleges, is now responsible for supervising the 10:45 a.m. lecture selection, Smith Memorial Library and the Oliver Archives Center. The Georgetown, Texas, native will also work with the Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle, the Writers’ Center and the Special Studies program. “It’s an exciting challenge to think ahead,” she said. “We think about two years out on what the themes are going to be. Trying to think ahead about ‘Will this topic still be interesting?’ and ‘Will the people we’re inviting still be on the cutting edge?’ is a wonderful, fabulous challenge.” The director of education was a position previously held by Dick Redington, a longtime Chautauquan, Babcock said. Babcock will serve on the senior staff representing the programs she works with. Babcock said she will provide a voice for the organizations. “There is a need to have them represented in the overall strategy,” she said. “If a place, a thing or a person doesn’t get better, doesn’t learn more, then it’s not growing, and I hope to be part of that kind of growth.” In years past, she worked as vice president and dean of students at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, a position she held for 11 years. She was an adjunct professor of marketing at Southern Methodist University and has years of experience as an executive in advertising and public relations, where she served as management supervisor. Her previous positions have helped Babcock excel in working with many different companies and services and assess where an organization is presently and where it wants to go. “I’ve supervised a lot of different departments in terms of getting to know what people do, how they do it and why they do it,” Babcock said. “I think that’s why I’m really attracted to the Chautauqua position, because it uses my strategic skills and clientele involvement and my education work. I heard a wise person say once that you have many jobs, but only one career. And mine has kind of well in the areas of lecture programming, Babcock said an organization is always looking at what it should do next and how it can work things better synergistically. She has not yet met Redington, her predecessor, but said she will perform many of the tasks he did, but also some things he didn’t. “The processes were handled differently, and different people reported to different people,” she said. “It’s a newold position, and of course anybody will do something differently just because they bring different skills and different backgrounds.” To stay on top of her game, Babcock does a lot of reading and maintains a sense of how issues have evolved and where the future might take them. As a longtime lover of learning, she said, she enjoys meeting new people and discovering how things fit and flow together. Among her many priorities as she grows accustomed to her new position is getting to know people on the grounds and reviewing resources the Institution already has in place. In the days to come, Babcock will begin making contacts regarding 2008 speakers. As Babcock attends lectures, she observes how the audience responds to the speaker. “When I attend lectures, I see people who are really actively engaged and have prepared,” she said. “My husband calls my work a capstone, because it involves what I know about education, what I know about finding people who are experts in their fields and bringing all of it together so you’re not just seeing a performance or seeing a lecture, but you’re thinking, ‘What does it mean?’” Babcock, who is a “lifelong United Methodist” as her father was a Methodist minister, is prepared to work as a leader in Chautauqua’s future. “I know that we have to evolve and grow, and certainly Chautauqua has grown and evolved into what we see today. This is just the opportunity for that to continue,” she said. New Director of Education Sherri Babcock most recently worked at the company she founded, Project Partnerships, where she provided handson advising to liberal arts colleges. At Chautauqua, her responsibilities include supervising the selection of 10:45 a.m. lecturers, Smith Memorial Library and Oliver Archives, and working with the CLSC. evolved into helping people figure out where they are and where they want to go.” To better prepare for her new position, Babcock and her husband, who recently retired, postponed what would have been a three-month vacation to the Anarondacks and parts of Canada, so she could see what a Chautauqua summer season is like. She has been attending evening Amphitheater performances and various morning lectures to better acquaint herself with what Chautauquans want and look for in events. “I think it’s important to experience the different lectures and see how people react to them and get a sense of who people are warming to, and also what is being said,” Babcock said. “As a rep- resentative of Chautauqua, I should be able to discuss what is being said.” Babcock recently relocated to the area and has one daughter, 25, and three older stepdaughters, two of which have children. She has four grandsons and two granddaughters who range from ages 1 to 18. 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They’re both violent, and they have meanness in them.” Don José is a fiery character and, as Carmen’s first and most persistent suitor, his passion is deeply engrained. “(Don José is) emotionally immature, and he’s a bull,” Lee said “He’s got issues. “He accidentally killed a guy and then ran away to the (bandits) instead of facing up to what he did.” With such a complex personality, the role demands a certain effort from the actor. “Michael (Wade Lee) is wonder- ful, because he has such passion and intensity, and his character is always one second away from having a stroke, because he’s so intense,” Kramar said. One of the themes that Kramar and the cast wanted to emphasize was the relationship between Carmen and Don José. “We all agreed in the beginning to emphasize that the love between Carmen and José is more powerful than anything,” Kramar said. “It is so powerful, and it is bigger than both of them. And neither of them are equipped to deal with it. And eventually that’s what causes the tragedy. It’s not just about chemistry and passion; it’s about love.” Putting on what Kramar called “the world’s favorite opera” is not an easy feat, but he said he’s been lucky to have a lot of support and a great cast to work with, making his directing debut at Chautauqua an enjoyable one. “It’s a monster of an opera, because it contains children’s chorus, regular chorus, sword fighting, knife fighting, every kind of dancing you can imagine,” Kramar said. “And the choruses all have three different costumes that they’re quick changing all the time, back and forth. … It’s a handful, but it’s been a great challenge.” In preparing for the production, Kramar said he did a lot of research by getting his hands on as many recordings and videos of Carmen productions he could find, which he said was about eight DVDs and 27 different CDs. He also said he Googled the guest artists to get an idea for how he wanted the roles to be played. “(Sandel-Pantaleo) is a very earthy, sensual, Spanish Carmen,” Kramar explained. “That was my dream Carmen — I was very happy once we started rehearsing that that was her take on the character.” But he said he didn’t make any of the big decisions until after meet- ing the principal singers, because each one brings their own idea of the role. “I think my job as a professional is to show up with my ideas and with my perception of who she is and how I think she acts,” SandelPantaleo said. “So I show up with that and then I’m prepared to change. The reason that we rehearse is not to learn the lines or the music. Because Don José comes, and he’s got his own set of ideas.” She added that personal experience can also affect the way an actor interprets a role. For both Sandel-Pantaleo and Lee this production of Carmen marks their Chautauqua Opera debut and also Kramar’s main stage directing debut. But the show is not unfamiliar to any of them as they all know it in some capacity. Lee just finished playing Don José with the Greek National Opera in Athens before coming to Chautauqua. He said his experience there was much longer, but that it’s nice for him to transition into another production of the show. Sandel-Pantaleo said she has sung the role of Carmen in concert settings but has never actually played the gypsy in a full production. “There’s a reason (Carmen’s) done a lot,” Sandel-Pantaleo said. “It’s not just because it’s cheap, it’s not because it’s short, it’s not because it doesn’t have a lot of people in it. It’s very visceral,” she said, noting that the emotions behind the story are something all audience members can identify with. “We’re all lovers and fighters,” she said. Carmen opens at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Norton Hall. Tickets can be bought 45 minutes before the doors open in front of the hall. Tickets for Monday’s show can be bought at any of the ticket locations on the grounds. BLUMENAUER FROM PAGE A1 spaces and natural resources are protected. Clearly ahead of its time, Portland, where Blumenauer is based, became the first American city to develop a comprehensive energy policy. That was in 1993. It has not only halted increases in greenhouse gases, but also reduced them, despite a population that has grown 17 percent. Per capita emissions have dropped in each of the last four years. Portland might be the only American city that’s “Koyoto-compliant,” Blumenauer said. The city has made these strides by directing population growth to areas adjacent to transit lines, by not building any new freeways in the last 25 years and by building four light rail lines. Portland is also the first American city to put new streetcars back on the tracks since World War II. “It’s the totality of these initiatives that are part of a comprehensive plan designed to maximize efficiency, minimize impact on resources and give families more choices,” Blumenauer said. The 58-year-old Democratic legislator has spread this message in more than 200 cities since his election to Congress in 1996 and has found audiences to be “remarkably receptive” to these ideas. “This is an area where the public has been ahead of elected officials, the administration and, in some cases, the business community and media,” he said. First elected to the Oregon legislature at the age of 23, Blumenauer, who earned his law degree from Lewis and Clark College, has played key roles in enacting legislation that created Oregon’s landmark land-use planning program and progressive transportation policies. Both continue as national models today. He also served as a county commissioner and spent 10 years on the Portland City Council as commissioner of public works. In those 20 years, he advanced an agenda that led to Portland’s acclaim as one of the nation’s most desirable cities in which to live. He ran for a seat in Congress because he believed the federal government should be a better partner with cities in their efforts to improve livability standards. Blumenauer last visited Chautauqua in 2001 to deliver a talk that explored salvaging the nation’s politics while saving the planet. MAYORS FROM PAGE A1 Boating Boat owners must register their boats at the Central Dock Office, located on the lake in front of the Athenaeum Hotel. You may moor your boat at a private or Institution dock, ramp or buoy, but not on shore. Use of Institution operated moorage may be reserved on a space-available basis at the Central Dock Office. If you are arriving at Chautauqua by boat, please utilize the Central Dock. 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Postal regulations require that mail subscriptions be paid in advance. Friday, July 20, 2007 The Chautauquan Daily Page A5 DANCE The ‘Wilde’ side of Left photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, right photo by Roger Coda by Sara Macho Staff writer The Chautauqua Dance Circle is proud to present ballet legend Patricia Wilde, former principal dancer with George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet from 1950 to 1965. As part of her lecture, which is scheduled for 2 p.m. today in Smith Wilkes Hall, Wilde will discuss how she got her start in the world of ballet and where it has taken her. Wilde, who recently celebrated her 79th birthday, first started taking ballet in Ottawa, Canada and later, at the age of 11, traveled to New York City to audition at the School of American Ballet. She was placed in the advanced class, but because of her age, the school asked her to return to Canada and audition the following year. “I was devastated,” Wilde said. “I went home and I worked like crazy.” After practicing on her own and taking various classes, she went back the following year at age 12, auditioned and was placed in the advanced class. At age 14, she was also asked to rehearse and perform with the recently formed American Concert Ballet and a company called Ballet International under the direction of Salvador Dalí. Following her experience in those companies, Wilde met a then-unknown choreographer who was just beginning to get his feet wet in the world of ballet: George Balanchine, or “Mr. B.” as Wilde refers to him. Balanchine had observed Wilde taking classes and performing and asked her to come with a small group of dancers to Mexico in 1945 and dance in various productions. Wilde decided to go and danced her first role that Balanchine personally choreographed for her; a solo in the ballet and opera Faust. While many people would be amazed by Wilde’s gumption and seemingly nonchalant attitude toward traveling alone at such a young age, Wilde thinks nothing of it. “It was adventure. I wanted to get out and do and see,” she said. Because Wilde began traveling during World War II, her mother could send little money and Wilde learned to support herself. “It was a different thing then, it really was,” she said. “I remember standing and walking to go home and probably hadn’t eaten all day, and I spotted a vendor selling Hershey chocolate pieces for a penny and I remember thinking ‘Oh, I want one, but I can’t afford it,’ because I wouldn’t have had that part of the nickel for the subway then. So I really had to count my pennies then.” On her experiences working with Balanchine, Wilde said he had an amazing talent that came completely naturally. “As a choreographer, it just seemed to pour out of him,” she said. “And then as fast as you could get it, and we were pretty fast at picking it up after awhile, he would ask ‘Is it comfortable, is it good?’ He was always calm, never upset about anything. He never yelled and was very quiet.” Balanchine went on to create many roles specifically for Wilde, including the Highland Girl in “Scotch Symphony,” the Pas de Trois in “Swan Lake” and “Glinka Pas de Trois,” “Square Dance,” “Waltz-Scherzo,” “Native Dancers” and “Raymonda Variations,” a ballet Wilde would later teach to Patricia McBride, ballet master for the Chautauqua School of Dance, according to information collected by Bonnie Crosby of the Chautauqua Dance Circle. “Raymonda Variations” is also the Balanchine piece that McBride is staging for the Festival Dancers’ performance on Monday. As part of her career, Wilde also danced with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Les Ballets de Paris de Roland Petit and the English Metropolitan Ballet. She has also served as director of the Harkness Ballet School, company teacher and ballet mistress for American Ballet Theatre and artistic director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, according to information collected by the Chautauqua Dance Circle. The influence of Balanchine and the presence of talent by Sara Macho Staff writer Though it has been 24 years since the death of George Balanchine, his ballet legacy is still very much alive on the grounds of Chautauqua, and his spirit and passion for choreography is deep within Patricia McBride, master ballet teacher at the Chautauqua School of Dance. To help keep his memory flourishing, McBride, a woman with a quiet air of dance royalty, stages a Balanchine ballet each summer for the dance school’s young festival students. The famed late choreographer, known for his groundbreaking techniques that forever altered the world of ballet, had worked exclusively with McBride and created specific ballets just for her throughout her more than three-decade long career for the New York City Ballet. As part of this summer’s Student Gala, McBride is staging “Raymonda Variations,” a ballet she said she last performed in 1988. Balanchine, whom McBride described as a “gentle man” who, “when he walked into the room, you could feel his aura,” first spotted McBride after she enrolled in the School of American Ballet. “He always kept an eye on his students,” she said recently at a talk at the Women’s Club. When McBride was 16 years old, Balanchine made her an apprentice dancer with the New York City Ballet and promoted her to principal soon afterward. “You think of him as this dance giant, but he had a humility about him,” McBride said. “He never lost his temper, and he gave you his trust … When he walked into the room, I could barely open my mouth.” The spirit, strength and beauty of Balanchine’s character has surely rubbed off on McBride, who treats her ballet students with an admirable respect. “It’s all about the students,” she said at the closing of a “Raymonda Variations” rehearsal. She seems to have adapted his attitude and frequent saying, “My dancers, you’re like a bouquet of flowers; you’re all different, but are beautiful together.” At the end of every rehearsal or class, McBride smiles warmly at each one of her students and extends her arms to give an encouraging hug. She said she does this because she does not want to appear pompous, as “we all are equals in here,” referring to the dance studio space. “Raymonda Variations” a whimsical 30-minute ballet, features the young, artistic talent of the festival dancers, ages 14 to 16, and could be considered quite an undertaking, as it opens with an active waltz, followed by a challenging pas de deux, eight solo variations in the form of fast-paced allegro and slow, captivating adagio, and a pas de deux performance with the entire cast. But McBride’s dancers perform it with an impressive ease. “The performing experience is so wonderful,” McBride said. “It’s a vital part of being a dancer.” For McBride, dance has always been a wonderful outlet for her. She fondly thinks back to her first performance as a principal dancer under Balanchine, and said she was “so nervous” that her legs felt like jelly. But McBride surpassed her nervousness and went on to dance in more than 100 ballets. She held her position with the New York City Ballet from age 16 until 46, which is quite remarkable in the world of ballet. In a profession where injuries are commonplace, McBride was blessed to never suffer from any afflictions. She complimented her doctor, whom she would quickly see if she felt even a hint of pain anywhere. McBride had a rigorous schedule, in which she rehearsed four to five hours a day and performed seven to eight times a week, as Balanchine would stage around 60 ballets per season. In 1964, when the infamous Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opened, Balanchine’s ballets took on an even larger depth. “The Lincoln Center changed the venue,” she said. “Before, Balanchine would choreograph huge works for tiny stages. We danced small. But at the Lincoln Center, we learned to move larger.” The 1960s also brought about another change to the New York City Ballet with the introduction of Jerome Robbins, a Tony award-winning choreographer. McBride said Robbins’ choreography was different than that of Balanchine, who worked quickly and knew exactly what his dancers could do. After a five-year courtship, the two were married in Paris in 1973. The two began dancing together, which McBride said was a different experience for her, but the couple learned to not take each other too seriously during rehearsal time. When Bonnefoux retired in 1980, he opened a dance school in Chautauqua, and later introduced the Chautauqua Ballet Company, which was made up of dancers from various companies that took summers off. Bonnefoux’s company quickly took off building quite a repertory that continues to expand today. In 1989, when McBride retired, Bonnefoux asked her to teach fulltime and stage Balanchine works in Chautauqua. She said she does not miss her ballet career, because she continues to work with and be inspired by her students and the company members every day. “By staging a Balanchine work, it’s a way to pass on his legacy,” McBride said. “It keeps me close to him. He’s in my heart, and I know he’s guiding me still.” McBride “The minute he would choreograph a piece, it fit you like a glove,” McBride said of Balanchine. “Both choreographers gave me so much; it was such a great gift. 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O'Grady Staff writer “We have created one of the most toxic environments for children in terms of the culture of this country ever seen on the face of the earth.” Geoffrey Canada wasn’t talking about air or water pollution Thursday morning in the Amphitheater, but about the social and educational environment of America’s children. As president and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone, he has seen it firsthand. This is a threat to America, he said, not of a foreigner coming in and committing terrorist acts, but “something we are living with right now.” And as long as Americans do nothing about it, “we are all sleeping with the enemy,” he said. Americans want a culture that stands for something that others want to emulate, Canada said. On the contrary, other countries are afraid to allow the current American youth culture in, as it will destroy their children. wrote a report about unwed parents among AfricanAmericans and considered it a problem of that community. He should, Canada said, have seen it as an American problem. Today, the numbers of unwed parents in the white community has increased drastically. When he was in college, the student population was 64 percent male and 36 percent female. Now, he said, the numbers are reversed. Boys are much more likely to repeat at least one grade, have a disability, commit suicide, be injured in a fight, drop out of school or die. “This is a crisis!” Canada said. set of values imaginable.’” Boys Canada said he wrote the book Reaching Up for Manhood, because he noticed “something going on with boys in Harlem.” Boys were getting into serious trouble, and when Canada did some research, he found some alarming statistics. The New York Times reported that if a man is African-American with no college degree, his chances of being unemployed are 50 percent. And if he has no high school diploma, it’s 70 percent. He asked, “How could we in America have those kinds of numbers going on, and no one seems to feel it’s a crisis?” Canada pointed out that it’s not just a problem concerning children of any specific ethnicity, because it involves, or will involve, all American children. “It’s like the canary in the coal mine,” a warning of what’s going to happen in the future, he said. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Marketing Canada first realized what a huge market boys constitute when he saw the activity in the sneaker industry. He said that shoes containing $2 worth of plastic and canvas sell for up to $250. But when they have Michael Jordan’s name on them, boys feel they have to have them, and when they put them on, people treat them differently. Violence and sex are used to sell products to children, and it works. Canada said if he were to tell a group of boys there was a naked photo of Beyoncé behind a jigsaw puzzle and that he would remove one puzzle piece each time they solved an algebra problem, they would learn algebra. About rappers, Canada said, “Good people would not listen to stuff like that. They have gone so far overboard with denigration of women, selling drugs and violence,” he said. “Don’t tell me that’s not going to have an impact.” If rappers talked about geography, he said, America would have some of the best geographers in the world. Seventy percent of that music is purchased by young white boys, listening to the “same horrible messages.” Canada said the impact would be faced for the next 30 to 50 years. “We [African-Americans] wanted to get out of the ghetto,” he said. “This message is ‘Don’t leave the ghetto, you’re a sellout; you want to stay with the most negative Violence This is the most violent country for children, Canada said. Child soldiers in Africa — “That’s episodic. Here, it’s been going on for 25 years.” More children were lost in gun violence in 2004, he said, than soldiers had been lost in the entire Iraq war. The media, he said, will tell the numbers of Americans killed overseas, but not how many children died here at home. “Why is it more important to care about soldiers’ lives? They’re heroes, but what about the 10-year-olds being slaughtered in Harlem or Chicago?” If this were a normal developmental process, it would be occurring, for example, in Canada. But it isn’t. It is illegal to import the cheap handgun, or Saturday Night Special. The four or five U.S. firms that make and sell handguns, he said, have a conspiracy to target children. The only thing they are good for, Canada said, is to shoot large, slow-moving mammals. He said, “A child in America should have the right to grow up.” Canada suggests that handguns should be registered and insured just like automobiles, with testing and inspection required. He described the case of a dart game that accidentally killed two people. Congress got all upset and outlawed this dangerous game. That, Canada said, is the definition of political interest. “I’m talking about kids here,” he said. But it’s an adult issue, because it’s a political issue. Action His organization, Harlem Children’s Zone, takes responsibility for 10,000 kids in a 100-block area of Harlem, at a cost of about $3,500 a year per child. They provide services from birth through college graduation. Some people say that’s too costly, but Canada points out that the 60,000 AfricanAmerican men in New York jails cost the state $32,000 each year. “I want to turn Joachim, age 7, into a taxpaying, working American. At 17 he would cost us $32,000 a year, and come out of jail not able to find a job.” Canada believed as a child that people knew of the terrible situation he was in and would fix it. “Now I’ve met all those people; they do not know. They’re asking me! … There is no master plan to save this country.” He said “If we care about America, we’ve got to do something about it.” Canada listed six areas: Begin early — One must start with a child from birth. This information has been in the scientific literature for years, but nobody told the parents. In the Harlem Children’s Zone, they give the children preschool education, including French, Spanish and English, in Baby College. All of these children, 100 percent, enter kindergarten at grade level. “When a child is age four, you can make up the difference,” he said. Engage parents as partners — Parents who want their children to learn are told, “Turn off the TV.” Anyone who advises that, Canada said, doesn’t have a child. It just won’t work. Rather, he suggests, they could start with a half hour less of television each day. “Create a reading nook in the house” is another suggestion. He said with five families in three rooms, that’s a problem. Continuum of practice — The Harlem Children’s Zone has created a continuum of best practice programs from birth through college. Most other programs, he said, wait until the child is three years behind, and feel good when they graduate from high school. “What can a kid do with a high school diploma nowadays?” he asked. Redesign schools — Schools have to be redesigned for success. For 50 years they’ve produced failing students, so obviously, Canada said, that’s what they’re designed for. In a middle or upper middle class community, there are resources and facilities, and the children learn a year’s work in a year. But if a child is three Photo by Jessica Ebelhar Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO of Harlem Children's Zone, speaks about the need for an overhaul in America's education system Thursday in the Amphitheater. years behind, the physics of education make it clear that even if he starts learning a year’s work in one year, he’ll still be three years behind and never catch up. Some specific recommendations are lengthening the school day and the school year, and building more schools. “It’s going to cost us money,” Canada said. Anyone in business knows that if he had a system that failed, he would work night and day to change it, he said. The U.S. educational system is failing, and the ones who suffer are the children. Community support — There are many communities, he said, that members of his audience would not be caught dead in, and many people have no sense of community. Communities must be brought back into the problem. In groups, one is more likely to be successful. In the Harlem Children’s Zone they go in, building by building, block by block. They clean up the streets, involve the parents and clergy and improve the neighborhood. When Canada was a child, Ms. Lipscomb was an elderly lady whose job was to look out her front window and tell the parents what their children were doing. “We were her business,” he said. That has been lost in many urban communities. Evaluation — He said in many schools, a high-stakes test is given to students in the spring, but nobody uses the results to influence the teaching or help the student with problems. “We need data to help us teach kids,” he said. Senator Barack Obama recently called for the creation of children’s zones, similar to the one in Harlem, across America. Two challenges A new sense of optimism, of faith, is needed. Canada said children are committing suicide because they have no faith in their future. Faith, he said, could create an environment of overcoming obstacles. He described an incredibly optimistic coach as an example. But, he noted, “You have to have it before you need it.” Real strategies are also needed. He said it’s not rocket science; it’s harder. Most folks continue to do as they always have. “We have not figured out how to get certain segments of the population to move from where they are to where they need to be.” Thinking outside the box is the key. Canada ended his lecture with a poem he’d written, called “A Small Army of Love.” The last lines are “But when you love all the children there’s nothing to do/But start a small army of love, me and you.” 35 Hawthorne 4 bdr, 2 full/2 half $649,000 Becky Colburn, Denise Doane Friday, July 20, 2007 The Chautauquan Daily Page A7 LECTURE QA & Q: A: I’ll give you one to begin with — how do we get this message, this war that you’ve outlined to be a major issue in the upcoming presidential campaign? You know, it’s interesting, because I think that we have not put our presidential candidates to the test to ask really tough questions, and I just think that we’ve got to begin. You know, if people have been against the war and they have organized being against the war, but they haven’t been for something else, so the politicians get off with saying “I’m against the war,” and they think, “OK, then you’re buying that I’m a good person.” I think we’ve got to say, “Where do you stand on the war in Iraq, but also what are you going to do about the war going on in America right now?” I just think they have to hear it over and over and over again. Right now the way this thing works — the speechwriters are sitting there taking the temperature of the citizenry and saying, “You’d better say something about this, and you’d better say something about this,” and we’ve got to really make sure that this question comes up over and over again. I think it would be interesting because — I know Senator Clinton well — but it was Senator Obama who decided that he was going to adopt a strategy and go across America and put numbers to it and say, “This is what we should do.” I would not be surprised that in the next debate when the issue comes up that he doesn’t mention that. Now this is a funny situation, but this potentially is what might happen. My organization is literally two blocks from President Clinton’s office. So Senator Clinton knows the work well, and I wouldn’t be surprised to hear her say something about, “Oh, yes well I know all about that, and I actually help support it,” and I think that if we just can insist — if people would follow up with questions with e-mails that say, “This is something we care about,” I think unfortunately (this is going to sound harsh, but I mean it) most of the politicians don’t care about mainstream America. They are thinking about how to get that fringe group that we think is going to be the swing group in the nation. And so if you’re Republican, you’re thinking about the gun owners, right? And you’re thinking about how to say all these things about gays and about blacks that are so coded that no one can call you on it, but all your base understands it. And the Democrats are really not thinking about the average middle class American. They’re really trying to think about, “Well how can I make sure I don’t lose this group and I keep that group.” I think that we’ve got to become much more vocal about the center part of this nation, saying that we want to address issues that impact the whole American community, and we think this is part of it. When we keep calling them “those folk” and they say, “OK, that’s my minority, so when they ask me questions about minorities, I’ll answer that.” When people start talking about our children, they say, “Most of these children are white children,” then suddenly this is going to occur to people, “Oh, you know what we’ve really got to start dealing with this issue as part of our main message.” One of the things I think we have to accept is this is most evident in the black community, but it’s happening to all of our children. When we present it like that, I think it’s going to have an impact. Q: A: Sitting out here in the audience is a football coach, I’m sure he listened carefully to your example. He happens to be the 2 p.m. speaker this afternoon, and he is a football coach that has transformed the lives of young men in the poorest part of the city of Cleveland, by the way, in which sports were used. Do you think sports are a piece of the answer in the hands of a coach like Coach Ginn? Well, first of all the coach — where’s the coach at? Maybe he’s gone to get ready. This man is extraordinary and what he has done is extraordinary. Here is part of the challenge we have in this country: There are a group of kids that the only reason they’re going to graduate high school is because they want to stay on whatever team it is they’re playing on. Most of the kids — the Rev. (James) Forbes, who’s a good friend of mine and one of the great preachers in America and one our greatest, I think, national treasures — he was talking earlier today in this morning’s sermon, and he was talking about how many people had done something bad and knew it inside this room, but other people didn’t know. And I had just walked in, and I thought, “Uh-oh, he sees me.” But the kids I hung out with when I was growing up — a lot of us were athletes and most of those kids graduated high school simply because the basketball coach and the football coach said, “You fail English, you’re off the team.” And they couldn’t care two wits about English, but they cared about being on that team. Part of reaching kids or whatever — I’m a third-degree black belt in martial arts, and I’ve taught martial arts for 25 years — and all of my kids, I don’t care, from 5 years up — have all learned all the bones in the body, all of them, all the muscles in the body. And the kids think I teach them the bones, because they think I’m going to teach them how to break them. But I’m just teaching the bones because I want them to learn a little anatomy. A good youth development person takes whatever it is — those kids look up to you and you are like God to them. They want to play on the team, they believe in what the coach says: “You better go to sleep tonight. I don’t want you out there fooling about with those kids.” He says, “Yes, coach, yes.” And you march them on that straight line. That kind of power with young people, by the way, is undeveloped. We don’t recognize it in the way it ought to be recognized, and what the coach has done with the group of kids from Ohio — I just think it’s extraordinary. We started a chess club in Harlem for a group of kids. We got the best chess teacher in America, because one of my board members who’s very wealthy got that person to teach their own kids, and he’s a very generous man. He has that same belief I have: If it’s good enough for your kids, it should be good enough for poor kids. He said, “Geoff, why don’t we want to start a chess club in Harlem? Wouldn’t it be great if in four or five years they were whooping up on all those private school kids?” I thought, “You know, we’ll see.” It took us five years, but last year our girls were No. 2 in America. But let me get to the point — the point about sports, and we need so much talent on the table in these communities, because these kids never get the opportunity. We don’t know how many great artists, dancers, musicians, athletes never ever get the chance to develop, because no one is there to see them through. I don’t know the coach — I know of the coach — but I’ll tell you why he’s great at what he does: Because he cares enough to see no separation between sports and these young people’s home life and their academic life. He has connected them all, and he has made them think of him as part of their family. And you set a set of standards for these kids, so they know if they don’t reach those standards that he’s going to be more than disappointed. There is a real consequence — we thought our coach was going to beat us up. They grabbed me by the collar, “You can’t do that kind of stuff,” they said. “I heard you was messing up in science; if you do that again, do you know what’ll happen?” “Yes, coach, yes, coach; I’m not going to do that anymore!” They weren’t going to beat us up, but they just wanted to make sure we understood there was a line that we could not cross, and that kind of love. You know, one of things I was talking with my driver yesterday, who happens to be a coach, a really great basketball coach. The one thing we said is, those coaches … we remember those coaches when we’re grown and we’re old, and we remember what they meant to us, because they saved our lives. I think sports is really a critical piece here. —Q&A transcribed by Kate Sullivan ‘Viola fest’ to fill Chautauqua stage by Rachel Abbey Staff writer Today is a big day for violist Evan Wilson. At 12:30 p.m. he will participate in dedicating his practice shack, Cabin 43, to Nathan and Polly Gottschalk. And at 4 p.m., Wilson will begin his 10th annual “Evan Wilson and Friends” concert. The concert, which will last until 6 p.m. in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, will feature a true range of Wilson’s friends, from current and former students to musicians who were part of the Institution when Wilson studied here. Nathan Gottschalk was the director of the MSFO who helped take the program to the next level when Wilson was a student, he said. “It was his life,” Wilson said. Wilson had grown close to the Gottschalks when he studied at Chautauqua and said he was “thrilled” when the Jackson family gave money to the Institution to dedicate the cabin to his mentor. Wilson decided to go one step beyond the dedication performance and make a day of it, dedicating the first quarter of tonight’s recital to the Gottschalks. Wilson will begin the recital with a few solo pieces, and then perform a duet with three of his current students. Each student will play one movement in the piece. After the duet, Wilson will play in a trio with Lee Wilkins and Peter DeVries, two of the musicians who were around at the beginning of then-student Wilson’s Chautauqua career. Wilkins was the concertmaster of the MSFO when Wilson began teaching at Chautauqua in the ’80s. Jim Davis and Jim Lounsbury are the others Wilson will be performing with. “I haven’t seen these guys in 26 years, but we’ve remained close,” Wilson said. “It’s my ‘boys of summer.’” Wilson will finish the first half of the recital with Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg No. 3, a piece he thinks his parents will be very excited to see. After all, one of the other musicians on stage will be Wilson’s “kid brother,” the doctor/pilot/violinist who is the youngest of their seven siblings. After intermission, Wilson will perform some of Johannes Brahms’ “most beautiful” pieces written for viola. The viola has a reputation for being part of more contemporary music, Wilson said, but he wants to play the familiar as well. “I want to play pieces people can go home singing the melodies in their heads,” he said. The second half will also feature a duet with some former students and will conclude with Bach’s Brandenburg No. 6 — a piece set for two violists. However, Wilson’s “mini viola fest” will Adult chamber music program ends today by Rachel Abbey Staff writer Fifty-one weeks of the year, Deborah Edge is a physician of internal medicine in Washington, D.C., who makes time to play music when she can. But for one week every summer, Edge gets the chance to devote herself to the hobby she loves. “You can come up if you want to and completely dedicate yourself to music,” she said. The Chamber Music for Adults program, concluding today, opens up the space and coaching resources of the School of Music for one week to adult amateur musicians interested in furthering their skills. Arie Lipsky, chair of chamber music, coordinates the groups, helping them find musicians to round out their quartets or trios and setting them up with students and faculty from the school to coach them. This year, four groups will be performing in today’s concert at 4 p.m. in McKnight Hall. It’s an intense week, Edge said. In the past, she’s spent entire days immersing herself in music — rehearsing, practicing with a coach, rehearsing some more, catching the day’s 4 p.m. recital and squeezing in a little more rehearsing before dinner. This year, her sixth, she’s taking it a bit easier. The string bassist will be performing a duet with pianist and friend Barbara Diskin. Diskin is a retired Census Bureau employee who just “tucked” music into her life when she could. She began when she was 11 and has played on and off ever since. “I was scared to death that first year,” Diskin said. It was the first time she had ever played chamber music, and, Diskin and Edge agreed, it can be intimidating to play for Chautauqua’s coaches, many of whom are professional musicians. But both quickly learned they had nothing to fear. “They’re really wonderful coaches,” Edge said. “They’re very positive.” Everyone focuses on effort, rather than getting it perfect, she said. And while it can be difficult preparing a piece in just a few days, Diskin and Edge said it is worth that extra effort. “It’s a great opportunity,” Edge said. Photo by Jessica Ebelhar Evan Wilson's recital, "Evan Wilson and Friends," will be held at 4 p.m. today in Lenna. The viola teacher is a former Chautauqua student. feature about 24 violists, with about eight or 10 on each part. “That’s going to include everybody we can fit on stage,” he said. “It’s going to be a blast.” There will be so many violists that Music School Festival Orchestra Conductor Timothy Muffitt will even lead the piece. And Muffitt has counted as a friend of Wilson’s for quite a while. The two met at a music camp when Wilson was 12 — more than 30 years ago, he said. “These are old friends,” he said with audible excitement. Some of Wilson’s friends are doing more than just performing. With about 14 former students flying in from locales as varied as California, Kansas and Maryland, some on the grounds have provided their places, so they could rest up before today’s recital. Two regular participants from the Adult Chamber Music Program, which Wilson has coached and played with in the past, will also participate, even though it is scheduled at the same time as the program’s own recital. And some violists from the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra are also making time to perform. Today’s recital is free to the public, but donations will be accepted for the Chautauqua Women’s Club Scholarship Fund. CADWELL’S CHEESE HOUSE & GIFT SHOP (Since 1927) Celebrating 80 years! Rt. 430 Dewittville, NY halfway between Bemus Point and Mayville, NY 753-7280 Celebrating 25 years of bringing fine art to you! 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As the artistic director of Chautauqua Theater Company, I’m incredibly proud.” The production ran at 85 percent capacity over the course of its run, and seven of the 11 performances were sellouts, CTC marketing/public relations director Robert Chelimsky said. “It speaks to a couple of things,” Chelimsky said. “First of all the production itself, it was a lovely production. It was a show that was a perfect fit for this audience. It was great timing, all of that worked beautifully. “I think it’s also a testament to both the quality of the work that’s going on here at CTC and a growing awareness both on the grounds and off of that high quality of work,” he said. Co-artistic director Vivienne Benesch also attributed the success of the play to the amount of time in which it was produced. Having only about three weeks to rehearse and execute, the cast and crew had to be entirely focused on the work they were doing. “A day in Chautauqua time is like three days of regular rehearsal time,” Benesch said, “and to watch them make the leaps and bounds they did was incredibly exciting.” McSweeny praised the talented company for their part in attracting viewers to the show, and Benesch suggested that guest actor Stuart Margolin’s third appearance on the Bratton stage helped Chautauquans really form a relationship with CTC. “I think (Margolin) being back for a third year has also allowed the Chautauqua audience to have an experience of watching that brilliant an actor go through a variety of parts, and they are excited just to watch him and his artistry,” Benesch said. “I was incredibly moved by that, that audience members were so taken by him once again.” Chelimsky said that the success of this show and shows in past seasons have helped establish a trusting relationship between the audience and the company. Even when audiences are not familiar with the show, he said, they have faith that CTC will produce it successfully. “Everyone knows O’Neill, but a lot of people don’t know ‘Ah, Wilderness!’” Chelimsky said, “so even with a show they don’t know, they’re going out and getting their tickets.” McSweeny emphasized that since this show was so successful, Chautauqua audiences should secure their seats in their theater sooner rather than later. “We are selling out of a lot of shows,” he said, “but I think that means people really value making sure they have their theater tickets for the week that they’re here.” Though the show could have been taken from Bratton and played in any of the houses at the Institution, McSweeny assured that the setting isn’t what made the play successful. “Good theater succeeds because it’s good, and the audience is having an enriching experience,” he said. O N T H E WAT E R F R O N T Golfers battle nature in women’s tournament by Amadeus Smith Staff writer Golfers in the Chautauqua Women’s Handicap Tournament may be facing off against more than each other. Last Thursday, professional golfer Judy Kullberg and amateur golfer Carroll Marino fought with the trees sand and ponds during their second round. Early in the round, the two didn’t have much trouble, aside from a few shots to the rough and some undetected breaks in the greens. In fact, both players pared the seventh hole of The Hill course, a par 3, without any trouble. What’s more, Kullberg sank a 30-foot putt on the eighth hole. On the ninth, Kullberg recovered from a sand trap sending the ball to a spot just outside the green. Kullberg said she had to hit the ball in an unusual way for that kind of lie because the sand was wet. She followed it with a chip that put the ball just inches from the hole. At the end of the front nine Kullberg was at 42 and Marino, 59. “For somebody with a 40 handicap, you really play well,” Kullberg said to Marino. On the 10th, Marino had a little trouble with a water hazard. Off the tee, she put the ball about a foot from a small pond on the left side of the tenth, only to send it into the pond on her second shot. Marino then sent another ball to the water and was hitting six at that point. “It’s a head game,” Marino said. “There is no water here.” Her next shot sailed to just outside the green and, just as Kullberg did on the seventh, she chipped it onto the green, putting it inches from the hole. With a larger body of water dividing the green and tee on the 13th, Marino nearly switched to a water ball, which she said is a cheaper ball she wouldn’t mind losing. But Marino and Kullberg’s earlier discussion about optimistic golfing convinced her to keep the good one on the tee. Rather than coming up short, Marino sent the ball over the green into a grouping of flowers that spelled out “CGC.” Marino got it out of the flowerbed and pared the hole. The trees also posed a problem for the ladies. On the 16th, Kullberg put some arc on a ball, putting it over a tall tree about five yards in front of her. “I had to sacrifice distance,” Kullberg said. “But it was worth it.” Both players had a couple of shots into the branches, but they didn’t let it ruin their games. Instead, they simply hit through the armies of trees. On the 11th, Marino’s second shot, which she hit straight through the vegetation, dodged every leafy soldier. Kullberg pulled a similar move on the 14th. The players also braved some rain that lasted about three holes. After the 15th, Kullberg said the match was dormie, where the number of holes and a player’s lead match. Kullberg explained that Marino could no longer win but she could tie, which would force the players to go to extra holes. 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Left: Jonathan Pendragon questions a young audience member about a card the child had previously chosen from a deck during the show. photos by JESSICA EBELHAR Charlotte Pendragon frees herself from a straightjacket in the Amp Wednesday evening. the of ThePendragons Page B2 The Chautauquan Daily Friday, July 20, 2007 RELIGION King’s Daughters and Sons scholarship students return home by Elaine Navias Staff writer Elizabeth Ennis Dawson Elizabeth Ennis Dawson comes from Ottawa, prompted by her mother, who was a scholarship Daughter before her. Driving Elizabeth here brought back dear memories to the entire family, and after hearing the Rev. James Dunn and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, they are determined to make this an annual trip. Elizabeth went to WilfredElizabeth Ennis Dawson Laurier University in Waterloo, graduating as a religion and history major. She will pursue a master’s degree in the fall and then become a writer of religion and popculture non-fiction. She relished Chautauqua’s media week, especially the afternoon lectures by the Department of Religion. Her most useful Special Studies course was “How to Sell To Magazines.” Mary Mason Mary Mason, a third-year student from the University of Texas, Austin, loves films and short documentaries. She hopes to be a director of photography, which entails color, lighting and music — all aspects that will take her to the big studios for big films. “What you love and what you major in might be two different things,” she said, evident by her major in psychology. Throughout high school she has made films for youth groups in churches and on missionary trips. At Christian camps, she worked as a videographer making films of the week for kids to take home. Her interest in Chautauqua was paved by her brother, Vin Mason, a scholarship student two summers ago. Emily Williamson Wearing a “Peace” pendant, Emily Williamson comes from a Baptist Church where she participated in mission trips within the United States and one to Russia. Her first words about Chautauqua were, “Safe!” even though she lives in the small town of Brookhaven, Miss. “Here, people care about you, but you are free of that nosiness — a different Mary Mason safety,” Williamson said. She goes to Mississippi State College and studied architecture before switching to interior design and marketing. While at Chautauqua, she has taken sailing, yoga, sewing and a swing dancing class called “Wallflowers Be Gone.” Left to right: Alyson Brown, Elizabeth Dillow, Lori Howell and Wassim Dandash Alyson Brown Alyson Brown, the oldest of the students, announced, “I am a teacher.” Her 650 elementary students are luckily all housed in one building, although she has no classroom and has class on a stage. Her undergraduate life was spent in a small private Baptist college in Bluefield, Va. Musically, she plays piano, clarinet and flute, but voice is her forte. Home is on the peninsula of Virginia, which juts into the ocean and fortifies her love of swimming. But her new love, the guitar, came about because of a friend. “I’d always wanted a guitar, but it idled for three years until a friend arrived home from college, and I started real lessons,” she said. “Then one day, he mentioned he’s always wanted to learn to sing. So, a simple exchange.” Elizabeth Dillow Elizabeth Dillow enthusiastically said, “I’m the baby of four girls — I have a fabulous family!” She comes from Durant, Okla., and studies journalism and Spanish at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. But she has had a hard month, watching the news about Southern Oklahoma. “It doesn’t get rain very much. In fact, we’ve been in drought for four years,” she explained. “Now, the rains started and kept on and kept on. Our lakes and dams can’t hold the water. The first week I was in Chautauqua, the flooding began; the second week, water went over the spillways.” Her house in Durant is on higher ground, but her cousin’s house wasn’t so lucky. “Their house is destroyed, she said. “And the rain hasn’t stopped!” The Dallas airport is on higher ground, so she will fly home. “But then what?” she asks. Wassim Dandash Wassim Dandash comes from Mansouri, Lebanon, from a family of two older siblings and two younger sisters. His dream, since a small boy, has been to travel. “Lebanon is a country of many languages, you know; cosmopolitan, used to various cultures. I was certainly familiar with Western music,” he said. His trip here took only 36 hours: flying from Prague to New York City to Buffalo and then being driven to Chautauqua. The war, in last summer’s upheaval in Lebanon, killed thousands. “It’s outsiders who come in, wanting to destroy our economy,” he said. “We were the key to the Middle East; the trade center between East and West was vibrant. We were rich, and they hope to take over. But why destroy us first? I don’t know.” Lori Howell Lori Howell’s link to Chautauqua was an aunt, who was once a King’s Daughter. Lori has really enjoyed the music at Chautauqua, though she no longer plays flute as she did in middle school. Her family lives in Madison, Miss. Lori studies art education at the Mississippi University for Women, and she partici- pates in many volunteerbased programs, such as Habitat for Humanity and Stewpot Food Drive. Some areas in Mississippi had little damage from Hurricane Ivan in September 2004, but the region of northern Mississippi was hit hard. Many people fled Biloxi, but her aunt stayed. Although evidence is scant in some areas, “other neighborhoods are not only totally gone, but the trash isn’t even picked up, and this is two and a half years later,” she said. “It’s ugly! Oh, the casinos were immediately tended to. They are most beautiful!” The students, four weeks after arriving in Chautauqua, are now off to their homes, some facing true hardships. Picking up their lives, they ask for prayer and kind remembrance. 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Pizza and Pop, Chuckles the Clown - Face Painting - Music Mardi Gras & Fireworks Friday, July 20, 2007 The Chautauquan Daily Page B3 THE MIX Getting up close with Purple Martins by Beverly Hazen Staff writer Today is the fourth and final Purple Martin Chat by Jack Gulvin at 4:15 p.m. near the lakeside bird houses between the Sports Club and the Bell Tower. At last Friday’s chat Gulvin began, as he always does, by lowering the houses and taking out a nest to show his audience. Gulvin moved the baby birds into a holding bucket while he cleaned out the nest. Nest replacements are done when the babies are 10 days old and again at 20 days. These baby birds were 20 days old, hungry and growing fast, keeping their parents busy bringing them food consisting of butterflies and dragonflies. Gulvin peers into another nest that hadn’t had any eggs hatch, and finds two 1-dayold babies. “Sometimes I have a surprise,” Gulvin said. “I really did not expect those eggs to hatch; it is very, very late in the season.” Then he adds, hopefully, “Maybe more will hatch.” The young stay in the nest a total of at least 26 days and linger 30 or 32 days, if the nest is comfortable and clean from mites. Gulvin keeps a detailed record of the birds in each numbered compartment. Out of the 102 cavities, about 80 are occupied this season. He checks each nest at least every five days and often lowers them every single day to keep track of what is happening. He then reports his findings to the Purple Martin Conservation Association in Edinboro, Pa. The nest replacements are needed to control parasites. If parasites are not controlled, roughly half of the young can die. He passed around a sample of the squirming live blowfly larvae removed from a nest two hours earlier. Mites are another problem. “The parents actually bring them to the nest on their bodies,” Gulvin said. The parents scratch themselves and seem to be able to handle the mites. Gulvin puts some dust in the bottom of the nest and then puts in new nesting material; his favorite is white pine tree needles. If the nests are not cleaned out and the babies are uncomfortable, the birds might jump out before they can fly and starve or be taken by a predator. The adults will Morning Worship worship Everyone can benefit from a spiritual Heimlich Maneuver by Joan Lipscomb Solomon Staff writer Illustrated instructions for the Heimlich Maneuver adorn restaurant walls. In Thursday’s sermon, “The Healing Power of Unconditional Love,” Chaplain James Alexander Forbes Jr. used this life-saving strategy as a spiritual metaphor. “I’d be willing to bet,” he said, “that in a crowd the size of the one in this Amphitheater, there are those who have done something very wrong in their lives that’s known only to them and to God. “Unfortunately,” he continued, “this toxic memory rises up into the throat and constricts the flow of the love of God. You need a spiritual ‘Heimlich Maneuver,’ and Jesus has come to give it to you.” Calling her “the paradigm of the human condition,” Forbes told the story of the Samaritan woman at the well and her encounter with Jesus, the Great Physician. “She suffered from a disease that is epidemic in this country today,” he said, “a disease I call the satisfaction deprivation syndrome.” She’d tried to satisfy her yearning for love by multiple unsatisfactory marriages. Her “solution” earned her the condemnation of her fellow villagers, causing her to isolate herself in her misery. But here was Jesus, asking her, the despised one, for a drink of water. At first, she hesitated, taking into account their differences in gender and tradition. “There was great charity,” Forbes said, “ in Jesus’ openness to receive for his nourishment and enrichment that which she was able to provide.” Sensing her uncertainty, Jesus moved the conversation to a deeper level: “I’m not talking about the water in your pail. I want to offer you living water.” She was intrigued. In these new channels of meaning, acceptance and forgiveness waited — water that made enemies into friends; adversaries into advocates. Now, intent on the Savior’s offer, she said, “Give me that water.” Forbes recalled the dreaded visits of the water-meter man in his childhood hometown who turned off the precious fluid when the bills weren’t paid. “Someone,” he said, “had turned off this woman’s access to the water of divine love.” Knowing intuitively of the woman’s marital misadventures, Jesus “told her everything she’d ever done,” assuring her that he loved her just the same. Forbes stressed the importance of sermons on the subject of divorce to help people come to terms with their past — sermons of understanding, not condemnation. Liberated, the woman ran to share Jesus’ message of unconditional love with her formerly alienated neighbors. They, too, came to Him for healing. She, thus, helped to heal the entire village. Forbes concluded by inviting his listeners to follow her example, and “go forth to heal someone today.” He sang of God’s unconditional love: “I’ll be with you till the end of time. Don’t you worry what your future holds. I’ll be with you through eternity.” Minister emeritus of New York City’s Riverside Church, Forbes is president and founder of Healing of the Nations Foundation (www.healingofthenations.com). George Tutwiler, professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, was liturgist. International Order King’s Daughters and Sons scholars Katy Whitlow read Psalm 136:1-9 and Izabella Domokosh read John 4:1-9 in Hungarian and English. Chautauqua Motet Consort’s Judy Bachleitner (flute), Rebecca Scarnati (oboe), Debbie Grohman (clarinet), Richard Kemper (bassoon) and Willie LaFavor (piano) played, as prelude, Kemper’s arrangement of “Quintet” from Franz Josef Haydn’s “Creation.” Worship Coordinator Jared Jacobsen led the Motet Choir in Clarence Dickinson’s arrangement of Johann Friedrich Peter’s “I Will Sing to the Lord.” Photos by Roger Coda Bird, Tree & Garden Club naturalist Jack Gulvin maintains just over 100 birdhouses, or cavities, for Purple Martins along the shoreline at Chautauqua Institution. He monitors the growth of baby Purple Martins (left) checking nests every one or two days. not feed them on the ground. “Over 90 percent of the young will survive and leave the nest successfully in these nests,” Gulvin said. After Gulvin raised the houses back up to their normal height, the parents fly back to their nests with only a slight hesitation. “It is funny to see the parent bird come back, and I can almost read the bird’s mind,” Gulvin said. ‘You know, that nest doesn’t look the same as it did when I left.’ Their babies are crying for food, and before you know it, it is business as usual and the parents are stuffing their catch down the throats of the babies.” People always think that they should not handle baby birds. Not true, according to Gulvin. “The parents have no way of knowing their babies have been touched, because they have no sense of smell.” Some nests here have birds old enough to leave the nest, or fledge. At 25 days old, the babies’ wings flap like crazy. When the parents want them to leave the nest, the parents call them from a branch. The babies weigh slightly more than their parents at that time. Last year 268 Purple Martins fledged out of Chautauqua. During this next week, families of birds can be seen together. “The babies don’t fly real well,” Gulvin said. “They are hollering for food, and at night they will come and sleep in the nesting cavity.” The natural housing for the Purple Martins is cavities in dead trees that woodpeckers create. The Native Americans used natural gourds as birdhouses. Now, the birds are almost wholly dependent on humans for housing. Gulvin prefers the plastic gourds, which have low maintenance and are liked by the birds too. Like the Native Americans, people enjoy watching Purple Martins for their graceful flight and social interaction. The females have a white belly underside and the males have a black belly. The belief that Purple Martins eat mosquitoes isn’t true either, according to Gulvin. “They want insects with meat on them, like the Red Admiral butterfly,” Gulvin said. Also, mosquitoes are night lovers, and the birds don’t fly at night. If someone is placing a Purple Martin house in a yard here in the north, one should not erect it near a tree because the predators of the birds, the cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks, will perch themselves in the tree and attack. “If the tree were to fall over and touch the martin house, it is too close,” Gulvin said. Another problem the birds have is with other birds, mainly starlings and house sparrows. The starlings can stab a Purple Martin to death, so the holes on the housing units are specially shaped, so the starlings cannot enter. However, sparrows can enter and will stab holes in the eggs, destroying them. The calendar cycle for the birds starts in April when the adult birds arrive from the south. They like to occupy their previous cavities. On about May 10 the sub adults, or 1-year-olds, come back and have to find housing after the best cavities are already spoken for, so they squabble some. In mid-May the females start to build their nests, and they lay their eggs during the last week of the month. A nest will have five to seven eggs. They lay one egg each morning until their clutches are complete and then incubate the eggs by spreading their feathers and pressing bare skin against the eggs. The male will come and sit on the eggs to insulate them and keep them warm, but he can’t incubate as the female can. In about 15 days the eggs will hatch. At the end of July and the first two weeks of August, the young Purple Martins from Chautauqua will disperse to Presque Isle Bay in Erie, Pa., for the pre-migratory roost. As many as 50,000 to 100,000 birds will be in the sky and land in the cattails of the bay. In the middle of August they will migrate south to South America via Florida. By December they are in Brazil by the Amazon River. In January they start to reappear in the U.S. and complete their cycle here in April. The migration process is a trying one; about half will die during this process. “Living to 5 years old is a ripe old age,” Gulvin said. Come today to see the Purple Martin nests closely and learn more about these graceful birds from the Bird, Tree & Garden Club naturalist. Andrew S. Robinson Agent 15 Fluvanna Ave. Jamestown, NY 14701 Bus.: (716) 483-2762 Res.: (716) 763-0162 Fax: (716) 664-4654 Auto • Life • Fire • Health Stedman Cafe Coffee Roasters Breakfast & Lunch 2 m. south of Chautauqua on route 33 ph.789-5047 Like a good neighbor. 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Swaback, architect, planner and managing partner of Swaback Partners, spoke Wednesday about “Chautauqua’s influence on the planning of the American countryside, American towns and cities,” past and present. “The 225 acres behind the gates is one thing, but getting that energy out through each of your lives — the world needs it, and it needs it now more than ever,” Swaback said. We are steeped in negativity and concern and fear, he said. “We have whole institutions dedicated to making us fearful.” The things we’ve been programmed to fear include the aging population, globalization, rising energy costs, terrorism, the depletion of natural resources and climate change, he said. E. O. Wilson said, “If religion and science could get together and be as interested in this world as in the next, then we could turn things around.” Swaback added that this is where Chautauqua figures in on a holistic level. He has framed a question for the 21st century: What would you want most that money can’t buy and you can’t have unless everyone else has it as well? We’re a privileged people and used to exclusiveness, but exclusiveness doesn’t work, he said. We have gated communities; then you go out and someone shoots you. As Wednesday’s speaker, Bill Purcell, pointed out, the city has to be safe everywhere. The answers he gets are: safe and vibrant communities, inspiring and healthful relationships, to live fully at all ages, and sustainable planetary success. None are available to individuals unless they are available to communities as a whole. “I’m an effective professional because I seem right but inside I’m a cauldron of turmoil, because I can’t figure out if humanity can be as insane as I think it is, and how in the world we can be so content with destroying the planet while we enjoy the various trinkets we can buy at the local market?” Swaback said. We need to build bridges between the inner turmoil and the productive execution in the here and now. “What we need most are bridge builders, people who can live in both worlds,” he said. they’re developing. He referred to “the unintended conspiracy” — it’s easy to plan, to get approved, and to sell and resell. “I always thought that religion is a shortcut to knowing,” he said. “And I mean that in the best possible way.” We don’t believe world peace is possible. That’s the incredible pull of fundamentalist religion, he said. We believe we can’t solve things in this world, so we focus on the next. In his upcoming book, he has seven voices speaking, Swaback said. The first is irrational trust: “How many economists does it take to replace the light bulb? None, the market will take care of it.” The next is outmoded accounting: “What is the answer to 99 out of 100 questions? Money.” Holistic measures and creative realism are the third and fourth voices. Holistic measures infer that it is a mistake to believe all value can be measured and a colossal mistake to attempt to monetize all value. Creative realism is a concept from Frank Lloyd Wright: “You can’t do much of anything without money, but money alone won’t do it.” Dream power tells us that when we give our energy to another dream, the world is transformed. We have to create a new dream. Shared alchemy is the one he associates with Chautauqua: “A new degree of culture would instantaneously revolutionize the entire system of human pursuits.” Another voice is smart growth, because “smart growth and sustainable design have become new buzz words to everything else in the universe.” Finally, science and education are the last two. We need more Einsteins. With regard to education, “There’s nothing we spend more money on and get less out of,” Swaback said. This is the first generation with no contact with nature. How can you make good decisions if you’re unattached? he asked. We don’t care about other species. “Nature is so redundant in its systems that we’ve been able to get away with it,” he said. Global warming holds our feet to the fire. Elements and voices Frank Lloyd Wright was as mystical as a philosopher, but he delivered in concrete and glass, Swaback said. “It’s impossible to be creative if you’re not willing to be confused. And the more money gets involved, the more no one wants to be confused,” he said. Swaback talked about five elements: development, religion, the free market, science and education. In development “the dominant players have been picking the low fruit off the tree,” he said. Many never see the sites New urbanism Chautauqua’s first influences are related to its physical look: the pedestrian environment, small lots, houses that look like these and putting cars in second place. He called this the new urbanism. There are shortcomings in the new urbanism, because we have had seven decades of change and can’t simply go back. He tied the Chautauqua influence on the future with smart, green and sustainable. The implication is that we’ve been dumb, wasteful and on the way out, he said. The marketplace is waking up to the fact that we’ve been doing things that aren’t smart, green and sustainable. He described his seven elements of the city of the 21st century. They are that decentralization is the norm, and there are auto-free districts. But you can’t just declare something car-free. You have to plan for it — to have walking trails, three-dimensional proximity. “We don’t want to walk where it’s not beautiful,” he said. “Walking is something that is inextricably linked to planning.” Culture is a way of life such as the experience at Chautauqua. Wright said, “Civilization is just a way of life; culture is a way of making that way of life beautiful.” Swaback added, “It’s also a way of making it work.” Other elements are transi- Photo by Roger Coda Vernon Swaback, an architect who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, discusses Chautauqua’s influence on the development of American cities and towns at Wednesday’s Department of Religion lecture. tional spaces and outdoor rooms. These provide a transition between indoor private space and outdoor shared community. Americans spend 90 percent of their time indoors, but community is lived beyond your own house, he said. We need smaller, smarter houses. “The way to do that is to share more and own less,” he said. We already do that with golf courses and restaurants. We are a society that depends on shared space, but we fight it, he said. Finally, we need multigenerational spaces. “You cannot have ownership of a place or of an idea or of a commitment without it being multi-generational,” he said. In the past seven decades we’ve separated everything. He mentioned the old mantras of development: location, location, location, and timing is everything. The more recent one is velocity and margin is everything. “What about love, compassion, comradeship?” he asked. “In the future it’s integration, integration, integration, and timelessness and heritage is everything.” This cozy year round cottage features three bedrooms and 1 bath. The living room overlooks Chautauqua Lake. The lot has 50 ft. of lakefront $263,000 Cozy and comfortable lakefront cottage situated on a private drive. Immediately available for the summer season. 3 BR / 1 BA $259,000 716-490-0487 Crosswinds - A very desirable community! Buy now and enjoy the summer season! With inland marina, cabana, and tennis court. 3 BR / 2 BA $379,000 Planning for the future His new ground rules on how to design for things that are smart, green and sustainable are: diversity replaces sameness; health and wellness replaces indulgence; wholeness replaces fragmentation; education and culture is a way of life; neighborhood services provided in the manner of a resort; optimal settings for life and Lakefront property in Historic Point Chautauqua. This classic home has just undergone extensive renovations. Sold furnished. 5 BR / 4 BA $798,500 Great Location! Lakeviews from first floor & second floor decks! 2 story home with In-Law suite. Featuring 7 BR / 4 BA $379,000 Ready to Enjoy! Quaint 3 season home on Chautauqua Lake! Immaculate 3 bedroom. 1 bath, & additional sleeping in loft. House comes fully furnished. $279,000 work; fewer vehicle burdens and more vehicle choices; reduce miles and don’t make meaningless trips; personal gains through cooperation; balance between privacy and community; and built environment becomes humanity’s greatest work of art. He concluded with his ten commandments of community development: 1. That which is optimistic, joyful, playful, authentic and imbued with mystery has more appeal and sells better, lasts longer and creates value. 2. Exclusivity is but the promised veneer of fulfillment that only diversity, creativity and living in balance with nature and each other can deliver. 3. The highest form of technological and human performance is the ability to do more with less by design. 4. To be truly smart is to think in terms of multiple generations; to acknowledge and be in league with nature’s ecosystem services and to harbor dreams of planetary success. 5. Society always has depended on individuals who can visualize a positive future while creating demonstrations that make good things happen in the present. That’s Chautauqua, he added. “Chautauqua is impossible, except it exists.” 6. The opposite of war is not peace; it is community. 7. The “one percent for art programs” is fragmented thinking. What about the other 99 percent? 8. The smartest environments for the future will favor qualitative over the quantitative, healthy over unhealthy, sustainable over expedient and artful over artless. 9. We have measured ourselves into oblivion. Everything is numbers. 10. What the art world isolated into elitist aspects of culture the 21st century will integrate as the most unifying energy for making our cities our greatest works of art. The 21st century is when we shouldn’t do anything if it isn’t impossible, he concluded. 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You are welcome with or without a partner. Friday, July 20, 2007 The Chautauquan Daily Page B7 C C VA / W R I T I N G Cuban heritage, American upbringing marks artist’s work by Emanuel Cavallaro Staff writer It has been about five years since Alberto Rey last did a painting that had anything to do with Cuba. After returning home from his last trip there, he finished up a series of Cuban portraits, then set the subject matter aside — he still doesn’t know for how long. A distinguished professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia, where he has taught for 18 years, Rey has a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Indiana University of Pennsylvania as well as a master’s degree from the University of Buffalo. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions around the world — more than 140 by his estimate. Rey will speak about his paintings at 7 p.m. tonight at the Hultquist Center. Faint though his Cuban origins may be, they have reverberated through his life and served as catalyst for much of his work. Born in Cuba, but raised in America, Rey grew up alienated from both cultures. He felt neither American nor Cuban. With his paintings, Rey has explored this notion of a divided cultural identity. “Everybody in my family talked about Cuba and the lives we used to lead there,” Rey said of his upbringing in America. “Living in two different types of cultures, trying to get acclimated to one while a good part of you is in another — that type of connection becomes a part of you.” In 1963, when Rey was three years old, his father’s opposition to Castro compelled the family to seek political asylum in Mexico. They fled Cuba in a plane. Other members of Rey’s family would later leave by raft, braving the 90-mile stretch of water between the Cuban coast and U.S.’s southernmost point. A grandmother of Rey’s died during one of these trips. Like so many other Cuban refugees, nearly all Rey’s relatives would end up in Miami, Fla., which today is home to a sizable Cuban population. In 1965, that’s where Rey’s family found themselves, but then, only two years later, they moved once again, this time to a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town. His father, who had a doctorate in mathematics, found work as a Spanish teacher. His mother worked as a seamstress. Rey didn’t begin speaking English until third grade. He drew pictures from art history books and Mad Magazine. In high school, he began painting. Good grades and football got him into West Point as a biology major, but Rey found he wasn’t the military type. He stayed only three months, then left for the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he played fullback and defensive halfback until he broke two bones in his arm. That was the end of his football career. “I ended up in art,” Rey said, “which is not the right career choice for someone from an immigrant family with not a lot of money. It was very difficult for [my parents] knowing I’d become an artist. For about two years Dad and I couldn’t talk to each other.” Rey has returned to Cuba twice, once eight years ago and again three years later — visits he now says were miserable and exhilarating in equal measure. While delighted finally to see Cuba and his remaining family there, Rey also encountered appalling living conditions and widespread poverty. During his visits, Rey painted watercolors, made sketches and took notes in preparation for the paintings he would make when he returned home. Once back in the states, he painted black and white landscapes so large he felt as though he were walking through them as he painted. He painted a series on the rafts used by refugees. He was intrigued by the question: If you were leaving your country for the last time, what would you bring with you? Rey painted a series on the items refugees brought with them on the rafts. “There’s so much suffering that happens just within that stretch between Miami and Cuba,” Rey said. “Some came with their kids who died at sea, and all that was left was remnants of their toys.” In the five years since he has moved away from Cuba, as a source of inspiration, Rey has drawn on his travels and "Appropriated Memories: Matanzas, Cuba" by Alberto Rey, oil on plaster, 48"x72" a lifelong fascination with biology and nature to inform his work. Recent paintings include wilderness landscapes and detailed renderings of fish species. “Our knowledge of nature is very superficial,” Rey said. “We spend our lives in cubicles most of the time. I’m trying to create a sensitivity to nature by showing different parts of our environment in comparison to other environments around the world.” In November, a solo exhibition of Rey’s work will open at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Two of his more recent pieces, which were based on his trip to Iceland, are currently on display in the CCVA School of Art faculty exhibit at CCVA Galleries. "Las Balsas (the Rafts): IV" by Alberto Rey, oil on plaster, 18"x24" Writer discusses how flash of insight leads to creative expression by George Cooper Staff writer Ann Beattie has complimented Kirk Nesset, this week’s Writers’ Center writerin-residence, describing him as “certainly a good short story writer” and saying that he has his own terrain, timing and off-key lullabies. In his Brown Bag lunch and lecture at noon today in the Alumni Hall dining room, Nesset will give a talk titled “A Sudden Flash, or Into and Out of the Pan,” illuminating what Beattie has found in him with examples of what Nesset has found in others. Nesset will focus on short forms of writing, extending what he has been doing with “short short” fiction or “micro stories” all week in his writing workshops. He will talk “about insight and the fleetingness of what makes for creative expression,” he said, “especially as there is a blurring of boundaries between prose poems and fiction.” He will draw upon examples from the work of Robert Hass and Bret Lott. Nesset’s own stories sometimes evolve out of quick and immediate impressions. His 2005 book, Mr. Agreeable, evolved from Nesset “getting on a ‘Mister’ kick.” Nesset had developed a series of immediate one-word impressions “destitute,” “excitement,” “casual” and “erotic,” each preceded by the courtesy title “Mr.” “Writers will say they begin with a premise or a line or a problem that will set them on their way to a longer story. For these stories I began with a name or observation,” Nesset said. “These are studies in character, especially in how a character revolves around a name.” Paradise Road, Nesset’s most recent collection of stories, is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press in September and has already won the Drue Heinz Literature Award. Some of these stories, written in the late 1980s, were longer in brewing, Nesset said. Others were written last year. Together they “represent a trajectory of my concerns and range as a story writer.” Some shaping had to be done as the collection came to life. “At the point I realized that these stories belonged together, I did some streamlining to provide a more strategic arrangement.” Of the collection, Hilary Masters wrote, “The figures and voices that appear in Paradise Road are like ghosts from an ancient land that move toward their destinies with hope and defiance. Mr. Nesset conducts their journeys with a sure hand while making fiction of striking originality and beauty. Paradise Road may go through geography unfamiliar to some of us, but the route, once taken, is unforgettable.” Nesset has also written an acclaimed critical study The Stories of Raymond Carver, a writer with whose work Nesset has had a complicated relationship. “When I was younger, I was more interested in sounding like him, or just plain couldn’t help myself,” Nesset said. “Now I’m friendly and comfortable with Carver’s persona and his work. Carver’s concerns as a humanitarian and liberator of the human spirit are alive in me, no matter what my expression looks like compared to his.” A sometimes musician and radio disk jockey, Nesset has received numerous grants and stipends from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His stories, poems and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Agni, Prairie Schooner and others. He teaches creative writing and literature at Allegheny College. 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Jay Lesenger, artistic/general director, Chautauqua Opera. Norton Hall. (Fee Chautauqua Opera Guild non-members) 6:00 (6-7:45) Chautauqua Choir Rehearsal. All singers welcome. (Two rehearsals required to sing at Sunday worship services.) Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall 7:00 CCVA Visual Arts Lecture Series. Alberto Rey, professor of art, SUNY-Fredonia. Hultquist Center 7:30 OPERA. Bizet’s Carmen. Ari Pelto, conductor; John Kramar, stage director. Norton Hall (Reserved seating; tickets available for purchase at Main Gate Welcome Center, Colonnade lobby and Turner Community Center ticket offices, and 45 minutes before curtain at the Norton kiosk.) 8:15 SPECIAL. An Evening with Clay Aiken. Amphitheater Grounds. Leave from Main Gate Welcome Center. Fee. (Tickets available for purchase at Main Gate Welcome Center.) 3:00 LECTURE. (Programmed by the Chautauqua Women's Club) “Are We Prepared for Longevity Consequences?” Jane Hickie, senior research scholar and director of public sector initiatives, Stanford University Center for Longevity. Hall of Philosophy 3:00 Student Recital. Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall. (Benefits the Chautauqua Women’s Club Scholarship Fund.) 4:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Grounds. Leave from Main Gate Welcome Center. Fee. (Tickets available for purchase at Main Gate Welcome Center.) 5:00 Roman Catholic Mass. Hall of Philosophy 6:00 (6-7:45) Chautauqua Choir Rehearsal. For all singers who have attended at least one prior rehearsal this week. Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall 8:00 THEATER. Albert Camus’ “The Just,” with a new translation by Anthony Clarvoe. Directed by Ethan McSweeny. Bratton Theater (Reserved seating; tickets available for purchase at Main Gate Welcome Center, Colonnade lobby and Turner Community Center ticket offices, and 45 minutes before curtain at the Bratton kiosk.) 8:15 CHAUTAUQUA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OPERA HIGHLIGHTS CONCERT. Klauspeter Seibel, guest conductor; featuring Chautauqua Opera Young Artists. Opera Highlights Concert: “LIBIAMO!” Drinking Songs for Chautauqua. Amphitheater Saturday, July 21 7:00 (7:00-11:00) Farmers Market. 8:45 Roman Catholic Mass. Chapel of the Good Shepherd 9:30 Hebrew Congregation Sabbath Service. Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld, Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo; Susan Goldberg Pardo, cantorial soloist. Hurlbut Church 9:30 Chabad Lubavitch Community Shabbat Service. Rabbi Zalman Vilenkin. Kiddush will follow. Hall of Missions 10:00 Voice Master Class. Voice Care - Session 1 with Daniel McCabe, assoc. director, The Center for the Care of the Professional Voice, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. McKnight Hall. Fee 12:30 (12:30-2:30) Social Bridge (Programmed by the Chautauqua Women's Club) For men and women. Women's Club. 2:00 Public Shuttle Tours of Photo by Michele Roehrig Carmen, played by Leann Sandel-Pantaleo, dances with her friends to entertain the soldiers in Carmen. The opera shows July 20 and July 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Norton Memorial Hall. Friday, July 20 7:00 (7:00-11:00) Farmers Market. 7:15 (7:15-8) Mystic Heart Meditation. Leader: Subagh Singh, author, Sikh minister, yoga and meditation teacher (Yoga/Sikhism). Hultquist Center Zalman Vilenkin, Chabad Lubavitch of Chautauqua. Alumni Hall, Library Room. 10:15 Service of Blessing and Healing. UCC Chapel 10:00 Voice Master Class. Marlena Malas. McKnight Hall. Fee author of The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity. Lecture. Smith Wilkes Hall at Main Gate Welcome Center.) 3:30 Chautauqua Heritage Lecture Series. “The World’s Fair on the Brink of War, NYC 1939.” David Cope. Smith Wilkes Hall 12:45 Catholic Community Seminar Series. “The City as a Source of Desire and Energy 4:00 Public Shuttle Tours of 10:45 LECTURE. “The American for the Good and the Grounds. Leave from Main City: Leading for a Change.” Beautiful.” Rev. Raymond 7:45 Episcopal Holy Eucharist. Gate Welcome Center. Fee. U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, Kemp, senior fellow of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd (Tickets available for purchase represents Oregon’s third conWoodstock Theological 8:00 Morning Meditation. at Welcome Center.) gressional district, including Center, Georgetown (Sponsored by Unity of Portland. Amphitheater 4:00 Faculty Artist Recital. Evan University, Washington, DC. Chautauqua.) Hall of Missions Wilson, viola. Elizabeth S. Methodist House Chapel 12:00 (noon-2) Flea Boutique. 8:45 Roman Catholic Mass. Lenna Hall. (Benefits the (sponsored by Chautauqua 1:00 Jum’a/Muslim Prayer. Hall Chapel of the Good Shepherd Chautauqua Women’s Club Women's Club) Behind of Missions Scholarship Fund.) 8:55 Chautauqua Prays for Peace. Colonnade building 1:00 (1:00-3:30) Violin Master At Grove in front of the Hall 4:00 Piano Master Class /Lessons. 12:00 Brown-bag Lunch/Lecture. Class. Almita Vamos, violin. of Missions. Rebecca Penneys. Sherwood (Programmed by the Writers' McKnight Hall. Fee Studio. Fee 9:00 Nature Walk. (Programmed Center) “A Sudden Flash, or 2:00 DEPARTMENT OF RELIby the Chautauqua Bird, Tree Into and Out of the Pan.” Kirk 4:15 Purple Martin Chat. GION LECTURE. Panel: Jane & Garden Club) Jack Gulvin, Nesset. Alumni Hall porch. (Programmed by the L. Campbell, former mayor of BTG naturalist. Meet at Chautauqua Bird, Tree & 12:10 Roman Catholic Mass. Cleveland; Byron W. Brown, entrance to Smith Wilkes Hall Garden Club) Jack Gulvin, Chapel of the Good Shepherd mayor of Buffalo; and panel of BTG naturalist. Purple Martin 9:00 (9:00-10:15) Men’s Group. mayors. Hall of Philosophy 12:15 Brown-bag Lunch /Lecture. houses next to Sports Club ”Better Balance Can Be (Co-sponsored by PFLAG and 2:00 Presentation. “Dance Talks.” Learned.” Don Rapp, author. the Department of Religion) (Programmed by Chautauqua 5:15 (5:15-6) Hebrew Women’s ClubHouse Congregation Evening “Five Interviews I Would Like Dance Circle.) Patricia Wilde, Service. “Kabbalat Shabbat: To Have.” Rev. Ross 9:15 DEVOTIONAL HOUR. The world renowned ballerina,forWelcome the Sabbath.” Rev. Dr. James Forbes Jr., MacKenzie, former director, mer Principal with NYC Service led by Rabbi Harry retiring senior minister, The Department of Religion. Ballet. Smith Wilkes Hall Rosenfeld. Miller Bell Tower Riverside Church, NYC. Chautauqua Women’s Club 2:00 Public Shuttle Tours of (Pier Building in case of rain) House. Amphitheater Grounds. Leave from Main 12:30 SPECIAL AFTERNOON LECTURE. Clint Wilder, 5:30 Operalogue-Carmen. Lecture Gate Welcome Center. Fee. 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