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Celebrating NPW successesPlaywright alums refl ect fondly on CTC’s nurturing experience

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Ecological considerations for ‘the search’Journalist Mann discusses history’s “Columbian Exchange”

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SAMANTHA ICKESSTAFF WRITER

As a little girl, Sara Seager was fascinated by the moon. She re-members watching the round, silver moon as it followed her father’s car. Wherever she went, it went, and Seager want-ed to know more about that mysterious sphere in the sky.

Seager, a professor of planetary sci-ence and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will continue the discussion on “Our Search For An-other Earth” at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater.

Seager is known for her research on exoplanets and their atmospheres, which led to NASA’s PlanetQuest referring to her as an “astronomical Indiana Jones.”

Seager said she plans to talk about her exploration of space and exoplan-ets, or planets that orbit a star other than Earth’s sun. She will also discuss the process of fi nding new planets, the function of different telescopes and what information scientists know about those planets so far.

“I know that the best thing is still out there,” Seager said. “The best discovery is the next discovery. Just like if you’ve read a good book, there’s always some-thing better out there.”

Seager said new astronomical fi ndings continue to happen with the advance-ment of technology. However, the devel-opment of telescopes and spacecrafts take decades to design and replicate.

MADISON ROSSISTAFF WRITER

In his early life, Fr. José Gabriel Funes, S.J., felt two vocational call-ings from God: to be a Catholic priest and to be an astronomer.

Funes fulfi lled both of those dreams: He served as the director of the Vatican Observato-ry for more than nine years.

At 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy, Funes will give a lecture titled “The Road Map to Other Earths: A Spiritual Journey.” He will address the spiritual lessons hu-mans have learned as a result of astrono-mers’ search for extraterrestrial life.

Funes was 6 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and that was the day he fell in love with astronomy and outer space.

“I grew up a Catholic, and in the Cath-olic country of Argentina, so for me, to believe in God was quite natural,” Funes said. “But at the same time, I also had this scientifi c vocation, and my parents sup-ported me very much to go this way.”

Funes went on to receive his Ph.D. in astronomy and then work as an astron-omer at the Vatican Observatory before Pope Benedict XVI appointed him direc-tor. Funes said good science is the best thing for religion, because the scientifi c method can help people better under-stand God.

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JULIA MERICLESTAFF WRITER

Alexander Gavrylyuk described Chautauqua Institution as somewhere where his vision of music and its role in society meet reality.

Gavrylyuk, who has been playing piano at the Institution for years, will perform a solo recital at 8:15 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater.

“For me, Chautauqua is the best example of how a seemingly nearly impossible concept of uniting so many refl ections of human expression and views on life in one close proximity becomes very possible,” Gavrylyuk said.

He credits that to Chautauqua’s philosophy and history, and said sharing music can bring people to a place of universal truth and value.

“In today’s world, where so much emphasis is on the material side of life, music has a unique role as a kind of reminder of one’s inner world, and the importance of connecting to one anoth-er as human beings,” Gavrylyuk said.

That feeling of unity can be found by attend-ing concerts, according to Gavrylyuk. He said that immediate differences, such as political or religious views, stay outside of the concert hall.

When deciding on the program for each Chau-tauqua season, Deborah Sunya Moore, vice pres-ident and director of programming, and Rossen Milanov, music director and principal conductor of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, look for balance.

Moore said balance is found in inviting a vari-ety of artists to play.

“One of the ways we can provide that variety is bringing soloists that are new, soloists who are emerging, soloists like Edgar Meyer who are absolute superstars in their area but have nev-er been to Chautauqua before,” Moore said. “To balance that, we also want to continue bringing people that Chautauqua is absolutely in love with.”

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At any given moment, there are about 7,000 aircraft in the sky, ac-cording to the National Air Traffi c Controllers Association.

A little more than a century ago, it seemed unfathomable that one plane could make it into the air — except to the Wright brothers.

Esteemed historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough will discuss the fa-mous brothers and their legacy at 5 p.m. tonight in the Amphitheater as part of Week Four’s Chautauqua Literary and Scientifi c Circle Roundtable. His 10th book, the New York Times best-seller The Wright Brothers, is the CLSC selection for Week Four.

It’s easy to think of the Wright brothers and their accom-plishments as the success story of a simpler time, but Mc-Cullough said there’s no such thing.

“There never was a simpler time,” McCullough said. “There never was a time where there weren’t serious problems. There never was a time where there weren’t ample expres-sions of greed and evil, and goodness and kindness and loyal-ty and courage. Courage is so important. An awful lot of what history is about is courage, and particularly, the courage of our convictions.”

It’s something the Wright brothers had in spades, Mc-Cullough said, because they were raised with the ideology that life ought to have a purpose. That was instilled in them by their father, Milton Wright, he said.

“He didn’t preach to them what that purpose should be, but that the good life was a life where you believe in the value of work and you kept to it and you worked hard,” McCullough said.

In a season at Chautauqua Institution focused on what it means to be human, McCullough said the Wright brothers demonstrate “a number of very admirable human qualities at their best”: loyalty, generosity of spirit, persistence and

passion in their work.The Wright brothers were also incredibly modest, a qual-

ity “not much in fashion anymore,” McCullough said. He said one of the “most telling and delightfully amusing examples” of that was their reaction to a huge celebration thrown for the brothers in honor of their accomplishments in their home-town of Dayton, Ohio.

“And they took part in it,” McCullough said. “But any time there was a break, they would slip away and get back to their shop to work on whatever project they had underway. To say that the glory and glamour of fame did not go to their heads is an understatement.”

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T he h a l l in The grov eChautauqua’s Hall of Philosophy is a unique venue to hear a speaker, both for those in the seats and those at the lectern. Designed by Buffalo architect Ed-ward B. Green and completed in 1906, the hall is an iconic and sacred space on the Institution grounds, used daily during the season for lectures, worship

and memorial services and CLSC Roundtables, and often during the off-sea-son as a setting for weddings. The Hall of Philosophy also offers a terrific variety of colorful backgrounds and shooting angles for Daily photographers to explore — this page showcases some of our favorites from the 2016 season.

Mike Clark / staff photographerrabbi ellen Bernstein delivers her July 27 interfaith lecture “a Creator God and a Sense of Place: a Jewish ecotheology.”

Mike Clark / staff photographerOksana Johnson paints a wedding scene in the Hall of Philosophy during the July 4 afternoon lecture.

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Nalini Nadkar-ni is one half of Procr yptocerus nalini, a species of ant her ecol-ogist husband named after her. This particular ant inhabits twigs of the tropi-cal rainforest, has hair all over its body and glides from tree to tree.

Nadkarni is none of those things; she teaches at University of Utah, has a normal head of shoul-der-length hair and has to actually climb things.

So, despite her husband’s ges-ture, she’s less interested in the ant than the trees they live in.

Nadkarni, the so-called “queen of forest canopy research,” will lecture at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater on her pioneering work with trees.

Nadkarni said her tree infatua-tion started with a handful of ma-ples at her childhood home. Most days she would ditch her school things, climb up their trunks and read a book or eat an apple.

“I was the only one in my fam-ily who did that,” she said. “Trees were my place. They were my place of safety, my place of identity.”

She didn’t realize trees were a job, though, until she had a pro-fessor who studied damselfl ies. When he wasn’t teaching, he sat by a stream watching the fl ying in-sects mate. Then he’d write papers about what he saw.

That was a crazy idea to Na-dkarni, so she decided to do the same with trees.

A Ph.D. in forest ecology fol-lowed, and Nadkarni proposed looking beyond the “ankles” of the forest to the mist-fi lled canopy. Her committee wasn’t too keen on the idea at fi rst.

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Tonight’s Chautauqua Symphony Or-chestra concert will lead audience mem-bers through an exploration of the differ-ent genres that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky touches with his work, said Rossen Mi-lanov, music director and principal con-ductor of the CSO.

The show, titled “Total Tchaikovsky,” brings together the music of the sym-phony with elements of voice and dance.

The evening will open with the CSO performing Polonaise from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24. Next, soprano Abigail Rethwisch will sing while the CSO plays “Was I not a little blade of grass?” from Seven Romances, Op. 47, No. 7.

The Pas de deux from “Swan Lake,” Op. 20 will feature Alessandra Ball James and Josh Hall, dancers from the Charlotte Ballet.

“‘Swan Lake’ is certainly one of those emblematic pieces that is famous for its music,” Milanov said. “And it is also fa-mous for its choreography.”

Milanov said he has a lot of experience with ballets; he led a premiere of “Swan Lake” in Zurich, Switzerland, earlier this year. The production was a reconstruct-ed version of the original “Swan Lake” played in St. Petersburg in 1895. Milanov said he plans to produce that same show again in November in Paris with a ballet company from Milan, Italy.

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Rabbi, environmental activist Bernstein to discuss ‘Jewish ecotheology’MADISON ROSSISTAFF WRITER

Rabbi Ellen Bernstein would rather stay home and listen to the wind than go to the movies.

“I think that I have this really deep sense of place because I spent so many years just living outdoors, and so I just became very sensitive to the environ-

ment all around me,” Bernstein said. “One of my favorite things to do is just stay home when it’s raining out, and open all the windows and listen to the rain or the wind.”

At 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy, Bernstein will give a lecture titled “A Creator God and a Sense of Place: A Jewish Ecotheology.” In it, she will ad-

dress how to understand Earth as God’s “house of nature” and trace environmental values from ideas in the Bible.

Bernstein is Jewish but grew up with minimal religious prac-tice. It was while taking theol-ogy courses in high school that she fi rst became interested in religious study.

“What I recognized when I

was in high school studying re-ligion, was that what religions were dealing with in terms of the deepest psychologi-cal understandings of people and human nature, and sort of the beauty of the world, re-ally spoke to me,” Bernstein said. “Up until that time I really didn’t even know what religion was about, because my experi-

ence going to synagogue didn’t really teach me.”

She went on to attend un-dergraduate school at Uni-versity of California, Berkeley, where she pursued a bachelor’s degree in conservation of nat-ural resources while also con-necting with Judaism.

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Lori Stralow Harris thinks personal connection is the way to change someone’s mind. That’s why she, along with the Bird, Tree & Garden Club, plans to get Chautauquans close – really close – to monarch butterfl ies and convince them why they matter.

Four years ago, Harris was a volunteer cleaning fossils when a gardener interrupt-ed to ask for help feeding some caterpillars. She helped out, but wasn’t thrilled – at least, not until she saw the insects’ beautiful range of chrysalises. It was then that

Harris, an artist and educator, became hooked on butterfl ies.“It’s all about the life cycle,” she said.Harris, owner of the Salt Creek Butterfl y Farm in Countryside, Illinois, will present a BTG

Brown Bag lecture at 12:15 p.m. today in Smith Wilkes Hall. She will also present an interactive exploration of the monarch life cycle beginning at 12:15 p.m. Friday in Lincoln Park.

Those events are part of a season-long BTG initiative to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfl y. Lynda Acker, the BTG board member heading the monarch initia-tive, said she believed in the effort both for the monarch’s sake, but also the species’ larger meaning for environmental conservation.

“It’s everything from GMO crops, to pesticide overuse, to illegal logging to any number of things where we’re marginalizing these amazing creatures,” Acker said.

Harris’ Brown Bag will focus on the threats facing the roughly 60 million monarch butter-fl ies that migrate across North America each year. Monarch butterfl ies are the only insect species known to traverse that distance, a distinction heightened by the step-by-step pro-gress of the return migration.

Monarchs take as many as fi ve generations to reach their fi nal mating grounds in the re-gion surrounding Chautauqua. Those northernmost monarchs make the trek to central Mex-ico, where a large portion of the North American monarchs pack into a few acres of fi r and pine trees to wait out the winter.

When spring arrives, that group proceeds north to southern Texas, where they lay their eggs and die. The subsequent generations, which will only live two or three weeks, continue that process several times until they reach the northern United States and Canada. Here, the fi nal group, called the “super generation,” is hatched and will live about eight months to make the journey back to Mexico.

“It’s incredible on a cellular level that an organism can do that,” said Acker, a biologist by training.

But that migratory life cycle is in danger. Commercial agriculture employs powerful her-bicides to rid fi elds of unwanted plant life, including milkweed, the monarch butterfl y’s sole

host plant. That, coupled with habitat loss caused by development and aggressive landscaping along transportation corridors, has led to an almost 90 percent

decline in monarch population over the past two decades.The scale of those issues may cause certain individuals to wash their hands of responsibility, but Harris said everyone is part of

the problem, at least if they use herbicides or insecticides in-appropriately. She said even something as seemingly be-

nign as a dog’s fl ea medicine can harm monarch cater-pillars and butterfl ies through contact.

Today’s lecture will talk strategies for supporting the monarch population as it conducts its conti-

nent-spanning migration. The stakes are large, Harris said, but the solutions start small, like

planting milkweed and nectar plants — fl ow-ers — in home gardens and throughout

communities. At the same time, Harris said it’s important to let go of ideas of landscaping perfection; milkweed is a monarch caterpillar’s food, and that means they will devour the leaves of those plants. A healthy butterfl y hab-itat, she said, will inevitably have some ragged looking plants.

For Friday’s event, Harris shipped specimens of monarchs ranging from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfl y overnight to Chautau-qua from a farmer in Pennsylvania in order to demonstrate the mon-arch’s life cycle.

Like a holiday shipment of Oma-ha Steaks, the butterfl ies travel in breathable envelopes fi led away into compartments cooled by blocks of

insulated ice. Exposed to cold, Har-ris said, the monarchs go into a resting

state that allows butterfl ies to chill out en route to their destination.

At Lincoln Park, Harris will unbox the specimens and assemble a series of

stations for Chautauquans to observe the monarch develop from egg to adult.

Period-sized dots — that’s how big a sin-gle monarch egg is, adhered to the cone of fi n-

ger-like leaves situated below the head of orange milkweed fl owers. Those eggs hatch in a couple

days, revealing a black, white and yellow-striped cat-erpillar almost too small to see. Once freed, the caterpil-

lars eat and eat, devouring their weight in milkweed leaves each day.

The “little eating, mowing machines,” as Harris called them, march up and down the milkweed on 16 legs, growing up to 3,000

times their original size as they perforate the leaves of their host with their tiny mouths. The larval stage lasts about two weeks, during which monarch cat-

erpillars shrug off layers of outgrown skin fi ve times to accommodate growth from almost indistinguishable to the size of a child’s fi nger.

Eventually, the caterpillars exit their milkweed host to fi nd a safe place to rest, where they spin a silk mat, stab a stem-like appendage into it and dangle upside down. Here, the cater-pillar sheds its skin one last time and the next layer of rippled skin slowly hardens into a stiff, j-shaped chrysalis. For two weeks, the caterpillar rests inside the jade-colored shell, protected from outside distractions as its pigments darken and the butterfl y develops.

Finally, the familiar orange and black monarch butterfl y emerges, wings crumpled and wet. It takes about an hour for the butterfl y’s wings to dry out and become usable. Immedi-ately the butterfl y seeks out nectar and sips from its straw-like tongue, which rolls and un-rolls like a party blower. The adult butterfl ies are ready to mate within days of emerging from the chrysalis, prepared to start the cycle again.

Acker, the Monarch Moment organizer, said up to 100 Chautauquans at a time will be able to witness Harris’ microcosm of that life cycle. Participants will be able to see eggs on milk-weed, measure caterpillars, observe chrysalises and feed butterfl ies various nectar sources across six separate stations.

The demonstrations will be fascinating, Acker said, but, more importantly, they will help participants understand the complexity of the monarch life cycle and underscore the care required to preserve the fragile process.

Even more, Jack and Diane Voelker, the fi rst Monarch Moment presenters who’ve shared similar demonstrations with their grandchildren, said the hands-on connection between children and butterfl ies can be instant and inspire compassion for other, less friendly insects such as bees.

“It’s a little more diffi cult to have a personal experience with some other species, but a monarch will literally just sit there for a while,” Jack Voelker said.

Harris said that lesson applies to people on either end of life. Harris introduced an adopt-a-caterpillar program at a retirement community where residents would enter a gar-den, pick a caterpillar and raise it to maturity. She found herself constantly answering house calls from curious residents about their caterpillars, even providing magnifying glasses and fl ashlights to help them locate their tiny specimens in the provided enclosures. She even re-called one woman staying up all night waiting for her butterfl y to emerge from its chrysalis, cooking the butterfl y spaghetti just in case it was hungry.

“It’s the enthusiasm of a child and the love of a parent. It’s so, so lovely,” Harris said.The lesson from both age groups, Harris said, is that monarch conservation isn’t compli-

cated and doesn’t require an advanced degree — Harris holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Arts, after all.

“I’m not a scientist, I’m an artist,” Harris said. “I’m a regular person who’s observing and interested — that’s enough.”

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“A Jazz infl u-enced Pastor with a Hip-Hop vibe. Saved by Je-sus, Inspired by Zora neale Hur-ston, blessed by Howard Thurman & Amazed by August Wilson.” That is how the rev. otis moss III, senior pas-tor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, identifi es him-self on Twitter.

moss returns to Chautauqua Institution to be the chaplain for Week Five. His sermon title for the 10:45 a.m. Sunday morning service in the Amphitheater is “Living Be-neath Your Call.” He will share his faith journey at the 5 p.m. Sunday Vespers at the Hall of Philosophy and will preach at the 9:15 a.m. morning worship service monday through Friday in the Amp.

moss’ sermon titles through the week are “When the Church Decides to repent (Part 1): raising a new generation of Prophets,” “When The Church Decides To repent (Part 2): Sisters in the Wil-derness,” “When the Church De-cides to Repent (Part 3): Rainbow redemption,” “I Love Jesus, but at Times I Can’t Stand the Church” and “The other America.”

on July 14, moss published a letter in The Huffington Post, to his son, Elijah. Like many other letters from African-American fathers to their sons, he urged his son to realize that he is not safe in the world, that his life is not valued as others are, yet he should not despair.

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Chautauqua Institution creates the per-fect platform to inspire and liberate an orchestra, according to pianist Alexander gavrylyuk.

returning for his 11th season performing with the Chautauqua Symphony orches-tra, he speaks from experience. gavrylyuk will play with the CSo at 8:15 p.m. Satur-day in the Amphitheater.

“I had the opportunity to form a very close relationship with the orchestra during the last 10 years,” gavrylyuk said. “I must say that the concept and the philosophy of Chautauqua, which is so open-minded and so multi-layered, shows so many colors of human expression in a very free manner.”

The priorities at the Institution are set correctly, gavrylyuk said, because music is always put fi rst.

gavrylyuk will solo on Sergei rach-maninoff ’s Piano Concerto no. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 1. The CSo will also play mod-est mussorgsky’s “night on Bald moun-tain,” arranged for orchestra by nikolai rimsky-Korsakov, and Igor Stravinsky’s

“Petrushka.”The solo piece, rachmaninoff’s fi rst offi -

cial work, was written when he was graduat-ing from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. He wrote other works before this concer-to, gavrylyuk said, but this was the fi rst he thought worthy of publishing at the time.

“It doesn’t have so many tormented, deep, tragic shades as some of his later works,” gavrylyuk said. “But it has drama and passion and this kind of unstoppable, youthful love feeling throughout the piece and the glory of that love by the end of the concerto.”

rachmaninoff also edited his own piece, said gavrylyuk. The CSo will perform the second version of the work.

gavrylyuk fi rst entered the world of music at the urging of his parents, who wanted him to sing in a choir. He started with singing, but quickly found his tal-ent in piano. He said he got to where he is today by “the long and narrow road” of studying and practicing music.

At about age 18, he realized the bigger meaning of music and the role it can play in society, he said.

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Gavrylyuk’s ‘long and narrow road’ once more partners him with CSOPianist takes to the keys on ‘unstoppable, youthful’ Rachmanino� First Concerto Saturday night

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Michael Potts is trying to put fl esh on a skeleton.

That’s how he described it, at least. As the actor prepares for his starring role in TheProfane, he’s exploring the script to fl esh out and develop his character. It’s something he thinks of as detective work.

TheProfane, a new play commissioned for playwright Zayd Dohrn by the Chautauqua Writers’ Center and Chautauqua Theater Company is directed by CTC Co-Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch. It is the story of two muslim immigrant families with oppos-ing views on religion who are forced togeth-er by their children’s relationship. The show opens at 6 p.m. Saturday and continues with two Sunday stagings, at 2:15 p.m. and 8p.m.,in Bratton Theater.

“There are going to be things [in ThePro-fane] that are incredibly familiar to [audi-ences] and incredibly enlightening. … We all understand familiar drama because I believe all of us have families,” Potts said. “We under-stand that dynamic of people who know you better than anyone else and therefore you can be a little more vulnerable to.”

Potts again takes Bratton stage to originate ‘Profane’ role

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CarolyN BroWN / Staff photographEralexander Gavrylyuk performs Prokofi ev’s Piano sonata No. 3 in a minor, op. 28, in a solo recital Wednesday in the amphitheater. Gavrylyuk joins the Chautauqua symphony orchestra for a performance of rachminoff ’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, op. 1, saturday in the amp.

CarolyN BroWN / Staff photographErMichael Potts portrays the character raif in Zayd Dohrn’s new play The Profane. the Chautauqua theater Company production opens this weekend with performances at 6 p.m. saturday and 2:15 p.m. and 8 p.m. sunday in Bratton theater.

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