TWThe Chautauquan Daily

The Offi cial Newspaper of Chautauqua Institution | Weekend Edition, August 7 & 8, 2010

Returning with a diverse repertoireAmerican Legion Band of the Tonawandas set to play Amp stage SundayPAGE A3

Getting into characterConservatory actors prepare for run of ‘Macbeth’PAGE A12

Time to stop talking and start doingMark Roosevelt delivers fi nal morning lecture of Week SixPAGE A7

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Downpour’s no damper on CSO performanceREVIEW, PAGE B3

When Samantha Barnes was in 10th grade, she was cast as Mrs. Pearce in a production of “My Fair Lady.” She’d been hoping for the leading role of Eliza. This evening, she’ll fi nally get to sing the part she’s wanted for years.

“This was kind of like retribu-tion for not getting Eliza,” Barnes said. “Now I get to do it with an orchestra.”

At 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Am-phitheater, Chautauqua Opera Com-pany will be closing its season with the “In Love with Lerner & Loewe” pops concert, put on in conjunction with the Chautauqua Symphony Or-chestra.

Young Artists, CSO to collaborate on ‘gorgeous’ Broadway hitsby Alison Matas | Staff writer by Kathleen Chaykowski | Staff writer

The Chautauqua Symphony Orches-tra will team with the Chautauqua Opera Company Young Artists for the second time this season to pro-duce “In Love with Lerner & Loewe,” a pops concert showcasing the talent of the opera apprentice artists at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater.

The concert features 23 highlights from “Camelot,” “Paint Your Wag-on,” “Gigi,” “Brigadoon” and “My Fair Lady.”

The concert is one “gorgeous Broad-way” hit after another, guest conduc-tor Stuart Chafetz said, of pieces like

The theme was selected in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Broad-way premiere of “Camelot” by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Also included in the concert is mu-sic from their productions of “Gigi,” “Paint Your Wagon” and “Briga-doon.”

The concert primarily features the apprentice artists, but the studio artists will be interspersed through-out the show as well. In particular, four studio artist men are playing “The Cockneys” in “My Fair Lady.” Performing with the larger group is what apprentice artist Jennifer Har-ris is most excited about. “I think my favorite moments are going to be the ensemble pieces,” she said. “To be able to sing with your friends on-stage, it’s just really fun.”

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“Thank Heaven For Little Girls” from “Gigi,” “Come to Me, Bend to Me” from “Brigadoon” and “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” from “My Fair Lady,” among others on the program.

The audience will be “whistling and singing” and will leave the Amp with “earworms” from the old-school tunes many Chautauquans grew up with, he said.

CSO players are so experienced that it’s easy to forget that for many concerts, Saturday’s included, the orchestra only has one rehearsal. Chafetz said Saturday’s Broadway-style concert will display the versa-tility of the CSO, which was playing intense classics like Gustav Mahler’s third symphony and Schumann’s “Rhenish” only a few nights ago.

by Joan Lipscomb SolomonStaff writer

Since “Sacred Spaces” is the theme for the week, it seems appropriate that Week Seven Chaplain Cal-vin O. Butts III returns at this time. He is pastor of a premiere sacred space — the nationally renowned Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City. Chautau-quans will remember his stories about how tour bus-es pull up each Sunday and almost squeeze out his own parishioners.

But this will not be the case at 10:45 a.m. Sunday at the Amphitheater when he begins his lively sermon series, the titles of which he will announce day by day. At the 5 p.m. Vesper Service

Sunday at the Hall of Phi-losophy, he will share his personal faith journey. The series will return to the Am-phitheater at 9:15 a.m. each morning, Monday through Friday.

In addition to his minis-terial duties, Butts is presi-dent of State University of New York’s College at Old Westbury. He was one of the founders and is current chairman of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, a comprehensive community-based not-for-profi t organiza-tion responsible for more than $600 million of investment in housing and commercial de-velopment in Harlem.

Instrumental in establish-ing the Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change — a state-

of-the-art intermediate and high school in Harlem — he is the visionary behind the Thurgood Marshall Acad-emy Lower School, which opened in September 2005.

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Chautauqua Opera Young Artists join the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in the July 24 Opera Highlights Concert. They collaborate once again for the Opera Pops Concert Saturday night.

When it comes to stem cells, Rizzolo considers all perspectives

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by Lori HumphreysStaff writer

Stem cells are microscopic, but what a scientifi c, political, theological and philosophi-cal big bang they cause. At 3 p.m. Saturday, Dr. Lawrence J. Rizzolo, associate professor of ophthalmology and visual science and of surgery at Yale University School of Medi-cine will discuss “Demysti-fying Stem Cells: What are They and Why Should We Care?” at the Contemporary Issues Forum at the Hall of Philosophy.

Keep Rizzolo’s defi nition in mind. “Stem cells have an unlimited capacity for self renewal and the ability

to differen-tiate into more than one type of cell.” It is that ability to become, for exam-ple, nerve cells, that makes stem cells so valu-able for research into poten-tial cures for many ailments. The diffi culty is that some stem cells are retrieved from embryos created by in vitro fertilization, which some believe are at the beginning of a human life. For those people, retrieving stem cells amounts to murder.

Rizzolo does not dismiss theological or philosophical concerns with a wave of his hand. Recognizing that all cognitive disciplines con-tribute to our understand-ing, he respects the right to question science.

“Science is very good at what science does; that doesn’t mean that nonsci-entifi c thought is not im-portant. Science is limited to questions that can be cast in the form of an experi-ment. We are people who think with both sides of our brains,” he said.