The Chautauquan Daily

The Offi cial Newspaper of Chautauqua Institution | Thursday, August 5, 2010

Stage violence techniques revealedCTC actors show fake fi ghting in Brown BagPAGE 5

Integral to sustain democracyE. Gordon Gee talks education in Tuesday’s Interfaith lecturePAGE 6

Teaching is the most prestigious profession Jonathan Schnur delivers Wednesday’s morning lecturePAGE 7

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by Kathleen Chaykowski Staff writer

For guest conductor Yoav Talmi, per-sonal heritage has always been at the core of his music making. Talmi grew up in a 700-person village in Israel that was rich with music. Musicians fl ooded to Israel from Europe as a result of World War II, Talmi said, and the outcome was an op-portunity to learn from some of the best that the music world had to offer.

“They were people like (It-zhak) Perlman on the violin,” Talmi said of the artists. “You were re-ally blessed to be able to start with the best teach-ers. This kind of inheritance is something I al-

ways carry with me as a big gift.”Tonight’s Chautauqua Symphony Or-

chestra concert, which will take place at 8:15 p.m. in the Amphitheater, will open with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3. It will be followed by Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb: 1, featuring soloist Julie Albers, and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 in E-fl at Ma-jor, Op. 97 (“Rhenish”).

Talmi, who has conducted with the CSO before, is currently the artistic director and conductor of the Quebec Symphony and the principal guest conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra in Tel Aviv. He has been a conductor for nearly 40 years, and has conducted ensembles throughout Eu-rope and North America. He has been the recipient of several conducting awards — most recently, the “Frank Pelleg” prize of the Israeli Cultural Ministry in 2008.

by Lori HumphreysStaff writer

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teach-ers, does not subscribe to the single “silver bullet” solution to the chal-lenge of public education reform. While she understands why people want a silver bullet, she believes it doesn’t work because “education is one of the most complex things we do.” At 10:45 a.m. today in the Am-phitheater, she will present her vi-sion for “Saving Public Education As It Ought to Be.”

Her goal is simply that “every school be a great school.” Weingar-ten would be the first to acknowl-edge that achieving that goal is not simple. As leader of one of the two national, public-school teacher unions — the other is the National Education Association — she rec-ognizes there is a problem and has positioned the AFT to be part of the solution.

Her vision for reform focuses on three essentials: good teachers with the support of great leaders (princi-pals and superintendents), a robust curriculum, and wrap-around ser-vices to meet students’ social and medical needs.

by Laura McCrystalStaff writer

Jeffrey Beard learned fi rsthand about the benefi ts and capabilities that the International Baccalaureate provides its students when both of his children became IB graduates of Vienna International School.

After a successful business career, including 20 years working overseas, Beard changed career paths to help spread the benefi ts of an IB educa-tion. He has now served as director general of International Baccalaure-ate for almost fi ve years.

Beard will speak at 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy as part of this week’s Interfaith Lecture Series. His lecture, titled “Education for a Better World,” will provide an international perspective on public education.

IB is a not-for-profi t founda-tion based in Geneva, Switzerland, but has major offi ces and 3,600 IB schools around the world. Its pro-grams are meant to provide an in-ternational, holistic and compre-hensive education.

by Sara TothStaff writer

So far this summer, read-ers at Chautauqua Institution have heard stories told from the perspective of a mourn-ing father, an African slave woman and a poet examin-ing atrocities of World War II — among others — in keep-

ing with the Chautauqua Literary & Scientifi c Circle’s vertical theme of “Walking a Mile in Different Shoes.”

Chautauquans will have the chance to walk in the shoes of Chinese immigrants when Ha Jin delivers this week’s CLSC Roundtable lec-ture at 3:30 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy.

Jin’s book, A Good Fall, is a collection of a dozen short sto-ries about Chinese immigrants living in Flushing, N.Y. Each story is different — different characters, different points of view, different themes. Jin said there is not one unifying theme that ties all of the stories together; rather, the stories are unifi ed by place.

For years, Jin said, he planned to write a collec-tion of stories about the im-migrant experience, but he had no idea where to set the stories. Then, in 2005, he at-tended a conference in Flush-ing, N.Y.

“That was the fi rst time I was there, and I realized that this was a very vibrant immi-

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Jin presents stories of the immigrant experience in CLSC Roundtablegrant community,” Jin said. “That was the moment in time when I realized that this is where I should set my stories.”

Jin said his fi rst impres-sion of Flushing, N.Y., was that it was a new version of Chinatown — all of its inhab-itants were new arrivals with new beginnings.

See WEINGARTEN, Page 4 See CSO, Page 4 See BEARD, Page 4

See CLSC, Page 4

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