CHQ&A
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNow in its second season, CHQ&A is the flagship podcast of Chautauqua Institution, featuring interviews with prominent guests who participate in Chautauqua's summer season of programs in the arts, education, interfaith dialogue and recreation.
Hosted by Jordan Steves, Chautauqua's director of communications, with interviewers from around the Chautauqua community.
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Episodes
Stuart Chafetz: Celebrating the CSO's New Principal Pops Conductor
November 19, 2019 14:55 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBOur guest this episode is Stuart Chafetz, the longtime principal timpanist of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra who has just been named as the ensemble’s first-ever principal pops conductor. A well-known and cherished presence on the Chautauqua Institution grounds each summer, Chafetz has made annual appearances on the podium for the ensemble’s Independence Day Pops Concert and the late-season collaboration with the Chautauqua Opera Company’s Young Artists. More recently, he has als...
The State of the Climate and Environmental Movement with Bill McKibben
October 09, 2019 15:58 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBOur guest this episode is author, environmentalist and activist Bill McKibben, whose 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. He is also a founder of 350.org, the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement, which has organized 20,000 rallies around the world. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, McKibben writes frequently for a variety of publications around the world, including The New York Review of Book...
Hawaiian Language and Culture with J. Ekela Kaniaupio-Crozier
August 27, 2019 14:50 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBOur guest this episode is J. Ekela Kaniaupio-Crozier, the E Ola! Learning Designer and Facilitator at Kamehameha Schools Maui, where she provides campus support for a world-class Hawaiian culture-based education to students. A fluent speaker of the Hawaiian language, Kumu Ekela serves on the Hawaiʻi Development team for the Duolingo language learning app. She has been a Hawaiian language, studies and history instructor for more than 40 years in various settings, including K-through-...
Language Development in High-risk Populations with Julie Washington
August 20, 2019 13:37 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBOur guest this episode is Julie A. Washington, chair of and professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Georgia State University’s College of Education and Human Development. Professor Washington specializes in language development and disorders in high-risk populations; early literacy and language interactions; African-American Child English; and African-American student achievement. Her work focuses on understanding cultural dialect use in young African-...
Trevor Cox
August 14, 2019 12:51 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBOur guest this episode is Trevor Cox, a professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford. Professor Cox’s research and teaching focuses on architectural acoustics, signal processing and audio perception. He has written several books for academics and the general public, most recently The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World and Now You’re Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence. A former senior media fellow at ...
John Kasich
August 13, 2019 12:27 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBOur guest on this episode is John Kasich, who served as Ohio’s 69th governor from 2011 until just this past January. Now a CNN political commentator, Gov. Kasich often speaks about the power of individuals to effect change at the local level, to reach beyond politics and the issues that divide us to achieve solutions through unity and resilience. During his tenure, when Ohio budget reserves grew from 89 cents to $2.7 billion, the governor was a leading voice in promoting bipartisan ...
The Burned-Over District
July 21, 2019 18:34 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBOn this episode, we feature a conversation between interviewer John Merino and Maureen Rovegno, Chautauqua’s director of religion, on the little-known history of what has come to be called the “Burned-over District,” or the “on fire” religious environment and culture of the early 19th century in Western New York. As you’ll hear, Chautauqua itself is one of the movements that has roots in the “Burned-over District,” and the Institution will program a week of lectures on that era from...
Ambassador William J. Burns
July 16, 2019 16:37 - 1 hour - 66.1 MBOur guest on this episode is Ambassador William J. Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States. Ambassador Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a 33-year diplomatic career. Hailed as an “American diplomatic legend” by Secretary of State John Kerry, he holds the highest rank in the Foreign Service, Career Ambassador, and is only the second serving career diplomat in history t...
Sam Teresi/‘A Midsummer Night's Dream’
July 10, 2019 13:52 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBFor the second consecutive summer, Chautauqua Theater Company is producing a free, touring outdoor production of a Shakespeare classic. This summer, having started June 25 on our own Bestor Plaza, CTC is performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream at a variety of locations around Chautauqua County, including Jamestown, Mayville and Southern Tier Brewing Company. On this episode, CTC Artistic Director Andrew Borba and Midsummer director Sarah Elizabeth Wansley, speak with longtime Jamestown...
Hugh Hewitt
July 08, 2019 12:11 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBHugh Hewitt is a lawyer, law professor and political commentator who as of July 1 began his service as president of the Richard Nixon Foundation. His nationally syndicated radio show is heard in more than 120 cities across the United States every weekday afternoon, with an audience estimated at more than 2 million listeners every week. Hewitt also makes frequent appearances on all the major cable news networks and Sunday morning political talk show panels, and he is a contributing c...
Dan Egan
July 05, 2019 16:37 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBDan Egan is author of the acclaimed book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, in which he traces an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the Great Lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come. The book has garnered comparisons to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring; one reviewer said that “Dan Egan has done more than any other journalist in America to chronicle the de...
Chautauqua Theater Company's "The Christians"
June 27, 2019 18:40 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBIn The Christians by Obie Award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath, Pastor Paul has grown his church from a storefront to a mega-complex, but nothing prepared him or his congregation for the biggest change of all: a change of heart. The Christians is a highly theatrical yet extremely intimate exploration of faith, family and the courage to stand up for what you believe. Chautauqua Theater Company is preparing to stage THe Christians from June 28 to July 14 in Bratton Theater here on the...
Wynton Marsalis
June 18, 2019 14:42 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBAn internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture, Wynton Marsalis is a living legend. At 17, Marsalis became the youngest musician ever to be admitted to Tanglewood’s Berkshire Music Center. Since then, he attended Juilliard, performed 120 concerts a year for 15 consecutive years, produced more than 80 records and won nine Grammy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awards and an Emmy Award. He is also the first jazz music...
Judy Collins
May 31, 2019 13:34 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBJudy Collins has inspired audiences with sublime vocals and boldly vulnerable songwriting for over five decades, and her luminescent presence shines brightly as new generations bask in the glow of her iconic 50-album body of work. Prolific as ever, Collins released a collaborative and Grammy-nominated album in June 2016, Silver Skies Blue, and will perform live in the Chautauqua Amphitheater on June 22 in a double-bill with renowned jazz artist Madeleine Peyroux. Click here for tick...
Bishop Gene Robinson
December 20, 2018 15:25 - 41 minutes - 38 MBBishop Gene Robinson joins us to reflect on his first season as Chautauqua's vice president of religion and senior pastor, and particularly the Interfaith Fridays initiative launched in 2018, which will continue in 2019. A full DVD set of the nine 2018 Interfaith Fridays is available for purchase at the Chautauqua Bookstore.
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
August 29, 2018 12:40 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBOn today's episode guest interviewer David Griffith, vice president and Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education, speaks with Alexandria Marzano-Lesnovich, author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, winner of the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Part reportage and part memoir, The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir follows a young law student through her early career as she digs into both her own past, and the past of a convicted murderer. In a book 10 years in the making, M...
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
August 17, 2018 13:30 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBOn today's episode guest interviewer John Merino speaks with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, chief executive officer of 20-first, where she works with the CEOs, executive committees and top management teams of some of the world’s best-known companies to identify the business opportunities of gender balance and how best to achieve it. Avivah has written extensively on the subject and is the author of several books, including Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Eco...
Derek Ham
August 09, 2018 12:03 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBToday's episode features a conversation with Derek Ham, assistant professor of graphic design in the North Carolina State University College of Design. He is also the creator of the “I Am A Man” VR Experience, an interactive virtual reality experience set to the historic events of the Civil Rights Movement. “I Am A Man” is the basis of Derek’s two master classes through Special Studies at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday, August 13, at Chautauqua. Register for either class at chqtickets.com...
Ralph Young
August 01, 2018 18:20 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBOn today's episode we feature a conversation with author and professor Ralph Young, an expert on dissent and protest movements. As a history professor at Temple University, Ralph has taught the courses “Dissent in America,” “Recent U.S. History” and “Trials in America,” as well as a weekly discussion forum called the “Dissent in America Teach-ins.” His books include Dissent in America: The Voices That Shaped a Nation; Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Ce...
Alina Polyakova
July 25, 2018 17:52 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBOn today's episode we hear from Alina Polyakova, the David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Foreign Policy Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, where she specializes in Russian foreign policy, radical-right movements in Europe, and far-right populism and nationalism. Alina presented an Amphitheater lecture during Chautauqua's week on "Russia and the West," on Thursday, July 19. Alina previously served as director of research and senior fellow for Europe a...
Nina Khrushcheva
July 20, 2018 16:49 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBOn today's episode, guest interviewer John Merino speaks with Nina Khrushcheva, a professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School in New York City, where her research interests include global media and culture, world politics, Russian politics and culture, and propaganda and Hollywood. Nina presented an Amphitheater lecture during this week on "Russia and the West," on Wednesday, July 18. Nina is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and P...
Victor LaValle
July 19, 2018 18:16 - 31 minutes - 29 MBOn today's episode Chautauqua's Director of Literary Arts, Atom Atkinson, speaks with author Victor LaValle. LaValle's most recent book, The Changeling, is a captivating retelling of a classic fairy tale that imaginatively explores parental obsession, spousal love, and the secrets that make strangers out of the people we love the most. LaValle presented The Changeling for the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle on Thursday, July 12. LaValle is also the author of six previous ...
Jill Vialet, Chelsea Marcantel/Matt "Airistotle" Burns
July 13, 2018 17:30 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBOn today's episode we feature two conversations: First is a discussion with Jill Vialet, founder and CEO of Playworks, who opened Chautauqua's week of lectures on "The Art of Play" on July 9. Then, Chautauqua Theater Company Artistic Director Andrew Borba sits with playwright Chelsea Marcantel and champion air guitarist Matt "Airistotle" Burns. Chelsea's newest play, Airness, is about air guitar competitions — CTC's production of Airness runs July 14 to 29 on the Bratton Theater sta...
James and Deborah Fallows, Taína Caragol
July 09, 2018 21:30 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBOn today's episode we feature two conversations with presenters from Week Two of the Chautauqua season, themed "American Identity." First is a discussion with James and Deborah Fallows, who took the Amphitheater stage on the Fourth of July to present on their new book, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America. Then, Taína Caragol, who opened the week of lectures on July 2, joins us at the 47:00 mark to expand upon her work as a curator at the National Portrait Gal...
Kory Stamper, Lucas Hnath
June 30, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBLexicographer Kory Stamper and playwright Lucas Hnath join interviewers Emily Morris and Andrew Borba in this packed episode featuring conversations with two presenters who helped shape the opening week of the 2018 Chautauqua Institution season, themed "The Life of the Written Word." For nearly two decades at Merriam-Webster, Kory Stamper was responsible for altering definitions of old words and creating definitions for new ones. Her book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionar...
Tyehimba Jess
June 27, 2018 22:00 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBPulitzer Prize-winning poet Tyehimba Jess, author of 2018 Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle selection Olio, joins Atom Atkinson this episode to discuss his life, career and writing process. As part of a week at Chautauqua celebrating "The Life of the Written Word," Jess presented Olio to the Chautauqua Amphitheater audience, taught a master class titled “Show the Receipts: Historical Documentation in Poetic Form” and even heard a performance inspired by his work by the Chaut...
Elizabeth Sullivan
June 23, 2018 21:30 - 33 minutes - 31 MBElizabeth Sullivan, president of the Chautauqua Women's Club, joins the podcast this episode to share her family and personal history at Chautauqua, the CWC's important community work, her thoughts on entering her second season as president, following in the footsteps of Chautauqua giants as Anna Pennybacker and Barbara Vackar — plus a preview of the CWC's well-regarded Saturday lecture series, the Contemporary Issues Forum. Sullivan has spent more than 35 years working at the inte...
Dave Griffith
June 20, 2018 18:05 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBDave Griffith, vice president and Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education at Chautauqua Institution, joins the podcast this episode to speak on his extensive background as a writer and teacher, what he's looking forward to in his first season at Chautauqua, plus a preview of 2018 programming in his areas of responsibility, including the literary arts, continuing-education and youth programming. See a full and up-to-date schedule of all 2018 programs at chq.org/2018. Griffith ...
Matt Ewalt
June 16, 2018 16:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBMatt Ewalt, Chautauqua Institution chief of staff, joins the podcast this episode to speak on his work in overseeing Chautauqua's signature and historic 10:45 a.m. weekday Amphitheater lecture platform — the process of selecting themes and presenters, considerations of balance and representation, and a fulsome preview of each of the 2018 season's weekly themes. See a full and up-to-date schedule of all 2018 themes and lecturers at chq.org/2018. Ewalt has served in several roles at ...
Michael Feinstein
June 13, 2018 19:15 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBCelebrated musician, composer, arranger, singer and pianist Michael Feinstein joins guest interviewer Brian Sheridan this episode to discuss his life and work as an ambassador for the Great American Songbook, along with Feinstein's upcoming appearance with Pink Martini's Storm Large on Friday, July 13, 2018, in the Chautauqua Amphitheater. Click here for tickets to the show. Over three decades, Feinstein has built a dazzling career bringing the music of the Great American Songbook ...
Deborah Sunya Moore
June 09, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBDeborah Sunya Moore, vice president of performing and visual arts at Chautauqua Institution, joins the podcast this episode to share her unique path to Chautauqua — she first came as a guest artist in 1996 — and her department's important work in arts-integrated education in the local region, plus a preview of 2018 Chautauqua programming in opera, theater, visual arts, dance, orchestral and chamber music, and popular entertainment. Moore is a percussionist and arts educator with a ...
Bishop Gene Robinson
June 06, 2018 19:45 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBThe Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, vice president of religion and senior pastor at Chautauqua Institution, joins the podcast this episode to share his remarkable faith journey — including his path to being the first openly gay man to be elected bishop in the high church traditions of Christendom — and a preview of the Department of Religion's 2018 programs and initiatives in interfaith engagement. Robinson is the former Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, and currently serves as a senio...
Chautauqua Institution President Michael E. Hill
June 01, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBChautauqua Institution President Michael E. Hill joins the podcast this episode to share his path to Chautauqua, new and strategic initiatives for the Institution, and a preview of his most-anticipated 2018 season moments. Hill is entering his second season as Chautauqua's president, having previously served in senior leadership positions at several Washington, D.C., non-profit arts and cultural organizations. He originally found his way to Chautauqua Institution as a copy editing ...