Originally broadcast at 8 p.m. ET Sunday, July 4, 2021.

CHQ Vespers

Day is Dying in the West
Chautauqua, William F. Sherwin, 1877​
Text by Mary Artemesia Lathbury, 1877​
Written at the request of John Heyl Vincent

Now the Day Is Over
Merrial, Joseph Barnby, 1868​
text: Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865

Largo
George Frederick Handel
From the opera Xerxes, 1738

About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.