Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 15, 2020.
Eugene Friesen examines the animal inspiration to human rhythm, composition and orchestration.
“All of music is world music.”
Friesen is a four-time Grammy Award winner and has worked and recorded with such diverse artists as Dave Brubeck, Martin Sexton, Toots Thielemans, Betty Buckley, Dar Williams, Will Ackerman, and Dream Theater.
Eugene is an artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and on the faculty of the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
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.
Up Next in 2020 Programs
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Growing Hope
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 1, 2020.
Beth Roach details the Nottoway Tribe’s tradition and efforts to preserve native culture through ancestral seeds.
Roach is a co-founder of the Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, an organization that was formed to preserve ancestral seeds...
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Human Longing and the Search for Meaning
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 7, 2020.
Acharya Judith Lief provides a Buddhist guide to encountering mortality.
Lief is a Buddhist teacher and author who has been leading workshops on a contemplative approach to death and dying, and on the teachings of The Tibetan Book of th...
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God’s Call – Our Vocation – In a Time...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 2, 2020.
Jim Antal calls for a societal and industrial response to climate change that mirrors the reaction to fascism and genocide in WWII.
Since his first Earth Day, Antal has seen the benefit to combining religion with environmental advocacy...
