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Ministry of hospitalityDoerfl ingers fi nd healing as ECOC hostsPAGE C2

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by Kathleen ChaykowskiStaff writer

It’s the 1890s, and industrial-ization is spreading through-out Europe and North Amer-

ica. Everything is becoming faster — bigger, and the trend isn’t limited to technology. Or-chestras, too, are becoming larg-er and more powerful.

When Gustav Mahler com-

posed his third symphony, he was in a competition of sorts with other composers to write the greatest piece, the most profound orchestral work.

Out of this desire to empow-er music and change the world came the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, Mahler’s 99-minute “Symphony No. 3 in D Minor,” which the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra will per-

form at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater under the baton of Music Director Stefan Sanderling. Guest artists mezzo-soprano Jen-nifer Lane; the Buffalo Philhar-monic Women’s Chorus, directed by Doreen Rao; and the Junior Guilders of the Lucille Ball Little Theatre, directed by Helen Mer-rill, will provide the vocal part.

by Joan Lipscomb SolomonStaff writer

Devotion to education is nothing new to Week Six Chaplain William J. Carl III. He serves as president of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary educating clergy where, about 30 years ago, he was an instructor.

“I’m happy to be coming to Chautauqua. It’s a model of lifelong learning,” Carl said. “I want to make my contribution to this effort by

Morning lectures during Week Six of Chautauqua’s 2010 Season will examine the drastic criteria necessary to revamp our nation’s strug-gling public ed-ucation system and position these measures against the dra-matic efforts and improve-ments in per-formance now being realized by some schools in the United States. The im-pact of talented and motivated superintendents, leadership training for principals, trends in teaching teachers and inno-vations in curricula will all be explored by education experts Linda Darling-Hammond, Bar-bara Bowman, Jonathan Schnur, Randi Weingarten and Mark Roosevelt this week.

Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Profes-sor of Education at Stanford University, will speak Monday on “The Flat World and Educa-tion: How America Can Become a World Leader in Education Once Again.” At Stanford, Dar-ling-Hammond launched the Stanford Center for Opportu-nity Policy in Education and the School Redesign Network and served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Pro-gram. She is a former president of the American Educational Re-search Association and member of the National Academy of Edu-cation. Her research, teaching and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity.

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Photo by Brittany Ankrom

Stefan Sanderling conducts the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra on Thursday evening.

CSO to perform Mahler’s 99-minute symphony, which refl ects his desire to understand life’s meaning

See CSO, Page A4

W E E K

Excellence in Public Education

Week Six focuses on education

See PREVIEW, Page A4

by Lori HumphreysStaff writer

As editor of AARP The Magazine, Nancy Graham Perry knows something about the over-50 crowd’s interest — or lack of inter-est — in digital technology, including the personal com-puter and the myriad choices of new social media. At the Contemporary Issues Forum

Graham to examine technology’s pros and cons in Contemporary Issues Forum

See PERRY, Page A4

Carl ties sermons to education theme

Carl

See CHAPLAIN, Page A4

presenting a week’s worth of lessons from the Bible.”

The chaplain begins his series at 10:45 a.m. Sunday in the Amphitheater with “You’re Somebody!” St. Paul’s lesson of the day, found in II Corinthians 11:21b-30 and 12:6-10, is that we, like him, must learn to be “content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.”

faith journey. The series re-turns to the Amphitheater at 9:15 a.m. each morning, Monday through Friday.

at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Hall of Philosophy, Perry will dis-cuss “How Technology Can Simplify Your Life.” Howev-er, she might add to that title “Or Not.”

“As I thought about this program, it has morphed into a question. Does it sim-plify your life or not?” Perry said.

She acknowledges im-mediately that the digital

revolution is here to stay, as important as the Indus-trial Revolution, and she en-courages everyone to be in-volved. Perry suggests that Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, texting, blogging and so on are changing how we inter-act with one another, and despite the allure, there may be a downside.

At Sun-day’s 5 p.m. Vesper Ser-vice at the Hall of Phi-losophy, the c h a p l a i n shares his p e r s o n a l

PHOTO BY TIM HARRISThe Hall of Philosophy

overfl ows with people listening as Anthony Bannon delivers

the fi nal lecture of Week Five.