Celebrating Chautauqua’s 151st Birthday!
6 p.m. August 5, 2025
Amphitheater
Concert (6–6:20 p.m.)
Thursday Morning Brass
Welcome
Kyle Keogh, Interim Chief Executive
The Chautauqua Vesper Service
The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, Senior Pastor
This service, which opens Old First Night each year, is a symbolic link with Chautauqua’s beginnings.
The litany was prepared by John Vincent in 1874 for Opening Day of the first Assembly.
The Drooping of the Lilies
Candace Littell Maxwell, Chair, Board of Trustees
Greeting
Deborah Sunya Moore, Chief Program Officer
The Children’s School Song & Presentation of Gift
Alyssa Porter, Director of Community Education and Youth Programs
Kit Trapasso, Director
Pie Kasbar, Program Coordinator
Riley Farnham, Operations Manager
Children’s School Song
I've got the Children's School
enthusiasm down in my heart.
Where? Up in my head.
Where? Down in my toes.
I've got the Children's School
enthusiasm all over me.
I'm coming back next year.
You bet!
The Boys’ and Girls’ Club Song & Presentation of Gift
Greg Prechtl, McCredie Family Director, Boys’ and Girls’ Club
John Chubb, Associate Director, Boys' and Girls' Club
Boys’ and Girls’ Club Song
Onward Boys’ Club, Onward Girls’ Club
Full of life and pep and vigor
Cheers forever, solemn never
That's our Boys' (Girl's) Club
Rep, Rah! Rah! Rah!
Onward Boys Club, Onward Girls Club
If you're red or blue
We'll win our CBC's (CGC's)
As we hail to you.....Hey!
Inviting Community Gifts for Chautauqua's Birthday & Giveaway
Robert Cahn, Co-Chair, annual Chautauqua Fund
Make your gift to Chautauqua today at giving.chq.org/birthday!
Giovanni Gabrieli - Canzona per Sonare No. 2
School of Music musicians Kirk Morrison, Dasara Beta, Jordan Ku, Elijah Leonard, Cristina Vieytez, Louis Roy, Griffin Rupp, Elijah Van-Camp Goh, Iris Liu and Parker Burkey
Presentation of Birthday Gifts
The Chautauqua Lake Waltz
Will Baker, 1876
Joshua Stafford, Director of Sacred Music and Jared Jacobsen Chair Organist
Traditional Roll Calls
Anita Lin, Chautauqua community member, former Trustee
Announcement of Giveaway Winners
Kyle Keogh
“Happy Birthday,” Chautauqua!
All Gathered
Family Entertainment Series: The Acrobats of Cirque-Tacular
7:30 p.m. | Amphitheater
The day goeth away.
The shadows of the evening are stretched out.
Praise waiteth for Thee, O God, in Zion.
And unto Thee shall the vow be performed.
Thou makest the outgoings of the morning
and evening to rejoice.
Evening and morning, and at noon,
will I pray, and cry aloud.
Softly now the light of day fades up on our sight away:
free from care, from labor free, Lord, we would commune with thee.
And they heard the voice of the Lord God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day:
And Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden.
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
E'en though it be across that raiseth me.
Still all my song shall be nearer my God, to thee.
Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
And Jacob went out from Beersheba
and went toward Haran.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried
there all night, because the sun was set:
And he took the stones of that place,
and put them for his pillows,
and lay down in that place to sleep.
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.
And behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Though, like the wanderer, the sun gone down;
darkness be over me, my rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God, to thee,
nearer my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
There let my way appear, steps unto heav'n,
all that thou sendest me, in mercy giv'n.
Angels to beckon me, nearer, my God, to thee,
nearer my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
The Lord make his face to shine upon thee,
and be gracious unto thee:
The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee,
and give thee peace.