Celebrating Chautauqua’s 149th Birthday!

6:30 p.m. August 1, 2023
Amphitheater

Deborah Sunya Moore, Master of Ceremonies

Concert (6–6:20 p.m.)
Thursday Morning Brass 

Welcome 
Michael E. Hill, President

The Chautauqua Vesper Service
The Rt. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, Senior Pastor

The Drooping of the Lilies
Marnette Perry, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

The Children’s School Song & Presentation of Gift
Kit Trapasso, Director, Children’s School
Pie Kasbar, Program Coordinator, Children's School
Riley Farnham, Operations Manager, Children's School
Stephanie Dawson, Coordinator, Group One

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
Stephanie Dawson, Coordinator, Group One

Inviting Community Gifts for Chautauqua’s Birthday & Giveway!
Tony & JoJo Muir, Co-Chairs, Chautauqua Fund

Music: Dvorak (Arr. Kreisler): “Songs My Mother Taught Me,” Op. 55, No. 4
Noah Arcenas, violin
Alexander Tsereteli, piano

Traditional Roll Calls
Richard C. Karslake & Anita Lin, Chautauqua Community Members

Chautauqua Boys’ and Girls’ Club “Airband” Peformances

Group 7 Boys: “7B Plays the Wii”
Counselors: Brendan Keogh, JB Barr, and Max Sedelmyer

Group 8 Girls: “Realistic Super Bowl Watch Party”
Counselors: Molly Walsh and Hannah Noe

Announcement of Giveaway Winners
Michael E. Hill

“Happy Birthday,” Chautauqua!
All Gathered

Family Entertainment Series Program
Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (commences at 7:30 p.m.)

Also Appearing:
Alyssa Porter, Director of Youth and Family Programs
Joshua Stafford, Director of Sacred Music Organist (Jared Jacobsen Chair)
Department of Religion Ushers (Community Gift Collection)

Gifts made on Old First Night (August 1, 2023) will be matched dollar-for-dollar by The Edward L. Anderson Jr. Foundation:

giving.chq.org/birthday/

All are welcome to join us for cupcakes outside the Amp in Odland Plaza following the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus program.

Leader:              The day goeth away.

Congregation:  The shadows of the evening are stretched out.

Leader:              Praise waiteth for Thee, O God, in Zion.

Congregation:  And unto Thee shall the vow be performed.

Leader:            Thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.

Congregation: Evening and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud.

Hymn: “Softly now the light of day”

Softly now the light of day
                       Fades upon out sight away;
                       Free from care, from labor free,
                       Lord, we would commune with Thee.

Leader:            And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

Congregation: And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

Leader:            Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

Congregation: Hymn: “Nearer, my God, to thee!”

Nearer, my God, to thee! Nearer to thee!
                                   E’en though it be a cross That raiseth me­­­­ —
                                   Still all my song shall be, Nearer my God, to the God, to thee,
                                   Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to thee!

Leader:            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.

Congregation: And he took the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Leader:            And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.

Congregation: And behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Reprise: “Nearer, my God, to Thee!”

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 heaven,
                                   All that Thou sendest me, in mercy given.
                                   Angels to beckon me, nearer, my God, to Thee,
                                   Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

Leader:            The Lord bless thee, and keep thee.

Congregation: The Lord make His face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee.

Leader:            The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.