A 100 year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua Silent Film Series continues with Clash of the Wolves, a perennial favorite for Chautauqua audiences. This exciting adventure film stars the original “wonder dog” Rin-Tin-Tin. It’s a love story, an action adventure and a funny good-time rolled into one.
In honor of Chautauqua’s 125th year, 125 year-old selected shorts will play before the features!
Now in the sixth decade of his professional life, Herbie Hancock remains where he has always been: at the forefront of world culture, technology, business and music. In addition to being recognized as a legendary pianist and composer, Herbie Hancock has been an integral part of every popular music movement since the 1960’s. As a member of the Miles Davis Quintet that pioneered a groundbreaking sound in jazz, he also developed new approaches on his own recordings, followed by his work in the 70s — with record-breaking albums such as “Headhunters” — that combined electric jazz with funk and rock in an innovative style that continues to influence contemporary music. “Rockit” and “Future Shock” marked Hancock’s foray into electronic dance sounds; during the same period he also continued to work in an acoustic setting with V.S.O.P., which included ex-Miles Davis bandmates Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams.
Hancock received an Academy Award for his Round Midnight film score and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album Of The Year for “River: The Joni Letters,” and two 2011 Grammy Awards for the recently released globally collaborative CD, “The Imagine Project.” Many of his compositions, including “Canteloupe Island,” “Maiden Voyage,” “Watermelon Man” and “Chameleon,” are modern standards..
Hancock serves as Creative Chair for Jazz for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and as Institute Chairman of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. He is a founder of The International Committee of Artists for Peace (ICAP), and was recently given the “Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres” by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon. In 2011 Hancock was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, and in December of 2013, received a Kennedy Center Honor. In 2014 he was was named the 2014 Norton Professor Of Poetry at Harvard University, completing his lectures series, “The Ethics Of Jazz,” as part of the Charles Eliot Norton Lecture Series for a period of six weeks. His memoirs, Herbie Hancock: Possibilities, were published by Viking in 2014, and in February 2016 he was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. A member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Hancock is currently in the studio at work on a new album.
A 100 year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua Silent Film Series continues with It, the film that made the lovable Clara Bow the “It Girl” of the 1920s. Clara plays a young girl working her way up in business and romance. Her exciting adventures and misadventures will delight all ages.
In honor of Chautauqua’s 125th year, 125 year-old selected shorts will play before the features!
A 100 year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua Silent Film Series continues with Go West, the great “stone face” comic actor Buster Keaton decides to travel west and try his hand at ranch work. Many comic mishaps later, and after falling in love with a cow named “Brown Eyes,” he arrives in Los Angeles, where he single-handedly drives a huge herd of cattle through the streets.
In honor of Chautauqua’s 125th year, 125 year-old selected shorts will play before the features!
Charlie Chaplin as “The Little Tramp” goes to the Klondike to seek his fortune.
A 100 year tradition, the beloved Chautauqua Silent Film Series continues with The Gold Rush, the film features the memorable “dinner roll dance” with Charlie entertaining guests on New Year Eve. There is also Charlie eating his shoe, while hunkering down during a snow storm. This is a classic, not to be missed!
In honor of Chautauqua’s 125th year, 125 year-old selected shorts will play before the features!
