Submitted Photo. “The House on Mango Street” author, Sandra Cisneros, will speak at the CLSC Roundtable presentation Thursday at 3:30 p.m. with a book signing following at 4:30 p.m. The inter-arts production will be Saturday at 8:15 p.m. in the Amphitheater.

CHAUTAUQUA — The award-winning novel “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros, regarded as a seminal work of Chicano literature, is inspiring an original musical composition, inter-arts performance and an art exhibition at Chautauqua Institution this summer.

The book tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. It is among 20 books featured as selections of the 2017 Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle and its Young Readers program.

Mango Suite, composed by Derek Bermel, is a 45- to 50-minute symphonic work that reimagines Cisneros’s observations through 12 musical vignettes that explore and emphasize themes such as the natural and supernatural world, cultural identity and alienation, maturity and longing for independence, and disappearance and death.

Performed by the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, with members of the Chautauqua Theater Company and students of the Chautauqua Voice Program and School of Dance, the piece premieres at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Chautauqua Amphitheater.

An art exhibition in Chautauqua Institution’s Strohl Art Center through Aug. 21 also celebrates the message and impact of The House on Mango Street. The show, “Homage to Mango Street,” curated by Artistic Director Don Kimes, presents works by several contemporary Latino artists with roots in Mexico, Chile, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Cuba. Strohl Art Center galleries and its gallery store are open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays (closed Saturdays).

“Our inter-arts projects not only demonstrate the power of the arts to illuminate multiple dimensions of the human experience, but, at Chautauqua, they also provide us the opportunity to unleash the full potential of our diverse and magnificent arts programs and companies in residence,” said Deborah Sunya Moore, vice president and director of programming.

According to Bermel, Chautauqua Institution is the ideal setting for inter-arts collaboration.

“Chautauqua’s an interesting place; it’s a huge community of artists, and the focus of this piece was to bring all those folks together,” Bermel said.

The House on Mango Street is the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle and Young Readers selection for Week Four, and Cisneros is speaking at the CLSC Roundtable presentation at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Hall of Philosophy. A book signing will follow at 4:30 p.m. at the Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall.

Mango Suite was commissioned by Francis and Cindy Letro, in honor of Tom and Jane Becker for their dedication to inter-arts programming.