Official Jubilee 350 Event
Fall Music Festival:
Musick in Old Boston
November 22-23, 1980
The Old Stoughton Musical Society (OSMS), organized on November 7, 1786, is the oldest surviving choral society in the United States of America.
Their First Fall Music Festival was held in Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1978,
organized and hosted by OSMS Historian, Roger L. Hall, who produced a special radio documentary
with music highlights from the Festival and it is available on a CD -- click here
The Second Fall Music Festival was also organized by Mr. Hall,
and featured a series of lectures and concerts
held as one of the events
for Jubilee 350 -- celebrating the
350th anniversary of the City of Boston, Massachusetts.
It also included several premiere concert performances, including a new Jubilee 350 song,
"O Boston," adapted and arranged by Roger L. Hall.
These are the lectures and concerts --
Saturday, November 22
Lectures:
"Old Stoughton in Old Boston" - Roger L. Hall, Musicologist
and
Old Stoughton Musical Society Historian
"Colonial Opera in Boston" - David P. McKay, Musicologist
"George W. Chadwick and the Choral Festivals" - Steven Ledbetter,
Director of Publications, Boston Symphony Orchestra
"Organs and Organists in Old Boston" -
Barbara Owen,
Organist and Musicologist
"Violin Making in the Boston Area" - Douglas W. Anderson,
Violinist and Conductor
Evening Concert:
"Music of the Baroque Era" -
Music by J.S. Bach, Corelli, Dall'Abaco, Handel, Telemann
Performed by The Easton Chamber Orchestra
Richard W. Hill, organist
Douglas W. Anderson, conductor
Sunday, November 23
194th Annual Concert of The Old Stoughton Musical Society
Celebrating the 350th Anniversary
of
the City of Boston, Massachusetts
Concert Program (click links for streaming listening only):
1. +The Star Spangled Banner - rare 19th century choral version published in Boston
Music by Edwin Arthur Jones (1853-1911):
2.+Prelude and Fugue in G minor (1878)- Richard W. Hill, organist - FIRST BOSTON PERFORMANCE
Music by William Billings (1746-1800):
3. +Chester (1778)
4.
+Boston (1778)
5. +David's Lamentation (1778)
6. +Majesty (1778)
7. Thanksgiving Anthem: O Praise
the Lord of Heaven (1794)
Music by William Selby (1738-1798):
8. Voluntary in A Major
9. A Lesson (Allegro-Andante-Jig)
10. +A Fuge or Voluntary -
Barbara Owen, guest organist
11.+Verse Anthem: Behold He Is My Salvation (1783)
Music by Haydn and Handel:
12. Franz Joseph Haydn: Recitative and Aria from THE CREATION
13. George Frideric Handel: "Let The Bright Seraphim" from SAMSON
Patricia Crooker, soprano soloist
Richard W. Hill, organist
Organ Music by Three New England Composers:
14. Dudley Buck: Chorale - "Old Hundreth"
15. Dudley Buck: Grand Sonata in Eb (Scherzo)
16. George Whitefield Chadwick: Canon in Eb
17. Horatio Parker: Fugue, Op. 36, No. 3
Barbara Owen, guest organist
Music from 19th Boston:
18. +John Brown and Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861-62) (original published version)
19. Temperance Hymn: Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (1870s)
20. + Hymn of Peace (aka: Angel of Peace) - words: Oliver Wendell Holmes (shown in pic)
music: Matthias Keller (written for the 1869 Grand Peace Jubilee in Boston
to commemorate the end of the Civil War)
21. +Organ Prelude: The Star from NOEL - George W. Chadwick, 1909
22. +Chorale from NOEL - George W. Chadwick,1909
23. +Patriotic Hymn: Land of Our Hearts - George W. Chadwick, 1918
24. +Old Stoughton - Edwin Arthur Jones, 1886 - FIRST BOSTON PERFORMANCE
25. +Chorus: Festival Hymn (words and music by Dudley Buck
written for
the
World's Peace Jubilee in Boston in 1872)
Music in 20th Century Boston:
26. +O Boston! - Jubilee 350 song - FIRST CONCERT PERFORMANCE
words by William Bradford (1590-1657)/
"Old Hundreth" tune edited and arranged by Roger Hall
27. +Song of the Old Folks (tune: Auld Lang Syne/ text: Albert Laighton, 1855)
This concert was held at historic Old West Church in Boston, Massachusetts
The Old Stoughton Musical Society (OSMS) Soloists and Chorus,
Richard W. Hill, OSMS Organist,
Barbara Owen, Guest Organist
Roger L. Hall, OSMS Chorister (Conductor)
+ = music tracks included on the CD: "Musick in Old Boston - The Jubilee 350 Concert"
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Related Music Publications
"Angel of Peace" -
Music in Old Boston
(PineTree Multimedia Edition, 2019)
with historical information, audio and video features on a CD-ROM.
Read about this limited edition disc,
not available anywhere else -- click here
MAJESTY: The Life and Music of William Billings
(PineTree Press, 2020)
Book Contents:
PART ONE: William Billings - His Life and Music
1. Family Tree
2. Parents
3. Wife and Children
4. Occupations
5. Revolutionary Patriot
6. Singing Master and Composer
PART TWO: William Billings and Old Stoughton
7. The Singing School
8. The Stoughton Musical Society
9. First Tunebook
10. Second Tunebook
11. Chicago World's Exposition Concerts
12. Billings Tunes in Stoughton Concerts (1876-1986)
Notes
Bibliography
Discography
MUSIC SUPPLEMENT:
--THE PLEASURES OF VARIETY (Text: William Billings/
Music: Roger Hall)
--COME LET US SING (Text: William Billings/ Music: Roger Hall)
--MAJESTY (Music by William Billings, 1778)
--STOUGHTON (Music by William Billings, 1770, edited by Roger Hall)
--Music Activities in Stoughton (1980-1999)
This CD-ROM also contains these other folders:
--Audio album 1 - Best of William Billings
--Audio Album 2 - The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord (ed. Leonard Van Camp)
--Image gallery
--Reference information
To order the "MAJESTY" CD-ROM (only available at this website),
go to the the Stoughton Music Monograph Series at the
Center for American Music Preservation (CAMP) Store
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