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SPECIAL MUSIC SUNDAY: Sunday, March 9
during the 11 am worship service.
The Old South Choir will offer a special
music presentation entitled
Had I but Pinions of a Dove.
This will consist of a series of Lenten meditations and anthems,
with music by Chris DeBlasio, Gabriel Fauré, Calvin
Hampton,
Kevin Oldham and McNeil Robinson, accompanied by string quintet, harp
and organ.
A Cello Recital
By Sam Ou
with Rebecca O'Brien, mezzo-soprano
Music by Bach, Rands, and Cassado
Friday, March 21st, 2008 (Good Friday) @ 8 pm
Saint Botolph Hall, New England Conservatory
of Music
241 Saint Botolph Street
Boston, MA 02115
Free Admission
Reception to Follow
HARRY HUFF NAMED NEW MINISTER OF MUSIC
Wed, 12 Sep 2007
Dear Old South Community,
Last night the Church Council voted unanimously to
hire Harry Huff to become the next Minister of Music of Old South
Church in Boston.
Over these last months of heavy activity on the part
of the ad hoc Minister of Music Search Committee we met or spoke
with about two dozen wonderful candidates who had been
recommended to us by many sources. In the end we brought
three to Old South to candidate and each was all and
more than we had hoped. Each earned his or her own fan club
among the congregation.
In forming our final recommendation to Council, our
committee endeavored to hear and understand all the comments
(observations, plusses and minuses) that came our way.
Perhaps reflecting the quality of the choice, each candidate had
supporters feeling he or she would be the best choice
- often for remarkably overlapping reasons. For the Committee
and for the congregation as a whole, the person who
was perceived to be just the right fit and to have the greatest
immediate impact on our whole music program and our
worship life together was Harry.
Harry will officially join us on January 2nd. Before
then he will also lead both Christmas Eve services (with rehearsals),
another fall Sunday yet to be selected, and he will
play our three First Night concert. This is an exciting next step for
Old
South, our worship life as a congregation, our choir
and the music program. Harry has much to offer us as a person, a
leader and a musician.
Brian Jones' last Sunday at Old South will be October
28th. We are still in process of determining how to fill the organ
console and choir director's position for November and
December.
God is good and we
are blessed.
The Rev. Nancy S. Taylor
Senior Minister
Old South Church in Boston
JOIN THE OLD SOUTH CHOIR: September
is the best time of the year to consider
joining the choir. Rehearsals are held every Thursday evening as well as
Sunday mornings to prepare for the 11 am worship service. For more
information, contact Brian Jones at 617/425-5146 or
<music@oldsouth.org>.
JOIN THE OLD SOUTH RINGERS: Tuesdays at 6 pm. Never rung a
handbell before?
Or are you an old pro looking for a new choir? Either way, we’d love to
talk
to you more about our handbell choir. For more information on our “no
obligation” rehearsal, contact Director Peter Coulombe at 617/406-8253.
OPERA 101: Thursdays, September 20 through October 25 at 7 pm
in Mary Norton
Hall. Boston Lyric Opera welcomes back Professor Elizabeth Seitz who
will
present a six-week session titled Opera 101: Straight from Our Season,
which
will explore the operas of BLO’s upcoming season, including Puccini’s La
bohème, Donizetti’s L'elisir d'amore, Mozart’s The Abduction
from the
Seraglio, and Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Fee $150 per session. To
enroll, call 617/542-4912 ext. 242 or visit www.blo.org.
.
Brian Jones Named Interim Organist & Choir
Director
More
Information
on Brian Jones
Brian Jones is Interim Organist and Choir Director
at
Old South Church. He is Emeritus Director of Music and Organist at
Trinity Church, Boston, where he served for twenty
years
and built a highly-acclaimed music program. He served as Interim
Director of Cathedral Music at the Cathedral Church of
Saint John, Albuquerque, New Mexico last year, and maintains an active
schedule of organ recitals and guest conducting
appearances.
(See also Brian
Jones Music.)
The OLD SOUTH CHOIR rehearses Thursday evenings from
6:30—8:30
in the Guild Room.
New members are encouraged to contact Brian
Jones for more information at 617-425-5146 or <music@oldsouth.org>.
.....Heroic
Sounds from Old South Church!Listen to Sample Tracks
Old South Church offers this CD recording, Old
South Brass,
Organ and Timpani: Heroic Sounds. The disc was recorded in the
sanctuary
on March 18-19, 2001 with organist Gregory Peterson and an ensemble of
high caliber brass players who often play in our services and on First
Night. Larry Isaacson conducted the ensemble in music by Bach, Berners,
Bruckner, di Lassus, Respighi and Widor. A special feature are four new
pieces by resident composer/arranger Kevin Kaska. Gregory Peterson
performs
solo organ works by Boellmann, Couperin and Dupre.
The
disc sells for $15 and is now available (Click Here for Details &
Sample
Tracks).
The Ministry of Music at the Old South Church in
Boston
The ministry of music at the Old South Church in
Boston
seeks to glorify God through creative interpretation of the
Church’s musical literature; the use of aesthetic means
and vehicles to mediate and present the grace and grandeur of God;
and the participation of women and men of Old South and
beyond, using their own considerable gifts to celebrate,
worship and magnify this God of our Lord and Savior
Jesus
Christ.
The ministry of music at Old South is centered on
the
Sunday morning service and other church festivals in
which organ, choir, soloists and instrumentalists
provide
musical and liturgical leadership for the worship of God
and the spiritual edification of God’s people gathered
at the Old South Church. Old South also offers to the community
a musical program that reflects our mission, through
seasonal vespers concerts, organ recitals
and other musical presentations on Sunday afternoons
or weekday evenings.
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please
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at OSC, click here Music
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Old South Church
645 Boylston Street (Copley Square at Dartmouth Street)
"T" Green Line, Copley
All events are free and open to the public. Old South
Church is wheelchair accessible.
