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Old South Church, Boston
Comment on Facebook Looking at Old South Church from Copley Square, visitors see an outstanding and colorful example of Northern Italian Gothic architecture, advocated in the 1850s by the English architectural critic John Ruskin. This National Historic Landmark building is an unusually ornate design for a New England Congregational church. It radiates the opulent taste and the sense of optimism and progress of the Industrial Revolution following the Civil War. The church, constructed between 1872 and 1875 for a congregation founded in 1669, is distinguished by its tall bell tower; brown, pink and grey stonework; walls of Roxbury puddingstone; decorative carvings; a roof striped with tiles of red and black slate; and a cupola or lantern of green and russet-colored copper.
Benjamin Franklin was baptized in 1706 at the congregation’s Cedar Meeting House on downtown Washington Street. Members of this historic congregation include Samuel Adams, Revolutionary patriot and brewer; Samuel Sewall, judge and diarist; Thomas Prince, minister and book collector; William Dawes, Paul Revere’s fellow rider in 1775; Phillis Wheatley, America’s first published black poet; and Elizabeth Vergoose, said to be the Mother Goose of nursery rhymes. Old South is also known for being the church at the Boylston Street finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Old South Church played a significant role in American history through the bold actions of the Sons of Liberty at the Old South Meeting House. There, in 1773, Samuel Adams gave the signal for the “war whoops” that started the Boston Tea Party. During the Civil War, 1,019 men enlisted in one day at Old South to fight for the Union cause. Old South’s ministry has been distinguished by eloquent preaching on matters of theology and conscience by Samuel Willard, Benjamin Wisner, Jacob Manning, George Gordon, Frederick Meek and James Crawford. As poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote, “So long as Boston shall Boston be, And her bay tides rise and fall, Shall freedom stand in the Old South Church, And plead for the rights of all.” Members of Old South helped found institutions serving economic and social justice-the City Mission Society, the Boston Seafarers Society, Training Inc., Boston Aging Concerns-Young And Old United, and Tent City Corporation.
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Old South Church, Boston
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05/21/13 Boston Handbell Festival
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05/21/13 Boston Handbell Festival
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05/19/13Rose Songs
Old South Church, Boston04/05/13 The Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble
Old South Church, Boston03/22/13 SSSSymphony
Old South Church, Boston03/17/13 The Hammond Performing Arts Series Presents Arnaud Sussmann and Orion Weiss
Old South Church, Boston03/15/13 Morehouse College MLK Jr. Memorial Glee Club Concert
Old South Church, Boston03/10/13 Four Weddings & A Funeral
Old South Church, Boston02/22/13 The Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble
Old South Church, Boston02/08/13 Play Ball
Old South Church, Boston01/13/13 The Hammond Performing Arts Series Presents Yevgeny Kutik and Timothy Bozarth
Old South Church, Boston12/21/12 A Dickens Christmas
Old South Church, Boston12/15/12 A Choral Holiday
Old South Church, Boston12/07/12 The Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble
Old South Church, Boston12/06/12 The Boston Conservatory Combined Choruses and The Boston Conservatory Orchestra
Old South Church, Boston10/28/12 Poets and Psalms (choral concert)
Old South Church, Boston10/26/12 Page to Screen
Old South Church, Boston09/28/12 Soloist, Soloist
Old South Church, Boston09/23/12 Classics, a World Premiere by Dan Shore, and French Arias with Sean Lair
Old South Church, Boston09/16/12 In the Age of Mozart
Old South Church, Boston08/13/12-
08/27/12Chorus pro Musica Summer Sings
Old South Church, Boston06/03/12 BCE presents CHICHESTER
Old South Church, Boston05/15/12 Boston Handbell Festival
Old South Church, Boston04/01/12 The Weckmann Project
Old South Church, Boston03/17/12 Bach: St. Matthew Passion
Old South Church, Boston03/11/12 BCE presents Butterfly Dreams
Old South Church, Boston03/10/12 Musicians of the Old Post Road present Fit for a King: Frederick the Great at 300
Old South Church, Boston02/14/12 Queens College Choir East Coast Tour
Old South Church, Boston01/10/12 Audition for the Boston Choral Ensemble
Old South Church, Boston12/31/11 Old South Brass, Organ and Percussion
Old South Church, Boston12/31/11 Meet the King of Instruments
Old South Church, Boston12/17/11 A Choral Holiday
Old South Church, Boston12/16/11 Respighi, Lauda per la Nativitá del Signore (Laud to the Nativity)
Old South Church, Boston12/10/11 Boston Children's Chorus Holiday Concert
Old South Church, Boston12/03/11 Old South Church Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair
Old South Church, Boston12/02/11 Old South Ringers
Old South Church, Boston11/13/11 Musicians of the Old Post Road present: Riddle Me This!
Old South Church, Boston11/06/11 Zoltan Kodaly, Missa Brevis
Old South Church, Boston08/01/11-
08/22/11Summer Sings in August
Old South Church, Boston06/17/11 The Slava Chorale performs at Old South Church
Old South Church, Boston06/07/11 Composer Alla Cohen Presents "An Evening Concert of Opera Buffa and Instrumental Chamber Ensembles"
Old South Church, Boston05/17/11 Boston Handbell Festival
Old South Church, Boston04/09/11 Boston Children's Chorus Spring Concert
Old South Church, Boston03/20/11 Rossini, Petite Messe Solennelle
Old South Church, Boston03/19/11 Bach: Mass in B Minor
Old South Church, Boston03/06/11 Door to Paradise
Old South Church, Boston03/04/11 The Low Anthem
Old South Church, Boston01/29/11 Musicians of the Old Post Road present: Hidden Treasures of the German Baroque
Old South Church, Boston12/18/10 A Choral Holiday
Old South Church, Boston12/17/10 We Sing Thy Birth
Old South Church, Boston12/17/10 Chorus pro Musica Holiday Concert
Old South Church, Boston12/01/10 Xanthos Ensemble performs music of Alla Cohen and Brian Buch
Old South Church, Boston11/22/10 BU Symphonic Chorus at the Old South Church
Old South Church, Boston11/20/10 Freisinger Chamber Orchestra
Old South Church, Boston11/19/10-
11/21/10Evocations
Old South Church, Boston11/13/10 Boston Children's Chorus to debut work by Berklee's Bill Banfield, isnpired by late AIDS activist
Old South Church, Boston11/13/10 Boston Children's Chorus Fall Concert
Old South Church, Boston11/07/10 Antonín Dvorak's Mass in D Major / Leos Janácek's "Our Father"
Old South Church, Boston08/02/10-
08/23/10Chorus pro Musica Summer Sings
Old South Church, Boston06/06/10 Beg Borrow Steal
Old South Church, Boston05/18/10 Boston Handbell Festival
Old South Church, Boston04/10/10 Festival 21 - New Music for Guitar
Old South Church, Boston03/20/10 St. John Passion
Old South Church, Boston03/11/10 Boston Lyric Opera's Opera 101: Ariadne auf Naxos
Old South Church, Boston03/07/10 Tenebræ
Old South Church, Boston03/04/10 Boston Lyric Opera Opera 101: Strauss and an introduction to Ariadne auf Naxos
Old South Church, Boston02/25/10 Boston Lyric Opera Opera 101: Idomeneo
Old South Church, Boston02/18/10 Boston Lyric Opera Opera 101: Mozart and an introduction to Idomeneo
Old South Church, Boston02/11/10 Boston Lyric Opera Opera Series: Rossini and The Barber of Seville
Old South Church, Boston02/04/10 Boston Lyric Opera Opera 101: Benjamin Britten and The Turn of the Screw
Old South Church, Boston01/27/10 Inaugural Concert Series
Old South Church, Boston01/20/10 Inaugural Concert Series
Old South Church, Boston12/19/09 Musicians of the Old Post Road present: Mediterranean Baroque Christmas
Old South Church, Boston12/18/09 Annual Holiday Concert
Old South Church, Boston12/05/09 Old South Church Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair
Old South Church, Boston11/22/09 Villarosa Sequences
Old South Church, Boston08/03/09-
08/24/09Summer Sings
Old South Church, Boston06/06/09 An Americana Family Jamboree
Old South Church, Boston06/05/09-
06/07/09Meditations
Old South Church, Boston05/19/09 Boston Handbell Festival
Old South Church, Boston05/17/09 Dolci Momenti
Old South Church, Boston05/01/09 La Donna, La Dame Cappella Clausura Concert
Old South Church, Boston04/03/09 Music at Fever Pitch
Old South Church, Boston03/06/09-
03/08/09VOCES LATINAS
Old South Church, Boston02/05/09-
03/12/09Opera 101
Old South Church, Boston
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