History Walk
Schedule
Sat Oct 05 2024 at 10:00 am
Location
Mt Auburn Cemetery | Cambridge, MA
Advertisement
The Boston Cecilia History Walk - Back by Popular Demand!Step out for The Boston Cecilia and take a step back in time!
Enjoy the beauty of Mt Auburn Cemetery with its lakes and astounding diversity of foliage, as we follow paths through glens and over knolls…
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA
Tours at 10am and 2pm
(Rain Date: Sunday, October 6th)
Take a walk through Boston’s music history starting in 1876. Hear stories about The Boston Cecilia's first 50 years - a time when Cecilia played an important role in Boston's emergence as an American center for classical music - singing many American premieres and for the opening of Symphony Hall in 1900.
With guided narration, the 90-minute walk visits the gravesite of B.J. Lang, Cecilia’s first music director, along with other historic figures with ties to Cecilia, like Henry Lee Higginson, founder of the BSO and Isabella Stewart Gardner, patron of the arts and friend of the Lang family.
The tour includes two of the “Boston Six,” the Second N.E. School of American composers - Arthur Foote, also an accompanist for Cecilia’s concerts and George W. Chadwick, a composer and educator who, in 1987, became Director of New England Conservatory.
We will also visit the gravestones of two women composers: Margret Ruthven Lang, whose work was performed by Cecilia as well as the BSO -the first American woman to have a piece performed by a major orchestra. Mabel Wheeler Daniel sang with The Boston Cecilia early on, then went on to have a successful career as a conductor, composer, and educator.
Marylène Altieri, Boston Cecilia alto, will be your tour guide. She is a 45-year veteran chorus member and the group's volunteer archivist. She recently retired from the Harvard libraries where she was a special collections librarian and curator for 42 years.
Make a donation and reserve your spot; space is limited, so reserve early!
Advertisement
Where is it happening?
Mt Auburn Cemetery, 580 Mount Auburn Street,Cambridge,MA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
