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"Sacred Spaces: Legacy and Responsibility"

St. John's Church

 

Exhibition: Jan. 30 - April 14, 2002 at the Iris and B. G. Cantor Gallery

Conference: April 5 - 7, 2002

Schedule of Events
NEW: Online Registration
Post-Conference Tour
Accommodations in Worcester



Schedule of Events

Friday, April 5

9:30AM 
Registration 
Smith Hall

Viewing of Exhibition: Sacred Spaces: Building and Remembering Sites of Worship in the Nineteenth Century co-sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society
Cantor Art Gallery (O'Kane Hall)
Guided tours with student docents available; call 508.793.3356

Images from the Archives of Holy Cross: Building Spaces for Holy Cross 1836-1935
Dinand Library, second floor

10:00AM - Saturday, 8:30PM
Display of Liturgical Vestments, Vessels and other Historical Church Furnishings
Rehm Library, Smith Hall

1:00PM - 2:30PM 
Historical Presentations Session 1 
Hogan Campus Center, Room 519

Chair and Commentary: Richard Kieckhefer, Northwestern University

When Church became Theatre: Church Design for Preaching 
     Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Macalester College 
Building the Evangelical Model: Books, Plans, Advice
     Brian Zugay, Brown University 
Romanesque Revival: 19th century Protestant patronage and the Round-arch style
     Kathleen Ann Curran, Trinity College 

2:45PM - 4:15PM
Historical Presentations Session 2
Hogan Campus Center, Room 519

Chair and Commentary: Paula Kane, University of Pittsburgh

The Burning of the Charlestown Convent and Early Catholicism in Boston
     Nancy Lustigan Schutz, Salem State College 
The Architect and Catholic Client in Nineteenth-Century America
     Kevin F. Decker, SUNY Plattsburgh 
Patrick C. Keely: Catholic Architect in New England
     Milda Richardson, Boston University 

4:30PM - 5:30PM
Communal Sing of American Sacred Music, 1620-1860
Brooks Music Hall 
Commentary by Nym Cooke

5:30PM - 6:30PM
Reception
Cantor Art Gallery
 

Saturday, April 6

9:00AM - 10:45AM
Musical Presentations
Brooks Concert Hall

Singing-Schools & the Rev. Solomon Howe: Massachusetts Farmer, Poet and Tunesmith, ca. 1800
     Richard Bunbury, Boston Conservatory 
Sites of Hymn Compositions of Early American Music
     Nym Cooke, College of the Holy Cross 
Vernacular Music in French Churches of New England and Canada
     lecture and demonstration on the organ, 10:00AM 
     Rev. George Paulin, Church of the Annunciation, Ludlow, VT 
Koelnerdom
11:00AM - 12:45PM
Keynote Panel - The Future of the Past
Hogan Campus Center, Suite A

Dell Upton, Professor of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley 
Peter W. Williams, Professor of Comparative Religion, Miami University 
Comment: William D. Moore, Assistant Professor of History, University of 
   North Carolina at Wilmington 

1:45PM - 4:00PM 
Preservation and Expertise Presentations (concurrent)

1:45PM - 3:00PM
Brooks Concert Hall
Floral Design for Worship Spaces
     Kenn Stephens, Church of the Advent, Boston 

1:45PM - 2:45PM
Smith Hall, Room 210
Shingle Style Episcopal Churches: Preservation of Three Churches designed by Ernest A. Coxhead 
     Marianne Hurley, Preservation Architect 
Preservation Easements and Religious Buildings
     Joseph Cornish, Stewardship Manager, Society for the Preservation of 
     New England Antiquities
Insurance and the Religious Object 
     Louis Shepherd, Appraiser 

3:00PM - 4:00PM
Smith Hall, Room 210
Preserving the Recent Past: The Liturgy and Life Collection at Boston College
     David Horn, Archivist, the Burns Library, Boston College 
Preserving History as a Means of Fostering Parish Commitment for the Future
     Rev. Charles Hughes, Mary Star of the Sea, Beverly, MA 
Practical Advice for Keeping your Church Records
     Gerald Farrell, Jr. Wallingford, CT 
 

Bulfinch Interior of Holy Cross4:00PM - 6:00PM
Guided tours: St. Joseph Chapel, Holy Cross (Renaissance Revival, 1926), and St. Matthew's Episcopal Church Gothic Revival, 1896).  St. Matthew's is a landmarked building with Tiffany Studios stained glass. 

8:30PM - 9:30PM
Concert of Sacred Music: Holy Cross Chamber Singers
Brooks Music Hall
Bruce I. Miller
 

Sunday, April 7

9:00AM - 11:00AM
Discussion: Lilly Fellows

9:00AM - 10:00AM: break-out sessions
10:00AM - 11:00AM: plenary discussion

11:30AM
Latin Mass
St. Joseph Chapel, Holy Cross 
James Christie on organ and Schola Choral Group

1:00PM - 4:30PM
Bus tour: historic sites of worship in Worcester by Preservation Worcester
 
 

Conference sponsored by
The Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross and supported by the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts
 

Post Conference Tour
Post Conference Tour of Places of Worship by Preservation Worcester, Inc.    The tour is based on the booklet Sacred Spaces: Guide to Nineteenth-Century Sites of Worship in Worcester that profiles 19 historical sites.  The booklet has been sponsored by UnumProvident Worcester and the Marshall Fund, College of the Holy Cross. 
 

Chamber Singers Concert at Conference

"Sacred Spaces: Legacy and Responsibility"
Saturday, April 6, 2002
8:30PM, Brooks Concert Hall

Brett Maguire '02, organ
Bruce I. Miller, director

Joseph Haydn            Abendlied zu Gott (Evensong to God), H. 25c:9 (1799)
(1732 - 1809)               Mark Kroll, fortepiano

Felix Mendelssohn     There shall a star come out of Jacob (1847)
(1809 - 1847)            (from Christus, Opus 97)
organ accompaniment arranged
by Dudley Buck (1839 - 1909) 

Anton Bruckner           Ave Maria (1861)
(1824 - 1896)

Johannes Brahms       Geistliches Lied, Opus 30 (1864)
(1833 - 1897)

Gabriel Fauré              Cantique de Jean Racine, Opus 11 (1865)
(1845 - 1924)                Victoria McCabe '05, viola
                                    Deborah Feld-Fabiesiewicz, harp

Arthur Sullivan             We have heard with our ears, O God (1865)
(1842 - 1900)                 Madelaine Lane '04, soprano
                                     Victoria McCabe '05, mezzo soprano
                                     Sean Dillon '04, tenor
                                     Evan A. MacCarthy '03, baritone

John Stainer                God so loved the world (1887)
(1840 - 1901)              (from The Crucifixion)

Healey Willan              There were shepherds abiding in the field (1906)
(1880 - 1968)                André K. Isaacs '05, baritone
                                    Kathryn Sennett '05, soprano
                                    Sean Beatty '05, tenor
 

 

 
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