First Night Jubilee

Handel and Haydn Society and

Museum of African American History

Join Forces for First Night Jubilee Concert

Vibrant program of choral selections and storytelling commemorates

151st anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Celebratory concert includes music by Mendelssohn, Dresel, Handel, and Methfessel,

with narration by MAAH’s Beverly Morgan-Welch.

Performances are Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1pmand 2pm at the African Meeting House.

December 19, 2013 (Boston, MA) — Two of New England’s most venerable cultural institutions, the Handel and Haydn Society (H&H) and the Museum of African American History (MAAH), team up for the First Night Jubilee Concert on New Year’s Eve, an afternoon of music and storytelling observing the 151st anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a Civil War order granting freedom to enslaved men, women, and children living in states in rebellion.  

This co-presentation, celebrating an important milestone in American and Boston history, is a reprise of last year’s highly successful program that attracted hundreds of First Night visitors to the Museum of African American History’s Beacon Hill campus at 46 Joy Street. Many of the original performers will return for this year’s concert, including H&H conductor Scott Allen Jarrett and narrator Beverly Morgan-Welch, MAAH’s Executive Director.