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Please join us for a Musical Celebration
of the 200th Anniversary of the birth of
Leonard Bacon
at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 28, 2002
at
Center Church, New Haven, CT
Leonard Bacon graduated from Yale College in 1820and subsequently
from the Andover Theological Seminary. Reverend Bacon was
the rector of Center Church for about 40 years and during
that time composed many hymns. He was also a noted champion
of the anti-slavery movement.
A quartet from the Center Church Choir, under the leadership
of Fenno Heath, will join us in a Hymn Sing of six of Rev.
Bacon's compositions, including the one used at all Yale
graduation ceremonies.
A quartet from the Center Church Choir, under the leadership
of Fenno Heath, will join us in a Hymn Sing
of six of Rev. Bacon's compositions, including the one used
at all Yale graduation ceremonies.
Guest Speakers will include David Musto, whose presentation
will focus on Leonard Bacon's activities as an ardent Prohibitionist,
and Judy Schiff, who will discuss the Baconian Theory of
the authorship of Shakespeare's plays, a movement begun by
Delia Bacon, sister of Leonard Bacon.
The featured speaker will be Hugh Davis, Professor at Southern
Connecticut State University, who has recently completed
a biography of Leonard Bacon.
Leonard Bacon and his sister Delia Bacon are buried in Grove
Street Cemetery
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