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Punks, Pubs, and Classical Music! Stanford, Coleridge-Taylor, Vaughan Williams & Purcell at their most boisterous!In commemoration of Charles Villiers Stanford's 100th anniversary of his death in 2024, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 150th anniversary in 2025, join Apocryphonia as we take you on a journey through their songs of lovers, fighters, and drunks at the pub.
The concert's highlight is the Canadian Premiere of Stanford's 'Phaudrig Crohoore', an epic choral ballad written by the great poet Sheridan LeFanu about a 6 foot tall tough Irishman whose love was stolen by his rival.
Rounding out the concert are choruses from Ralph Vaughan Williams' Shakespearean opera 'Sir John in Love', and some naughty works by Henry Purcell!
"Oh! Phaudrig Crohoore was the broth of a boy An’ he stood six foot eight;
An' his arm was as round as another man's thigh - ‘Tis Phaudrig was great
An' his hair was as black as the shadows of night
An' hung over the scars left by many a fight;
An' his voice, like the thunder, was deep, strong, and loud
An' his eye like the lightning from under the cloud
An' all the girls liked him, for he could spake civil
An' sweet when he liked it, for he was the divil
An' there wasn't a girl from thirty-five under
Divil a matter how cross, but he could get round her"
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
St. Olave's Anglican Church, 360 Windermere Ave, Toronto, ON M6S 3L4, Canada,Toronto, Ontario
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