Evandale Village Singers present Henry Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">This poster advertises two performances of Henry Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’ by the Evandale Village Singers in late October 2012 at St Andrew’s Anglican Church in Evandale. Henry Purcell’s ‘King Arthur’ is a Restoration-period opera set in the early medieval period with a libretto by John Dryden. It was first performed in 1691. The plot deals with Arthur, king of the Briton’s, and his battles against the incoming Saxons, which historically would have taken place in the fifth or sixth centuries. The text mentions the Anglo-Saxon deities Woden and<br />Thor (Old English Thunor), as well as the Norse goddess Freya. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">The Evandale Village Singers are choir based in the northern Tasmanian town of Evandale who formed in 1999. For more see <a href="http://www.anca.org.au/choir-view/1302">http://www.anca.org.au/choir-view/1302</a></span></p>
Evandale Village Singers
October 1, 2012
Evandale Village Singers
Poster
Beehive Corner, Adelaide
Adelaide, arch, architecture, banded brickwork, commercial building, corbel, English & Soward, Federation Gothic style, gable, golden bee, Gothic Revival, Haigh’s chocolate store, historic site, John Rundle (1791-1864), King William Street, lancet arch, neo-gothic, quatrefoil, pinnacle, red brick, restoration, retail, Rundle Mall, SA, shopping mall, South Australia, tourelle, turret
A view of Beehive Corner at the Western end of Rundle Mall in Adelaide, South Australia. This historic corner site was originally owned by John Rundle and has been known as ‘Beehive Corner’ since the 1840s. The Federation Gothic style building pictured here is the second building to stand on the site, replacing an older, plainer building erected in 1849. The present building was constructed between 1894 and 1896, most probably by architects English & Soward. It provides a rare example where neo-gothic architecture was used for a commercial building. Its characteristic gothic features include the lancet-arched windows with quatrefoil insets, the banded brickwork, the corbel effect, the pinnacles and the tourelle (or turret) bearing the name ‘Beehive Corner’ in gold lettering. Original features and details that had been stripped away during the twentieth century were restored in 1998.
Dorey, Margaret
7 July 2011
No Copyright
Dorey, Margaret, “Beehive Corner, Adelaide,” <em>Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory</em>, <a href="../../../items/show/499">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/499</a>
Digital Photograph; JPEG
Beehive Corner, Adelaide
Adelaide, arch, architecture, banded brickwork, commercial building, corbel, English & Soward, Federation Gothic style, gable, golden bee, Gothic Revival, Haigh’s chocolate store, historic site, John Rundle (1791-1864), King William Street, lancet arch, neo-gothic, quatrefoil, pinnacle, red brick, restoration, retail, Rundle Mall, SA, shopping mall, South Australia, tourelle, turret
A view of Beehive Corner at the Western end of Rundle Mall in Adelaide, South Australia. This historic corner site was originally owned by John Rundle and has been known as ‘Beehive Corner’ since the 1840s. The Federation Gothic style building pictured here is the second building to stand on the site, replacing an older, plainer building erected in 1849. The present building was constructed between 1894 and 1896, most probably by architects English & Soward. It provides a rare example where neo-gothic architecture was used for a commercial building. Its characteristic gothic features include the lancet-arched windows with quatrefoil insets, the banded brickwork, the corbel effect, the pinnacles and the tourelle (or turret) bearing the name ‘Beehive Corner’ in gold lettering. Original features and details that had been stripped away during the twentieth century were restored in 1998.
Dorey, Margaret
7 July 2011
No Copyright
Dorey, Margaret, “Beehive Corner, Adelaide,” <em>Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory</em>, <a href="../../../items/show/500">http://ausmed.arts.uwa.edu.au/items/show/500</a>
Digital Photograph; JPEG
May
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In this article from the Western Mail, the author relates details of the historical customs and festivities associated with the month of May. The article begins by describing the medieval tradition of ‘a-maying’ and merrymaking on the first day of the month: ‘May day’. This involved processions and dancing, often around a maypole. Maypoles, the author goes on to explain, were viewed as especially objectionable by the Puritans in the seventeenth century, and banned by Parliament between 1644 and 1660. The article concludes by suggesting that the name ‘may’ was most likely Roman in origin - after Maia, the mother of Mercury.
Anon.
National Library of Australia
The Western Mail
9 May 1946, p.3
The Western Mail
Newspaper Article
English