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From Pub to Pulpit
Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary Concert
Fri 30 Sep 2022
Derby Cathedral
About the Event
From Pub to Pulpit is a celebration of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 150th anniversary, and includes music from Broomdasher, Coracle, and the Cathedral’s own choristers.
An acapella folk group, a classically trained instrumental trio, twenty cathedral organists and choirs, community choirs, and concert audiences will turn folk songs into hymns in a flagship nationwide tour.
From Pub to Pulpit is an imaginative and rousing concert tour that brings to life the musical journey of folk sings Vaughan Williams collected before “borrowing” the tunes for hymn arrangements in The English Hymnal he edited in 1906.
This event is also the only project that crosses the boundaries of Vaughan Williams's work, bringing several genres together in a popular and accessible way, so is definitely not one to be missed!
Vaughan Williams was a well-known collector of folk songs and he borrowed folk song tunes he collected from labourers around the country for the tunes of some of the best hymns in the 1906 English Hymnal he edited.
In the final part of the concert, Broomdasher and Coracle take the audience on a musical journey, starting with the folk song, going through dance variations and climaxing with everyone raising the roof with full-blooded renditions of the hymns.
They include “To Be a Pilgrim”, “Tis Winter Now the fallen Snow” and “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say” which will be musically transformed from the folk songs “Our Captain Calls”, “Brisk Young Farmer” and “The Murder of Maria Marten.
The other sections of the concerts feature individual sections by Derby Cathedral Choir, directed by Alexander Binns; Broomdasher and Coracle.
Location
Derby Cathedral
18-19 Iron Gate, Derby, DE1 3GP
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