{"id":12718,"date":"2013-05-30T07:14:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=12718"},"modified":"2013-05-30T07:14:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T12:14:20","slug":"niagara-on-the-lake-the-setting-for-elizabeth-ii-coronation-re-enactment-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/05\/30\/niagara-on-the-lake-the-setting-for-elizabeth-ii-coronation-re-enactment-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara-on-the-Lake the setting for Elizabeth II coronation re-enactment on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12739\" style=\"width: 964px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2241857\/The-private-life-Queen-Intimate-rarely-seen-photographs-Elizabeths-softer-side.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12739\" alt=\"The freshly crowned Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953 (Corbis photo).\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/coronation.jpg\" width=\"964\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/coronation.jpg 964w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/05\/coronation-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The freshly crowned Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953 (Corbis photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Music Niagara, based in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ground Zero of Loyalist fervour in Upper Canada, starts its 15th season six weeks early with a re-enactment of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday, June 2 &#8212; the 60th anniversary of the actual event.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>St Mark&#8217;s Church, located a couple of blocks from the Shaw Festival&#8217;s main theatre, has nice acoustics, but it is a small-town parish church, not Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, a 12-piece orchestra, choirs (Avanti Chamber Singers and St Mark&#8217;s resident choristers, making up 45 voices) and actors will do their best to recreate a semblance of the pomp, pageantry and grand music, starting at 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>It may be best to think of the event as a semi-sacred Last Night of the Proms, with actors in fancier dress.<\/p>\n<p>The music includes such favourites as George Frideric Handel\u2019s <em>Zadok the Priest<\/em>, William Walton\u2019s <em>Crown Imperial March<\/em> and Healey Willan\u2019s <em>O Lord our Governor<\/em>, as well as some congregational singing that will include <em>Jerusalem<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Music Niagara, which officially gets underway on July 12, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicniagara.org\/home.page\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The $50 tickets for Sunday&#8217;s event are not available online, but through the Music Niagara office at 905-468-5566 or by emailing: rsvp (at) musicniagara.org.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a well-watched newsreel video made during Coronation Day:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; 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