Event Dime
Breaking new ground: Ruth Gipps's Goblin Market, her important setting of Christina Rossetti's iconic poem to be brought to life by upper-voice ensemble Corra Sound
- When:
- June 16, 2026 · 8:58 AM
- Where:
- Holy Trinity Church
- Source:
- Planet Hugill: Terrific and intensely atmospheric: the String Quartet No. 1 and Piano Quintet by Olli Mustonen from the Engegård Quartet and the composer on LAWO Classics
Christina Rossetti's 1862 poem Goblin Market tells the story of sisters Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted with fruit by goblin merchants. The poem is interpreted frequently as having features of remarkably sexual imagery, and has been viewed as an expression of Rossetti's feminist and homosexual politics. In 1954 the English composer Ruth Gipps set her own adaptation of Goblin Market for two soprano solos, female chorus and string orchestra. Mary Arsenau of University of Ottawa's Department of E