They're really missing out if this is not played at the Coronation.
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Lhayezee · 26-30, F
@uncalled4 I now really really want to see Shandi Sinnamon under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner (most famed for historically accurate recordings of Bach cantatas - who is also conducting some of the music in Westminster Abbey on Saturday, as it happens).
I did once play the oboe in the same room as the king (before he was) - I think we can still make this happen!
I did once play the oboe in the same room as the king (before he was) - I think we can still make this happen!
Lhayezee · 26-30, F
@uncalled4 A few years ago the then-POW came to my college (where I was studying music).
Might have been because there were performances of some works by the composer Charles H.H. Parry, of whom Charles (the king) is a genuinely huge fan (he did once present a BBC documentary about him that I can recall).
Anyway on the Parry front - listen out for the anthem "I was glad" if you watch the coronation on Saturday. (It'll be near the very beginning of the service, as the text the music sets, from Psalm 122, basically means "I'm going into church, so I'm happy", so it's appropriate for when a service starts). Parry set the music for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902 and it's been sung at every coronation since, as well as hosts of other royal events. /musichistoricaltangent
Might have been because there were performances of some works by the composer Charles H.H. Parry, of whom Charles (the king) is a genuinely huge fan (he did once present a BBC documentary about him that I can recall).
Anyway on the Parry front - listen out for the anthem "I was glad" if you watch the coronation on Saturday. (It'll be near the very beginning of the service, as the text the music sets, from Psalm 122, basically means "I'm going into church, so I'm happy", so it's appropriate for when a service starts). Parry set the music for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902 and it's been sung at every coronation since, as well as hosts of other royal events. /musichistoricaltangent
Lhayezee · 26-30, F
@uncalled4 Well in the sense of being a mildly enthusiastic (non-commemorative-tea towel-collecting) monarchist, very much yes...
Or at any rate I'd trust him far more than 'his' government (which is called His Majesty's Government and belongs to the king in the same way that a tiny fraction of the money the treasury spends is "mine")
Or at any rate I'd trust him far more than 'his' government (which is called His Majesty's Government and belongs to the king in the same way that a tiny fraction of the money the treasury spends is "mine")