Let’s talk about it, starting with the procession of the casket from Buckingham to Westminster Palace. Likes, dislikes, most and least favorite? What are you hoping to hear, or not hear, on Monday?
All the high Anglican stuff is musical catnip to me. Loved the chant when the casket was carried into Westminster Palace, “Lord, thou hast searched me and known me.” (Was that setting written for the occasion, by chance?) And the Bairstow, wow, I’ve sung that in choir years ago but forgotten about those magnificent dissonances. Here it is:
I do wonder if they’ll stick to the high-church stuff, or if they’ll do Candle in the Wind or something (not literally that, but you know what I mean).
