Margaret Thatcher's Funeral

[Philip]

https://www.stpauls.co.uk/documents/news%20stories/btoos.pdf

The order of service is here for anyone interested - and its live on BBC1.

Choral music is
William Croft - Burial Sentences
Purcell - Hear my prayer
Brahms - How lovely is thy dwelling place
Faure - In paradisum
Stanford - Nunc dimittis in G (as the recessional)

Elgar's 'Nimrod' is the first piece of organ music at the end.

Should be some choral treats with St Pauls choir, Carwood and Johnson.

[ardcarp]

So they are doing Croft's funeral sentences! I wonder how much of the music will be talked over.
Any suggestions for suitable hymns?

[Op. XXXIX]

Elgar's 'Nimrod' is the first piece of organ music at the end.

No fan of the Lady -and I avoided any comment on the contentious threads- but I will save Nimrod, music dearest to me, for some other time.

[Mary Chambers]

I'm relieved to see that the much-stressed 'British composers' being played do not include Britten or Tippett, who I suspect would not only turn in their graves but probably rise up, appear in St Paul's and call "Stop!".

I shall try to watch the funeral, out of sheer curiosity.

[mercia]

the reports on the early morning rehearsal say that a band will play funeral marches by Beethoven, Chopin and Mendelssohn - I can't think what that Mendelssohn would be.
I find something strangely poignant about the sound of a muffled bell

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm relieved to see that the much-stressed 'British composers' being played do not include Britten or Tippett, who I suspect would not only turn in their graves but probably rise up, appear in St Paul's and call "Stop!"

[amateur51]

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[amateur51]

I'm relieved to see that the much-stressed 'British composers' being played do not include Britten or Tippett, who I suspect would not only turn in their graves but probably rise up, appear in St Paul's and call "Stop!".

I shall try to watch the funeral, out of sheer curiosity.

If I get there, I'll find a CCTV/OB camera & wave my best cap at it, Mary. It's a rather striking maroon job

[Nick Armstrong]

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[BBMmk2]

Will the red button be in operation for 'withoiut commentary'?

[Mr Pee]

the reports on the early morning rehearsal say that a band will play funeral marches by Beethoven, Chopin and Mendelssohn - I can't think what that Mendelssohn would be.

Probably this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsqyGJklR5I

[ahinton]

Probably this?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsqyGJklR5I

Ah, yes - Mahler 5's opening before Mahler got to it and put it in the right key!

But it's of no consequence to me. On Wednesday, I shall be attending a funeral. Not hers.

[Serial_Apologist]

If I get there, I'll find a CCTV/OB camera & wave my best cap at it, Mary. It's a rather striking maroon job

Yo could try taking aim and letting go, Ams!

When I suggested to my ex that I might just go along, she replied, "Don't do it, please! - You're too old now for getting yourself into trouble!"

[Anna]

Any suggestions for suitable hymns?

It would appear Hymns are to be:
He who would valiant be (Monks Gate, RVW)
Love Divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwern, descant by Scott)
I vow to thee my county (Thaxsted)

As to organ music before Service it is:
Meditation on John Keble’s Rogationtide (Ireland)
Psalm-Prelude: (2, 11 (Howells)
Allegro and Andante from Op.28 (Elgar)
Adagio from 3 pieces for organ (Bridge)
Fantasia & Toccata Op.57 (Stanford)
Master Tallis’s Testament (Howells)
Toccata & Fugue The Wanderer (Parry)
Rhosymedre (RVW)
Elegy (Parry)
After Service will also be:BWV 546 (Bach)
And the Ode is Intimations of Immortality (Wordsworth)

Shame, for those who might watch, that all the organ music will be talked over.

[Miles Coverdale]

https://www.stpauls.co.uk/documents/...ries/btoos.pdf

The order of service is here for anyone interested.

It's a shame that the orders of service at St Paul's (and Westminster Abbey for that matter) look so low-rent. All that Times New Roman - yuck.