Baroness Thatcher's funeral, St. Paul's, 17 April 2013

[mopsus]

There's an unconfirmed rumour going round that the trebles in the choir will be those from St Thomas' Fifth Avenue NY. I'm a little surprised if so (WA was able to recall all but one of its choristers for Diana).

Presumably the ceremony will be broadcast. (I'd rather this thread weren't taken over by arguments about MT's political achievements and legacy, but focused on the music).

[MrGongGong]

So what music then ?

Suggestions please ...................................

[Beef Oven]

I always thought the adagio from LvB's 7th could play a part somehere in a funeral ceremony.

[Barbirollians]

She was an Elgar fan apparently ( she clearly wasn't all bad ) so I fear Nimrod will get an outing played too slowly !

[vinteuil]

She was an Elgar fan apparently ( she clearly wasn't all bad ) !

... those of us who do not enjoy Elgar (to put it mildly) will not agree with your logic there

[french frank]

Was choral music perhaps intended (since this is The Choir board)?

[Nick Armstrong]

... those of us who do not enjoy Elgar (to put it mildly) will not agree with your logic there

[JimD]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/d33d9f26#p009mz07

[french frank]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features...d9f26#p009mz07

I'll resist 'Going Home' and perhaps go for the Mendelssohn 'Be Not Afraid' ...

Bit late for the Easter Hymn.

[ahinton]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features...d9f26#p009mz07

There are, of course, those who might long since have wished that MT actually had been cast away on a Desert Island, but it would appear from the occasion in which she participated in this long-running series that her musical tastes were no more developed than one might have imagined them to have been.

But suggestions have been requested. What about Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln which, notwithstanding its inappropriate length for a funeral service, might otherwise be appropriate (and the fact that the Führer is said to have thought highly of it should not necessarily discourage its use in this context). Or there's Strauss's Deutsche Motett. Ferneyhough's Missa Brevis could also be pressed into service.

I'm sorry - as someone who shall remain nameless once said in the context of Philip Glass, "I've run out of a lack of ideas"...

[ahinton]

I'll resist 'Going Home' and perhaps go for the Mendelssohn 'Be Not Afraid' ...

Or get some gifted arranger to bung them together into Be Not Afraid of Going Home, perhaps.

[MrGongGong]

Something by Diamanda Galas would be most fitting IMV

[french frank]

To Whom It May Concern

The thread was started in a spirit relevant to The Choir topic. If you don't want to engage with it appropriately, Go Away.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ferneyhough's Missa Brevis could also be pressed into service.

Shame on you! Did BF nick your parking space or something that you wish to associated him with this of all occasions?!

I would suggest Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem - appropriate in every respect, and probably counting as "great Music" by the sort of person who regards her as a "great stateswoman".

[Beef Oven]

Now this thread is degenerating with insults and stereotypes too.