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

[Beef Oven]

She had form in this area Beefy, witness the regular appearance of Sir J Savile at Chequers at Christmas

Phew, based on this, I can safely assume it was indeed a joke.

[Julien Sorel]

I can't beleive that anyone would like Jim Davidson, never mind have him as a favourite. Surely this is a joke?

http://img.spokeo.com/public/900-600...2010_06_30.jpg (Of course, it could be my breakfast mushrooms and I'm seeing things.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But, as has been pointed out, this thread is supposed to be about music at MT's funeral service - which is perhaps why I've not mentioned a certain Requiem by someone who shares one of his names with George Lloyd...

I must have missed the post that suggested the Ligeti ...

[MrGongGong]

Phew, based on this, I can safely assume it was indeed a joke.

Where were you ?
A match made in "heaven" (in a Byrne stylee ?)

I must have missed the post that suggested the Ligeti ...

Complete with black slab ?

The Ligeti Lux Aeterna would be wonderful in St Pauls

[LHC]

According to Storming Norman's blog, Thatcher's musical tastes were more sophisticated than some would give her credit for:

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/04/margaret-thatcher-a-musical-anathema.html

Apparently she attended the opera regularly, always paying for her own seat (unlike the current Chancellor) and would visit music festivals in Switzerland and Austria in the Summer.

She also seems to have enjoyed Bartok's works. Lebrecht reports that "when the composer’s remains were transported from the US back to Hungary in 1988, she drove to Southampton to pay her respects as the ship docked and attend a memorial concert. ‘I have always been whenever Sir George Solti has been doing Bartok,’ she once declared."

Perhaps a piece by Bartok should be played at her funeral?

Thankfully, we will be spared a certain mawkish song by Sir Elton John.

[BBMmk2]

Well, I wonder if the musioc at her funeral, will refelct her tastes in music?

[Beef Oven]

The Ligeti Lux Aeterna would be wonderful in St Pauls

Are you having a tin bath?

[ahinton]

According to Storming Norman's blog, Thatcher's musical tastes were more sophisticated than some would give her credit for:

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2013/04/margaret-thatcher-a-musical-anathema.html

Apparently she attended the opera regularly, always paying for her own seat (unlike the current Chancellor) and would visit music festivals in Switzerland and Austria in the Summer.

She also seems to have enjoyed Bartok's works. Lebrecht reports that "when the composer’s remains were transported from the US back to Hungary in 1988, she drove to Southampton to pay her respects as the ship docked and attend a memorial concert. ‘I have always been whenever Sir George Solti has been doing Bartok,’ she once declared."

Perhaps a piece by Bartok should be played at her funeral?

I didn't know that and am obliged to you for drawing it to my attention; I'd become so Thatched out that I didn't look at this piece on the blog, to other pages of which I have myself contributed on occasion of late. Well, it's good that she insisted on paying her own way to these events and taking at least more interest in them than some others would have done or perhaps expected her to do. Her love of the works of Bartók, however, is surely the greatest surprise, but the fact that she chose none of them on Desert Island Discs serves only to strengthen my suspicions that the all-too-oft-repeated items on that series are to some extent prescribed to be so to some extent. Anyway, I've learnt something about MT that I did not previously know.

[Tapiola]

Perhaps a piece by Bartok should be played at her funeral?

I think Deux Portraits op. 5 may be appropriate, with movements entitled The Ideal and The Grotesque. Take your pick...

Who'd have thought Maggie would be a Bartok fan? I have an image of her listening to (e.g.) the last movement of the 4th quartet or the chase scene of Miraculous Mandarin as a means of working herself up for her regular brutalisations of Geoffrey Howe.

[MrGongGong]

Are you having a tin bath?

No way, it would be awesome

(this is a great collection http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dancing-With.../dp/B00000I5DM )

[jean]

Jeremy Clarkson, Shirley Bassey and Andrew Lloyd Webber will all be there, we hear.

Whether the music of any or all of them will feature, we have not been told.

[Flosshilde]

According to Storming Norman's blog,

Lamont? Tebbit?

[Flosshilde]

Are you having a tin bath?

Which reminds me, she was fond of taking a bath with an electric current passing through it. There must be something that would reflect that aspect of her life?

[Mr Pee]

My post made no mention whatsoever of MT's political achievements and legacy.

No it didn't, but your post has quite effectively lowered the tone of this thread from being a mostly good natured one about the music that might be chosen for the funeral to one that is in danger of descending to the kind of petty personal attacks on Mrs.T so beloved of certain forum members. Now Amateur, true to form, has dragged in Jiimy Savile, who let's remember, at the time he would have been visiting Chequers was not far short of a "national treasure" and when any rumours about his proclivities were kept very hushed-up indeed.