The Queen Mother's funeral. Westminster Abbey Choir and Chapel Royal choristers sing a long amen after the benediction, then buglers play the Last Post.
I actually sang in the funeral, I'm two to the left of the boy with the medal in the panning shot of the choristers, it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life! (Interesting note: there were more than two buglers playing in the last post, but they were hidden by the shape of the organ loft so couldn't get in shot.)
The bugler on the left weeps throughout his presentation. God bless good Queen Mother Elizabeth for her dutiful service thruout the War Years and beyond. Our nation mourns.
It was one the most amazing things I've done to date! I do, I sing countertenor now though (used to sing bass but then there were no altos at my school!).
"They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them"
"We are the dead. Short days ago/ We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,/ Loved, and were loved, and now we lie/ In Flanders fields..." John McCrea, MD - 1915 La Belgique doit beaucoup aux troupes britanniques et du Commonwealth. Nous n'oublions pas!
I actually sang in the funeral, I'm two to the left of the boy with the medal in the panning shot of the choristers, it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life! (Interesting note: there were more than two buglers playing in the last post, but they were hidden by the shape of the organ loft so couldn't get in shot.)
10 years ago today, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother left us. God Save the Queen.
The bugler on the left weeps throughout his presentation.
God bless good Queen Mother Elizabeth for her dutiful service thruout the War Years and beyond.
Our nation mourns.
It was one the most amazing things I've done to date! I do, I sing countertenor now though (used to sing bass but then there were no altos at my school!).
thank you my granfathers my father for your lives so we may live our tommorows
Historic moment.
Merci.
"They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them"
"We are the dead. Short days ago/ We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,/ Loved, and were loved, and now we lie/ In Flanders fields..."
John McCrea, MD - 1915
La Belgique doit beaucoup aux troupes britanniques et du Commonwealth. Nous n'oublions pas!
"Did the band play the last post and chorus....did the fifes play the flowers of the forest"
Bless the new breed, and honor the old.
they're so many here
Britain and the Commonwealth lost a great and gracious lady
oooh! The transition is really jarring...
The bugler to the left Is my uncle.
Wow, you LUCKY thing, what an experience being in Westminster Abbey's choir .... and being at great occasions such as this. Do you still sing?
:-)