King Charles III heaped royal praise on Andrew Lloyd Webber when he first heard the composer play a piano version of the coronation anthem, telling the peer that the music gave him “goosebumps and …
. “I mean, he could have said that he hated it and I would have had to have started it all over again,” Lloyd Webber joked. on the piano. Let’s say it made an impact on the King,” said Lloyd Webber who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1992 and ennobled as Lord Lloyd Webber five years later.He explained how he met with the King months ago to discuss options for the historic anthem.
“I had a slight advantage having composed an anthem or two before and my father wrote some choral pieces,” he added, referring to his father William Lloyd Webber, a classical and modern music composer and organist. The court composer admitted that he was “incredibly nervous” when it came time to perform it in the King’s presence. “I sat down at the piano and tried to sing it,” he laughed. “That’s when I thought I’d blown it but I played him that early score and got this amazing reaction. There I was, auditioning, really, for the sovereign,” he told Deadline at a small, highly privileged gathering in his private office adjoining the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, which is owned by his LW Theatres organisation.
After coming up with his coronation score, Lloyd Webber set about orchestrating it to include short opening and closing fanfare played by the Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Airforce. “They’re having to erect a special platform at Westminster Abbey to fit them all in,” he said. “It’s going to be a bit of a squeeze, I fear.”
The performance at Westminster Abbey included the Coronation orchestra, whose membership comprises some of the world’s top musicians drawn from eight leading orchestras , plus the Royal Airforce trumpeters, the choir of Westminster Abbey and the Abbey organ.His wife Madeleine, Baroness Lloyd Webber, assured him that he had nothing to worry about. After all, she said, “’They have played music in the Abbey before, you know.’”again. Lloyd Webber obliged and switched on the the tape one more time.
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