‘But the music’s the thing’ – music and musicians at the Coronation of King Charles

King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a photo released to mark the Coronation on 6 May 2023 (photo Chris Jackson)   On Coronation Day, 6 May 2023, nothing demonstrated our new King's understanding of the importance of music to our lives more than the abundance of music, drawn from a wide array of styles and genres, that accompanied the Coronation Service. In a service lasting two hours, the ceremonial was accompanied by more than an hour in total of performed music; followed by the grand processional marches of Elgar, Parry and Byrd as The King…