Even a resolute republican would have been impressed by one essential aspect of King Charles’s coronation: its delirious abundance of great choral music. In a spectacle that could so easily have turned to pantomime – Gilbert & Sullivan came to mind – it was the music that provided anchorage, magnificently done and standing testament to a historic glory of our culture.
But it doesn’t do to take all this for granted. If it’s not to be consigned to history, it needs to be maintained, refreshed, renewed. And playing no small part in that endeavour is the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music which has just had its 2023 season with events spread across 40 or so venues around the capital.
