The coronation of Carlos III will have music by the composer of ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ and ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’

The coronation of Carlos III will have music by the composer of ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ and ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’

Everything is ready for a coronation that will have a “movie” soundtrack

    This Saturday the coronation of Charles III will take place at Westminster Abbey in London as the new monarch of the United Kingdom, and the event will have a great cinematographic aspect: The person in charge of harmonizing the ceremony with his music He will be the composer of films like ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’ or ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’, Patrick Doyle.

    Two-time Oscar nominee for ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility’ and a regular collaborator with Kenneth Branagh in films like ‘Marvel’s Thor, ‘Cinderella’ or ‘Death on the Nile’, Patrick Doyle’s filmography includes films as popular as ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’, Pixar’s ‘Brave’ and Brian De Palma’s ‘Trapped by his past’ . But he also has to his credit titles as curious as ‘Emoji: the movie’ and ‘The GalĂ­ndez mystery’, by Gerardo Herrero.

    Doyle himself has recounted for ‘Variety‘ how the opportunity of a lifetime came: “That call came completely out of the blue. It is something extraordinary to be asked, a great honor. Of course I said ‘yes’ right away.. But then the enormity hit me very, very quickly after that.”

    “I have known King Carlos for much of my career, more than 30 years.Doyle adds. “And I felt like he wouldn’t have asked me if he didn’t think he would be up to the task.”

    The “close professional friendship” between Doyle and the monarch dates back to the late 1980s, when disaster struck during the opening night of the Kenneth Branagh production of “Twelfth Night” at Riverside Studios in London. Doyle conducted the production’s orchestra and accompanied on piano (the show also marked the beginning of a decades-long association with Branagh). As the curtain rose and Doyle began to play, a lamp that had been positioned above the piano slowly tipped over, throwing the sheet music onto the composer and the floor. “Thinking about it now makes my heart sink,” recalls Doyle, still reeling 30 years later. “There was total silence. So I yelled in desperation: ‘Has anyone seen page one?’ The whole place erupted in laughter.” In the audience, laughing out loud, Prince Charles.


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    Two years later, the Prince of Wales wrote a letter to the composer to congratulate you on your score for the film version of ‘Henry V’ before contacting him again soon after to ask him to compose a piece to commemorate the 90th birthday of Charles’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen Mother).

    For the coronation, Doyle’s objective (suggested by Carlos III himself) has been to create an orchestral march that was “triumphant, uplifting and memorable” and that it could later be adapted to woodwind and brass bands. We will listen carefully.

    Source: Fotogramas

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