Richard III Reinterment

Richard III Reinterment
On Thursday March 26 King Richard lll will be laid to rest in a service at Leicester Cathedral. Judith Weir has been commissioned by the Cathedral to compose a fanfare which then leads into the National Anthem for the reinterment. The work is scored for four horns, chorus and organ.

Leicester Fanfare and Anthem will form part of the service which will be broadcast on Channel 4, with coverage from 10am.

The congregation includes an invited guests who will be in the presence of members of the Royal Family, the Most Rt Revd Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, senior clergy from both dioceses, and other Christian denominations alongside representatives of the World Faiths.

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