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"Sleep, Dearie, Sleep" was played at the end of the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey. [4] The Queen's piper, Warrant Officer Class 1 (Pipe Major) Paul Burns, whose task was playing the bagpipes outside the Queen's window each morning to wake her up, performed the traditional lament.
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme ('Awake, calls the voice to us'), [1] BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Awake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, regarded as one of his most mature and popular sacred cantatas.
Norwegian-American composer F. Melius Christiansen composed a famous a capella choral arrangement of the hymn in 1925, titled "Wake, Awake" in English. Hugo Distler composed an organ partita based on the hymn in 1935 (Op. 8/2). The following example is the final movement of Bach's cantata, a four-part setting of the final stanza:
With the passing of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, a historic 70-year reign comes to a close. And while Elizabeth’s was a sovereignty that came with great joy, pain and controversy, it was also ...
Here, watch Queen Elizabeth's tribute to Princess Diana after her death, broadcast from the balcony of Buckingham Palace on September 5, 1997: The full text of Queen Elizabeth's televised speech ...
"Sleep, Dearie Sleep" is the series finale of the historical drama television series The Crown. The tenth episode of the sixth season and the 60th overall, the episode was written by series creator Peter Morgan and directed by Stephen Daldry, and was released, alongside the second half of the sixth season, on Netflix on 14 December 2023.
The live rendition of "Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me” came 25 years after John sang “Candle in the Wind” at Princess Diana's funeral.
Elizabeth's death set in motion the most recent version of Operation London Bridge, a funeral plan first devised in the 1960s, and Operation Unicorn, the plan for the Queen's death in Scotland. Elizabeth's coffin lay at rest in St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh from 12 to 13 September, after which it was flown to London, where it lay in state in ...