Zadok

This is where Handel composed “Zadok the Priest,” the British coronation anthem, which was recently performed for King Charles III. Here, too, Handel wrote “Messiah,” which took him about three weeks to compose.

And Handel's Zadok the Priest at the time of the anointing was a particularly electric moment.

To the propulsive strains of Handel’s “Zadok the Priest,” each man dropped an arm to his side, took a step sideways and fell into another perfect formation — two angled inward on each side, framed by two men facing out.

It was in the moment the choir, organ and orchestra blasted out “Zadok the Priest,” Handel’s coronation anthem, so boldly that it startled me even though I knew it was coming.

“I also got emotional when they did ‘Zadok the Priest,’ and I suppose it’s because it was reminiscent of Elizabeth II,” she said.