Record

Performance TitleW D and H O Wills Brass Band Championships 1972 - Festival Concert
Performance Date22 April 1972
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersEarl Mountbatten of Burma - speaker,
David Bell - organ
Orchestra or BandMassed Bands:
City of Coventry Band,
GUS Footwear Band,
Ransome Hoffman Pollard (RHP Works) Band,
Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band,
Silver Trumpets of The Royal Marines School of Music
ChoirsLuton Girls' Choir and Rhapsody Chorus
ConductorsHarry Mortimer,
Sir F Vivian Dunn,
Arthur Davies
Set ListFanfare, 'Supreme Command', F V Dunn (Silver Trumpets of The Royal Marines School of Music),
March, 'Preobrajensky', Donajowsky, arr. Dunn (Massed Bands),
'Coronation Music, Crown Imperial', Walton (Massed Bands, David Bell, Silver Trumpets of The Royal Marines School of Music),
'O Rejoice That The Lord Has Arisen', Mascagni (Luton Girls' Choir, Rhapsody Chorus),
'Nuns Chorus', Strauss (Luton Girls' Choir, Rhapsody Chorus),
'Take The Sun', Rota (Luton Girls' Choir, Rhapsody Chorus),
'Edelweiss', Rodgers (Luton Girls' Choir, Rhapsody Chorus),
Overture, 'Ruy Blas', Mendelssohn, arr. Langford (Massed Bands),
'Air from Orpheus and Euridice', Gluck, arr.Siebert,
Selection, 'Tales of Beatrix Potter', arr. John Lanchberry,
'Symphony of Marches', Vinter,
'Seventy-Six Trombones', Willson, arr.W D Duthoit (Massed Bands),
'Hallelujah Chorus' from The Messiah , Handel, arr. Langford (Massed Bands, David Bell)
INTERVAL
'Finale, Act 1' from Carmen, Bizet, arr. Martyn (Massed Bands),
'Let Britons Sing' - Trumpet Vol., J Clarke, arr. F Wright (Luton Girls' Choir and Rhapsody Chorus, Massed Bands, David Bell),
'The Pacemakers', Gordon Langford (Massed Bands),
'The Mountbatten March', F V Dunn (Massed Bands, Silver Trumpets of The Royal Marines School Of Music),
'Jeus Joy of Man's Desiring', Bach, arr. Seymour (Massed Bands, David Bell),
'New World Fantasy', G Langford (Massed Bands),
'Little Lisa', J Warr (Massed Bands),
'Gypsy Chorus' from Carmen, Bizet, arr. Seymour (Massed Bands, Luton Girls' Choir and Rhapsody Chorus),
'Buglers Holiday', L Anderson, arr. Barsotti (Massed Bands),
'Padstow Lifeboat', M Arnold (Massed Bands),
Themes, 'Fifth Symphony', Beethoven, arr. D Wright (Massed Bands),
'Onward Christian Soldiers', Sullivan, arr. Seymour (Massed Bands, Luton Girls' Choir and Rhapsody Chorus, Silver Trumpets of The Royal Marines School of Music, David Bell),
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Royal PresenceYes
Performance NotesThe event was record by BBC Sound.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1972/55)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1972/55WD and HO Wills Brass Band Championships 197222 April 1972
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Onobusowh_RearW D and H O Wills Brass Band Championships 19722
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/10845City of Coventry Brass Band; 1965 -; British brass band
DS/UK/8352Virtuosi GUS Band; 1933-; English brass band
DS/UK/6903The Yorkshire Imperial Band; fl 1930s-; English brass band
DS/UK/6716Mountbatten; Lord; Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas (1900-1979); 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG GCB OM GCSI GCIE GCVO DSO PC FRS; British statesman, naval officer
DS/UK/5577Bell; David (1970s-); British organist
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