| Orchestra or Band | Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines,
The President's Own United States Marine Band,
Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion,
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders |
| Conductors | Lt.-Colonel J M Ware,
Captain M R Goss,
Colonel J R Bourgeois,
Lt. P J Rutterford |
| Set List | 'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. Jacob,
'The Star Spangled Banner',
Tribute 'The March King',
'Hands Across the Sea', Sousa,
'Sabre and Spurs', Sousa,
'Hands Across the Sea', Sousa,
'Gaberlunzie', Green
'The Stars and Stripes Forever', Sousa
'Overture' from Candide, Bernstein, arr. Grundman (The President's Own United States Marine Band),
'Galop' (Genevieve de Brabant), Offenbach, arr. Bourgeois (The President's Own United States Marine Band),
'Traditional New Orleans Dixieland' (The President's Own United States Marine Band),
'Oh, Didn't He Ramble' (The President's Own United States Marine Band),
'Just a closer walk with thee' (The President's Own United States Marine Band),
'When the Saints Go Marching In' (The President's Own United States Marine Band),
'Aria' from Lohengri' - King Heinrich's Call, Wagner, arr. Bourgeois (Michael Ryan, The President's Own United States Marine Band),
Quick March - 'Desert Storm', Motherwell (Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders),
'Highland Laddie' (Argyll Broadswords),
'Over the Bows to Ballindalloch, (Argyll Broadswords),
'Stumpie' (Argyll Broadswords),
'Shepherd's Crook' (Argyll Broadswords),
'High Road to Linton' (Argyll Broadswords),
'The Piper of Drummond' (Argyll Broadswords),
'Highland Cathedral', Roever (Band and Pipes),
'We're No Awa' to Bide Awa'' (Band and Pipes)
INTERVAL
'Fanfare for a Festival', Arnold, arr. Rutterford,
Popular Music - 'Kaleidoscope', arr. Cole,
'Anything You Can Do', arr. McDermott,
Quick March - 'Anchors Aweigh', Zimmermann, arr. Briegel,
'Victory at Sea', Rodgers,
'Alba', Macilwham, arr. Rutterford, (Band and Pipes),
'The Plymouth Argylls', Ware,
'America the Beautiful', Ward, (Michael Ryan),
'There'll Always Be An England', Charles,
'Auld Lang Syne',
'The Thin Red Line', Alford,
'The Marines' Hymn', arr. Hunsberger,
'A Life on the Ocean Wave', Russel, arr. Alford |
| Performance Notes | Thanks to the lobbying of Edwina Mountbatten, in 1949 Sir Malcolm Sargent was appointed Honorary Music Advisor to Her Majesty's Royal Marines Band Service, a post created especially for him, and which he held until his death in 1967, when it disappeared, until 2007 when Robin Dewhurst was given the title. Sargent would conduct the Bands of the Marines in various different concerts over the next two decades and in various parts of the world. After Sargent's death, from 1973 onwards, the Marines began staging annual Massed Band Spectaculars at the Hall, at which money was raised for the Sir Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children (now CLIC Sargent) and for military charities. It was in 1980 that these concerts were renamed the Mountbatten Festival of Music, as a tribute to the Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten - an uncle of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and a favourite great-uncle and advisor to HRH Prince Charles - who had been killed by an IRA bomb in August 1979. The concerts have been an annual mixture at the Hall since then and always raise money for CLIC Sargent and military charities. Members of the Royal Family have attended frequently including Prince Philip, Prince Charles, Princess Alexandra, The Queen (1990), Princess Diana (1991), The Duke of Gloucester, Princess Anne, and most recently Prince Harry. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1992/9) |