| Main Performers | Beverley Humphreys - vocal,
Adrian Bawtree - organ |
| Orchestra or Band | The Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines |
| Conductors | Lt.-Colonel J M Ware,
WO 1 Bandmaster M McDermott,
Major R A Waterer,
Captain J R Perkins |
| Set List | 'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. Jacob,
Fanfare - 'The Sea Soldier', Ware,
Quick March - 'The Longest Day', Anka,
Drum Solo - 'Drumatic', Blundell,
Bugle March - 'Soldier and Sailor Too', McDermott, Piner,
March off - 'Sarie Marais', Toonsetting,
'Prelude to Act III' from Lohengrin, Wagner, arr. Winterbottom,
'Intermezzo' from Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni,
'Habanera' from Carmen, Bizet (Beverley Humphreys),
'Waltz of My Heart', Novello (Beverley Humphreys),
'Can't Help Loving That Man', Kern, Hammerstein (Beverley Humphreys),
'A Tribute to Glen Miller', arr. Woodfield,
'Finale, Symphony No. 3 in C Minor', Saint-Saens (Adrian Bawtree)
INTERVAL
Fanfare - 'Liberty', arr. McDermott,
Overture - 'The Grand Alliance', Farnon,
'Czardas', Monti, arr. Price,
'National Holiday' from The Gadfly, Shostakovich, arr. Ware,
Interlude - 'Serenade', Bourgeois,
Selection - 'The Music of John Williams', arr. Cole, McDermott,
Finale - 'The Battle of the Atlantic',
March - 'The Corvetteer', Dennison,
Suite - '1943' (The Mighty Sea), Roylance, Galvin
'Distant Shores', Roylance, Galvin, arr. Ware,
'Evening Hymn and Sunset', Sibelius, Green,
Patriotic - 'Land of Hope and Glory' (Coronation Ode), Elgar (Beverley Humphreys),
March Past of the Royal Navy - 'Heart of Oak', Boyce,
Regimental March - 'A Life on the Ocean Wave', Russell, 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/1/1994/6) |