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Performance TitleSoldiers', Sailors' and Airmens's Families Association (SSAFA) Centenary Westminster Festival
Performance Date1 March 1985
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersLt.-General Sir Napier Crookenden,
Clive Biggs
Secondary PerformersKeith Beniston - organ
Orchestra or BandBand of the Coldstream Guards,
Fanfare Trumpeters and Musicians from the Military School of Music,
London Symphony Orchestra,
Musicians from Hanover
ConductorsLt.-Colonel R A Ridings,
Harry Rabinowitz
Set List'A Fanfare for Heroes', Bliss,
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. Jacob,
Welcome (Clive Biggs, Kenneth Kendall)
'Prelude, Act 3' from Lohengrin, Wagner, arr. Captain Roger Swift (Band, Orchestra),
'Adagio' from Spartacus, Khachaturian (London Symphony Orchestra),
'Finlandia', Sibelius (Band, Orchestra),
'Procession of the Nobles', Rimsky-Korsakov (Band of the Coldstream Guards),
Dramatised Musical Portrayal of the Bi-Centenary of the Band of the Coldstream Guards (Band of the Coldstream Guards, Musicians from Hanover, Kneller Hall Trumpeters, Kenneth Kendall),
'Royal Tour Suite', Laurie Johnson, arr. Lt. Colonel Sharpe (Band, Orchestra, Fanfare Team, organ)
INTERVAL
'Fanfare Jubilant', Bliss,
'March-Crown Imperial', Walton (Band, Orchestra, Organ),
Speech (Lieutenant Genral Sir Napier Crookenden),
'Overture' from Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky (London Symphony Orchestra),
'Waltz-Sleeping Beauty', Tchaikovsky (London Symphony Orchestra),
March-'The Rakoczy March', Berlioz (Band),
'Pomp and Circumstance March No.1', Elgar (Band of the Coldstream Guards, London Symphony Orchestra, Organ),
'All People that on Earth do Dwell', arr. Vaughan Williams (Full Band, Orchestra, Trumpeters, Organ)
Royal PresenceHM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother,
HRH Princess Michael of Kent
Performance NotesLady Jean Rankin and Major Sir Ralph Anstruther Bt were in attendance.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1985/18)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1985/18Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmens's Families Association (SSAFA) Centenary Westminster Festival1 March 1985
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Eponierop_GyrSoldiers', Sailors' and Airmens's Families Association (SSAFA) Centenary Westminster Festival1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2429British Army; The Band of the Coldstream Guards; 1785-; British army band
DS/UK/130London Symphony Orchestra (LSO); 1904-; English orchestra
DS/UK/3217Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association (SSAFA); fl 1887-; British armed forces charity
DS/UK/1368Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900-2002); HM; British Queen consort of King George VI
DS/UK/8942Princess Michael of Kent (1945-); British royal family member
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