| Main Performers | Winston Churchill (Grandson of Winston Churchill) - speaker
DJ P Eyton,
R H Pulbrook - vocals |
| Set List | 'Introductory Fanfare',
'When Raleigh Rose',
'October',
'Io Triumphe',
'St. Joles',
'Left! Right!',
'Five Hundred Faces' (D J P Eyton),
'Songs',
'Giants',
'Stet Fortuna Domus',
'Here Sir!',
'Ducker',
'The Voice of the Bell' (R H Pulbrook),
'A Gentleman's A-Bowling',
'Byron Lay' (The School XII),
'The Song of the Forwards',
'The Silver Arrow',
'Forty Years On',
'Auld Lang Syne',
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem) |
| Performance Notes | Harrow School's first Churchill Songs concert at the Royal Albert Hall, commemorating the life of old Harrovian Winston Churchill.
In 1940, at a point during the Second World War that was unpromising, Sir Jock Colville (The Head Master's 1928), Sir Winston Churchill (The Head Master's 1888)'s Private Secretary, overheard his Prime Minister singing Harrow song .St. Joles' in the bath,. Thinking he would be cheered by returning to their old School to sing Harrow Songs, Colville contacted the Head Master and arranged for Churchill to return to the Hill on 18 December 1940. The event was repeated every year for much of the rest of his life. There began the tradition of Churchill Songs. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1974/159) |