| Main Performers | BdCpl Hannah Trudgeon,
Bugler John Sumner - vocals,
BdCSgt Gordon Carter,
Musn Barrie Woolley - saxophones,
Musn Justin Wilman - violin,
Musn Richard McLaughlin,
BdCpl Mark Upton - trumpets,
BdCpl Hannah Trudgeon - piano,
Musn Matthew Gregory - guitar,
Musn Nick West - trombone,
BdCSgt Miles Bolton - cornet,
BdSgt Dave Prentice,
Musician Dave Hernon,
Musician Tim Button,
Musician Michael Smith - xylophones |
| Orchestra or Band | Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines |
| Conductors | Lt.-Colonel Nick Grace,
Captain Ian Davis,
Major Tony Smallwood,
Major Burcham |
| Set List | 'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), Jacob,
'Opening Fanfare - Batman the Movie', Elfman, arr. Johnson,
'Introducing the Corps of Drums - Soldier and Sailor Too', McDermott, Piner A,
'The Trap', Goodwin, arr. Hodge,
'Royal Oak', Annett, Piner R,
'Band and Drum Feature - Soft Power', Young,
'Classic March - The Mad Major', Alford,
'Overture' from Ruslan and Ludmilla, Glinka,
'Violin solo - Hungarian Dance No.5', Brahms (Wilman),
'Piano solo - Eighteenth Variation from Rhapsodie on a Theme of Paganini', Rachmaninoff (Trudgeon),
'Xylophone Feature - Joyful Skeleton', W G Lemon (Prentice, Hernon, Button, Smith),
'The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber', arr. Cole (Bolton)
INTERVAL
'Spectacular', Buble, arr. Smallwood (Gregory, Wooley, West, McLaughlin, Sumner),
'A Tribute - Wootton Bassett', Curtis,
'A Showcase Extravaganza - The Music of Henry Mancini', arr. McDermott (Carter, Upton),
Finale
'Classical Piece - Pines of the Appian Way, Respighi, arr. Young,
'Music from the Film Pacific - Honor', Zimmer, Zanelli,
'Traditional - Sunset', arr. AC Green,
'Patriotic - Britannic Salute', arr. McDermott,
'March Past of the Royal Navy - Heart of Oak', Boyce,
'Quick March of the Royal Marines Commandos - Sarie Marais', Dunn,
'Regimental March of the Royal Marines - A Life on the Ocean Wave', Russell |
| Performance Notes | The Mountbatten Festival of Music features the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines performing a wide variety of music, encompassing traditional military marches and fanfares, a classical overture and music from stage and screen.
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.
The First Sea Lord and Minister for Defence were in attendance. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/2011/16) |