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Performance TitleHarrow School Presents Churchill Songs - Celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, in aid of the Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund
Performance Date20 November 2012
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:00
Main PerformersStudents of Harrow School
Secondary PerformersField Marshall the Lord Guthrie of Cragiebank (President of the Harrow Association),
Jim Hawkins (Headmaster of Harrow School),
Dr Nicholas Patrick - speakers
Set ListPre-Show - Scottish Marches and Airs by the School Pipers (at the front of the Royal Albert Hall)

'Washington Post Sousa', arr. Scott (The Concert Band),
'Ballte of Britain March', Goodwin (The Concert Band),
Mr P's Really Average March', McWilliam (The Concert Band),
'Espana Cani Marquina', arr. Moss (The Concert Band),
'Royal Air Force March Past', Walford Davies (The Concert Band),
'Theme from 'The A Team', Poat, Carpenter, arr. Cook (The Concert Band),
'Do You Hear the People Sing?' from Les Miserables, Schonberg, arr. Barker (The Concert Band),
'Highland Cathedral' (Parade by the School Pipers),
'Crown Imperial', Walton (The School Orchestra),
Welcome (Field Marshall the Lord Guthrie of Cragiebank),
Speech (Benedict Cumberbatch),
'Stet Fortuna Domus',
'Giants',
'Five Hundred Faces' ( Marcus Harman),
''Song of the Forwards',
'Here Sie!',
Songs (School XII),
Queen Elizabeth,
Selected Readings on a Jubilee Theme,
'Pomp and Circumstance March No.1 in D Major - Land of Hope and Glory', Elgar,
'Ducker',
'A Gentleman's a-Bowling'
'You?' (Daniel Lewis),
'October',
'John Lyon's Road',
'Left! Right!',
Mr Jom Hawkins, the Head Master,
Dr Nicholas Patrick,
'When Raleigh Rose',
'The Silver Arrow',
'Good Night (School XII),
'Forty Years On',
'Auld Lang Syne',
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesHarrow School's fifth Churchill Songs concert at the Royal Albert Hall, commemorating the life of old Harrovian Winston Churchill. 5,000 immaculately dressed Harrovians, parents and Old Harrovians filled the venue and everyone sung their hearts out to some of the school’s songs.

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.

The event was filmed by ITN for a documentary on Harrow Schhol broadcast on BSkyB Autumn 2013.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/2012/172)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/PRBPTuP-U5Ht3
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/172Jubilee Churchill Songs - Harrow School20 November 2012
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7945Harrow School Presents Churchill Songs - Celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, in aid of the Henry van Straubenzee Memorial Fund1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3157Harrow School; 1572-; British independent boys school
DS/UK/3158Cumberbatch; Benedict (1976-); English actor
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