Main Performers | Wally Patch (The Chief Petty Officer), Alex McGill (The Boy), Baliol Holloway (Henry IV), Bruce Winston (Falstaff), Martita Hunt (Elizabeth I), Geoffrey Dunn (Spanish Amabassador), Peter Croft (Sir Francis Drake), Ernest Jay (Robert Blake), Lieutenant Alec Guinness (Admiral Nelson) - speakers
Very Reverend T Crick, Lieutenant Frederick Harvey - vocals, Arnold Greir - organ |
Orchestra or Band | HM Royal Marines Symphony Orchestra |
Choirs | The Royal Naval Chorus (300 Wrens nad ratings from HMS Collingwood), Tudor Choir |
Conductors | Captain F Vivian Dunn, Bandmaster K A McLean |
Set List | Preliminary Music (Arnold Grear), Rough Island Story: Fanfare Prelude, 'Heart of Oak', Marland, 'A Song for All Seas' from A Sea Symphony, Vaughan Williams, Prologue - 'A Boy's Dream' (Wally Patch, Alex McGill), How It All Began, 'Cargoes and Crusades, Motet - 'Sacerdotes Domini', Byrd (Royal Naval Chorus), Royal Convoy Conference (Baliol Holloway, Bruce Winston), The Elizabethan Glory, Anthem - 'Great And Marvellous', T Tomkins (Tudor Choir), Madrigal - 'Long Live Fair Oriana', E Gibbons (Royal Naval Chorus), 'Long Live Elizabeth' from Merrie England, E German (Tudor Choir, Chorus, Orchestra), 'Trumpet Voluntary', J Clarke, arr.Wood., 'Drake's Drum' from Songs of the Sea, Stanford (Lieutenant Frederick Harvey, Chorus, Orchestra, Martita Hunt, Geoffrey Dunn, Peter Croft), Parliament's Navy (Ernest Jay), Music at Midnight, 'The Sailor's Hornpipe', Marland (Dancers, Orchestra), Dockside Comb-Out, Overture, 'Portsmouth Point', W Walton (Orchestra), 'The Press Gang', arr. E J Moeran (Lieut. Frederick Harvey, Orchestra), The Nelson Touch, 'Rule Britannia', Arne, arr. Sargent (Chorus, Orchestra, Alec Guinness), For Valour, The Living Splendour - a panorama of the Royal Navy today, Epilogue - Divisions, Prayer (Very Reverend T Crick), 'Eternal Father, Strong To Save' (Audience, Ensemble), 'God Save the King' (The National Anthem) |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1945/49) |