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Performance TitleThe Mountbatten Festival of Music 1997 - Twenty-Five Years at the Royal Albert Hall, in aid of The Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children and Royal Naval and Royal Marines Charities
Performance Date20 February 1997
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersBand Colour Sgt. J Yates - cornet, trumpet,
Musician D Young - xylophone,
Band Corporal P Hart,
Band Corporal R Fenwick,
Musician A Hutchinson - trumpets,
Elizabeth Le Grove - organ,
Sophie Cartledge - harp
Orchestra or BandThe Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines
ConductorsLt.-Colonel R A Waterer,
Captain D C Cole,
Captain P J Rutterford,
Lt. J Hillier
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. Jacob,
'Fanfare - Summon the Heroes', Williams, arr. Lavender,
'March - The Admiral's Regiment', Dunn,
'Slow March - World in Union', arr. Brown,
'Drum Beatings Jubilantus Argentum', Jones, Cullen,
'Bugle March - Zeebrugge', Sumner,
'Overture - Poet and Peasant', Von Suppe,
'Cornet Solo - Rusalka's Song to the Moon', Dvorak,arr. Rutterford (Band Colour Sgt. J Yates),
'Xylophone Solo - Rip It Up', Hays (Musician D Young),
'Music of the 40's - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy', Raye, Prince, arr. Price (Band Colour Sgt. J Yates, Band Corporal P Hart, Band Corporal R Fenwick, Musician A Hutchinson),
'Rhapsody - The Seafarers', arr. McDermott
INTERVAL
'Fanfare - Jubilee', Yates,
'Overture - Orpheus in the Underworld', Offenbach,
'Selection - A Tribute to Cole Porter', arr. McDermott,
'Spanish Dance - Bolero', Ravel,
'Festival Overture - 1812 Overture', Tchaikovsky,
'Lament - To Honour Them All', Cullen, Cornish, arr. Thornhill,
'Band & Bugles - Introduction, Fanfare and Sunset', A C Green,
'Patriotic Medley - Britannic Salute', Arne, Elgar, 'Rule Britannia', arr. Shillito, 'Land of Hope & Glory', Elgar,
'March Past of the Royal Navy - Heart of Oak', Boyce,
'March Past of the Royal Marines Commandos - Sarie Marais', Toonsetting,
'Regimental March of HM Royal Marines - A Life on the Ocean Wave', Russell
Performance NotesThanks 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.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1997/3),
Poster (RAHE/2/1997/9)
Ticket Prices£5-£28
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/2/1997/9The Mountbatten Festival of Music19-21 February 1997
RAHE/1/1997/3The Mountbatten Festival of Music 1997 - 25 Years at the Royal Albert Hall, in aid of The Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children and Royal Naval and Royal Marines Charities19-21 February 1997
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Eabogibob_VynThe Mountbatten Festival of Music 1997 - Twenty-Five Years at the Royal Albert Hall, in aid of The Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children and Royal Naval and Royal Marines Charities3
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/14319Grove; Elizabeth Le (1970s-); British organist
DS/UK/14322Carrington; Desmond (1926-); British actor, broadcaster
DS/UK/10941Simons; Susannah Catherine (1948-); English television and radio presenter
DS/UK/590The Royal Marines School of Music; Band of Her Majesty's Royal Marines, Plymouth; British military band
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