| Main Performers | Lt. D Cole - organ
Band Corporal H Monaghan
Band Sgt. J Pring |
| Orchestra or Band | Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines:
Band of Commander-in-Chief Fleet,
Band of the Britannia Royal Naval College,
Band of Commando Forces Royal Marines,
Band of the Royal Marines School of Music |
| Conductors | Lt.-Colonel G A C Hoskins,
WO1 (Bandmaster) P Rutterford,
Captain E P Whealing,
Captain J M Ware |
| Set List | Fanfare - 'Royal Occasion', Cole,
Grand March - 'Fame and Glory', Matt, arr. Godfrey,
Prelude - 'Crowned Laurel', Angove,
Bugle March - 'Royal Buglers', Adams,
March - 'Royal Salute', Waterer,
Suite - 'London Every Day', Coates,
'In Town Tonight',
'Westminster',
'Knightsbridge',
Film Score - 'Monte Carlo or Bust', Goodwin, arr. Brown,
'Feature for Bassoons', Lucy Long, arr. Williams,
Novelty - 'The Return of Al Jolson', arr. Brown (Band Corporal H Monaghan)
INTERVAL
Fanfare - 'Tudor Conquest', Slaughter,
Suite - 'Big Sky Country', Wiggins,
'The Mighty St. Lawrence',
'Quiet Lakes and Streams',
'Stampede',
Music from the Stage - 'Song and Dance', Lloyd-Webber, arr. Cole (Band Sgt. J Pring),
March - 'Heart of Oak', Boyce,
March - 'Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval', Nursing Service March, Attwood,
Classical Adaptation - 'The Great Gate of Kiev', Moussorgsky, arr. Cole,
Ceremonial Sunset - 'Eternal Father, Strong to Save', arr. McDermott,
Regimental Slow March of HM Royal Marines - 'The Preobrajensky March', Donajowski, arr. Dunn,
Regimental Quick March of HM Royal Marines, 'A Life on the Ocean Wave', Russell, arr. Alford,
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. Jacob |
| Performance Notes | 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.
Countess Mountbatten of Burma was the principal guest. The Commandant General Royal Marines and Mrs Wilkins were the hosts. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1985/11) |