| Main Performers | Band Colour Sgt. Jonathan Yates - trumpet |
| Orchestra or Band | Massed Bands of HM Royal Marines:
Band of Commander-in-Chief Fleet,
Band of Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command,
Band of the Royal Marines School of Music,
Junior Band of the Royal Marines,
Pipes, Drums and Dancers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders |
| Conductors | Lt.-Colonel G A C Hoskins,
Captain E P Whealing,
Lt. D C Cole,
Lt. R A Waterer |
| Set List | Fanfare - 'Silent Warrior', Slaughter
On Parade - 'Invincible Eagle', Sousa,
'The Liberty Bell', Sousa,
'El Capitan', Sousa,
'High School Cadets', Sousa,
Concert Overture - 'Magnificent Marines', Waterer,
Trumpet Solo - 'Trumpet Enchantment', Rose (Band Colour Sgt. Jonathan Yates),
Regimental Marches of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - 'The Thin Red Line', Alford,
'Hielan Laddie', trad.
'The Campbells are Coming', trad.
Band and Pipes - 'The Soldiers Return', trad.
Horn Pipe Dancing- 'Sea Shanties', arr. Neville,
'Argyll Broadswords', Frank Thompson, Shaw-Ramsey,
'O'er the Bows to Ballindalloch', trad.,
'Miss Ada Crawford', trad.,
'Because he was a Bonnie Lad', trad.,
'The Piper of Drummond', trad.,
'Dancing Feet', trad.,
'Blue Bonnets', trad.,
'Abba Theme', Arrival, Andersson, Ulvaeus, arr. Cole,
'Film Score', Chariots of Fire, Vangelis, arr. Cole,
Conclusion - 'The Black Bear', trad.,
'Scotland the Brave', trad.,
'We're No Awa' To Bide Awa'', trad.
INTERVAL
Fanfare - 'Jubilee', Yates,
Nautical Scenario - 'Sea Songs', Knox,
Big Band in Concert - Featuring the music of Rocky, Cagney and Lacey, For Your Eyes Only, Minder and Fame, arr. Cole
Finale - 'Entry of the Corps of Drums', 'Nibelungen', Wagner, arr. Stratton,
Ouverture Solennelle - '1812', Tchaikovsky, arr. Conway-Brown,
Evening Hymn - 'Dear Lord and Father of Mankind', arr. Slaughter,
Band and Bugles - 'Sunset', arr. Green,
March Past of the Royal Navy - 'Heart of Oak', Boyce,
Regimental March of HM Royal Marines - 'A Life on the Ocean Wave', Russell, arr. Alford,
'The National Anthem',
'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 Lady Wilkins were the hosts. |
| Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/1986/12) |