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The Royal Artillery Band is a British military band (and former symphony orchestra) originating in 1557, but granted official status in 1762. Consisting of woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments (and until 2014, also stringed instruments), it represents both the Royal Regiment of Artillery, and the state. The Royal Artillery Orchestra (of the Royal Artillery Band) [disbanded on 9 February 2014] was Britain's first professional orchestra.
It was announced on 30 July 2013 that the Royal Artillery Orchestra would cease to exist in favour of a forthcoming 'State String Orchestra', known as 'The Countess of Wessex's String Orchestra' following the most recent cuts to Army Music.
On Sunday 9 February 2014, the Royal Artillery Band, and a specially formed 'Veterans of the Royal Artillery Band' paraded on General Gordon's Square for the last time in their home town of Woolwich, thus ending a 252-year era, before relocating to join their regiment at Tidworth Barracks, Wiltshire The Band spent Christmas 2013 in Afghanistan, where they carried out their wartime role [1], as well as continuing to entertain the troops, and accompanying such celebrities as Gary Barlow, and Katherine Jenkins. Its former accommodation in the historic Georgian Royal Artillery Barracks is now the home of the 24-piece Countess of Wessex's String Orchestra.
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Popular Songs
- Hungry Hill: Waltz into Jig
- Weaker Sex: London Scene - Arthur Wilkinson
- Sleeping Car to Trieste: Sleeping Car Train
- Henry the Fifth: The Death of Falstaff - William Walton
- Weaker Sex: Victory Parade Montage - Arthur Wilkinson
- Sleeping Car to Trieste: Waltz
- Henry the Fifth: Touch Her Soft Lips and Part - William Walton
- This Man Is Mine: Theme from the Film
- Loves of Joanna Godden/Ellen and Harry Trevor; Adoption of ... - Vaughan Williams
- Desert Victory: March - William Alwyn
- Woman Hater: Dinner at Lady Datchett's
- So Long at the Fair: Carriage and Pair...... Long Forgotten Melody
- Rake's Progress: Calypso - William Alwyn
- Loves of Joanna Godden/Romney Marsh; Joanna Godden; Sheepshearing; ... - Vaughan Williams
- Woman Hater: People in Love
- First of the Few /Spitfire Fugue - William Walton
- Spellbound: Theme from the Concerto - Miklós Rózsa
- Odette: The Sage of Odette - Anthony Collins
- Hill, Hungry/Waltz into Jig
- Wanted for Murder: A Voice in the Night - Mischa Spoliansky
- Matter of Life and Death /Prelude
- First of the Few /Spitfire Prelude - William Walton
- 1812 -- Festival Overture, for orchestra in E flat major, Op. 49
- Milanollo Quick-Step
- The British Grenadiers
- Phantom of the Opera, musical: excerpts
- Les Huguenots, grand opera in 5 acts: Slow March
- Codiad yr Hedydd , song
- Mlada, suite for orchestra: Procession of the Nobles
- Pictures at an Exhibition , for orchestra, orchestrated by Ravel: The Great Gate of Kiev