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The song was set to the music of Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4. It followed the success of Land of Hope and Glory, another patriotic song with lyrics by A. C. Benson set to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1. In 1940, six years after the death of the composer, A. P. Herbert (with permission) wrote lyrics to the tune. [2]
The Pomp and Circumstance Marches are a series of five marches for orchestra composed by Edward Elgar, together with a sixth march created from sketches. The marches were dedicated to his friends including composer Granville Bantock and organists George Robertson Sinclair , Ivor Atkins and Percy Hull .
Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39 - No. 2 Description Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39 - No. 2 - United States Army Band.mp3 Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, Op. 39 - No. 2 as performed by the United States Army Band
The popularization of the ceremonies for almost grade level has cheapened the commencement ceremony experience.
It’s graduation season and in school after school you hear “Pomp and Circumstance” being played. Most of us can’t remember who delivered our commencement address, much less anything said ...
The music to which the words of the refrain 'Land of Hope and Glory, &c' [a] below are set is the 'trio' theme from Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1. [1] The words were fitted to the melody on the suggestion of King Edward VII who told Elgar he thought the melody would make a great song.
He composed hundreds of songs, in addition to well over a dozen musical theatre works (including the operetta Bitter Sweet and comic revues), screenplays, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance, and a three-volume autobiography. Coward's stage and film acting and directing career spanned six decades, during ...
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