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1. Quick March - LIGHT INFANTRY (Plater)
Composed by one of the most famous of all Light Infantry Bandmasters, who was Bandmaster of the 43rd and 52nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and later the first Director of Music of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

2. QuickMarch - SERGEANTS AT ARMS(McBain)
 This was composed during Lieut Col David McBain's tenure as Bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion the 60th Rifles (K. R.R.C.) He later became Bandmaster of the Royal Artillery Mounted Band and then Director of Music to the Royal Horse Guards (The Blues). In 1954 he became Chief Instructor of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, until his retirement in 1961. One of his three soldier sons is at present serving with the Durham Light Infantry.

3. Troop - BUGLER IN VIENNA (Young)
A comparatively rare combination of the Band and Bugles in Slow Time. A careful listener will hear snatches of Strauss's famous Blue Danube waltz. This unusual composition is by Major A. E. Young whose musical career started with the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry at Colchester in 1913. He later became Bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and then of the Royal Army Service Corps, moving to the Royal Engineers (Chatham) as Director of Music. His last appointment was Professor ofInstrumentation at the Royal Military School of Music. (Kneller Hall.)

4. QuickMarch - SAMBRE ET MEUSE (Rauski)
The Light Infantry style of marching (140 paces to the minute is not peculiar to the British Army, but is to be found in many European Armies. This French Band and Bugles March has proved to be a very popular addition to the repertoires of British Light Infantry Bands.

 5. QuickMarch - BAB-EL-MANDEB (Ord-Hume)
 
James Ord-Hume enlisted in the 3rd Battalion The Royal Scots in 1876 at the early age of twelve. He then served in the Band of the Scots Greys as Solo Cornet but retired in 1890 to devote himself to the composition of music. The March Bab-el-Mandeb was composed during a voyage to Australia in 1901, and was actually composed whilst the ship was passing through the straits of that name.

6  ESTRELLITA (Ponce)
A charming South American melody, Little Star, arranged by Harold Walters, an American composer, arranger conductor, whose musical arrangements are included in many of today's Military Band programmes.

7. KANSAS WILDCATS (Sousa)
One of the lesser known of Sousa's many marches. Sousa's career started at the age of thirteen in the United States Marine Corps Band. After some years he resigned to carry out orchestral work, until recalled as leader to the United States Marine Band at the early age of twenty-six. Twelve years later he again resigned and formed his own private combination, the world famous Sousa Band, which toured the world for fifteen years. Upon America's entry into the First World War, Sousa again entered Military Music, this time as a sixty-three year old Lieutenant in the United States Navy. Sousa died on the 6th March 1932 at the age of seventy-eight, being laid to rest in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington D.C.

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