r!) I-I,rs~st,~ (07-11) - P, 14 '1"'11 OJnbnurg 1b1nrar ~l1n1U August 15 f 16 f 17 fIB f 19 WRITE FOR PRIZE LIST ELM. The King acknowledging the acclamations of a million of his subjects at the Great Peace Concert on Empire Day, 1919. Dr. Charles Harriss conducting the massed bands of the Brigade of Guards and Chorus of Peace and Thanksgiving oj 10,000 voices in the National Anthem at the great Empire Day Celebration in Hyde Park.Left to right are their Majesties Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra and King George; Field Marshal H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught,Lord Campden and Admiral Sir Charles Cust. -"t- c C7 bovr.!J Ha rl t'" oS l,~v (C7 13) fL{ 2 Famous Band 0/ His Majesty's Scots Guards y gracious permission of His Ma- of Abraham were named, the roll jesty the King, the band of H.M. steadily increases to the more than BScots Guards, Pipers and Dancers, million men and women of Scots descent have been granted leave to visit Cana- who call themselves Canadians to-day. da, and during the month of May, 1922, General Murray,Alexander Henry, Sir will give a series of Military Concerts Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser. throughout the Dominion, under the Sir George Simpson, 'William Lyon direction of Dr. Charles Harriss, the Mackenzie, Sir John A. Macdonald, Empire Musical Director, Composer the Hon. George Brown,Lord Strath- and Conductor, for the benefit of the cona and Lord Mount Stephen, are but Great War Veterans' Association. a few of many names that will remain The visit was requested by the Can- imperishable in the annals of Canadian adian Government and supported by history. The magnificent part played the British Government, so these Con- by Canadian-Scottish regiments in the certs assume an importance of more Great War is surely proof that the than ordinary moment. The partic- stirling quality of Scottish character ular object of the visit, namely, to has not deteriorated by its migration to direct attention to the fine work of the fertile soil of Canada. the Great VJar Veterans' &&ociation Dr. Charles Harriss, under whose entitles it to the support of every pat- direction the magnificient band of H.M. riotic Canadian. Scots Guards, will tour through Canada Those of us who know our Canada from Atlantic to Pacific, has unrivalled can recount with pardonable pride and experience in this particular kind of affection the part played by Scotsmen work.He organized the First Cycle of in the making of the Canadian nation, Musical Festivals of the Dominion of and in the developmen t of the foremost Canada in 1903, and th us brough t in to Dominion within the Empire. From harmonious operation four thousand Nova Scotia to British Columbia Canadian voices in a series of festivals and the Yukon, they have been pioneers commencing at Halifax on March 31st, and still are among the leaders in and terminating at Victoria,B.C., on commerce, in industry, in agriculture May 9th.In 1906 he gave a British- and in professional life. FromAbraham Canadian Festival in Queens Hall Martin dit l'Ecossais (called the London in the presence of King Edward Scotchman), the first King's pilot on the Peacemaker. In 1908 he organized a the St.Lawrence. after whom the Plains series of Ch urch N1usical F es ti vals A· Co bo,,')1 H~rs~ S~~V (0 _/~) PJ throughout Canada in which fifteen hun- Thanksgiving numbering 10,000 voices dred Canadian choristers took part. In the and conducteci these together with the following year he organized the Imper- massed bands of the Brigade of Guards ial Choir of London consisting of 5,000 in Hyde Park at the greatest concert ever voices. In 1911 he conducted the recorded in the history of the world, to an Inauguration Concert of the Festival of audience of from 800,000 to a million Empire at the Crystal Palace with people. 5,000 members of the Imperial Choir Present at this concert were Their and an orchestra of 500 instrumen- Majesties the King and Queen, Her talists in the presence of the King and Majesty Queen Alexandra, the Dowager Queen, and the Prince of \t\1ales, and Empress Feodorovna of Russia, Their in the same year took a choir of 250 Royal Highnesses Princess Mary, Prince picked singers round the world on the Henry and Princess Victoria, and Field First Musical Festival of the British Em- Marshall H. R. H. the Duke of Con- pire, which Festival was honoured by the naught. King's Patronage. In 1913 he gave In' connection with the last Victory British Concerts with 2,000 singers from Loan, he conducted the band of H. M. the Imperial Choir at the Ghent Inter- Scots Guards and his Victory Loan national Exhibition, and conducted a Chorus of 5,000 voices in Trafalgar command concert at the Palace of Square, London, during the three days Laeken in the presence of King Albert campaign at which the sum of £36,000,- of the Belgians. On the conclusion of 000, or $180,000,000 was raised, and peace after the Great War, he reorgan- conducted the official Peace Concert ized and trained the Imperial Choir authorized by the British Government and Choirs of Greater London on the great Peace Day celebrations in into the great chorus of Peace and London. A-CobCJtlj9 t-Iortt Sh~'-v [017- 13 ) eo 4 Famous Band 0/ His Majesty's Scots Guards HARRISS, Charles Albert Edwin, Mus.Doc. (Cantuar); Hon. R.A.M; born London 16 Dec. 1862; married Sept. 1897,Ella Beatty Schoenberger of Scarlet Oaks, Clifton, Cincinnati. Educated: St. Michael's College, Tenbury. Ouseley Scholar, 1875. Organist to the Earl of Powis 1880; St. Alban's the Martyr, Ottawa, 1882; Montreal Cathedral, 1883; Concert Organist Canada and United States, 1891. Organized and directed first Cycle, British-Canadian Musical Festivals throughout Canada with Sir Alexander Mackenzie Principal Royal Academy of Music, 1903. Organized and became Director of McGill University Conservatorium of Music,Montreal 1904-7. Directed first British-Canadian Festival London in the presence of King Edward 1906; founded Empire Day Concerts London 1907; organized Festival of Cathedral Music Ch urch Choirs throughout Canada with Sir Frederick Bridge of Westminster Abbey; directed series of Concerts in the Dominion with 200 members Sheffield Choir 1908; represented Canada, Haydn Centenary, Fifth National Congress Vienna; organized Imperial Choir of London 5,000 voices; Guest conductor Municipal Festival Capetown, South Africa, 1909; lectured on Musical Reciprocity around the Empire 1910; directed Musical Festival throughout the Br.itish Empire with 200 British Singers, Sir Edward Elgar O.M. and combined choral and orchestral Societies of overseas Dominions under the patronage of H. M. The King; directed Imperial Concert at the opening Festival of Empire and Pageant of London in the presence of The King and Queen, Crystal Palace 1911; directed Imperial Concert at openingShakespear's England Exhi bi tion Earls Court London 1912; conducted 2,000 members Imperial Choir, Ghent International Ex- hibition; conducted command concert Palace of Laeken in the presence of King Albert; directed Imperial Concert opening Anglo- German Exhibition Crystal Palace London 1913; organized and con- ducted Imperial Choir and Chorus of Peace and Thanksgiving 10,000 voices, massed bands of the Brigade of Guards, Empire Day, Hyde Park, in the presence of The King and Queen, Queen Alexandra and Royal Family, and audience of 800,000 people; organized and conduct~d Victory Loan Chorus 5,000 voices, massed bands and Artists three days Victory Loan Campaign, Trafalgar Square; conducted official Peace Concert Hyde Park by authority War Cabinet Council Peace celebration; selected six hundred ladies Imperial Choir command performance in presence of The King and Queen, Coliseum London 1919. Compositions: Daniel before the King;Torquil; Festival Mass; Pan; Coronation Mass; Edward VII; Sands of Dee; The Crowning of the King; Empire Choruses, part songs, songs, pianoforte and organ pieces. Recreation: Shooting, fishing.Address:" Earnscliffe" Ottawa, 160 vVardour Street, London, W.1. Clubs: Savage, Empire, London, Rideau, Hunt, Ottawa. Vide:-London's " Who's-Who." 1922. A- Co,,~~ tlqrs( $ Jet.; (r;?J-IV f') Upper-H.M. Scots Guards Band Middle-The Drummers Lower-Lt. F.' W. Wood, director of music. HE first mention of the Band in the history of H. T M.Scots Guards is during the occupation of Paris after Napoleon's downfall in 1817. It was then under the Conduc- torship of a Mr. Hopkins.Its combination and instrumenta- tion was crude as compared with that of to-day, a striking feature-was the use in common with other Guards Bands of stalwart negroes dressed in fantastic uniforms as Time beaters. The Instru- men tation in vogue to-day has been adopted with the view of forming as perfect a combination as possible for Concert work as well as for Marching. The Band is essentially aConcertBand and has a wealth of tone colour and movement. I t consists of :- Solo Clarionets Bassoons Rep. Clarionets Euphoniums 2nd Clarionets Trombones 3rd Clarionets Brass Basses Flutes String Basses E Clarionets Drums Oboes Cymbals Alto Saxaphones 1st Cornets Tenor Saxaphone 3rd Cornets French Horns The Director of Music, Lieut. F. VV.Wood has been Conductor of the Band for the last 22 years during which time he has raised it to a position of pre- eminence, in the Musical world. The Band had the honour of playing for the Canadian Divisional Troops at Poperinghe, Flanders, in 1916. /-t- C<J b CJ/.tII) H,,~£' > ~~",., CO i-oj (J9 Band, Pipers and Dancers of H.