Patrick was delighted to be asked to write a new piece for the Band of the Household Division and the Royal Choral Society to celebrate HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
All Princely Graces will be premiered on the 5th, 6th & 7th July as part of the annual Military Musical Spectacular, a wonderful evening pageant of music and military precision drill. These concerts are performed on Horse Guards parade in front of the beautiful backdrop of St James’s Park each year.
The title and text for the new work comes from Shakespeare’s Henry VIII and is a small section of a longer speech which HRH The Prince of Wales chose to be read at a previous anniversary of The Queen’s accession.
