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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 12, 29 September 1933, Page 11

FAMOUS BRNDS__No: 4 Coldstream Guards began wich Charles I's Exile from England Some talk of Alecander, And some of Herculcs, Of Hector and Lysondcr ~ And such great numCs a8 these. But of all the uorld' $ grcat hleroes There' $ n0ne that Con2 comparc With 6 tow row row ro1 ro16 row; To the British Grenadiers. The strong and tupically British melod1, SThe British Grcnadicrs, to which the @bove and tado succcssive "crse8 6re sct, i8 the regimentul march of the Grenadier Guards, which were raiscd im 1857, when thc toyol Englisk who shared King Charles' 8 ewile wCtC formcd into sim rcgiments, the first of abhich Wa$ called the "Royal Rcgiment of Guards. The title sGrenadier Guards; 9} ua8 given to the first regimcnt- of Foot Guords in 1815 in recognition of their having defeated the Frcnch Grenadier Guards at WVaterloo: The date of the introduction of militar: music into the British Army was 1685, the gear of the birth of Bach, Handel ond Scarlatti. On January 3 of tlis gear Oharles the Second authorised the maintenance of,twelve hautbois in the King' $ Regiment of Foot duards. The first bandmaster named in the regimental records wa8 om0 James Bloned, 0 clarinet plager , who wa8 in charge of the band during the occupatior of Paris in 1815. In 1830 he Ua$ succeeded bp Willian Hordy, who in turn wa$ followed by Mr_ Sibold in 1838, and Mr. AJ J. Schott in 1844. The latter retired in 1856 and Dan Godfre:, the 80n2 Oj the popular bandmaster of the Ooldstream daards, succeeded. Under his direction the band became verv popular, the mlention of Ivis Ver! nume Was magicab, and wllerever the band played massed audiences were thle rule. In 1872, he took the band acr088 the Atlantic t0 take part i11 the International Peace Jubilee, held at Boston. Their reception 2cas rapturous at this American debut, encores being endless, the clima:' coming Itllen the Notional Anthem wCs played accompanied by @ ohlores of 20,000 voices; the big organ, the ringing of chutrch bells, ond tlle thunder of camnzon . Godfrc: retired in 1896 Iving served forty gears and earning world-widc fame. Mr. Albert Williams, Mus. Bac,, succeeded tlle Ireat Dan in 1897 , and mine years later he tool his degree, Doctor of Music, at Owford. Inl 1904 the United States Wa8 revisited, Canada being toured also, which Dominio1 wa $ aqain given the privilege of hearing the band in 1919 at the Uanadian National Eahibition. Retiring in 1921, Dr. Williams, who brought @ AC1 tone into British military music during Ivis regime, wa8 succeeded by Lieat. Geo: Miller , 0 scion of 0 family of militarv musiciams. From the modest position of Ohapel Roval chorister Ic progressed through various appointments to the proud one of director of tlis great band of seventy performers, whose lustre seems destined never to be: dimmed: