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The Vanished Army
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Parenthetically titled They Never Die, this march was written in 1918 and dedicated to the first 100,000 men who gave their lives fighting against tyranny during World War I.
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Concert Band Community Band Nepean Ottawa Ontario
Nepean Concert Band (NCB) are Wednesday evenings, 7:30to 9:30 PM, at the Nepean Creative Arts Centre, 35 Stafford Road, Ottawa, Ontario. The NCB is always open to new members. The NCB is a provincially-registered non-profit organization and depends upon membership fees, concert revenue, and sponsorship from patrons in the public and private sectors, to pay for the necessities such as conductor's honorarium, rehearsal space rental, equipment maintenance and the purchase of quality concert band arrangements.
Song Info
Genre
Classical • Ensembles
Charts
Peak #45
Peak in subgenre #3
Author
Kenneth J. Alford
Uploaded
November 02, 2014
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MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:09
Story behind the song
Parenthetically titled “They Never Die”, this march was written in 1918 and dedicated to the first 100,000 men who gave their lives fighting against tyranny during World War I. One of the most expressive marches, it is both somber and stirring, serving as a reminder of the terrible price of the war. Alford often used fragments of familiar tunes in his marches; a portion of It’s a Long Way to Tipperary may be heard at the end of the second strain. Numbers: zero - i.e. vanished... what was left of the original CEF One - World War I 100 years - centenary of World War I this year (1914 - 2014) 100,000 - number of soldiers who gave their lives commemorated by this piece 1914 - 100 years ago, the start of the war 1915 - the year by which the first 100,000 CEF soldiers died 1918 - the year the piece was written and the year WWI ended
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