LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY

Created on 21/01/2002
Latest update on 15/02/2024

Artist: Edna Thornton
Author: Edward Elgar/Arthur Christopher Benson
Label: HMV
Year: 1902

From Coronation Ode, composed for the coronation of king Edward VII in 1902, using the melody of Edgar's Pomp And Circomstance March # 1. Words (by A.C. Benson) were suggested by the future King. Written following the victory in South Afica (Boer Wars). Title comes from a line in Shakespeare's Othello (Act III, Scene 3).

Covers:

1911:

Dame Clara Butt

1962:

Vera Lynn [became a Dame, just like Clara]

1967:

Adolf Lohmann [as Pelgrimstocht Der Mensen]

1982:

John Cale [in Damn Life]

Night Of The Proms classic and prior to 2010 the official anthem for England during Commonwealth Games.

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