From The Library - Soldiers of the Queen

Today's "From the Library" features a selection of pieces and marches either written for the military or relating to portrayals of the Military.

Selections include pieces by Gustav Holst, Edward Elgar, John Philip Sousa, Gottfried Piefke, and performances by the Australian Military College Band, the Gordon Highlanders, the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, the US Military Academy Band and the Gebirgsmusikkorps 8 der 1. Gebirgsdivision Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

From the Library is produced by gullar sahir in conjunction with the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the programme now in-world at http://music.radioriel.org, or click one of the buttons below. Today's programme is presented by Edward Pearse.

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Note from Edward: Today's program includes some German Nazi marches. This program is an abbreviated historic record of military marches and music, which does include the "patriotic" music written for the German military during the Nazi regime. gullar sahir does not in any way support the philosophies of the Nazis by playing this music. We present it to you in a scholarly and academic context, just as we have done with other pieces in the past.